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Evolving into: "tape_reap_r_ahdhfkj"
This hastily-programmed (and hastily-named) update to the tape_reap_r program increases the creature's size, aggression and metabolic needs.
It's bigger, and hungrier. (+size)
But it's still a parasite, and lives as such. The result: creatures sharing a region with it, that aren't actively devouring it, are so throughly robbed of their stomach contents that they mind as well not be eating at all.