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species:nayabaru [2017/11/18 15:22] – external edit 127.0.0.1species:nayabaru [2020/01/19 22:26] (current) – [Courtship] Removed section pinkgothic
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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).
  
-===== 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, 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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-===== 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, prompt no fear). 
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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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