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 In captivity, kavkema may get as old as 40 years, assuming they are treated well (the kind of captivity in the Pens tends to reduce their lifespan, not raise it - 40 year old kavkema tend to be pets). In the 'wild', they often die before they are 25, though cases of 30-year old wild kavkema are known.
+==== Dimorphism ====
+{{:kavkem-dimorphism-female.png?direct&200 |Female kavkema have thicker manes, shorter plumes, and shorter and fewer arm feathers than males.}} {{ :kavkem-dimorphism-male.png?direct&200|Male kavkema have thinner manes, taller plumes, and considerably longer and more arm feathers than females.}}
+Dimorphism in kavkema mostly manifests in a noticeable size difference - females are sturdier and larger than their male kin. But there are also some differences in the commonplace distribution of feathers: Females have thicker manes, shorter plumes, and fewer decorative arm feathers than males.
 ===== Body language =====
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 It is courteous to be facing each other at all times, and it can cause quite some distress if a kavkem is approached from behind or even just the side, and this is generally viewed as an act of aggression if not announced beforehand or a strong emotional bond exists.
+===== Tools =====
+As kavkema are constantly on the move and few in number, their tool use is necessarily limited. While they are intellectually entirely capable of understanding electronics, they only sometimes dare scavenge them from the Nayabaru. Materials frequently used are (usually small amounts of) leather, which kavkema most industriously use for ropes, stone, flakes of which are used as blades, and wood, which is carved into shapes that leather would not keep.
+Almost all wild kavkema wear a so-called **tool necklace**. The format of this varies, but it is usually more of a choker than a free-dangling string, as former is less likely to get caught in branches. It often consists of two strips of leather rope bound to each other in parallel at some distance (although as nothing prevents them from slipping closer together, the parallel design rarely stays perfectly aligned), the binding rope in turn knotted to the ropes at regular intervals.
+Other items are made for carrying by yet other ropes, which tend to either lend themselves to sturdy knotting, or are attached to carved wood hooks for easy temporary removal from a tool necklace.
+Items carried on tool necklaces vary, but most wild kavkema will have at least the following items on their tool necklace:
+  * a leather-sheathed, short knife, meant for carving wood and fine-cutting skin that will be turned into leather
+  * a waxed leather flask for water, corked with a piece of waxed wood, meant as a fallback when rivers are scarce (or for when one finds a trapped kavkem in some abandoned Nayabaru trap)
+  * small (non-waxed) leather flasks for medicinal herbs, corked with a piece of (non-waxed) wood, typically for crude disinfectants and some commonly known antidotes
+{{ :kavkem-tool-necklaces.png?direct&600 |}}
 ===== See also =====