>>5415705With their gargantuan size, slightly larger than even the apex predator, one would expect the Shufflers to die off when sustenance turned scarce. In all truth, that’s most of what happened. Most died nameless deaths but a few held on, refined their multi-stomachs to process even more nutrition and reached a point where a single Lump Grazer would keep them fed for most of a Terran week and the slightest scrap of Stone Moss could keep them shuffling for hours longer. By merit of raw biological efficiency, a stable population of Shufflers have survived and with the newly-invigorated Growth Strands, show no signs of dying off any time soon.
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