>>36346455Thing is I kind of want them to be a threat to the grave keepers. So there still needs to be ones that are big enough to have a legitimate chance to kill or seriously injure the keepers. But the squirming corpse eater is a nice concept. Maybe they are sort of like moles? Make them nocturnal scavengers with quite devolved eyes. Lives and births inside bodies and carcasses. However they also eat bugs and such. Maybe they have a symbiosis with a bacteria that produces some kind of chemical that deters other opportunistic scavengers as well?
I think forgot the rule for local diversity. Is it that species that evolved in that area would generally have higher diversity and different specialized niches? (of course aside from other selective pressures) So probably need to create or borrow from the real world a couple more species of weasels or weasel relatives as well.
The big bois in this case can be more like a pack scavenger/hunter. Also nocturnal. Maybe they act sort of like hyenas with a very loose social structure? But I don't know where to put wolves in here.
