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| 18 | 33 | View more quotes about indeed">Indeed, observers unaware of these things sometimes think two Kurii are fighting, and not courting. |
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| 18 | 30 | The male, for example, may close his teeth on the female, possessively, but not tear her, and the female, in response, if acquiescent, may similarly bite at the male, as though defensively, but not to the point of blood. |
| 18 | 31 | If she is not acquiescent she can inflict serious injury. |
| 18 | 32 | Kur courtship, so to speak, is analogous to circling, and leaping, and feigned biting, which sometimes becomes dangerous. |
| 18 | 33 | Indeed, observers unaware of these things sometimes think two Kurii are fighting, and not courting. |
| 18 | 34 | The Kur male, like the human male, tends to be larger and stronger than the female of the species, which may well account for the survival of the species, as the female must be impregnated with or without her consent if the species is to survive. |
| 18 | 35 | The Kur female is large and dangerous, but the Kur male is even larger and more dangerous, and, in the final accounting, he may hold her in place, and do with her as he wishes. |
| 18 | 36 | To be sure, much depends on the nature of the species. |