Nachi

Nachi are small humanoid mammals with brown skin and sandy hair.
Nachi have large, fox-like ears and a long fox-like tail.
Nachi have large yellow eyes and delicate facial features.
Nachi have exceptional night vision and dynamic vision.
Nachi have poor color vision and are red-green colorblind.
Nachi have exceptional senses of hearing and smell.
Nachi are carnivorous.

Nachi are adapted to arid environments.
Nachi do not sweat and excrete very little water with their waste.
Nachi can obtain all of their water from the food they eat.
Nachi are slender with little insulating fat.
Nachi can shed excess heat through large blood vessels in their ears.
Nachi have nictitating membranes to shield their eyes from dust and sand.
Nachi have tufts of fur in their ears to keep dust and sand out.
Nachi sleep during the hottest parts of the day and coldest parts of the night.

Nachi are agile with an exceptional sense of balance.
Nachi can move very quickly in bursts, but have poor endurance.
Nachi have powerful legs and can jump up to their own height.

Nachi are unisexual and reproduce asexually.
Nachi children are effectively clones of their mothers.
Reproducing nachi lay one clutch of eggs a year.
Reproducing nachi produce 1 egg at a time over the course of a few days.
Reproducing nachi produce and lay eggs back to back until all eggs are laid.
Nachi eggs are leathery and slightly smaller than a nachi’s head.
Nachi eggs are very flexible when laid and harden slightly when exposed to air.

Nachi are primitively eusocial with queen and worker castes.
Nachi queens lay eggs and prevent workers from laying eggs.
Nachi workers can develop into queens and nachi queens can regress into workers.
Nachi worker development occurs when an existing queen dies or substantially weakens.
Developing nachi queens fight between themselves and their existing queen for queendom.
Losing developing nachi queens and extant queens regress back into workers.

Nachi produce various pheromones for communication.
Alarm pheromones induce a fight-or-flight state.
Alert pheromones catch nachi’s attention.
Attractant pheromones draw nachi toward them.
Repellant pheromones drive nachi away from them.
Queen pheromones induce love in nachi workers and prevent them from reproducing.
Alarm + attractant pheromones indicate “attack!”
Alarm + repellant pheromones indicate “run away!”
Alert + attractant pheromones indicate “come here” or “follow me.”
Alert + repellant pheromones indicate “stay away” or “go away.”
Nachi pay less attention to attractant or repellant pheromones used on their own.

Nachi have individual scents and colony scents.
A nachi’s individual scent is unique to them.
A nachi’s individual scent changes during queen development.
A nachi’s colony scent is a mixture of all the individual scents in their colony.
Nachi build their colony scents through frequent contact with colony members.

Nachi make decisions and act on them independently.
Nachi do not have leaders and do not give or follow orders.
Nachi readily share information to ensure informed decisions.
Nachi act primarily to improve their mood or reduce distress.
Nachi are strongly affected by their colony members’ moods.
Nachi are extremely affected by their queens’ moods.
A nachi may forage for food because they enjoy foraging or want to eat a particular food.
A nachi may forage for food because they are uncomfortable with the amount of food already collected.
A nachi may forage for food because a colony member is hungry or wants a particular food.

Nachi frequently mimic behaviors they are exposed to.
Nachi can accurately reproduce behaviors with little exposure.
Nachi can reproduce many behaviors as they are being performed.
Nachi do not retain reproduced behaviors without multiple exposures and reproductions.
Nachi do not alter reproduced behaviors until they have been retained.