A couple of minor things I have noticed as well, though i am not sure if they are bugs or just things done to reduce workload:
1. You can bank your struggles between escapes and even predators. Eight inputs either direction will trigger an escape attempt. So if you struggle left 7 times then right 8 and get eaten again after the escape, regardless of if it was the same pred or not you can just input left once to trigger the escape. This can be carried between rooms as well.
2. I noticed you only ever have one instance of the smaller preds loaded on the map, tried coralling 3 of them into the beginning area but discovered that finding the second butt focused pred despwaned the first.