Because soft earth eased the tunneling of burrows, flame tygahs favored the piles of detritus thrown up by erupting sinkholes for their dens. It was from hidden hollows at the top of these mounds that they launched their predatory attacks. Though potentially hostile to travelers, it was also regarded as an elusive creature, and few were the holovids recorded of them. As such, the Je'daii Ranger Lanoree Brock as a child mistook them to be mythological beasts invented by her parents to scare her.