Despite breaking a few bones, Achaius gathered a lot of good data from this. He's definitely earned a break after this.
At any given time the rotating monarchy hydra will have heads that don't control anything below their neck. The head in control has locked the others out. But they can voluntarily pass the control to another head. This raises interesting questions I want to dig into soon. ---------------------------- Sorry the text is so small in the picture. Here's what the text panels say. panel 1: Each head controls a fixed section of the body. Each section is controlled precisely. But coordination as a whole can often be awkward. panel 2: All independent heads share control of the full body. The body parts move from a consensus of signals. Either this hydra's body can organize the intentions from all the heads or they have really good teamwork. panel 3: One head has full and exclusive control of the body. The other heads can just move their necks while waiting for control of the body to be passed to them. While this hydra's hunting skills are hit-or-miss, this style of body sharing requires further study. ---------------------------- I had a longer description for this, but I lost it unfortunately. Hopefully the diagram makes sense. It took a long time to plan this.
