Kllka Facts™

Kllka are small humanoid monotremes.
Kllka stand 4' tall at maturity.
Kllka have pale white skin and straight black hair.
Kllka have black eyes.
Kllka eyes have red markings around their outer edges.
Kllka have hard, black nails.
Kllka have sharp teeth.
Kllka teeth are replaced as they wear out.

Kllka are unisexual and reproduce asexually.
Kllka are near clones of their mothers.
Kllka lay eggs.
Kllka eggs are round, 8" in diameter, and leathery.
Kllka lay 1 clutch of around 4 eggs a year.
Kllka lay 1 egg every other day until all eggs are laid.

Kllka hatch after 3 months.
Kllka are 1'4" tall at hatching.
Kllka begin puberty at 6 years old.
Kllka are 2'8" tall at onset of puberty.
Kllka reach maturity at 9 years old.

Kllka are primitively eusocial.
Kllka have two castes: queen and worker.
Only kllka queens can lay eggs.
Kllka queens have larger breasts than workers.
Only kllka queens can lactate.

Kllka workers can develop into queens and vice versa.
Kllka workers do not permit other workers developing into queens unless:
  They think the other workers would be better queens than themselves.
Kllka queens do not permit workers developing into queens at all.
Kllka queens attempt to force developing workers to back down.
Developing kllka workers attempt to force existing queens to back down.
Kllka queens who back down develop into workers.
Kllka workers attempt to develop into queens when:
  There are no existing queens.
  Their existing queens are old or weak.

Kllka produce pheromones.
Alarm pheromone induces aggression in kllka.
Kllka mark targets of aggression with alarm pheromone.
Kllka can secrete alarm pheromone from under their nails and from wounds.
Trail pheromone leads kllka along paths.
Kllka mark landmarks along paths with trail pheromone.
Kllka can release trail pheromone along with urine.
Queen pheromone suppresses queen development in workers.
Queen pheromone relieves stress in workers.
Kllka queens secrete queen pheromone from their skin.
Kllka queens secrete more queen pheromone when they are healthy.
Kllka workers rub against queens and each other to share queen pheromone.

Kllka act largely independently of each other.
Kllka can recruit other kllka for larger tasks.
Kllka can ignore recruitment attempts.
Kllka recruits work together with their recruiter.