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The '''taserflame''' split from its ancestor. It has taken on a preference for tougher and potentially toxic food, but rather than investing in a larger gut or poison resistance, it has taken a different, less energy-intensive approach. This creature has learned to make and control fire, which it uses to cook its food. This has allowed it to consume organisms which it normally would not be able to due to its small size and lack of teeth. The behavior has its roots in accidental fire-starting, which can happen to any tasertongue, and gradually became favorable both by them as individuals because it made food taste better and evolutionarily because it allowed them to eat things they couldn’t previously. The current form of the cooking behavior came about from roughly 200 thousand years of optimization.
The appearance of a tasertongue which uses fire to cook its food may immediately bring back memories of the extinct [[sagon]], a sophont which was tragically wiped out by the expansion of endless ice and tundra which defined the Bloodian period. The taserflame is no sophont,
Taserflames can build fires wherever they please using piles of wood, but these are only used for warmth. Their tool use is overall limited; in fact, depending on one’s definition of tool use, one could argue that they can’t use tools at all, as they do not use objects as extensions of their bodies. As such, they cannot hold sticks with a food item attached to the end over a fire like they’re roasting marshmallows, so to cook, they must instead use a fire pit with sticks laid over it like a grill to suspend their food. They do not make their own fire pits, instead using natural dips in the ground or repurposing abandoned [[
Like their ancestor, taserflames live in groups, though they rarely exceed 50 members. A group of taserflames is called a mob. They do not migrate, instead preferring to inhabit a specific area which is not likely to be burned down by their use of fire, such as a collection of small caves or an abandoned bannertail-[[
Taserflames often split up into smaller bands of 3-8 to forage and hunt. In addition to collecting their usual diet of toxic and hard-to-digest flora and fauna, they regularly follow large predators on hunts and use their knife-like fangs to cut slabs of meat (or, more rarely, entire limbs) from fresh kills. Due to their small size, they are usually ignored when they do this and are only rarely picked off as food. Pack-hunters, especially multi-species packs such as those of bannertails and drakeshrogs, may even make room for the taserflames while eating due to their instincts to share.
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