>>6101735Water squirrels often find themselves in competition with the crested shrimp, however their small size and skittish scavenger mentality always meant avoiding a direct confrontation. In certain areas without many hunting grounds the pressure forced out docile water squirrels, and soon only the more aggressive ones remained. These fiesty water squirrels travelled in packs and would find tide pools with few crested shrimps and then work together to chase them out. For a long time these turf wars always ended with casualties on the water squirrel side, the survivors adapted with better defined musculature and feet well suited to quickly manuevering on rocks and sand. Packs of these creatures can now sometimes take down a crested shrimp, using their leg muscles to jump onto their armored backs and then stabbing them with their wrist-claws.
