>>4024980The sho is near defenseless when first hatched, their instincts drive them away from the nest as soon as they first crack their shell, they know predators wait for them to hatch. Survival as a sho is not about being clever, or fast, or smart, it is simply a numbers game. You stick with the brood you spawned with, hoping that the predators grab one of your siblings before they grab you. It is a mad dash to find a protector to help you reach adulthood, most of your kind do not make it, the cruel reality of what it means to be born in a numbers game. There are many predators who prey on newly hatched sho by disguising themselves as a protector to lure the unsuspected sholing from its brood to capture it alone, countless generations have given you inherited genetic intuition about which protectors to accept uppies from and which are in disguise. Good luck out there little sholing, the odds are not in your favor!
