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Published: 2005-02-21 04:32:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 1350; Favourites: 9; Downloads: 13
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Lycosuis deinotherium is a predatory ungulate native to the continent of Busceterria. As a rule, they hunt in loose packs, and run down their quarry, either in forests, or in meadows.Here, we have two packmates engaging in a dominance ritual. In order to minimize injury to each other, packmates "dominate" each other by climbing over each other and rubbing each other with scent secreted from glands on their chin-knobs, or alternately, throwing off each other to prevent "domination."
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"glands on their chin-knobs"
I got the same idea with my Sabre-Toothed Boar, only more like the musth glands of a bull elephant.
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Except that in Lycosuis, it's for establishing hierarchy without continued fighting, like in American lobsters.
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I'm kinda lost on how "dominating" a pack member can keep them from being injured. Is it just the recognizable scent on another that tells them that they're in the same pack?
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It's not very productive if the pecking order is established by goring your underlings to death.
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Shall I take that as a "yes" then?
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Lobsters of the genus Homarus (ie, "Maine") also have a similiar dominance ritual, in that, when two lobsters fight, when one loses and is not killed and eaten by the winner, the winner marks the loser with a "loser" scent, in that, should the two cross claws again, they don't fight, as they already know who's the greater lobster. At least until the "loser" scent wears off.
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Intreging. Very creative way to cover the "Pecking Order" thing. ^_^
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Or, "Rubbing Order" in their case.
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They're sort of like the knobs on warthogs.
But furrier.
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