Well, that's certainly a unique to increase diversity within their species. Probably also the reason why the rate of mutations is so high.

Naw, they've probably just been eating radioactive material all this time.

"The safer the flock as a whole becomes"

Sure thing, mang, as for the rest of the place, tho, that's another story

Also much like flocks of scavenger birds!

Huh this is a very cool look inside the yinglet race

Inside of a yinglet, is it very dark.

*Facepalms* i knew I should have used my words carefully aound them XD i mean the way their enclaves work. It is interesting to see the female male dynamic and how it works. So, do females tend to live together away from males to keep themselves well... unburdened? or do they do other things with males?

This gives me the mental image of a yinglet attempting to eat someone but failing drastically since they're way too small.

I like this information scroll. And well presented too

Well thanks, but tell that to Ran, not me!

So males are actually encouraged to do their Thang together. And have been artificially bred towards this by matriarchal design to in turn control breeding as a whole. Yinglet are smarter then they seem

Well some of 'em, at least!

Essentially their practicing a workable form of eugenics, that takes a lot of planning and forethought. I mean perhaps the race as it stands in its current state may be lacking, but if only the more intelligent males are breeding, at some point the races intellectual potential will have skyrocketed.

Either that our the more likely scenario of yinglet genes being wildly unpredictable will sabotage the whole system

positive reinforcement eugenics is tricky to get right. historically, earth has witnessed the fallout of negative-reinforcement eugenics and been turned off the the idea as a whole among humans

That's right! And Vizlet certainly wants to favor breeding towards more intelligence rather than physical improvement, but she's pretty much the only Matriarch that thinks that way, and has clearly gotten a lot of pushback over her "unorthodox" breeding practices from the other higher-ups in the yinglet species.

So does the sex life of female yinglets only involve these selected breeding partners then? I don't get the feeling that our new-found yinglet is going to care for their place in this system.

Pretty much! The females may request to be paired with a male of their choice, but the Matriarch will usually only allow it if the Matriarch doesn't need that particular female for a specific pairing at the moment.

*chintap* I'm just here... sitting down... thinking of a female Yinglet fat with eggs... looking like a lolipop. Hehehe

This is also the appearance of a yinglet who has eaten too many eggs.

*claps* great read, can't wait for more!

Well you HAVE to

Don't be GREEDY

But it's so good, I can't help it D:

I really do tho, I always like learning something new about nearly anything that has to do with the world they live in, so keep up the amazing work!

You really know how to draw people in with lore! Honestly, it shows a certain level of ingenuity to establish selective breeding among your own population!

Eugenics can be fun for everyone!

It was all the craze last century! Gee, I wonder why it went out of style?

Clearly they just weren't doing it right

Communism.

So... Does the matriarch get to choose her own mate. Also for the children, are they raised differently based on who the parents are? For example, would the matriarchs'/ patriarchs' children be treated differently because their parents were skilled and/or special in a way that benefited the enclave, and that this trait may have been passed down?

She can, and that is indeed one of the perks of being Matriarch! Most of the younglets are raised by the general population, but a Matriarch/Patriarch will sometimes choose to spend some time with one who (1) is obviously carrying a lot of their better genes, and (2) is showing some sort of ability or quality genetics.

Oh i bet she's not looking forward to those 'two weeks'. :P

OH NOW WHY WOULD YOU EVER THINK THAT

As a biologist I have to say I love these fact sheets about your species~ I find the little Yinglets so fascinating and you explain them in a vary realistic and interesting way!

Ey, awesome! I'm hoping it'll serve as a fun little "intro to genetics 101" for some readers.

I know the breeding methods of the Yinglets would attribute to a massive amount of diversity even with their selective breeding practices. And would also explain some of the well more extreme mutations *Looks to the Yinglet with a little foot growing out of what would be an eye socket" Because inbreeding would be almost impossible to detect unless vary closely monitored

Hmm. I'm suddenly wondering how yinglets and tharks would interact. Dunno why

Regardless of all else, a bit of yelling and biting could probably be expected.

Oh my. Kass is in for a very interesting time. Not sure if this is good or bad. I wonder how he.... She will see it.

Well just take a subjective philosophy on things and it doesn't have to be good OR bad!

Also what are the chances of having a female? How are females raised?

While the chances of producing a female varies from mother to mother, female younglets are always kept inside and rigorously groomed for their position shortly after birth.

Ooohoooo what delightful informationz! I always wonder what ze best way to behave is. Zhank you for shedding more information on zese liltte fuzz balls ive been misfortuned to become. Ahaha!

That's actually one of the reasons I put Kass' visit to the enclave right after the prologue; it became obvious pretty quickly that I needed to get the basic info about yinglets shared pretty soon!

they do lay eggs! O-O

suspicion confirmed.

Tiny, fleshy, platypus-like eggs~

A platypus is a weird shape for an egg. Perhaps some form of camouflage.

OH YOU

Now if only they tried to educate themselves on other cultures so they don't act stupid as often. Oh wait they can't because the ruling body of their species are past clinging assholes. I think they are partly the reason why yinglets act as they do. This easier to control idiots than smarter individuals.

Hey now, yinglets don't NEED to live like the other species, what with their craft skills and trading and whatnot! It's not the way they were meant to live!

(According to some)

I think they have potential to add more than what they are giving with education and understanding of other cultures :V hell they may even be making technology more advanced than anyone else with their sugar rush minds.

Nova the yinglet: A yinglet like me can make a lot advancements in technology... I invented a computer that reaches though time and space. Thats how Im talking to you right now...

and they say all yinglets aren't capable of anything :V those sillies =w=

Yeah; much like fantasy/sci-fi goblins, gnomes and other small races, if they can survive until the point that basic sciences and machinery develops, a new niche will open up for them that they can take enormous advantage of.

Then who will be kicking who in that time hehebe

With people like Ran and Viracroix basic sciences and machinery might be developing in a couple centuries or less.

So does Kass have any special genes as a yinglet or his (s)he more or less middle of the road?

This is yet to be determined! Kass is just waiting for the DNA analysis to come back from the bloodworks lab.

(The lab which will be invented in another 1000 years)

The Yinglets breed like the movie Twins! This is amazing and I fully expect an Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito Yinglet pair in the near future.

Note to self: try drawing a super-buff yinglet

Warn me before you do that please...

tish awzum :3

NO U

<3 thankies... yew tew!

4-8 new Yinglets every two weeks? In about 30 years humanity will be overrun!

Many yinglet leaders certainly hope so!

Although this is kept somewhat in check by the limited number of females and high mortality rate among the general population.

Neat, I love new info, especially on the genetic side of things. I'll have to send you the idea I had for the yinglets on the island the blanks hail from. <^\/^>

Yeah; since a Matriarch is tasked with steering her enclave's genetic growth to excel in the areas they're based, an island enclave would certainly produce some interesting biology. Things like webbed feet/hands, maybe.

Oh they went down an interesting cultural path, I shall send you a note, a it contains spoilers for the next comic. Nothing major though. And as for biological diversity, well it'll ties in with the culture. I shall send zhe note after I've had some delicious wake up juice. <^\/^>

New information on yingletts. Time to update my yinglet ocs.

And more soon to come!

Iiiiinterestinggg... *contemponders*

...so... a guided form of survival of the fittest... with the benefits to such a system limited by the intelligence of the matriarch. A wise, less selfish matriarch like Vizlet would end up with a fitter tribe; a situation like Ickney's, with a lazy/disinterested matriarch would end up with who knows what. Emotions could still end up affecting things; Juliet Yinglet might run away from the enclave to be with Romeo Yinglet no matter what the matriarch says, or his fitness... and if the matriarch is petty and becomes jealous of or angry with another female, she could set up unfavorable pairings... given the Yinglets' personalities, this system isn't perfect by any means, but it's probably the best they could have. *ponders more*

Am very interested in that star legend though. :O Maybe the Yinglet was a human turned into a Yinglet by the stars? Could also be where all the transformatives came from; things left to him to help out the Yinglets through various difficulties... *excited to learn more*

Yep; ALL of those situations do occur, and have occurred in some enclave or another! No system is perfect, and yinglets are no exception.

So this is the product of Vizlet's sex talk with Kass?

So it's not just "the dick goes here" with yinglets!

Yeah, it's "the dick goes here, and how, and why, and when, and then more dicks go in and then here's what happens"

THe thing I'm most wondering is, two weeks per what? Month? Year? Or maybe it's a pure cycle, which is to say, EVERY two weeks it resets, unless gravid?

Once per...

...cycle!

So now that Kassen has found out that the responsibility of bearing young as a yinglet is a fraction of what a human goes through i.e. couple weeks instead of 9 months, multiple mates, eggs are at the mercy of the mother as opposed to a fetus tapping directly into mothers blood supply, pop em out & the enclave raises them as a whole... does this mean that Kassen might be more willing to put back on the reed of carnal beckoning?

That being said, put some perspective on this again, while to us Kassen has been a yinglet for almost two years now, to him, he feels like it has only been two days now. What would Kassen rather do, having to go around and take it in the cloaca by Poak and whomever else, OR continue to investigate HOW THE HOLY HABZIG'S TITS DID THIS HAPPEN & WHAT CAN I DO TO UNDO THIS? Tough choices. I bet he'd choose the latter of the two options, as he probably doesn't want to ruin his chances with Ginny. Especially if there is a possibility of her finding out he's already got (yinglet) kids. Takes a very special kind of woman to accept a man like that!

On a personal note: woot! Quick update! Wall of text appears to be faster to produce. And it really shows that your time helping rehab birds has made an indelible impression upon you as an artist. Also, happy (belated?) Birthday! Fist bump to a fellow Aries!

Eyyy, thanks a lot! I do in fact feel a year older than a year ago.

And yes; regardless of what Kass may want for him/herself, his/her favored position within House Ivenmoth (and by extension, his friends and the Dinnish refugees) is dependent on him being a scrawny little ratbird, so personal preference barely even matters in his situation.

And also yes; I have been around way too many birds for way too long for that influence to not creep into whatever I'm doing~

Most informative! Part one of two? Any insight to why Lesser yinglets are an abomination? I'm under the impression that lesser yinglets culture are more primitive. Their "genes" hold the progress of the yinglet rave back. Why killing them is like killing a rat. The two are the same?

It fascinates me that this development of such a culture, was in your mind from the beginning? Awesome work!

Many thanks! This has indeed been part of the yinglets' concept since the beginning, and it's certainly taken long enough to get to this point of reveal!

As for the lesser/greater yinglet divide, it's more like the difference between primitive humans and, say, lemurs. One may be a primitive society, but the other is straight-up incapable of higher-order thinking!

*snickers at the "fit each toher* all yinguys are gaaaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii X) X) X)

Most of 'em are! In the sense that they're bisexual with heavy male preferences. But of course there's always a few weirdos who go after the females.

all of dem weirdos with their sexual dimorphism fetishes ٩(◉w◉)۶

I don't suppose you will ever touch on yinglet/non-yinglet relations will you? We know of at least one yinglet that isn't afraid to proposition larger yinglets. I can understand if you don't really want to touch on that, though. I only ask because; A: I love your worldbuilding, and B: I'm a huge pervert.

Ohhh, there is certainly no lack of yinglet "relations" with other species, although it's mostly as house-servants/entertainment at this stage. But yes; being a species focus on diversity, there's always a few who are fascinated with humans, or straight-up seeks them out for company.

"... claiming to receive guidance from the stars above to bring his species greatness."
Aliens, aliens helped made them more advanced.... that or somehow time traveling Yinglets made this happen, making a stable time loop.

The thing that people don't seem to understand is that EVERYTHING is ALWAYS ALIENS

So, with confirmation that Yinglets lay eggs, I can't help but wonder...why do the females have breasts? I would imagine that their shell-tooth would make the usual function of such organs...difficult.

I would guess that they're monotremes, and like most carnivores aren't born with teeth.

They use the shelltooth, at least, to cut through the egg shell.

So, a single Yinglet can have multiple biological fathers?

I wonder how that works. I'm guessing they're either tetraploid or something, or conception is more like bacterial transformation than usual eukaryotic reproduction.

I think it is also a case of polyspermy, along with triploid (or higher) genotype.

-thinks- If this special bredding thing worked, how would Yinglet differ from the time in the comic to a Yinglet in the 21st Century?

Would the 21st century Yinglet be taller? stronger? Better at learning, if it doesn't have some mental deformity.

I really have little idea about genetics :o I know it's not fool proof to try and "improve" a race through breeding, I'm just thinking at it as "the best results".

Probably anything/everything that would give them an advantage! Yinglets in the time the comic takes place are still figuring out the world and their place in it, so their long-term potential is mostly yet unrealized.

The possibilities and their absolute adorable nature are simply mind blowing! :D

You wanna know hear something wierd? A Yinglet version of Clint Eastwood. -shakes head- I can't get him out of my head! DX

*looks smart as your average yinglet*

The two silhouettes to the right look like Roadrunner! Meep-meep!

This leaves me with a question.

Are matriarchs groomed for their positions, or are the smartest and/or most able female yinglets chosen for the position by the patriarchs? '3'

With all the worldbuilding and information you have on yinglets, you could probably make your own Wikipedia page on these things. You could have page discussing their origin, history, classification. I'd love to know how you would classify them considering how they share many traits with other animals, and usually what you would want to do is group them with a set of species that's akin to them the most.

The classification goes from smallest group to biggest group: genus, species, family, order, class, phylum, kingdom.

Among the (I believe) six kingdoms, I think the most obvious one the yinglets would fall under is Animalia.

The phylum is divided between verterbrates and inverterbrates. Seeing how clearly the yinglets have a spine, they'd be vertebrates.

Class gets a little tricky because that includes the catergories of reptiles, amphibians, fish, birds, and mammals. Considering the traits this species has, it boils down between birds and mammals. I'd say they resemble mammals more because they have fur, have tits, and have actual arms in place of wings. The only things that may associate them with birds is their legs and the fact that they lay eggs.

Order is difficult as well. Right away, I'd like to group yinglets with mammals that are bipedal since they themselves are, but the only bipedal mammals that I could think of are primates, and yinglets do not closely resemble anything like a monkey, ape, or human. I guess yinglets could be marsupials, but I wouldn't know why. I'm trying to figure this out, but I'm not as well versed in animal classification as I would like to be.

In the end, the yinglet might end up getting its own family and maybe order as well if it can't be grouped with anything else up until that point. It already is it's own species, and the genus would just be the distinction between the lesser and the greater yinglet. Chances are that yinglets evolved from some other animal that resembled them slightly, and this species (as well as the one before it) could help determine where they've come from and what animal group they're related to.

Gotta wait for Ran to come up with a general equivalent of those six kingdoms before scavs can be defined as such! For now, they just classify mostly as "weird."

I do have a love of the evolution of the biosphere, the way flora and fauna and local environments play off of each other and encourage genetic paths and alla that; I'd love for more fantasy/sci-fi concepts to explore that side of things.

And hey, be the change you want to see in the world, right?

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Proposed name Colobathrarius monodon
So family would be Colobatharidae.
Order would probably be Monotremata, although they are "strange" enough that they may merit their own order.
Class Mammalia and phylum Chordata.

Wait, just so I read this right (and don't just have my mind in the gutter).

Male yinglets are encouraged to have relationships with each other, platonic or intimate (thats what I read from "fitting sex organs" part) to bond their society together and relieve/avoid any tension over the relatively small pool of females, who only get top have selected breeding partners for eugenic reasons.

So basically, Yinglets, at least for males, encourage bro-dom and bisexuality?

Youuuuu got it!

My headcannon is that yinglets are polyploids, with polyspermy to fertilize the eggs.

This idea of customs or modes of reproduction is fine because these guys don't know about genetics (besides, I think you have been inspired by the reproduction mechanisms of the white-eyed fruit fly, right?). But well, if the idea behind this custom is that the best male specimens are the ones that equally have offspring in order to ensure the improvement of the species... I'm not sure if this is a perfect system because it's not taking into account that one of these males may have a characteristic that is to be especially fertile and therefore produce greater amounts of semen or a greater production of sperm in the same amount of semen. That could mean an evolutionary advantage of that or those males over the others, that is, for example, I think it is natural that more athletic or physically stronger individuals (and which are males chosen to stand out in these characteristics) are more virile than males leaning more towards the intellectual to the detriment of social or physical skills; and according to this, the semen of all those males is mixed in any way... and I don't know if the males that are not physically outstanding are being treated the same with this method.
In addition, this method of reproduction could be encouraging the males of this species to develop precisely those characteristics of greater semen and/or sperm production, since this is precisely how evolution and natural selection work: developing and spreading the characteristics that give more advantage to individuals to ensure that their genes are passed on to the next generation. This is so true that it even happens with characteristics that are only manifested in one of the two genders, as happens with male birds that are more colorful than females precisely because color attracts the attention of females, so a male that developed the characteristic of being more colorful turned out to be much more successful in passing on its genes than the others... making this trait a field of competition between males.

What breeders of dogs, and of any other animal, do is choose the males that have these desirable characteristics and use them as studs, making them reproduce those desirable males with a female and that an entire litter, at least, is entirely descended from that one male. A species that has such an unbalanced male vs. female ratio and yet is so numerous should also have evolved shorter gestation times so females can have litters more frequently.

Yeahhh it's the standard practice for the species, but it's definitely not perfect!

So I wouldn't be surprised if the males produce a noticeable amount of semen, or richness of it, than normal ;D
It would be enjoyable, for those with a fetish for milking males ;3

Anyway, I'm just commenting on what's on my mind, not in the mood to criticize or correct. I like your work!

Well. The results of Yinglet breeding are as weird as the results of breeding cats. Anything can happen.

Been diggin through the comic again trying to remember the nature of same sex sex in FEMALE yinglets.

So it's clear that yinglet males are generally bi af. And that yinglet females can enjoy sex just as much as the males. But are the females ALSO bi? Or is that just completely unheard of? I just can't remember even a single instance where a female hit on or otherwise suggested sexual interest in another female.

I mean, surely it must happen, right? Especially given the incredible similarities between the two sexes. Males are super easy to misidentify as female, especially when they're actively trying to fill that role via their mannerisms, clothing, tail modification, etc, and we ALSO know that there's "tomboy" females who do the exact opposite, and go above and beyond to prove how ungirly they are.

Even if homosexuality is not that common in the females, surely with all these factors, females must get each other hot and bothered from time to time, even if entirely on accident, right? Surely at some point two tomboys who deliberately cut their tails must have met in the wild and got halfway into the foreplay before they realized the other one was not getting an erection. And we know that some female's sexual appetite is so voracious that they struggle to stay within their strict breeding schedules, so surely if there's an ounce of homoerotic drive in some of the females, this should be expressed from time to time to relieve their sexual needs when they absolutely can NOT mate with males. One might ask, "Sure, the males are built for same sex sex, but how would the females even fuck?" to which I say how do lesbians fuck IRL? Fingers, oral, toys, I mean hell, we saw Kass' tongue shoot half a foot out of his head and rip a clam right out of its shell, something that usually needs tools to do, and that guy literally doesn't even know what he's doing with his body yet. That tongue can DO shit, so we know lesbian yinglets got options. And yet, we have no evidence of this being a thing. Seems odd.

(Makes me wonder if perhaps the exiles are comprised almost entirely of sexual deviants. Exiles always seem especially obsessed with sex, even for yinglets, and I think we've only seen SPECIFICALLY exiles hit on/fuck humans, and Lopin was bashful when caught being "indecent", trying to hit on a human, which is I think literally the only time we've ever seen a yinglet treat sex with any taboo whatsoever... it's possible that pursuing desires like this is seen as going against the natural interests of the colony and gets you exiled, and the only reason we haven't seen two females going at it yet is because the odds of two same sex attracted female exiles meeting in the wild is just immensely unlikely)