Back at the park, Ted, Elise and Sean were working with the marine mammals. Sean, in particular, was helping out with the early pinnipeds. Already, several of the Allodesmus were perched in front of him, ready to feed.

Nearby, Elise and Ted were helping out with some dolphins. These ones were in dire need of cleaning, as the park's normal cleaner fish had bene forced to work overtime checking the new arrivals for parasites, leaving the modern inhabitants out to dry. Carefully, Elise and Sean picked the parasites off of each animal.

Sean, though, only had to feed his charges, which wasn't exactly a troublesome task, though it was rather time consuming. Compared to parasite cleaning, though, it was a quick task. Soon, all of the fish were in the pinnipeds' gullets, allowing Sean to take a small rest.

Deciding to go for a little bit of amusement, he pulled up one of the projectors and started playing a movie on seal tricks. When the last of the dolphins was cleaned, Elise and Ted joined him. At one point, the projector witched from seal tricks to videos of baby seals, because Elise badgered the boys into letting her watch the adorable images. Her brother and her coworker couldn't help but agree with her after seeing the videos.

Unnoticed to the humans, the pinnipeds were also watching the video, staring on in confusion as the seals did odd behaviors, unlike anything a wild one would have done. Most interesting about this, though, was that the seals were fed after doing said behaviors….

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Some distance away, in the eurypterid tanks, the male Pterygotus emerged form his burrow. He had been resting their for some time, but now, he was bored. There was only so much to find in this exhibit, and only so much to do, before things became repetitive. Now, that boredom was becoming unbearable, and he wanted a way to alleviate it.

The humans had seen to it that his exhibit was normally impossible to leave - tank walls to prevent him from swimming away, and land based fences to prevent them from crawling out of the water. There was a hole in the fence, but the staff had already caught onto that and started fixing it.

Yet for all of their precautions, the staff had made one mistake: they had piled up quite a bit of sand and soil on both sides of the fence as they had been working, unintentionally providing the male eurypterid with a way to climb over said fence. This was something that male was already exploiting.

Cautiously, the predator scuttled over the makeshift dune, looking all around him to ensure that he had not been noticed. Satisfied that this was not the case, he continued on scuttling, though the lack of air was proving a hinderance. He'd need to return to the water soon, lest he be suffocated.

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Eventually, the male eurypterid came upon another aquatic enclosure. What was inside, though, confused him - there, standing on a rock, appeared to be a fish. But fish didn't walk on land. More importantly, fish had four fins, not four legs. They also normally didn't have long snouts.

It did not take long for the fish to notice him. The minute it laid eyes on him, the legged fish started hissing and growling at him.

No! Bad fish! Fish were food, not rivals!

Annoyed by the fish's refusal to back off, the giant arthropod began gesticulating with its arms, mouthparts and legs, trying to intimidate the strange fish.

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'Stupid flat tailed scorpion,' thought the male Cosgriffius, 'go away! This is my territory!'

Yet the strange scorpion refused to back off. It seemed to think this pool was its own.

The pool belonged to the trematosaurs, not this stupid arthropod, and they were not going to give it up without a fight!

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Sighing, Bolin loaded the last of the kelp into the ship.

It still surprised him that the park farmed kelp, though he couldn't deny that it had its merits - plenty of food for sea urchins, which the park cultivated to feed its various sea otters, as well as several wolf eels kept for research. Lobsters were also one of the main consumers of the park's urchins, to say nothing of some of the staff who liked sushi. The main reason the kelp was being cultivated, though, was biofuel - an effort to make the park's emissions go down. Farming the kelp was only possible in the areas that bordered the tundra parts of the park, where it was cool enough for kelp to have optimal growth. How exactly that worked eluded him.

As the ship neared the docks, though, Bolin was somewhat distracted by a peculiar sight - one of the park's Pterygotus was making a threat display toward one of the Cosgriffius, and it looked like neither was willing to back down...at least at first. Eventually, the sea scorpion grew disinterested and retreated into a nearby estuary, spooking several birds and a juvenile American Crocodile in the process.

Slowly coming to his senses, Bolin pulled out his radio. This needed to be called in now.

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The Allodesmus watched on in confusion as the three humans pulled something out of the strange pouches in their second skins and made funny noises, then ran off. The pinnipeds couldn't really be bothered to care about whatever was going on, seeing how it didn't affect them. Instead, they continued focusing on the images of the seals doing tricks...and the humans feeding them after said tricks...

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Back in the past, the eurypterid scuttled onwards, following the fish. Something had clearly excited its companion. On and on they traveled, passing many others of its kind. At one point, a Stylonurus tried to attack the fish, only for the larger eurypterid to beat the smaller one into submission. Attacks on its companion would not be tolerated.

Eventually, something finally came into focus: a large, flat creature floating on the surface of the water, and below it, four strange animals with only four limbs and not tails swimming over the sand...

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