"Don't mind them, they won't hurt you. Probably. They aren't used to seeing unscaled ones such as yourself."— Akira, Rakrantran Chief
A Mutually Beneficial Relationship
For generations the people of
Clan Esina have begun living closer and closer to the koru; not because the villages move closer to the birds but because the birds move closer to the villages. In the time before this koru was seen as just another meal for a hungry
lizardfolk but now they are something between a wild animal and a domesticated one.
The koru - much like newly hatched
lizardfolk - are a meal for the larger
hunterbird but unlike the young
lizardfolk the koru have a unique defense against the other birds. When a
hunterbird - or flock of them - are detected, koru don't flee - they can't outrun this predator - instead they will form stacks of up to four koru to make themselves look larger in an attempt to scare off the
hunterbird. They also begin a loud call to warn other nearby koru and increase the intimidation; unlike their usual vocalizations this one is unique and made of short, loud, repeated bursts of low-pitched squaks.
Clan Esina learned that the koru were so effective at keeping away
hunterbirds that they stopped hunting them.
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