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>Under Hunter mutation : 96
Over the past timespan, the <span class="mu-s">Under Hunter</span> evolved its ear. Its ears.
There are now 3 of them; the cone grew into a tube opening on a slightly larger pinna. The tube zig-zag, displaying the legacy of the previously bad mutation. This add even more protection to the membrane as an effect, ensuring the occasional stone or ice shard falling and piercing it becomes an odity and not a too-common occurence.
Finally, a few weak muscles allow a little bit of movement, allowing angling toward a distance sound.
This tremendous changes, coupled with the neural lobe able to treat all this information that grew slightly to accomodate the new inputs, make the Under Hunter able to find the nearby Crawlers way better.
>Diversity roll
Crawlers because a new cousin of the <span class="mu-s">Depth Crawler</span> joined the ecosystem : the <span class="mu-s">Moss Crawler</span>. Moss crawler's mandible are fit for grazing their namesake and not anymore stabbing Hunters. This new food source is a boon for your species (and all the other predators, but this ain't about them.)
Speaking of other predator, the <span class="mu-s">Scissor Hunter</span> worked its way toward waste ejection by adding a gut to its digestive track.
Capitalizing in its ability to cut food with its mandible, thus avoiding eating the <span class="mu-s">Crawler's</span> hard to digest mandibles, smaller pieces are forwarded in the track to allow better nutrient extraction.
This improves the species old age limit, which is now due to limb loss, as well as their size - the Scissor Hunter are becoming slightly bigger than their cousins. This is turn makes predation of young Sissor Hunters harder.
Your Issue List reduced thanks to your impressing mutation, which also removed entries from the undisclosed issue list.
Issues :
- Predation from Tripods
- Predation from Meaty Fatties
- Quite low survivability of youth
- Occasionally losing against Depth Crawlers
- Dying fom confrontation with Ivy Fatties
- Nose and Ear can lead right to stronger predators
- Sometime losing confrontation with Scissor Hunter
- no waste ejection (60 days)
- Relatively bad Vertical mobility
- Struggle to keep heat in when starved
>How should the Under Hunter evolve?
