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Canine Takeover
Topic Started: Jul 13 2017, 06:05 PM (930 Views)
YixianBirdBeast
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I have a idea for a speculative future where a horrific mass extinction event happens due to a combination of increased pollution, pouching and a meteor strike causes 90% percent of life to go extinct such as

Elephants
Crocodiles
Cats
Bears
Birds
Bats
Whales
Kangaroos
Hyenas
Rodents
Armadillos
Anteaters
Sloths

However, one type of mammal survived thanks to it's relationship with Humans

The Dog, which due to all of the niches left open and available for feral dogs to change into all different shapes and sizes
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Gojiratheking106
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There are some things that don't add up here tho. Cats are incredibly popular pets, rodents are thriving, birds has two times the numbers of whole mammalian, bats are the most numerous mammals and crocodiles have survived helluva things and don't seem to be doing bad. Black bears also seem to be doing good.
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ForceofHabit
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If said extinction event was powerful enough to wipe out the entirety of birds, bats, and rodents then there's a better than decent chance that it's powerful enough to kill off feral populations of presumably domesticated dogs.

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Gojiratheking106
Jul 13 2017, 06:08 PM
bats are the most numerous mammals
Actually, rodents are the most numerous mammals.

Still, I agree it makes little to no sense to have an extinction managing to kill off many large and successful mammal groups plus all birds yet failing to kill off all dogs.
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This just doesn't work. If you have a mass extinction deadly enough to be killing off rodents, of all things, dogs definitely aren't going to survive it.

This would probably work better as a terraformed-world project.
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YixianBirdBeast
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Dogs survived because of Humans who protected themselves from the mass extinction event through living in shelters and their pet dogs were brought along with them and as the world recovered dogs that ended up becoming feral dogs took over the niches left open in the empty world devoid of animals like elephants, crocodiles, whales, birds, bats, anteaters and armadillos
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YixianBirdBeast
Jul 14 2017, 05:32 PM
Dogs survived because of Humans who protected themselves from the mass extinction event through living in shelters and their pet dogs were brought along with them and as the world recovered dogs that ended up becoming feral dogs took over the niches left open in the empty world devoid of animals like elephants, crocodiles, whales, birds, bats, anteaters and armadillos
Dogs would definitely not be the only animals brought into said shelters,
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Gojiratheking106
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People also own cats and ferrets, along with pet birds. Not to mention rich guys with apex predators in their garden
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That doesn't make any sense. If people were dead set on surviving a mass extinction that could easily wipe out 90% of life on Earth, they definitely wouldn't bring along vast numbers of dogs or any pet for that matter. It'd be a waste of resources to have to constantly feed your pets as well as yourself and presumably your family when the goal is survive a thousand-of-years long extinction event. Because that's how extinction events work, it's not like an instant reset button and suddenly everything goes back to normal. It's a beleaguered process that lasts hundreds, sometimes thousands of years, and by that point in time most humans that tried to escape via fallout shelters will have completely run out of resources and died off along with any fauna they brought with them, intentionally or not.
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What if the shelters are space stations?
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That would only exacerbate the problem further, since the resources would be even more limited(when was the last time you heard scientists seriously consider bringing large animals besides humans aboard a spacecraft?), and an even bigger issue would be actually getting back to Earth once the extinction happened.
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YixianBirdBeast
Jul 14 2017, 06:35 PM
What if the shelters are space stations?
If anything that would be even harder to survive in for thousands of years. Making a space station that can be stocked with enough resources to last that time would be even harder than stocking said resources in underground shelters. Plus you get added problems such as making sure there are no hull breaches in all that time, that people are protected from cosmic radiation all that time, that the space station never degrades in its orbit and comes crashing down to Earth, and so on.
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I don't mean to be rude, but Yixian needs to be banned from this site. He pretty much does nothing but bitch about Hell Creek being overrated and write implausible concepts here.
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He got banned off another forum and the Paleoptology discord for the same thing and it's only a matter of time before DA and Facebook's prehistory group do the same at this rate.
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There is no way you are wiping out birds, bats, and rodents yet somehow have dogs survive. Plus, there is nothing wrong with hell creek as a documentary.
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