>>5422364Apart from the Flounder Feeder’s new tactics, natural selection for hunting Stompers has enlarged their pincers in every respect. Roughly double than before, they make it easier to catch onto prey when being tossed by the waves and harder for that prey to escape. The amount of lead coating their cartilage, courtesy of their heavy metal filter, makes permanent cracks rare and somewhat increases their direct lethality by blunt impacts wedging smaller prey between their tips or interior serration. At the same time, their dull edge and the lack of muscle in the pincers themselves or the mouth beneath relegate the pincer to an opportunistic tool rather than a lethal blade. Its size and weight further reduce the Flounder Feeder’s agility and speed, in a development that would be worse without its strong tail directing the Flounder Feeder’s bulk through the waters. Considering the Flounder Feeder’s near monopoly on open water travel in the narrow band ecosystem, it’s an overall net gain.
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