Deep Space Evolution: Clans

Chapter 25 Weird biological habits

The journey towards the rest of the sea has already taken two days.

And even after leaving the original sea area, the group's hunting for food has not returned to the original state of eating each other.

Because even though they have left the sea area with abundant food, the sea area they currently belong to is not like the sea area full of gravel before them.

At least there are a lot of small creatures here, a kind of sea worm that is about the same length as a larvae.

These bugs in the sand and gravel on the seabed are so similar that Yuan has no idea of ​​classifying them.

Of course, in addition to sea worms, there are also some fish that feed on sea worms.

There are no large swaths of strange rocks like in the previous sea area, nor are there so many dense seaweeds.

Although the plants here are also a kind of seaweed, they are very different from the seaweeds in the previous sea areas.

Shorter and chubby.

At the same time, it is not so dense and the distribution is somewhat loose.

However, these ball-shaped seagrasses are a sacred habitat for small fish.

It provides these fish with areas for hiding, resting and breeding.

However, Yuan had seen this kind of fish in the sea before.

I guess it is a common fish in this sea area.

The biological resources here are also very natural for Yuan's tribe to avoid eating each other within the tribe.

Of course, the larvae are still at this stage.

Their current behavioral habits cannot be changed.

What's more, if the larvae are allowed to hunt on their own, it is impossible.

As for the feeding of the young by the adults, don’t even think about it.

A group of reptilian fish that gives birth to tens of millions of babies at one time is clearly a species that wins through numbers.

They don't care about the survival rate of these cubs, they don't even care how many cubs survive in the end.

The number of tribes increased, that's all.

Even Yuan follows this instinct.

Although Yuan knew that if all these cubs could be fed, it would definitely improve the combat effectiveness of the group.

But Yuan also knew very well that it was absolutely impossible for him to feed so many cubs.

Although they eat less, they can't handle the large number of these little things!

So let them fend for themselves as the tribe migrates. It doesn't matter how much they survive in the end.

During the migration in the next few days, the group continued to move forward on the undulating ocean landscape.

No creature in this huge, well-organized team dared to come and provoke them.

As the tribe moved forward, they soon encountered their first problem.

Trench.

A bottomless trench.

The width of this trench is at least several hundred meters long. As for the depth, Yuan's ocean resonance cannot peek to the bottom.

In fact, for Yuan, swimmers or flippers, they are fully capable of swimming to the other side of the trench.

But the rest of the blood relatives in the group cannot.

Especially those with shields, their heavy bodies even made it impossible for them to swim in the ocean, and they could only crawl forward.

Even the lightest blood relatives who have not evolved at all and are still in the initial stage cannot complete such a long distance march.

Not to mention the cubs.

When they couldn't keep up with the advance of the large army, it was the adult blood relatives who carried them away.

A shield bearer can carry a bunch of cubs on his back.

What is the difference between letting the cubs cross the trench and fishing to make a nest?
Yuan was in the resonance of the ocean, but many large life forms were discovered in the trench.

"bypass."

After letting the fastest finrunners find the fastest way around the trench, Yuan continued moving forward with his blood relatives.

Of course, their route is far away from the trench.

Mainly because the biomass around the trench cannot meet the daily food requirements of the group.

For those large creatures that live inside the trench, Yuan You dare not rush into them to hunt them.

Although his physical senses allow him to explore the surrounding environment in a dark environment, this does not mean that Yuan can prey on large creatures in such circumstances.

Even though ocean resonance is now available for detection, this thing has nothing to do with predator fighting.

Moreover, Zhongyuan was distracted during the battle, and the gain outweighed the loss.

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"Crack."

A blood relative dug out a sea worm the size of his palm from the gravel, and then bit it in one bite.

A sea insect of this size can provide enough nutrients for him to move around for half a day.

The pack is hunting.

Next to this blood relative, there is a bottomless trench.The blood relatives chewed the sea worms, glanced at the deep trench, and then crawled towards the group.

Yuan glanced at the leisurely blood relative, and then at Haigou.

In fact, not far from that blood relative, in the deep and invisible place of the trench, there happens to be a predator lurking.

If this blood relative glances towards the bottom of the trench out of curiosity, he will be greeted by a bloody mouth.

Yuan thought about why these creatures in the trench did not choose to rush out to look for food, instead of choosing to lurk there, waiting for prey to come to them.

"Habit."

A term suddenly popped into Yuan's mind.

"This is the habit and the nature. Just like in my group, the fin walkers chase their prey at extremely fast speeds, while the gnashers look for the shells hidden in the sand and gravel on the seabed."

"Some creatures choose to actively chase prey, while others choose to stay in place and wait for prey to come. Different creatures have different habits and different natures. In my opinion, the unreasonable behaviors of these creatures are mostly due to their habits .”

Yuan thought while looking at his tribe.

Well, a group of guys who dug through the sand to dig for food.

However, the habits displayed by the ethnic group seem to be very complicated.

Especially at different stages of evolution, different evolutionary types have different phenotypic habits.

Although the blood relatives in the newborn stage and growth stage will prey on the blood relatives of the group, they will treat the blood relatives as food.

But blood relatives in the growing stage will do this more often when food is scarce.

In the evolutionary stage, although Yuan has never seen them do this, he thinks it should be similar.

After all, even Yuan himself would occasionally have the idea of ​​biting a blood relative passing by him.

This kind of "bite" behavior is somewhat common among blood relatives in the newborn stage.

Especially when they have just woken up, or should be in a state of hunger, they will "bite" the blood relatives around them.

Even though Yuan has put a stop to the behavior, the pups' nibbling behavior seems to affect the adults.

Although this biological instinct can be stopped by the order of the leader Yuan, it will not disappear.

The root cause is food.

In addition, the growth stages of different evolutionary types also have different habits.

Jumpers, swimmers, crustaceans, diggers, and taste seekers all have their own unique habits.

Prominent among them should be the leaper.

Yuan Bian had previously observed that leapers have the habit of concealing themselves and ambush their prey.

But this should be a behavior that only occurs in places with rich biological resources.

In this sea area dominated by ball-shaped seagrass, leapers have become the ones that actively forage for food.

"The amount of biological resources also seems to have an important impact on the behavioral habits of organisms."

Of course, you can't ambush in a place with few biological resources.

Yuan's sharp eyes saw a leaper burrowing into a ball-shaped seaweed, and then he waited motionless until a fish swam into the seaweed - life always brings some wonderful ideas.

In addition, after evolving from the growth stage to the evolution stage, the habits displayed by blood relatives also become different.

The most obvious ones are probably the Carapace and the Impactor.

The Crustacean is mainly herbivorous, but the Impactor, which evolved from the Crustacean, has become a primarily carnivorous creature.

Just one evolution completely changed the habits of living things.

"Perhaps we can use the habits of living things to hunt?"

Yuan thought like this and walked slowly to the edge of the trench where his blood relatives were staying.

In the resonance of the ocean, Yuan clearly knew that the predator was still crawling on the rock wall of the trench, motionless.

Yuan slowly stretched out his head.

Sure enough, when Yuan's entire head appeared in the trench, a creature rushed out of the dark water in an instant!

His huge mouth seems to be able to swallow Yuan's entire head!

And he did it too.

The terrifying mouth opened and swallowed Yuan's entire head.

At the same time, this guy was cutting Yuan's neck with his sharp teeth.

It seems that his way of eating is to swallow the head of his prey first, and then bite off his head.

But these sharp teeth can't even scratch an itch for Yuan's thick exoskeleton.

The freely dislocating mouth means that the creature's bite force is not outstanding.

Especially when he barely swallowed the Yuan head, his dislocated mandible made him even more unable to exert upward force.

"Kind of stupid."

Yuan commented as he pulled the predator off his head.

But Yuan swears that he will never do this next time.

Not because of the danger, but because it feels uncomfortable to have your head covered in mucus.

(End of this chapter)