Is there any indication the Grinch is of the same species as the "Who" creatures?

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They look similar but he is much larger and more dangerous looking -- almost a sort of "Bigfoot" version of a Who or perhaps something like a Neanderthal was to humans or maybe simply analogous to the relationship between gorilla and humans. Or was he just a large Who, transformed by his greed (maybe like Gollum in this respect)?
Has this been explored or implied in any movie/cartoon version?

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The Grinch is explicitly stated not to be a Who in the 2000 movie tie-in book How the Grinch got so Grinchy.

At long last, two Who gals
came out and they found
the source of a most
un-adorable sound.
They got down the baby,
who hung in a tree.
They pulled back the blanket...
and what did they see?
A fuzz-covered baby!
Yes, fuzzed! Every inch!
He wasn’t a Who,
so they called him a Grinch!

This is somewhat contradicted in the film itself, where Cindy-Lou Who uses a quote from the Book of Who that suggests that the Grinch is indeed a Who. In this case, however, she seems to be using the term as a catch-all for 'people in general'.

Cindy Lou: True, Mister Mayhoo, but the Book of Who says this too: “No matter how different a Who may appear he will always be welcome with holiday cheer.”

Is there any indication the Grinch is of the same species as the "Who" creatures?

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