Government / Hierarchy
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The Yautja are governed by the Council of Ancients. Who is to be the next on the council of ancients are decided by a series of trials. If a clan desires to have exclusive hunting rights to a planet they must be petitioned. It is also shown that they seem to have exclusive use of atomic weaponry in Yautja society.
The Yautja operate in groups with clear Leaders. In 2004, when a Yautja ship crashed it was shown there was a quick response to the situation, indicating a governing force that monitors the hunts.
Every member of the pack has a place, or rank, within this order. When a Yautja with a higher rank has a disagreement with a Yautja of a lower rank, the lower-ranking Yautja usually gives up without fighting.
The Leader would determine when the Pack hunts and what prey is taken. Initiating the majority of attacks, the alpha male is sometimes injured due to his boldness. The alpha male also claim first rights to all food.
The Supreme leader of Yautja Prime, the Clan Leader has ruled for centuries and is proven to be the wisest and strongest leader amongst all Elders. His superior hunting record, fighting skill, and great cunning are legendary, earning him the highest position in Yautja society. Assassination attempts and tribal uprisings are commonplace for Clan Leader, but he has proved to be an invulnerable force, earning the respect of his people and striking fear into those who oppose him. He is rarely seen by his subjects and stories have grown from what little is known of him. He is said to be immortal, possessing abnormal strength and abilities, and many believe that his mechanical tendrils are sentient beings under his divine control. These tales have yet to be disproven.
The Yautja King is the mysterious millennia-old Yautja that leads several Predator clans, or perhaps the entire Yautja race. It is undetermined if this is he same person or title as the Clan Leader. He has constructed a throne out of kiande amedha trophies.
Cities
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Scar gets a call from a crashed ship from earth, informing him that face-huggers are lose and he needs to go and resolve the outbreak there.
When he receives the call, he is watching a screen and behind it is a large window, showing outside it what looks almost city-like. It had a goldish brown color to it but looked busy. This demonstrates that the Yautja might be rather civilised to be living so close to one another and to have build building like homes, to the point of sky scrapers.
Temples
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A pyramid is a structure whose outer surfaces are commonly triangular and converge to a single point at the top. The base of a pyramid can be trilateral, quadrilateral, or of any polygon shape. Civilizations in many parts of Earth have built pyramids. The Mesopotamians built the earliest pyramidal structures, called ziggurats. For thousands of years, the largest structures on Earth were pyramids.
Pyramid temples are quite significant for the Yautja. Pyramids were under the direction and instruction of the Yautja for bringing humans for sacrifice. Humans would be incubated by a Facehugger and thus give birth to a kiande amedha. These kiande amedha would be contained and then released within the temples so that the Yautja can use them for their rite of passage for initiates. Inside the vaults of the temple, there are usually traps where kiande amedha are released - showing that the Yautja weaponized the kiande amedha. The temples were usually located deep enough within the planet - on BG-386 it was located near the molten rock from around the chasm beneath the entrance bridge to it. The BG-386 temple was also a tomb for an ancient Yautja warrior. The planet seemed to hold architecture fairly similar to the design of the temple.
- In the aftermath of the explosion left by Jungle Hunter, a team from STAR Labs (including Superman) investigate the site. They discover a temple nearby. A group of Mayans fled to a cavern a feew hundred years ago, gave up their cities and farms for some unknown reason, and built the temple in the cave. It is believed they were hiding from something, yet the whole tribe vanished in less than a year later.
- In 2004, a temple was discovered in the Antarctic. The temple within the Antarctic was estimated to be beyond 10,000 years old. Most of the temples were overrun with kiande amedha as the Yautja lost their control over them. Consequently, this leads to the entire civilization being wiped out overnight and the Yautja destroying the entire infestation via self-destruct.
- In 2189, there is also a temple on BG-386. The temple here held a prehistoric Queen that was extracted by the Weyland Yutani company.
- The Ferarco crew encounters a temple on LV-426.
Psychology
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The data in psychology are always on observations of behavior. Through Darwin's natural selection, living things have acquired innate predispositions to behave in ways that promote their survival environment.
Many survival-related behavior patterns are "wired into" the animal's nervous system and triggered at the appropriate time by the co-occurrence of specific stimuli in the environment (such as the sight of an appropriate mate) and the events inside the body (such as the heightened production of sex hormones).
Unfortunately, not much is known about the social interactions of Yautja when not on a hunt.
The Yautja do have dreams -- Jungle Hunter woke from a dream-state while in cryo-sleep.
Social Anxiety
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In the Yautja's world, they encounter genuine threats to their physical safety everyday. However, some threats have more of a psychological impact. These psychological threats trigger a mild version of the fight or flight response, that we call anxiety.
Anxiety is a danger or an alert signal. Social anxiety is also called a social phobia. An individual with this problem has persistent fear of social situations, and is fearful of embarrassment. People with social anxiety realize that their fear is exaggerated, but they still cannot control it. They tend to avoid situations in which they need to perform in front of others, and this tends to interfere with life adjustment in some way.
The Elder Yautja was a Master, with the laurels of an entire world laid before him. However, such exalted status demands to be constantly proven in a society where all must improve their position in their pack, or die. He would be replaced, or challenged. Thus, he embarked on one final, glorious hunt - although he was well aware that he was growing past his prime, and died by the Kiande Amedha's talons.
Attitudes on Nudity
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Armor seems to be the only kind of "clothes" they wear. One Elder Yautja, wore a cloak as perhaps a status of his rank. For humans, their mental capacities fundamentally change when they remove clothing. Revealing flesh can significantly change the way a mind is perceived. The Yautja quite content to walk around with only fabric around the waist - not sharing humanity's concern with a lack of clothing. Big Mama had no qualms about being naked when she escaped her human captors. Scar stripped off his armor in front of Alexa Woods.
Youth / Children
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Their longevity may suggest that sons live with their mothers for much longer then humans tend to do before leaving. It takes longer for them to grow up and fend for themselves, and daughters stay with their mothers for the protected environment to raise their own children and maintain dominance over their clan's territory.
Mothers during this time would teach their young to fight and survive and they hunt for, protect their own children, and are viciously and relentlessly protective.
Very early in life, young Yautja may start to establish a dominance order among themselves. They may start fighting with each other every day for a number of days. In the end, one of the sucklings will yield to show that it gives up, and the other raises its tail to show dominance.
"Predators aren't big on theory, with them you learn by doing."
"She trained me as she would her own." Aliens vs. Predator: Deadliest of the Species #10
A female clan would thus be made of succeeding layers of generations; daughters, mothers, grandmothers etc. It would be easy to consider such a clan would be led by a single matriarch.
Considering longevity once more, it takes a lot of energy to raise a child, and so individual females would probably only have a child every decade or two and would be very particular about who was to be the father, and perhaps choose favorites, but do not have permanent pair bonds. This leads to very high competition among males.
A human hunter, Magchiko Noguchi, lived together with the Yautja for about a year, and observed their daily life. Groups of Yautja of varying ages mingled around on the ship. There were young Yautja (a "teen" and child) with short dreadlocks conversing together, and most likely trained together as well.
Somewhere in the Andes, South America during the ice age (c 11,993 BC), a Yautja ship landed on Earth and could not leave because it could not escape its gravitational pull. The Yautja landed in a then-dormant volcano. The group of Yautja was discovered by Batman. They lived a tribal life with little technology involved. A Yautja toddler was seen clinging to a leg of a parent Yautja (probably a female). These Yaujta children don't have shorter dreadlocks, but thinner instead. An older child wearing a chest strap, probably already being trained in the arts of the hunt, joined a group of Yautja warriors to challenge Batman.
Big Mama had her teenage children kidnapped by the employees of Montcalm-Delacroix et Cie. She had great affection for her children and this was the driving her to join forces with Ash Parnall to fight Montcalm-Delacroix et Cie. She was compared to a fierce female lion fighting for offspring by Ash. There were four of them sleeping in stasis pods on the Liberté .
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The Pack
Packs are the common social structure in the Yautja society. Males live in packs of generally unrelated males and females live in clans of related females and their children.
Every pack develops its own unique personality, its own way of doing things within the rules of honor and the Hunt, that differentiates it from others.
The Pack may contain a dominant breeding pair and other adults. These Yautja retain their leadership until some circumstance forces them out of this position (bad honor, limited Trophies).
Whereas humans on earth were agrarian, the Yautja never settled down. Their culture revolves around the concept of hunting and stalking prey.
The nomadic nature of males suggests that they have no 'home territory' of sorts, but that their home is what they carry with them. Their ships for example, are the territories that they carry with them. Sons would be more interested in whom their fathers were than daughters, for it may reflect their rank when they leave.
"He looked through the dancing young warriors for Nei'hman-de, whose blood he shared by the same father."
"He was Leader of the Ne'dtesei, son and grandson of ship leaders and warrior trainers..." Aliens vs. Predator: Prey
Some packs may last a relatively short time, breaking up after one or two hunts. Others remain together for years, inhabiting the same space, hunting the same territory, and maintaining certain behavior patterns, even after the founding members have left or died.