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 The use of the mouth in grooming - licking or nibbling - is, depending on where and how it is used, reserved for a particular level of intimacy; grooming between anyone more distant than casual friends or immediate household members will consist mostly or entirely of grooming by hand.
-Grooming for the sole purpose of strengthening personal bonds is usually done in a private or at least informal setting. Purely among males, grooming is often a group activity of no fixed precedence, mixed with swimming or water-based games; when females are involved there is usually a grooming order tied to group composition, situation, and [[#social status]], with senior females being groomed by males or by subordinate females.
+Grooming for the sole purpose of strengthening personal bonds is usually done in a private or at least informal setting. Purely among males, grooming is often a group activity of no fixed precedence, mixed with swimming or water-based games; when females are involved there is usually a grooming order tied to group composition, situation, and [[takma:social status]], with senior females being groomed by males or by subordinate females.
 Grooming may also be performed between females for political purposes, as a public demonstration of affiliation, though usually in a perfunctory way. In many cultures, oaths of fealty or allegiance or treaties of alliance are sealed by a brief ritual grooming.
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 //See [[takma:start#cyclicity|takma cyclicity]].//
-Because of the length of [[Avishraa:]]'s day - to the extent that such seasons that it has are tied to its day/night cycle rather than any motion around the [[universe:mikurmiya:|sun]] - few organisms can tie their sleep to a particular phase of it, and must be able to find sleep in a variety of light conditions. Takmar, like many other species on their world, do not necessarily sleep in a regular frequency, and as social creatures must adapt to the fact that many of their compatriots will not be awake at the same time: for group defense, for coordination of activities, and so on.
+Because of the length of [[universe:mikurmiya:avishraa]]'s day - to the extent that such seasons that it has are tied to its day/night cycle rather than any motion around the [[universe:mikurmiya:|sun]] - few organisms can tie their sleep to a particular phase of it, and must be able to find sleep in a variety of light conditions. Takmar, like many other species on their world, do not necessarily sleep in a regular frequency, and as social creatures must adapt to the fact that many of their compatriots will not be awake at the same time: for group defense, for coordination of activities, and so on.
 One of the ways in which they deal with this is through **half-sleep**, a state during which parts of the brain sleep while others remain active. A takma in half-sleep is able to walk quadrupedally across easy terrain, to fly, to keep an eye on their surroundings, to perform some extremely simple tasks from muscle memory and even to engage in some very basic communication, all while providing some rest for the brain. While it cannot replace full sleep, it can delay the need for it to an extent. Aside from being a convenient aid to uninterrupted travel, it allows takmar with differing sleep periods to alter them to match with minimal difficulty.
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 Takmar are good swimmers and divers, and on the whole have no concern when they can see the bottom of a body of water or have the impression that it is only just out of sight. If they are unable to perceive or guess at the bottom, however, they will feel an unreasoning terror of the depths, tinged with a feeling that some unspecified threat awaits them there. (A similar effect can be induced by very cloudy or murky water). As a result, while few takmar have any issues being in or on the water near seashores, rivers, small lakes, or similar, they frequently experience psychological difficulty in crossing oceans or going out into the middle of large lakes or inland seas.
-Cultural and religious attempts to explain thalassophobia are often expressed in terms of sea monsters, dark, aquatic gods, and abyssal hells. The [[culture:ethnicity:Abethine:]] city-states, by contrast, have developed a cultural toolkit for dealing with thalassophobia, a necessity for their relatively maritime-focused existence.
+Cultural and religious attempts to explain thalassophobia are often expressed in terms of sea monsters, dark, aquatic gods, and abyssal hells. The [[ethnicity:Abethine:]] city-states, by contrast, have developed a cultural toolkit for dealing with thalassophobia, a necessity for their relatively maritime-focused existence.
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