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>Nose mutation
The <span class="mu-s">Under Hunter</span> developped a Nose. This half-spherical protuberance can smell both flesh, live or in putrefaction, and testicles.
The latter smell horrendous to male while delightful to female, improving a fair bit reproductive success. A few new hunt success can be credited to the new organ.
However, the Nose leads to more doomed fate than prosperous : First, it leads toward live delvers.
Ivy gliders are not a matter. <span class="mu-s">Ivy Fatty</span> and <span class="mu-s">Tripods</span> are. Second, and most critical, is choice paralysis.
The so-basic neural ganglion of the <span class="mu-s">Under Hunter</span> wired signals from both the ear and the nose the same way.
Two contradicting information lead our poor depth dweller to freeze under the burden of stimuli, leading in turn to missing too many meals.
>Random mutation
A second mutation integrated in the Under Hunter DNA by chance alone.
A particular female was born with a frailer leg junction. Baited and caught by a Tripod, the limb ripped, allowing the female to limp toward a nearby fall.
She proceed to birth not a single litter, like most member of her race, but, for the first time of the Under Hunter life, two litter, dying in the process.
The female gonade, fragilized by a first birthgiving, can't resist a second one.
This is a byproduct of last bad mutation
This result in removable limb in all <span class="mu-s">Under Hunters</span>. However, as the critters lack any pain perception (at least they're not aware of the hardship of their life), this mainly is useless for now and just result in limbs lost over crack and fissure over time.
>Depth Crawler evolution
The <span class="mu-s">Depth Crawler</span> evolved longer mandibles, better tearing flesh. This allow them to fight back the wounded Ivy Fatty - still no match for the healthy ones.
More critical for the <span class="mu-s">Under Hunter</span>, they can now fight back getting swallowed whole. Using the serrated mandible, they now (although still rarely) crawl back from the Under Hunter stomach.
All this, in addition to previously existing problem, crashed the Under Hunter into an extinction-menacing low.
Here is the current Issue list, prioritized :
- Low reproduction rate
- Choice paralysis
- Predation from Tripods
- Struggle to keep heat in when starved
- Occasionally losing against Depth Crawlers
- Miss some sounds because of ear placement
- Dying fom confrontation with Ivy Fatties
- Can get stuck because of poor Vertical mobility
- no waste ejection (60 days)
- Ear membrane prone to tear
- Rupture of female's gonades upon second gestation
>How should the Under Hunter evolve?
