Tamustel

The tamustel is more terrestrial than the tamjack. They form "huts" from the trunks of split fuzzpalms. The entrance is located between two of the ribs of the structure, rather than on the top. Other than that, the structures are identical to the nests of their ancestors. In their ancestor, offspring would leave their parents' homes after five years to live on beaches. They would live there until they found a mate, after which they would build their own nests. In tamustels, new nests are built near the nests of the builders' parents. This practice causes "villages" to form, which can become very large. The potential size of the "villages" are limited by the amount and population density of trunkpalms in the area. (If the area is too densely forested, the tamustel will have trouble rolling the split trunks back to its village) Food availability and proximity to the sea also limits village size. Most of a tamustel's food items come from the sea, so if they have to travel too far to reach the sea, they tire and cannot take as many trips. Since the nests are now on land, the female can leave the nest without endangering her babies. After her babies grow scales, she will join the male in finding food. The tamustel does not clean its hut. Consequently, its hut its littered with the excrement of its young and food waste. (namely: scuttler exoskeletons, larvaback tusks, frabuki exoskeletons) The excrement problem is alleviated by cleaner borvermids, with tepoflora and spore towers eating the food waste. The proportion of spore towers to tepoflora, as well as the species diversity of either one, depends on a variety of factors. The complex relationships over the resources forms a mini-ecosystem inside the tamustel hut, which varies tremendously between individual huts.