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Dixie Keale's intervention

Dixie Keale
I've been observing the Kinchers of Loria for many years now, and certainly there are some homins among the audience who have, already passed through and seen me there!

As a reminder, the kincher is a very robust, fast, and particularly dangerous, scout-hunter.
As scouts they attack everything they encounter, chew it, and regurgitate a juice that serves as a marking for other kitins. Depending on these markings, the others distribute themselves over the area to exploit its resources.

These markings are rather persistent concentrates of pheromones, which can be collected and preserved in a flask during one day .
Using these samples, I built up a method to produce lures that attract other kinchers for hunting, or kibans for harvesting.

I tried for a long time to isolate particular signals in these markings before deducing that these rotten kinchers do not think about anything except attacking, chewing and drooling!
The composition of a marking is passive, depending only upon what they have just chewed. It is certainly from the residues it contains that other kitins adopt one behavior or another.

Currently, I'm trying to alter the markings by addition of a dilution of oil and sap, and I observe the resulting effect on the occupation of the field by the kitins.

Mona di Fareni
What's interesting to note is that these markings are like an amber cube which all other kitins in the area come to read. So they could be for us a vector of control, by poisoning, for example. How do you feel about that?

Tao Sian
Ah! If I understood properly, other kitins recognize in the marking of the kincher the elements it ingested. But would that be all? Would it not add the signal of some kind of "contentment" that it would have had in chewing this element?