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Corvans are a species of giant flightless birds (descended from present-day ravens) who use language and manipulate tools with their beaks and tongues, dextrous feet and adapted wings. They speak using their highly developed syrinxes. | Corvans are a species of giant flightless birds (descended from present-day ravens) who use language and manipulate tools with their beaks and tongues, dextrous feet and adapted wings. They speak using their highly developed syrinxes. | ||
They're just small enough to glide and | They're just small enough to glide and lift objects for a short distance with their legs. Their leg muscles thickened because of a need to carry light cargo. | ||
Corvans invented wheels shortly after they evolved and then spread all over the world in just a few millennia. | Corvans invented wheels shortly after they evolved and then spread all over the world in just a few millennia. | ||
=== Psychology === | |||
Corvans are hardwired to fear large land predators and certain poisonous animals that live on land, and they still have their primal fear of birds of prey left over from bygone times as flying birds. | |||
=== Vocal language === | === Vocal language === | ||
Corvan spoken language uses both the syrinx and the tongue. Since they have no lips and no teeth they cannot make labial or dental sounds. However, they can do a lot with their syrinxes and even produce two vocal tones simultaneously. | Corvan spoken language uses both the syrinx and the tongue. Since they have no lips and no teeth they cannot make labial or dental sounds. However, they can do a lot with their syrinxes and even produce two vocal tones simultaneously. | ||