Djake

***************** ****Animals**** ***************** The Dayah view all living things as important and interconnected; but they feel their kinship closest with the world's animals.  Perhaps it is the fact that one can look into an animal's eyes and glean something of its thoughts; perhaps it is the fact that they share similar motives and behaviours.  Whatever the case, it is the bat and lemur, bird and sloth that the Dayah most often call "brother." Again, the few examples below are intended to paint a picture of the life forms that fill the Dayah Forest.  Many others exist, and new species are discovered regularly - even by the Dayah who w

************** ****Bugs**** ************** Like any jungle, the Dayah Forest is crawling with creepy crawlers.  These range from the beautiful to the useful to the horrific, and are seldom far away.   One of the oddities that visitors occasionally find it hard to overcome is the propensity of the Dayah toward eating many of the species of arthropod in their lands.  Most Dayah are puzzled by this - especially since many outsiders they have met think nothing of eating crabs, lobsters or other similar creatures. Part of the viability of arthropods (bugs) as a food source relates to the fact that many gigantic species of insect and arachnid ca