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| - (see Premature Yukkuri for premature pregnancies) A Koyukkuri has always the same characteristics as one of its two birth parents, only smaller. Their smaller size and utter lack of skills make them extremely frail, to the point that some authors have named them Walking Death Flags. Their survival rate is dim at most since birth, thus the extremely high birth rate of the average yukkuri is the only thing keeping the race as whole going. A newborn yukkuri is extremely frail. Even if it manages to survive its birth, its skin is more thin and less pliable than that of a young or adult yukkuri. As such, it tears and wounds easily. Furthermore, a koyukkuri can hold only a very small amount of paste, which means it has to be fed often (once every two hours) to leave its body enough time to digest the nutrient. Otherwise, a koyukkuri would take a characteristic gourd-shape, the human equivalent of morbid obesity, or even gorge itself to death. Despite developing fast, koyukkuris generally can’t move on their own for at least three days after birth. After that, they learn to do small hops and crawl around, mostly to rub rub with their parents. Flying type yukkuris develop the ability to fly with their parents in time, much like small birds. Despite being fully aware of their surroundings, koyukkuris are extremely dependent from their parents. They can’t feed on their own, take care for themselves or poo poo alone, needing to be licked clean after excrietment, sometimes before to simulate. Some stories show orphan koyukkuris able to scrape a meager existence for themselves. Even if they manage to do so, a distressed life like that is nowhere close to truly “taking it easy,” as a koyukkuri in the wild gets often bullied by shitheads, in a constant state of disarray, malnutrition and mental underdevelopment. Someone wanting to care for a koyukkuri in captivity must therefore suitably replace those essential interactions by frequently caressing the ko (thus doing “rub rub”), massaging its belly with a damp cloth after every meal (thus doing “lick lick” without actually licking it) and keeping it always clean. While many animals can’t eat solid foods before being weaned, koyukkuris’ first meal must necessarily, in case of stalk birth, be their stalk , munched by their mother and softened because of their inability to bite without breaking their small sugary teeth. The stalk contains special substances fortifying their immune system, like mother’s milk for mammals. In captivity, a human can always soften a commercially available stalk with water and present the paste to the koyukkuri. A koyukkuri, full aware of its surroundings even in its “pre-born” status, can draw from a definite baggage of genetic memories such as the drive to “take it easy,” faint concepts of the main tenets of adult life (such as hunt hunt and basic rules and taboos) and the ability to speak. About the last of these, it should noted that koyukkuris always speak in a slurred way, much like distressed adult yukkuris do. That doesn't mean koyukkuris are in a state of despair. It's just they have not developed the proper speaking skills and that’s the most they can say based on their genetic memories. Much like human kids, koyukkuris have to learn how to speak properly by mimicking their parents (or a human, if bred in captivity). An orphan koyukkuri may be unable to speak properly for the rest of its natural life. In extreme cases, as that of Yukkuri Meilings, entire clans are mostly mute save for the continuing “jaaoo-oon” cry that yukkuris can somewhat understand. Only exposure to language in their earliest days can make these komeilings speak in coherent sentences. In some stories, though, extremely small koyukkuris and premature ones are shown only able to utter faint “yu”-ing sounds or "ejay". However, in that case, while a human child learns a small number of words at time, a koyukkuri may fully develop speech all of a sudden, albeit with its childish slur. A healthy koyukkuri is supposed to be always and endlessly hopping around (thus strengthening its bottom), playing with everyone and everything that enters its field of vision, screaming their “Chake id eajy” and songs at the top of their lungs and keeping (or rather, letting adult yukkuris or humans keep) their accessories clean, keeping themselves ready for their lives as adults. A koyukkuri that’s too quiet or unwilling to play may be suffering of some physical or psychological ailment. A koyukkuri with a damaged accessory may be a victim of bullying, or it may be quarrelsome, a bully koyukkuri itself, always fighting and arguing.
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