A sign placed on the door of an Earth apartment rented by an family of expectant monkey foxes. The Outlander text at the top of the page is glossed below.
kr rcdq brrCD
kr rcd-q br-rCD-0
2.IMP sire-PL SUB-brood-ACT'
Warning! Brooding sires
The word written in maroon /short high strong growl, chuff/ is literally the imperative form of the 2nd person pronoun, and can be translated "hey you!" But especially when written alone, it acts as a generic warning or attention-getter, "watch out" or "beware".
There is English text (in Comic Sans) below the Outlander:
WARNING: BROODING SIRES
Great news, we're expecting! Please do not come near our nest. Humans this includes YOU!
Hatching day is August 13th. Come by after and say hello to the new kits!
There is a blood splatter in the lower right corner.
It takes about 144 days for yinrih kits to hatch. Because yinrih only get one shot at parenthood, expecting fathers are compelled by instinct to guard their nest, and will attack other males who get close. This is one of the reasons why the medical profession is mostly women, as females do not trigger the paternal defense response.
Yinrih can smell the pheromones produced by expecting sires and know to stay away. Humans can't, so yinrih living on Earth or near large human population centers usually put up signs like this on their door to warn salesmen, delivery drivers, and neighbors.
Usually a dam (mother) will politely shoo away any hapless humans before they can get within mauling distance, but sometimes things just line up and a human gets seriously hurt.
