The first ones can do everything, the second ones are learning.
The stupid ones, who were more numerous, never learned nothing.
The ones who got the live scorpions learned more quickly.
And the small ones, almost anybody can learn to handle.
Even the young ones learned to wait for her slow responses.
The ones who survive by luck and the skin of their teeth learn to think, eventually.
The ones that could interact had long since learned to do so.
Or were they two the only ones who had learned the true significance of this unique colony?
The ones with experience learn the value of an aggressive defense.
Now, the toughest ones have learned to make their own lives out here.