Hmm, i just realized that none of the yukkuri families seems to have a boundary in the entrance of their easy places. The closest thing to proper protecting any family have is how the cannibal family has that "sub cave" for the lil ones that is hard to reach.
Now i'm seriously thinking that scum and cannibalismn aside, this may be the smartest yukkuris of that zone, since even without making a boundary they are aware enough of the dangers to make some sort of defense for their lil ones.
JusticeItEasy said: Hmm, i just realized that none of the yukkuri families seems to have a boundary in the entrance of their easy places. The closest thing to proper protecting any family have is how the cannibal family has that "sub cave" for the lil ones that is hard to reach.
Now i'm seriously thinking that scum and cannibalismn aside, this may be the smartest yukkuris of that zone, since even without making a boundary they are aware enough of the dangers to make some sort of defense for their lil ones.
I said it before and I'll say it again. The yukkuri that survive in the wild by stealing and killing have to be intelligent, agile and strong. The yukkuri population in the wild is simply not dense enough to support lazy shitheads. Unless they live with a clan, no shit head can live in the forest without some spectacular advantage.
Fragtagonal said: I said it before and I'll say it again. The yukkuri that survive in the wild by stealing and killing have to be intelligent, agile and strong. The yukkuri population in the wild is simply not dense enough to support lazy shitheads. Unless they live with a clan, no shit head can live in the forest without some spectacular advantage.
Well sometimes strengh comes from the mass a fat shithead would be quite the force to recon against other yukkuris, if anything only a highly worked out yukkuri may be able to face it, or an equally fat one, and that depends if they are able to take advantage of their agility or not.
There is also the willingless to be highly agressive, something that yukkuris in general, specially good ones, aren't. the more Scum or Shit you are as yukkuri the more agressive you are, and the less likely a fellow yukkuri would stand against you or react fast enough.
It may sound ironic but maybe that agressiveness make them do fast reactions, way faster than the average yukkuri who may be more "easy" or "slow" in their reaction. Basically many yukkuris may take it too slow in their reactions leading to Agressive Scums or Shitheads having an advantage that combines mass, agressiveness and fast reactions.
Usually when a shithead or scum is defeated is because the other yukkuris are worked out, or have better reactions and willingless to smack shits upside down.
Yes, shitheads have advantage over other yukkuris. But the point Frag was making was that there may be not enough yukkuri families around to make shithead ways really profitable.
ParticleMan said: Yes, shitheads have advantage over other yukkuris. But the point Frag was making was that there may be not enough yukkuri families around to make shithead ways really profitable.
Well you have to consider that Shitheads aren't the main bulk of the yukkuri species, insted the main bulk is scums and average yukkuris. So there maybe enough families to scam out of them outnumbering the shitheads.
Hell we don't know if this ones are trully shitheads, they may be only Scum Yukkuris, they don't seem rabid enough to be shitheads.
JusticeItEasy said: Well you have to consider that Shitheads aren't the main bulk of the yukkuri species, insted the main bulk is scums and average yukkuris. So there maybe enough families to scam out of them outnumbering the shitheads.
Hell we don't know if this ones are trully shitheads, they may be only Scum Yukkuris, they don't seem rabid enough to be shitheads.
Not exactly what I meant here. Lemme create two parallel in yukkuri aggression, not even shithead behavior, just aggression. Lets define an aggressive yukkuri, in this specific discussion, as a yukkuri who's food mainly comes from stealing from other yukkuri or killing other yukkuri. Like you said, not necessarily shit head, but still.
So, an aggressive yukkuri family in the city has it rough, but they can survive. The city has quite a few places for yukkuri to hide and there could even be two families living in one small area, say an alleyway.
Now an aggressive yukkuri comes along and exploits the family for whatever type of food they want. They are probably fatter and angrier than the adults in the family, so they are at an advantage and succeed in exploiting said family. This could be by stealing their children and eating them, or out right killing the whole family and eating them+their food.
Now in order to maintain a family of average size, lets say 2.5 koyukkuri. The aggressive yukkuri would have to exploit a yukkuri family every 2 days. They may not be comfortable only eating every two days, but that is what they need to stay alive and keep the edge in combat.
In a city, this is as easy as hoping down alleys at night and checking; card board boxes, milk crates, vending machines, behind dumpsters, and in garbage. The actually density of yukkrui in a city is much higher because their is more food and more hiding places that are easily acquired. Sure they may get wiped out by humans more often, but the resources to quickly rebuild are readily available.
So lets say in a city there are about, hmmm. 100 yukkuri families per every 5000 square yards. Thats approximately the size of a football field. This may be an over approximation, but that is irrelevant. The aggressive yukkuri family now has 99 possible sources of food within a one day walk.It would take them 200 days to deplete this food source. Then consider the ridiculous reproductive speed of yukkuri. In two hundred days a yukkuri can go from a newborn to a young adult yukkuri, ready to start its own family(arguably). So that means just "bumping into" a random source of food is almost guaranteed in this city-scape, and any yukkuri with a little fire in its eyes and selfishness in its soul can make this a viable life style. This is assuming that the aggressive types do not outnumber the normal types, which is an already established fact.
Now we switch gears to a yukkuri family living in the forest. This is assuming their is no clan or dosu in the area, just a regular old forest. This is because an organized clan would stamp out aggressive behavior or be consumed by it and perish, leaving a regular old forest behind.
Now lets assume the same sized family; mother, father, and 2.5 ko yukkuri. As before, they will need to find a source of food every 2 days in order to continue living the wanton live of waste they lived in the city.
Now if we recalculate the yukkuri family density in a forest we have to take into account foraging area and water sources, because their is no garbage dumps or generous humans that focus the food in super concentrated areas that are very plentiful. This means that in that same 5000 square yard area we see only 10 yukkuri families, 20 would be pushing it. So lets assume on the higher end of things, that their are twenty potential food sources for this family within a one day walk. Lets say that since they are forest yukkuri they are in better shape than their city counterparts so they can see 10000 square yards in one day and safely return. That means their are 39 potential food sources for the family. This food source would be depleted in 78 days. Not nearly enough time for baby yukkuri to grow up and definitely not enough time for them to start a new family of their own.
Also, we have to take into account the difficulty of actually finding a family. There are plenty of places a yukkuri family could hide in the forest. Under trees, under ground, under rocks, inside natural cave, and a plethora of other places. Now these are not only harder to find than the city houses, but they are spread much farther apart, so the probability of just "bumping into" a forest yukkuri house by accident is incredibly low.
So you can see that the numbers don't stack up on the forest side. They can't possibly just live as aggressive yukkuri without some kind of hook, secret, or special ability that keeps them alive.
In this case, they are smart enough to just steal the kos. This means the parents will just make more and keep foraging to feed their new family. This also means they can return to the same hunting ground every 10 to 15 days, assuming the family does have more babies.
Well it's not like shitheads or scum don't hunt when they don't have "shitty slaves" or found a family to scam.
Just because Shitheads maybe rabid hedonists, that doesn't necessarily mean they may not do the basic things for survival, if anything, they just are rabid about having a good time and rabid about their claim that anything easy belongs to them.
They may not need to mug other families to survive peer see, but it's just an extra to satisfy their selfishness and their egos.
Actually i think it would be anti survival for a shithead to depend on stealing from others as their only source of food, water, easy place, etc. They still do the basic survival stuff, they just are more eager to take stuff from others out of arrogant self entitlement.
JusticeItEasy said: Well it's not like shitheads or scum don't hunt when they don't have "shitty slaves" or found a family to scam.
Just because Shitheads maybe rabid hedonists, that doesn't necessarily mean they may not do the basic things for survival, if anything, they just are rabid about having a good time and rabid about their claim that anything easy belongs to them.
They may not need to mug other families to survive peer see, but it's just an extra to satisfy their selfishness and their egos.
Actually i think it would be anti survival for a shithead to depend on stealing from others as their only source of food, water, easy place, etc. They still do the basic survival stuff, they just are more eager to take stuff from others out of arrogant self entitlement.
Well I mean from examples like this and Fighting to Live it appears that these types of yukkuri would never do something like that.
ArcanaIX said: SOOO... could anybody please summarize what was going on in this series?? I'm completely lost here :(
Capsule version: A day in the life of a family of cannibal wild mutant yukkuri.
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Believe it easy!Today's hunting was also a great success!*roll!**shake**fume!*No mister food for you!Gluttonous Marisa can't take it easy!!You started eating by yourseeelf!?Welcome back!
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