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Flora/Fauna Ideas; for all your concept development needs!
Topic Started: Oct 6 2014, 06:20 PM (1,319 Views)
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This is the thread for discussing what your ideas are; this is of course, more than just sprouting the ancestral groups of your creations, but will help establish behavioral and appearance details before actually writing up your creature.

This should also help you make sure it is plausible (and thus decrease the chance of rejection) and coordinate with other members to create organisms that interact with each other (say.... two different species of a unique family created by two different users).

(discussing on skype is also okay)
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Dec 29 2014, 06:46 PM
Devil's gardens are where I got the idea from.

Most likely, though, the Anisian version wouldn't have ants per se.
Are you sure ants won't make it? They are around 100 million years old, and at one point, the archipelago did have an interchange with India.

In fact, they probably did exist in India during that time. www.livescience.com/48123-parasitic-beetle-amber-fossil.html
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I would have thought ants could make it over during the interchange.
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Just a dumb idea I have been toying around with, but, during the next activity spurt, I am considering writing an otter-like relative of the Isan Weasel. Since primates are fairly active, and fully carnivorous primates exist on the archipelago, I feel like they could occupy many niches that carnivorans occupy elsewhere. I am also considering writing a clouded leopard-like relative, which would just be a souped version of the Isan Weasel that is solitary.

If a semi-aquatic primate is not plausible, what other animals could take the niche of an otter?
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I actually have an idea for an otter-like cynodont native to Isa, but I actually like the semi-aquatic primate idea.
Edited by ForceofHabit, Jul 1 2015, 02:49 PM.
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Jul 1 2015, 02:28 PM
I am also considering writing a clouded leopard-like relative, which would just be a souped version of the Isan Weasel that is solitary.
I've been working on a 'large' predatory herpetotheriid for the dominant predator of the cloud forests.
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