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Donkey Kong Country; Primates + Archosaurians
Topic Started: Nov 12 2009, 05:08 PM (1,367 Views)
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If someone has dared starting a topic about Pokèmon with realistic approach, why not this? :P

How would you build a feasible model as Rareware staff did for that videogame?

I would imagine Dinosaur being wiped out as in KT and Gondwana splitting roughly as did in Tertiary.
A slightly different oceanic circulation, would make savannas both in Palaeotropical and in Neotropical zoological regions (i.e Africa and South America).
Primates evolve in Africa up to Miocene-Pliocene and Crocodiles in Neotropica (South-America).

Imagine chimps and gorillas roaming in Africa and running, scavenger, terrestrial, quasi-bipedal and then bipedal crocs develope on the other side of Atlantic, then un to Nearctica (North America).

Now you can tease me ...til the hell freezes over for this *LOL* XD
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Ooh, this is interesting ! I would have never thought of making a thread of a realistic Donkey Kong, yet I was the one who made the Pokemon thread LOL



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Once we could even do one for Super Mario. Humans + archosaur-like anapsids XD *lol*

But not now. Let's see how this "evolves"
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Now THAT would be cool.

This may or may not help.
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That helps a lot, I say :)
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That's a cool picture, but I think they'd have rather non-human clothing, utilizing different materials, resources, languages, colors etc. Also if they are going to be a completely new species, than they should look rather different from chimps, gorillas, humans, and/or orangutans, and look like their own animals...maybe I'll doodle something ;)



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Well I wasn't implying that there were gorrillas with ties running around, but the paper does give a reason for their advanced intelligence. As for their appearance, it's kind of in the spirit of the topic to find an evolutionary reason for their resemblance to different kinds of apes. A new species would look all look similar to each other, something the Kongs aren't known for.
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I love New York. You can pop out of the Underworld in Central Park, hail a taxi, head down Fifth Avenue with a giant hellhound loping along behind you, and nobody even looks at you funny.

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HELICOPTER. It is a HELICOPTER. You call that thing a 'whirly-bird' one more time, I'll beat you SO bad, your sister's gonna wish she never gave birth to you.

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Plus I would like to see how Kremlings get humanoid too XD

However Klaptrap, Klampon and other quadrupedal biting crocks quite resemble some Cretaceous Notosuchians or even Protosuchians :lol:
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Cat-O-9-Tails (Felis Nonacaudis)

-nine tails help it balance

-purple fur acts as camouflage in it's purplish swamp habitat

-spins around and whips prey with it's nine tails to Disorient prey while chasing it
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Do you get it? I hardly ever come here so I'm like something a cryptozoologist would study
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No known lifeform has more then one tail. How did that thing end up with nine?
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No known lifeform has more then one tail. How did that thing end up with nine?
Could even be fake tails. Just long hair :P
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No known lifeform has more then one tail. How did that thing end up with nine?
Could even be fake tails. Just long hair :P
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Or it could have stuck an 18th century whip to its bacside.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Alright I suggest that the Primates of this time line not diverge into lemurs and the more advanced apes, but instead maintain a single group until the grass lands start to form and we get the Kongimids(Donkey Kong and relatives).

who take advantage of the grass lands forming the first great apes and hominids as the same group?

Also one reason for them staying one line might be becuase their predators(Microraptor descendents?) make adaptions from both groups advantagous and the stay one group.
I am dyslexic, please ignore the typo's!
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Microraptor descendants would be more like birds.
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

"It is the old wound my king. It has never healed."
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