Editing Thri-kreen (section)

===Predatory Instincts===
Hunting is ''everything'' to thri-kreen. They live to hunt, and the typical thri-kreen clutch spends its time either preparing to hunt, hunting, or responding to the outcome of the last hunt.

Virtually any unintelligent animal is seen as potential prey to a thri-kreen, helped by the fact that their strangely shaped bodies and high speed means they have little need for steeds, and their lifestyle makes domesticated animals of little use.

Eating sapients is... not strictly ''taboo'', at least not on Athas, but it's not a thri-kreen's first choice. In TKoA, they explicitly don't ''mind'' eating sapients, since thri-kreen basically don't view anything outside of their clutch or pack as "people", but the risk to reward ratio is too imbalanced towards the "risk" aspect to make hunting sapient prey practical. Odds are the prey will escape, turn and successfully fight, or escape and ''then'' get its friends to come and hunt the thri-kreen right back. No, thri-kreen only hunt sapients when they're hungry... and, when they're desperate, the more savage thri-kreen clutches will even hunt each other. Starvation can even cause the dissolation of a pack, as the clutches turn on each other in their hunger for food.

According to Thri-Kreen of Athas, the hierarchy of thri-kreen dietary preference is, in descending order:
* Fresh meat from an unintelligent mammal or reptile.
* Fresh meat from an insect, arachnid or arthropod.
* Dried food.
* City food.
* Flesh from non-kreen sapients.
* Carrion.
* Flesh from other thri-kreen.