Reef Badlaw
Aug 24th, 2010, 12:40 PM
hmmm... unless the intelligence of the lizard deduces the 'intelligence' of both predator and prey. Enroute to constructing the nexus of the home-HQ, the liz stops... and decides that this wall at this depth will be a prime spot to dig a 'diversion tunnel'. The lengths can vary. Some will consist of one right-angle turn, then end. Others twist-along for several metres before finis abruptus...
Prey would be small-enough to turn-around, emerging into the main tunnel head-first. It'd be too dark for visible vertigo, therefore sensory vertigo is the desired effect, re-entering the main tunnel from a freshly alien point-of-view. Because chances are, another tunnel-mouth looms nearby, not 'sensed' from the original vantage-point.
Predators would probably be too big to turn-around, and would generally grow tired from discovering dead-ends, then backing-out of them... or die trying. Via shuffling, scurrying, scuffling, or dying, the monitor-building-the-HQ has sensed the predator. It's outta there... by one of at-least 3 escape-tunnels. -Which are designed with numerous dead-ends as-well.
I tend to think that raw logic is standalone biological. -Like a venus-flytrap.
Prey would be small-enough to turn-around, emerging into the main tunnel head-first. It'd be too dark for visible vertigo, therefore sensory vertigo is the desired effect, re-entering the main tunnel from a freshly alien point-of-view. Because chances are, another tunnel-mouth looms nearby, not 'sensed' from the original vantage-point.
Predators would probably be too big to turn-around, and would generally grow tired from discovering dead-ends, then backing-out of them... or die trying. Via shuffling, scurrying, scuffling, or dying, the monitor-building-the-HQ has sensed the predator. It's outta there... by one of at-least 3 escape-tunnels. -Which are designed with numerous dead-ends as-well.
I tend to think that raw logic is standalone biological. -Like a venus-flytrap.