Oceana
Humans are a "finger-centric" species that recognizes tool use by animals with hand-like appendages, but the humpback whale can manipulate their environment with the anatomy to which they've adapted over several million years. Humpback whales deploy bubblenets to herd and consume a diverse array of fish species. Despite periods of solitude, individuals join their peers in cooperative hunting parties. The ability to repurpose each exhalation as a feeding device suggests that they possess a non-human culture.
This composition embodies the alien forms a humpback whale inhabits during the attack. Their pleated throats billow like delicate tapestries, while their flinty jaws are imbued with machine-like homogeny or stoicism. The membrane of water is barely pierced despite the barrage from the obscured depths.