Mer Creatures



The Mer Creatures were aquatic primates from the future that resembled seal-like apes.

Characteristics
Mer Creatures were around 4.5 metres long and 2 metres tall, with a large, seal/walrus-like tail for swimming, and a primate-like face and torso, seal-like tusks, and large fins in place of hands on their arms. Their skulls bore a resemblance to baboons. The Mer's skin was speckled dark grey with a lighter underbelly, with green down their backs. The Mer Queen was different from its smaller kindred in that it was around 11 metres long and 5 metres tall, it was covered in blubber and red markings (particularly down its back), and it had a slightly different-shaped and more bullish-looking head with extremely long lower tusks.

Mer Creatures, as with seals, apparently ate fish, as the Mer in the Creature Prison were given fish to eat. (Episode 2.7) However, they were apparently also willing to hunt and eat terrestrial animals as large as humans. Mer Creatures were also known to shed large pieces of their skin and simply shrub it off, in a similar manner to seals and walruses.

The Mer appeared to have weak skulls, as Connor Temple and Lucien Hope were able to kill Mer Creatures, or at least knock them out, by dropping large rocks on their heads. (Episode 2.4) Despite this, one Mer Creature was seen to ram its head against a door in Oliver Leek's Creature Prison with no apparent damage done to it. (Episode 2.7)

The Mer displayed high levels of intelligence, they had the ability to 'sing' underwater like whales, presumably to communicate. The Mer Creatures were able to navigate through complex networks of underwater pipes, and they were also known to capture their prey and lock it up alive in their lair; presumably storing it as a way of preserving their food. The Mer Queen was even seen to forcefully herd a captive Abby Maitland in its home environment. (Episode 2.4)

Mer lived in large groups and numbers, often working together to launch attacks against highly capable threats, although when hunting for unsuspecting prey they could work alone. The Mer's habitat and social structure in their home was highly similar to that of seals, with the Mer Queens acting in a similar role to elephant seals. The Mer Queen would also, when charging to catch food, violently crush and shove away the smaller Mer Creatures around it, although it is unknown whether or not this was accidental. (Episode 2.4)

History
It is unknown how or when the Mer evolved, though they presumably evolved from a primate that became aquatic. Nick Cutter theorised that the Mer could be humanity's future descendants. (Episode 2.4)