User blog comment:Ishthak/258. Sabertooth, Review/@comment-1454981-20111106152042/@comment-4311127-20111106160126

They're probaly not artificial since the artificial ones we've seen so far haven't had Exceeds with them. Plus they probaly didn't learn over the 7 years since one of them said something about their height then they were around Wendy's age before the timeskip.