HUMANS 101: A Complete Care Guide
Humans are a squishy species of meat and fat, with calcium-based skeletons beneath. This fat and meat-like exterior gives them very fine touch sensory and motor skills without needing to be submerged in water at all times. In fact, they are a social, air-breathing species.
ENVIRONMENT: Humans enjoy a larger enclosure, usually a good 2000 square feet per human at a minimum. Be sure to provide them with soft surfaces, other humans for company, and lots of enrichment. They must also have within their enclosures large amount of very-low-salt or salt-free water, as well as a perfumed salt and fat based solid for cleaning themselves and their belongings. This source of water may also double as enrichment and exercise for your humans.
ENRICHMENT: Humans have a large library of enrichment for their own use and entertainment, although forms of exercise or general play with other humans will do as well. Ensure that you limit the Enrichment Library so that a human does not try to rely solely on their non-exercise forms of enrichment, lest they easily lose time in their periods of sleeping.
AIR: It should be noted that it is easy to poison or kill a human by having the wrong balance of substances in their air, so keep their air at good quality with 78% Nitrogen, and 21% Oxygen. Ensure that their air suits provide this as well.
DIET: Humans require a diet of fiber, protein, fats, and sugars, and salt, with very lightly salted water available to them at all times. Humans will eat or drink anything that doesn’t cause them discomfort or do immediate harm.
SLEEPING: Sleep is normal for humans. They are not dead, nor injured, but simply unconscious and allowing their brains to rest and process information and stresses they have been exposed to in the times they were awake. Humans roughly require about 8 to 12 hours of a 24 hour cycle to sleep, however every human is different. Monitor your humans carefully and ensure that they are getting enough sleep to avoid fights or injuries.
BREEDING: Once they are mature, Humans like to breed and do so at any season, and often with any other humans, however it takes a male (see index) and a female (see index) in order to create more humans naturally, so to avoid new unwanted humans, simply keep males and females apart. You may notice humans fighting off unwanted attempts at breeding by an aggressor (even in all male or all female groups). If this occurs, it is recommended that the aggressor be culled to avoid issues. This is not because the victim breeder doesn’t want to breed, but simply because they did not find the aggressor to be a suitable mate. If left unattended, likely the human population will cull these aggressors for you, but by doing so can ultimately disrupt the peace among themselves and don’t work as well for a season at least.
TRAINING AND WORK: Humans are built to recognize patterns, and are thus very easily trainable and often train each other to do tasks if there is a newcomer. Therefore, it’s very easy to program a human population and this programming won’t be disrupted as long as you keep your human populations in good condition. If you must train a human, you are to walk them through the process and show them the cause/effect of each step, and to use simple, positive human messages, high-pitched whistles, or small items or sugar treats for good behavior.
