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The second is the socially hierarchic one, where the superior Nayabaru's palm points down and the inferior Nayabaru's palm points up. It's customary for the inferior Nayabaru to initiate such a handshake - the superior one doing so would, depending on the degree of social separation, prompt anything from unease to unadulterated terror in the inferior Nayabaru, since it implies that their subservience is unquestioningly expected of them (which in turn implies there is something their unflinching subservience is needed for). | The second is the socially hierarchic one, where the superior Nayabaru's palm points down and the inferior Nayabaru's palm points up. It's customary for the inferior Nayabaru to initiate such a handshake - the superior one doing so would, depending on the degree of social separation, prompt anything from unease to unadulterated terror in the inferior Nayabaru, since it implies that their subservience is unquestioningly expected of them (which in turn implies there is something their unflinching subservience is needed for). |
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As one might expect from a sapient species, Nayabaru are quite creative with their courtship, their efforts ranging from feats of physical strength to poetry much as in human beings. | |
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Nonetheless, an instinctive attachment to their thumbspike's importance in keeping family safe means that physical efforts involving the spike are considered the most noble and impressive. Perhaps ironically (given the roots of the thumbspike as a means to ward of predators), the most commonplace way of showing off ones prowess as a mate is to climb trees, using the thumbspikes to anchor oneself in the wood. | |
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