species:nayabaru
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- | ===== Courtship ===== | ||
- | 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, | ||
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- | ===== Reaction to Fear ===== | ||
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- | Nayabaru have a pronounced fight-or-flight instinct that appears complex on the surface but can be reduced to a few axioms: | ||
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- | * males are close-vicinity fighters; they will flee if threatened from a distance and get violent if threatened from close vicinity. | ||
- | * females are distance fighters; they will //charge and fight// if threatened from a distance and attempt to flee if threatened from close vicinity (but quite possibly double back, charge and fight, after enough distance was gained). | ||
- | * males are socially reinforced to battle, i.e. the more Nayabaru are around them, the more likely they will fight rather than flee. | ||
- | * females are socially reinforced to flee, i.e. the //less// Nayabaru are around them, the more likely they will fight rather than flee. | ||
- | * if flight is the desired outcome, but not possible, close-vicinity-threats prompt a fight, whereas threats from a distance are ignored (and, perhaps paradoxically, | ||
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- | Juvenile Nayabaru are not protected significantly more than adult Nayabaru, and the species does not put a greater value on either sex, meaning that social stress situations tend to reduce down to a simple numbers game... unless other factors make certain emphases apparent, such as an attack specifically on juvenile Nayabaru prompting protection especially of, well, juvenile Nayabaru. | ||
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species/nayabaru.txt · Last modified: 2020/01/19 22:26 by pinkgothic