So let me get this straight: We're supposed to believe that extraterrestrial entities are capable of interstellar travel, but the best method they have for learning about other species is limited, piecemeal instruction as though of newborn children?
I think 'Dominant species' believes itself to have something profound to say about ... well, something. But it's not funny, thought-provoking, or engaging in any way. It's boring at best, if not tedious and even annoying.
There is a hint - a miniscule hint, virtually undetectable, at the very end - of a statement about the nature of gender as a social construct. But it really feels like this short doesn't actually know what it wants to say about gender. It's like a young schoolchild raising their hand in class to make a one-word exclamation of a topic, but they don't know anything about it or have anything further to say - they just uttered the word because they heard it, without context, and thought it might be important.
Beyond that, the only other thing there is to say is that 'Dominant species' is ever more difficult to invest ourselves in when the only elements about it that seems at all out of the ordinary are the glowing blue lights and the fragmented communication with a higher alien authority, especially through non-human language. Otherwise, we could easily mistake this for a realist short about 10 normal, layabout adult men belatedly learning rudimentary social skills, and knowledge about the world outside of themselves, for the first time.
This was a waste of 19 minutes.
