>>5398259>>5398260>>5398261>>5398262>A Flounder Feeder swims toward the vibrations of a Lump Grazer but in its haste, fails to account for the swollen knot of tissue on its rear. It catches water, a misshapen stabilizer with none of the benefit, and in the process it loses all momentum. The Lump Grazer feels the stirring in the water and crawls away: a by now ancient evolutionary adaption. Though the rest of its pack succeeds, it goes hungry and soon, it will starve.The Flounder Feeder’s tail has grown… after a certain definition of the word. It was only a mild nuisance but your species’ radiation shielding, deadly if brittle pincers, and pack mentality have left it so well adapted that even adverse mutations aren’t expelled from the gene-pool. The problem has gotten to the point that the Flounder Feeder’s mobility is suffering, both in turn speed and direct movement, and with its loss goes its survivability. The population is still high but it is in a slow decline, as it’s become much more difficult to catch the swift Double Mouthers while they’re still young. The Double Mouther was poised to reclaim its status as apex predator, were it not for a worrying development...
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