cuisine and family

they would just crawl around drooling with nothing but babyish, murderous thoughts. their expressions are completely baby though, so they don't reveal the murderous part.
the fact that they have the capacity to live so long in this state means that the lucky ones who live past 4 or 5 years are (due to experience) able to develop certain skill sets that would nauseate anybody who witnessed a human baby utilize. most become pretty good at fashioning and using crude weapons and utensils by the age of 5. this directly corresponds to their life expectancy i assume, and also why people don't keep them as pets. they need to be able to really cut the baby meat up very fine because, they never get more than just regular baby teeth (which are retractable). so chewing and tearing flesh is not their forté. when they do catch a fellow baby, they must find a safe place to start the hours long process of gingerly cutting all the meat into tiny pebble sized bits which they soak in sea water and semi-digested, regurgitated berries for more hours (we are of course speaking in terms of baby-hours). it's curious that they all, without exception, end up using this mode of preparation for their meals, as they don't teach each other or hand the recipe down generationally. they are literally self-reliant and have no bonds with other individuals of their own species emotional or otherwise and there is no sense of relation between any of them. even if they were capable of understanding the idea of clan or family, they would have no idea who was in their own, because the mother lays the egg and goes off to hunt for a baby. if we must figure out one way that they have a bond with anything, then they have been known to sometimes forge what could be taken as a relationship with their baby elephant masters, but that is really just because they enjoy riding them. it's the kind of love the men and i feel for our awesome cigarette boat.