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>Behavior evolution : ritualized dominance
The Matriarch now doesn't resolve every encounter with huntericide conflicts. The norm, when two pack meat, is to gather in a circle around the Matriarch fighting each other.
The most likely outcome is the weaker one showing submission, letting the stronger one getting her pick of males. Usually, a winning matriarch will give out one of her son to the defeated one and pilfer only a handful males, instead of annihilating the pack.
Of course, accident still happen - a violent matriarch, a relentless weake one that does not submit. Still, they're rare.
A few new teeth-clicking words can be heard in the depth of the Crac: Surrend, Kill, Join, Pack-leader, Pack-Under-leader, Mate, Undermate, Youngling, Packless leader
This lead to bigger packs - with several female, hierarchised with a stronger Matriarch, as well as subservient ones.
The males are a common ressource to the females - an available testicle will be reserved to the Matriarch, that will sniff it and accept or decline (already gravid or testicle belonging to a son or cousin) - before passing it down on the pecking order.
When pack meets, duel is not the only outcome - when a Fourbeak, or Scissor Hunter is known to roam nearby, the ritual comes in the form of a common great hunt - the matriarch or one of her favored mate who score the kill is seen as the most dominant one.
Scissor Hunter great hunt are often successful. Fourbeak great hunt are seldomly so. Still, this era shows, for the first time, Under Hunter ability to do so with a gathering of 3 packs, a total of 10 matriarch involved, and a total population around 50 Under Hunter.
Under Hunter young females can now depart the clan in the company of an older, testicle-less male - still better and safer than alone.
Those recent development do wonder to the Under Hunter population, which recovers, raises sharply, and reach the plateau of what the Crack can currently sustain - the answer of how much is it being quite a lot, with Ivy now able to grow thanks to the moss' eerie light.
>Meaty fatty : partial development
The Meaty fatty have hardened claw, using them to attack the ground to enlarge the rifts hiding them. This is still an awkward digging implement but have to be watched closely. This allow them to find better hiding cracks, as well as growing a bit fatter.
Issues :
- Cell degradation due to a lack of telomeres (400 days)
- Predation from Four-Beaks
- Predation from Scissor Hunter
- Still not mobile enough to leave the Crack
- Fragile nose is quite exposed
- Quite low natality
- Sucks to be a young female Under Hunter
>How should the Under Hunter evolve?
