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| Kamapuas; Humanity's Porcine Sucessors | |
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| Topic Started: Nov 10 2016, 04:58 PM (1,417 Views) | |
| Yiqi15 | Nov 10 2016, 04:58 PM Post #1 |
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"I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals": Winston Churchill Fourty-two million years have past since the last humans left earth for outer space. In that time, all of his creations, even the toughest plastics, have all been degraded and destroyed. However, this only applies to his artificial constructs. Indeed, many of the subspecies and resurrected species he has bred have become their own families, like our focus of this project. In what what was once the island of Cuba, two descendant of feral whitetail deer (Balteucornibus bubalumimus) stare at each other. Much stockier in bauplan like the now-extinct bison, these bucks are competing for territorial rights. They charge at one another, sending an echoing sound throughout the forest. They rear up and try and slash and punch one or the other via their hooves, which hit like rocks. However, the older buck sudden stops and sniffs the air. Something's wrong: he smells something he hasn't smelt before coming from behind the younger one, and he's not sticking around to find out what it is. He runs off, leaving the fight making the ground shake sightly and the younger buck the default winner. He's not coming back to this part of the island ever again. The younger buck pauses for a moment, as he sniffs the air too. What would drive that rival away? He doesn't care however, as this is now his territory, and can't wait to get to the does as walks into the older buck's former territo- -WOOSH! Something grazes his flesh as it lands nearby. Terrified, he races away trailing blood, but it in the direction the spear came from. Big mistake. Another spear and a few arrows fly straight into his throat. That does him in as he falls to ground, his mind quickly slipping away. The last thing he sees before he closes his eyes permanently is a hoofed foot somewhat like his stomp down on his throat... The deer's new predator are the first of their kind on the island. Thy are the Kamapua (Orcusus sapiens sapiens): a sapient species of suid, and the next sophont to grace the earth starting with the southeastern US where they have first evolved. We will follow their species and their road leading to sapience. Occasionally, we'll also see the strange yet familiar fauna of this time. Spoiler: click to toggle EDIT: Scaled time up to 42 milllion AD Edited by Yiqi15, Nov 15 2016, 07:39 AM.
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| Yiqi15 | Nov 15 2016, 11:59 AM Post #16 |
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Actually, they use both their fingers (which have elongated and softened. They can be used like tweezers) and their short trunks. |
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Current/Completed Projects - After the Holocene: Your run-of-the-mill future evolution project. - A History of the Odessa Rhinoceros: What happens when you ship 28 southern white rhinoceri to Texas and try and farm them? Quite a lot, actually. Future Projects - XenoSphere: The greatest zoo in the galaxy. - The Curious Case of the Woolly Giraffe: A case study of an eocene relic. - Untittled Asylum Studios-Based Project: The truth behind all the CGI schlock - Riggslandia V.II: A World 150 million years in the making Potential Projects - Klowns: The biology and culture of a creepy-yet-fascinating being My Zoochat and Fadom Accounts - Zoochat - Fandom | |
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| Yiqi15 | Mar 16 2017, 09:29 AM Post #17 |
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As of today, I have made a thread reboot for this because I can't get any ideas for this one. Sorry if you were interested in this. |
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