I could see some individual creatures in the mass.
The welfare of the farm and the herd came first; any individual creatures were subordinate to that.
It must have contained at least 10,000 individual creatures.
That wasn't entirely true; only about one in three individual creatures made it through boiling and rehydration.
Homes of suitable shape and size might be made for each individual creature.
And I'd guess the same for the individual creatures we saw on the surface.
Each arm was an individual creature only joining in a colony of five when they were ready to crawl upon the land.
The stories of these individual creatures are woven into the film alongside a great many additional scenes.
Any individual creature, although a miracle, is not that important in the overall scheme of things.
Within the gates of the city live close to ten billion individual creatures, representing fifty thousand species.