Harvest of Sahul: Australian Megafauna in Kaimere
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- During much of the Pleistocene, what is now Papua, Tasmania, Australia, and several islands were joined in a single continent: Sahul. Many flora and fauna were harvested from Sahul. Today, we will be going over some of their most successful descendants!
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Quick note on Australian magpies: I assumed they were of the same genera, and generally in Kaimere animals will hybridize into similar species. This is especially common with animals like some birds, lizards, and fish that are notoriously prone to successful hybridization, even across families, and really only become distinct species due to geographic isolation (which isn't a factor when they're thrown together in the melting pot that is the known world). It has come to my attention that Aussie and European magpies share a common name, but that's about it: they are from highly distinct lineages and could almost certainly not hybridize. That's my mistake from cramming too much studying into too little time. Consider it no longer canon. Cheers, folks!
Netherless, that still we always get TWO new corvid species for the prize of one !
That was a very good day Yesterday !
Corvid can be happy as they deserved !
They are so clever, intelligents and fascinating birds !
Yeah, such confusions happen sometimes, especially with birds. That's why common names should bever be trusted in regards to animal systematics. I know that back in the days people didn't know a whole lot about the evolutionary relationships between animals (to put it mildly), but it also seems that european explorers were sometimes super unoriginal with giving common names to animals. That's why we have australian magpies that have nothing to do with eurasian magpies and australian wrens that have nothing to do with true wrens. And it's the same with a lot of new world birds as well.
wonder if the magic store dna without error so bring them back as clone never going to happen, boomrang geckos
What about arthropods and clams of Kaimera?
You should consider putting some megalanias in kaimere
- Species of Thylacoleo
- Mostly red, black, and white
- Lives in Titan Gardens
*ARK PTSD ensues*
Ah yes creatures from "the land down under" find that they aren't the only homicidal organisms.
Anyway kaimere is the reason I took the creatures I made and decided to actually put them into my own spec evo project so thanks
Always glad to hear it! And yeah they definitely did well for themselves, especially kangaroos, but not everyone made it.
@Marshal Marrs Yes they are
Okay, I gotta admit, the demon Kangaroo are terrifying, even for me. It's one of the scariest thing asthetical wise, but boy am I glad to see how the Australian Fauna managed to adapt and some thriving in Kaimere.
Oh yeah Procoptodon was FREAKY
Alright, I was not expecting the giant platypus. And I still can't get over the fact that among all weird and dangerous inhabitants of Kaimere the Procoptodon is still one of the creepiest looking animals.
As usual the harvest videos are super interesting.
Heck yeah! Procoptodon was SO WEIRD. I embellished a tiny bit (larger and more hooked claws for better high browsing) but it's overall pretty true to the ancestor.
I love the fauna of this harvest!
The Rainbow Serpent is an aboriginal legend, the telling of how a giant snake shaped the world and then became the water to support all life. Every time you see the rainbow, you see the serpent.
The Platypus of Tasmania is bigger than the Australian one, with thicker fur to combat a slightly colder climate down south.
Genyornis is known as the Demon Duck and their large eggs were highly sought after by humans.
Varanus prisca, or Megalania, was the largest lizard to ever live, being like a Komodo dragon on steroids and becoming an apex predator.
Taipans, or Fierce snakes, are the most venomous snakes in the world, with venom strong enough to kill 100 people.
Thylacoleo is sometimes referred to as the Drop Bear for its ambush technique of pouncing on prey from trees.
Diprotodon the giant wombat and Procoptodon the short-faced kangaroo were the largest marsupials to ever live with the former weighing in over a ton.
Echidnas, which are also Monotremes like the Platypus, have a weak form of electroreception that helps them find prey under the ground.
But enough rambling, what also impressed me is the climate map briefly shown in the video. It's cool to see climate zones to gain a bit more insight into the environmental context of Kaimere. Once again Keenan, great job! Cheers, mate!
Oh, and Steve Irwin and his family would be proud of you.
Thank you so much! I wish for nothing more. Steve was such an idol of mine. His show fed a lot of my early passion for wildlife.
@@TalesofKaimere Same here. When I was younger, I wanted to be him. I had bought the book on Australia Zoo's history that his daughter Bindi wrote to celebrate its 50th Anniversary. Crikey and Crocs Rule to you!
I'm liking the mentions of rumored survivors! Adds a lot to help the world feel bigger and unexplored.
Thanks! Yeah I definitely want to show that the known world is described as such for good reason: not a ton I’d known by Kaimerans about the realms beyond. Episodes exploring other regions will be from the point of view of a few explorers so won’t be as comprehensive
Awesome mate
Yesss, cannot wait to see the Australian wildlife that were introduced to Kaimere! I hope we get an episode on the Multitiberculates of Kaimere some time in the future!
We definitely need to they're one of the major players of small fauna!
@@TalesofKaimere I agree 100%, they still make up a large portion of the small mammalian niches alongside Rodents, thus I can conclude an episode all around them would make a lot of sense and would be very enlightening.
I could see Diprotodonts surviving in the wetlands. If they could evolve having “litters”, they could have a similar reproductive strategy similar to dinosaurs (who lay clutches) without having to be so dependent on having enough dry land to make nests on. Their pouches would allow them to carry multiple offspring until they are old enough to move on their own.
Interesting points, though how would they avoid competing with ceratopsians, rhinos, and hippos?
@@ryanchen1819 perhaps niche partitioning? They could find some plant life to eat that the others wouldn’t consume.
Currently benging this series. Loving this world.
Heck yeah welcome!!
When the videos called Mustelids and Bovies of Kaimere together with Caprids ( wild sheep and goats ) of Kaimere be putted on UA-cam ? YOU ARE FANTASTIC AT YOUR WORK . CHEERS❤❤
Thank you! Hoping to do those videos in the near future!
Gosh I love the insane amounts of thought and creativity put into your world
Thank you!!!
I have always been fascinated by how versatile the monitor lizards are, some dive, others are more herbivorous, some are gigantic and others, like the pygmies, are tiny.
I always liked the idea of small monitor lizards hunting in groups as if they were scaled meerkats.
Y'know, you've previously mentioned that one of the different Kaimeran people's say they learned metal working from intelligent man-faced kangaroos. Wonder if there wasn't something interesting with a kangaroo species going on before human ancestors reached the planet
The animals we see here are the main ones who have done the most on Kaimere.
That however not mean there are the only species that manage to make it into modern Kaimere days.
There a lot of others species, as aquatics, flying or even ground animals.
But they will be covered in others videos (like in a "Marsupials" or "Kangaroos" special one for example).
But i'm already exciting for the next and the others Sahul harvest creatures that can be on Kaimere !
Do you think pig footed bandicoots lesser bilbies Rakali and and perntine would do well on kaimere
Rewatching before the first Pleistocene Harvest episode
A good plan!
I LOVE that this video broke highly and completely a huge misconception when it come about the cohabitation between Placental and Marsupials mammals !
Because people tend to think that, always, ultimatly, when marsupials meet placentals, they get destroyed by these later.
But Kaimere setting show that not, it's a question of ecological niche before everything else.
Absolutely! It was important to me to show that much of how marsupials were outcompeted on Earth was due to Australia suffering from substantial climate change and being invaded by biota made more competitive by the context of mainland ecosystems, not that placentals are inherently superior. The context is flipped in Kaimere, with marsupials being invasive species, and as happened with the Virginia opossum and wallabies in Europe, marsupials have proven quite successful when they're doing the ecosystem invading!
@@TalesofKaimere Wait there Virginia Oppossum in Europe !
Never heard of that !
For the Wallabies, there was in France a small population near and in the Rambouillet forest. Being created by escape specimens from the local zoo (who closed in the second part of the 2010's). But despite a physical presence of about 40-50 years, the population never grow much despite wallabies being efficient reproductive animals and being not a threat to the local fauna (a shame, for once...).
But to often roadkill and illegal poachery have reason on them, in addition that the population in question wasn't independent of the one of the zoo which captive specimems escape time to time (really, a real pachoir !) and the only European wild introduce (as far I know) population of Common Bennet Wallabies become entirely extinct !
Absolutely loved the video, it's great to see my Aussie brothers get some spotlight. I especially loved the didgeridoo at the end. It's probably not enough for a full video, but I'd like to hear if any animals from Aotearoa ended up in Kaimere
Steve Irwin would love this video!
Oh this is beautiful. Truly an inspiration!
Thank you!!
Awesome
Btw wanna hear how the Australian wildlife are doin in the biodome?
Or about the Australian dinosaurs of the new world I’m making ?
Go for it!
@@TalesofKaimere ok
First
The ratites they have had a unique empire
The skornian emu these are basically a more aggressive emu ( because living in a world full of danger )
The oku
These ratites are the largest living on a island where the only competitor are huge tortoises called row
They are 10 ft tall
And are 6 ft long
And the finale 2 ratites
The mopodu
These large ostrich sized emu like birds are adapted to a freeing polar habitat with musk ox like coat of fluff and are the fastest polar animals ever
And finally
Bobo
These are domesticated ratites are used as a source of food
From starting out as large but friendly giants to kiwi like food birds ……yea big oof
They are 1 ft tall
And are 28.1 centimetres long
Wanna hear more ?
Outside Multituberculates, it's cool to know that there are a lot of others extinct and archaic mammals orders, groups on Kaimere.
Because there was a lot, on earth, of archaic mammals who share the three same reproductive methods of both modern mammals who are currently the Placentals, Marsupials and Monotreme.
For example, multituberculates are placentals mammals but don't fitt into the current modern group one we know so well.
In fact, it's skeletal element (like subtiles traits on the skull) that give them their classification inside or outside the modern mammals groups or not !
And it's that that I find pretty amazing !
(That, and the fact there was many groups of mammals that layed eggs whithout being Monotreme, and who are on Kaimere)!
I think the theory going round lately is that multituberculates MAY have been placental (but it's very recent and unconfirmed archaelogical evidence) but in all likelihood their reproduction had much more in common with marsupials and other metatherians, with possible placental reproduction being very late and being convergent with "true" placentals.
Other people assume multituberculates may have even been a sister group to the monotremes (and it's hinted at with fictional Kaimere multis having similar venomous spurs to platypus and echidnas).
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“Highly successful island hopper” lmao
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Discovering this channel; its amazing! great artwork, i love this category of stuff
Thank you so much and welcome!!
The Platypotamus platypus we see in this video come from an old post on Facebook, but at the time, it's was a random and free joke of yours and you had say that this creature wasn't canon with Kaimere universe lore. But noneless, you was already at the time interested by a large platypus monotreme specie for Kaimere (not as big in the posts or here but quite large).
So, it's fun to see that you come back on your decisions and decide to use seriousely and made canon a thing that was originaly not mean to bé other than a joke for the only purpose of fun 😆 !
Will you make a part two of this video and talk about the animals harvested from southeast asia?
I would love to! This sponsor was specifically interested in Sahul fauna but since so many common animals of Kaimere descend from this harvest, would be quite worth covering.
I like the Wonambi part !
And the fact you put a subtile link with the Rainbow Snake god from the earth arboriginal culture !
With the Wonambi and his iridescence being responsible/at the origins of the creation of the myths of this famous and important deity/god in Australia when first native humans meet this specie !
Also, I never know that this specie and his family eat their preys but taking/ripping part of flesh one by one instead of simply eating the entire body like Boidae snake such Anaconda, boas and Pythons (which I think you confirmed once their presence too on Kaimere) do !
Sure, I've already seen some art by DeviantArt user Hodari Nundu on this specie and his relatives eating this way in his own depictions, but know, I know these ones are for sure accurate !
Otherwise, it's interesting that the Wonambi have almost the same story than the Hugor Chalicotherid on Kaimere.
With their respective famillies being extinct in the Known World region (enterely on the planet for the Hugor) and it's thank to the Southeast Asia Harvest their famillies were reintroduce to this region !
I absolutely love water wallabies and water apes, because i would take inspiration to create Kepler-69's Mayotte
Great to see that there three species of Thylacoleo, here called "Pouch Lion" or "Sloth Killer", and that the smallest/Pakardiant specie (who before was originaly said to be extinct due to the African Leopard competition) survived but only under a domestic level. Being kept as pet by the Maku, the ancient slaves of the First Childrens and, after them, the Homunculies, and take her when they flee to the Eastern Continent western shores.
Fun fact, in the Eastern Continent, there is a flying multituberculate animal that look like greatly to a Thylacoleo, called the "Tikku", and the Maku think that the one they have as pet and the one who possess bat's wings are related (but it's just another convergent evolution case).
Hey dude
Wanna hear how creatures forms Australia New Zealand New Guinea and Tasmania are doing in the biodome?
@@seanessdracosaurus2793 Fuck Yeah ! Dude !
If there was a Triassic harvest and if phytosaurs of the genus say smilosuchus rutidon and niceosaurus were brought in with early saurpodomorphands and rausuchians how do you think they would do in the Permian dynasty
@@rylanbrewer3320 Maybe, but they would have faced strong competition from the others species already present.
Prosauropod would have little to feaf thought.
Since their ecology of high/tree eating vegetation was something that wasn't present among any Permian fauna cast.
Their long neck and overall bodyplan were unique back then.
So, yes, they would have been successfull.
@@seanessdracosaurus2793 Yes, I'm curious about that if you want to share it :)
Very nice video again, it’s really well made and your drawings are really good too. Also I’m quite surprised Bovines don’t seem to be doing so well so far, the only species we know so far being the Giant buffalo of the houze grass plains. I also hope to see an episode on therizinosaurs if they made it till modern Kaimere.
Thank you!! Yeah bovines need really high quality grass to be successful. There are a few species (water buffalo are the most successful, but the giant prairie buffalo is also up there and will probably have one or two small forest species). The Arvelith highlands is going to have a bovine I just haven't sorted out what.
@@TalesofKaimere Perhaps a Yak or Musk ox could work by any chance or does it seem unlikely for these species to be successful in the Arvelith Highlands? For the small forest species, perhaps a highly derived species of wilder beast and a bison species perhaps that evolved to feed on the ferns instead of grasses or does that not really work? Sorry I’m not an expert in the matter so yea.
@@raizek055 Musk Ox are not Bovine but Caprine.
And they tend to live in extreme cold region where there always at least some snow during a part of the year.
However, Keenan already stated that the Highland of Arvel, even being mainly infinite cold steppes like in Ice Age Eurasia, there is any snow who fall during the year.
His climate is fixed permanently.
So, it's not very suitable for a specie who possess a lot of long fur who will be more than necessary in a place such the Highlands.
Same for the Yak. Who is btw a mountains creature with a too dense and long fur to live correctly in Kaimere more hotter climate.
The Yak can however, maybe, put and use as an inhabitants of the Mountains Channel who separate the Highlands with the Lowlands.
Therizinosaurid are present in Kaimere !
But so far to this day. They are restricted only on Kaishel, the Southern Polar Continent. With only one specie who is present in the Known World region, on Pakardia.
@@dudotolivier6363 what’s the difference between the two if I can ask? From what I know and understand so far now it’s mostly that their more related to goats and such compared to actual bovines who are related more towards other ungulates.
@@raizek055 Well, first, like I said, Yak and Musk Ox are not at all in the same ungulate group.
The first bieng a true bovine, and the second being a caprine who evolved to look as a bovine. Same for the Golden Takin, who him is present on Kaimere btw.
Musk Ox is a steppes/large open spaces animal that live under extreme regions and latitudes where it's very cold (often under 0 degree) and eat only grass and lichen. It's a highly specialized specie who evolved to resist to the extreme cold, since this specie always live in region where there always snow at least during a part of the year or even in region where snow is present all the year.
Because of this, this specie had devellop a high dense and long fur as protection against cold and special hooves to walk in the snow.
Artic Wolf or European Wolf and Polar Bear are his regular predators, and his dense fur offer a good protection against their bite and claw.
Musk Ox live in small herd but have a good social hierarchie and made wall of themselves around calves to proprect them from predators.
The Yak, him, is a true bovine who also eat only grass. He's a cold adaptive specie too but who live in region not as extreme than the Musk Ox.
The Yak is a specie who live in mountains and high plates like the Himalaya. Living in high latitudes upper the sea level, it's however not a steppe open spaces animal and prefer to live in more rocky and dangerous escarpments and cliffs, slopes areas. Since she's not a good runner.
Snow Leopard is his main predator, especially for the youngs. Yak live from small herd to alone or few indivial at least.
Living in less cold and extreme regions/climates, his fur is less dense and long than the one of the Musk Ox, even if remaining higher than the others bovine species.
But that mean that his fur is less efficient against predators fangs, bites and claws.
Like I said, when seeing the description and behaviors of the two, at final, only the Yak stand up as possible candidate. And even here, as inhabitant of the Mountains Channel who separate the Highlands with the Lowlands and not as inhabitant of the Highlands steppes themselves.
Hope that you learned more about these two creatures !
Good job, mate !!🤠🐨🐊🐍🕷️🦈
We wanted this video !!
8:53. I was thinking it would have been called a Bunyip, but still cool!
Again, a pretty good and enjoyable video as usual !
But ...
This time, she was released pretty late than usual.
In general, your videos are released every tuesday, or friday in some cases, between 16 to 18 hours.
But here, she was released almost at 23:30 (at Paris' hours, I'live in France just to precise).
Was there/have you this time a problem in particular with this video that let this later being delayed ?
If it's the case, I hope that was not a big problems...
Are you going to do a dedicated video on the more derived multituberculates? They give the more recognisible (but still similarly strange) marsupials a good run for their money.
Eventually I would love to! Multituberculates are doing really well in Kaimere, even the competitive known world.
@@TalesofKaimere The multituberculates had a multi-million years head start on non-placental metatherians, becoming much larger and as similarly derived as the Australasian marsupials and monotremes (sea beavers are still very successful and seem more generalist than the platypus).
The Platypotamus made me think if large predatory mammals with beaks or bills are possible.
I LOVE the Numbat !
It's great that he make it into Kaimere !
(Also, Numbats are the closest relatives of the Thylacines even before the Tasmanian Devils in phylogenetic !).
Literally just caught this video. Never clicked so fast before. Love your work!!!
Gratitude!
It's cool to know that there is several species (for each grous) of Wombats, Quolls/Marsupial cats, Bandicootd and Bilbies on Kaimere.
They lived mostly in the Highland of Arvel.
But since they are all semi-open spaces creatures who need at least some forest or bush coverage. I can guess that mean that the Highland of Arvel possess cold temperate forests between the infinite steppes area who touch the sea borders (like we can see in the title screen of the video) and the mountains channel who served as a barrier/who separate the Highlands with the Lowlands (and who must be rocky in terme of biome).
Right ?
That is correct! There are some temperate forests scattered throughout. It’s a mosaic habitat but is mostly grass.
@@TalesofKaimere This sort of "No Man's Land" between the high rocky mountains and the infinite Steppes biomes must be a refuge for a lot of temperate/boreal European Ice Age animals. Especially small creatures.
These forests should look very similar to the taïga forest one of Russia for example.
Very exciting !
10:46 Interesting, if true, then I'd imagine the diprotodon having a similar dynamic in Kaimere as the Drenduga. Being rare and reclusive.
Speaking of crocodiles, I think a crocodilian and crocodilian-adjacent episode is in order. Did Kaimere get giant crocs like Purusaurus and Deinosuchus?
They definitely deserve an episode! I'd need to wait for a sponsorship since their scales make for a very time-consuming process. Purusaurus was definitely harvested and has a population of descendants in the wetlands of Arvel and Ni'Khar. Deinosuchus may have been harvested but do not have living descendants.
There 3 species of Procoptodon in total in Kaimere in the Known World (as seen with 3 march 2022 facebook account) :
- The (Giant) Forest Kangaroo, also called "Azhe" or the "Demon Kangaroo" (the specie shown here in this video)
- The Common Forest (or Red/Collared) Kangaroo, who is found in the forest of the Northern Contienent but who venture time to time in the Houze Prairie but prefer the Titans Gardens
- And the Western (or Brown)Forest Kangaroo, the smallest of the three (the size of a egular person) and live only in the Western Continent.
All these three species are fast cursorial animals, and are fairly efficient walkers that hold their own competivitely by high browsing courtesy long arms.
In the posts, the Azhe's illustration is different but we will said it's a juvenile since the coat it's not enterely the same.
Also that platypotamus is awesome!
Thank you!!
The water wallaby …
The island HOPPER :>
Have you thought about going in depth on the various unique fruits and vegetables of kaimere?? Since it seems like most harvests from earth missed crucial plants like Corn, Olives, and grapes.
Maize, olives, and grapes are among the many plants that translated really well from the Mediterranean and Americas during the Mercantile Age, but eventually I do intend to sit down and establish some indigenous plants that the peoples of the Free States cultivated on their own and inherited from the First Children
@@TalesofKaimere I can’t wait to see it!! I’m a huge fan of the series, if you couldn’t tell lol. You should definitely make a climate map while you’re doing that, as it’ll help explain why those plants are grown there
@@jacobjerny7502 A climate map you say? I think you'll like next week's episode!
Great video, Keenan! Loved all the details on the animals! Just one critique, if I may. In regards to the Köppen Climate map you posted in here, I would challenge you to flesh it out a little more. In some areas, you have the climate jumping straight from Tropical (A) or Arid (B) right to Montane Tundra (EF). In real life, there would be a little more nuance to the gradient here, and I would love to see that fleshed out more on an updated Köppen Climate map of the Known World. Might let you add more nuance to the flora, fauna, and cultures living in those places too. I love love LOVE your work so far and can’t wait to see you continue to grow
Thanks so much! It’s really just meant to paint some broad strokes. I would love an opportunity to really dive in but the reality is I have to penny pinch time. I hope to elaborate more down the road but I don’t foresee having that time in the near future
@@TalesofKaimere hopefully one day! Keep up the great work!
Hi Keenan i wonder what types of Philippine animals that got into Kaimere in the Asian harvest . Since the Philippines are not known for their animals i wonder what animals would survive in Kaimere 🤔
If dont the animals i would list for you :
1.) Philippine Eagle 🦅
2.) Tamaraw or the dwarf buffalo 🐃 also theres also the Carabao the water buffalo 🐃
3.) Tarsier
4.) Binturong
5.) Giant Flying Fox 🦇
6.) Flying Lemurs
7.) Palawan Peacock Pheasant 🦚
8.) Pangolins
9.) Macaques 🐵
10.) Warty Pigs 🐗
11.) Whale Sharks
12.) Deers 🦌
13.) Mouse Deer
14.) Philippine Crocodile 🐊
15.) Monitor Lizards 🦎
16.) Leopard Cat 🐱
17.) Cockatoo and other bird species 🐦
18.) Pythons and Cobras 🐍
19.) Dugongs 🐋
20.) Turtles species
Thats i can think of . Hopefully this will help you make a video about the Philippine harvest 🇵🇭 .
i like soft shelled turtles the most but echidnas are a close second they are so awesome
They are indeed!
From left, giant Dinosaurs, from the right, the adaptable placental mammals, on the center, the marsupials just chilling, leaving large niches to others. Kangooros are very adaptable, they coped with the introduction of the Dingo and the arrival of man, they survived in the UK and invasive animals, they thrive anywhere, they deserve their space and love in Kaimere
Have you considered doing videos on certain biomes or regions in kaimere and the creatures that lived in them?
I have indeed! Don’t have any lined up but it’s something I would love to do. Probably will need to do more micro and mesofauna before I’m ready to really unpack a full ecosystem.
I'm curious, what happened to the other groups of herbivorous Dinosaurs such as Pachycephalosaurs, Ornithomimosaurs & large herbivorous Theropods such as Therizinosaurs & Deinocheirids in Kaimere? I never heard them being brought up even in videos covering the Tyrant Dynasty, were they marginal in Kaimere? Did they survive the Dynastic Extinction, or by some fluke did they never get chosen by the portal at all?
Well I guess that explains why there's a Thylacoleo like creature on kaimere.
The Thylacoleo part remind a lot two old posts you made the 23 Jully 2021 where in reality you drawned the Thylacosmilus sparrasodont intead !
I don't know if it the name of the two species where you made a mistake (like, you wanted to say Thylacoleo but you write Thylacosmilus instead) or if you mistake the jaws, fangs and shape of the head (because it's these undisputable and famous characteristic elements who show us that is the Thylacosmilus we have, being a Saber-tooth animal with two reversed bump at the tip of the inferior jaw, and not the Thylacoleo).
But anyway, that was fun, and I like that you retain the tamed/domestic aspect/idea from the first post of the two !
Being a efficient hunter and being capable of great jaw bite, the Thylacoleo must be a great "guardian dog" for the Maku !
Your work is so good, I wanna explore your creation and make a fan made faction of humans in Kaimere if you would allow it
Go for it!
@@TalesofKaimere thank you, thank you very much!
The Demon Kangaroo is obviousely non other that the Procoptodon ! But you forget to precise that there is also three species of this creature !
One who look pretty similar to the base earth form (unchanged) and two smaller species.
Also, the design/illustration we see here is a fourth one, and not one of the three originals. Right ?
Why didn't you mention or use them ?
Did the Emu War also happened on Kaimere ?!
7:45 PERRY THE PLATYPUS
THE only and most Human vs animals war we lost !
Emu wins ! 😆
@@dudotolivier6363 are you French ?
@@MrT_Rex yes, why ?
Australian Megafauna has seen some descendants on Objecia, though they are more common on southern continents. 4 Emu species, 6 Kangaroo species, and more have seen success on Objecia. After Earth's destruction due to a collision with a rouge planet, the ancestors of these Objecian Aussies went extinct.
This video was awesome!!! I love Australian fauna and seeing some (especially the Emu overlords) thrive in Kaimere is awesome!!!
You have mentioned hybridisation between Australian magpies and Europian ones, but that wouldn’t be possible as the Europian are corvids and Australian are artamids, they are distantly related.
Thanks! Yeah I goofed on that one.
Thw marsupail lion seems to bw doing well on kaimerw
Just realized that those diprotodontids of western Arvel are probably just misidentified Lasuga
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Pouch lion I think rolls off the tongue more easily than marsupial lion. I vote for making that the common name for Thylacoleo
Heck yeah
This video has been an interesting insight into some of the stranger creatures recently harvested from earth and makes me interested in learning about the parts of arvel and Ni'khar that stretch beyond the known world.
Thank you! Yeah there’s so much more to explore in both continents. They are both at their most biodiverse in the known world (with the exception of Ni’Khari equatorial jungles) but there’s still a lot of cool stuff to explore in the worlds beyond.
9:50 So have these giant echidnas found an island on Kaimer with a giant powerful emerald?
Wait domestic thylacoleo?!
Yep, the back door bear
Yup! They were magically domesticated by the First Children, so aren't conventionally domesticated.
@@TalesofKaimere Yep, the First Children use their magic to enchant them (a sort of mind control spell I guess) in order to control this Pakardia specie.
So, in physical appearances, these Thylacoleo remain exactly the same than in the wild, as in shape as in color pattern.
However, it's ironic that it's thank to the First Chidren action that this smallest specie surived, because if they had never intervened, this Pakardia specie would have become extinct because of competition with the common leopard !
Awesome! I've been very excited for this episode for a while!
Heck yeah!! So many fun critters to explore
Australia is one of many places I find fascinating because of how much hostile life exists there. From emus and kangaroos to crocodiles and snakes, it is just ripe with danger.
Yet people still go there. Then again, America isn’t exactly a paradise either.
Did any big invertebrates from Australia get transferred over to Kaimere? I’m sure there’s plenty of creepy-crawlies that would do well in this context.
For sure! I wasn't focusing on them for this episode, which mostly looked to demonstrate that marsupials are bucking the misconception that placentals are superior to marsupials in any context, but Aussie buggoes are absolutely present in the known world!
OMG Saltwater croc and Azhe look sooo badass
Heck yeah!
Not even on Kaimere, the Tassie tiger has had no place to call home :(
Unfortunately not
Nicely done as always! Love the inclusion of the marsupial lions! And it looks like Kaimeran and Kalamongan marsupial lions are a bit different. In Kalamonga, marsupial lions were more diverse in a land lacking gigantic carnivorous reptiles. Then came the arrival of placental mammals from Eurasia and the Americas which resulted in the death of most marsupials. Some marsupial lions however managed to survive, and are thought by many to be the reason why leopards and cougars haven't occupied Kalamonga. Jungle marsupial lions for example have more flexible spines than their extinct Aussie cousins and are build more like leopards.
And it's remarkable how metatherian predators are alot like canines or felines through convergent evolution (despite diverging at least 160 million years ago).
Question: Considering that Nimravids have a similar niche of primarily arboreal ambush predator that can also drop down on megafauna, how did they niche partition with with Thylcaleo?
I would think that Platypi and Otters would niche partition with the former preferring crustaceans and the latter preferring bivalves, brachiopods, and abalones.
For that matter, how do Water Wallabies, Sea Beavers, and Oceanic Hippos niche partition?
Also, how long did it take Kaimereans to realize that Thylacoleo wasn't a cat or even a carnivoran, and do they consider them and the Macropods to be glires or hoofless ungulatans like Chalicotheres (due to their dentition)? It seems they don't regard marsupial pouches to be much of a phylogenic link. (Then again, the fact that they can open up in [at least] three different possible positions on the mother could give the impression that each instance was an example of convergent evolution, and modern Marsupials are definitely more related to Eutherian Placentals than either is to, say, Multituberculates or Gondwannatheres, let alone the egg-laying Austalosphenids, Monotremes, and especially the Egg-Laying Synapsid descendants of the Permian Island).
I fully understand and empathize with those who think the Procoptodon is a homunculus that thing is terrifying.
Yeah it's one of my most unhinged creations and isn't even that derived from its ancestor.
The giant platypus for some reason fills me with irrational fear
however I see that the diprotodonts and other giant marsupials are not here. the competition with so many different giant animals at the same time must have been impossible to deal with.
Interesting video and I enjoyed seeing the interesting fauna of Australian origin of Kaimere. Though I still wish we got to see the bats and the old and new endemic rodents harvested from Australia to Kaimere in which I think the native land placentals of Australia are a bit underrated. Speaking of which, did any marine mammals from Sahul get harvested?
Will cover some for the bat and rodent episodes but as it was I was already making this episode run very late due to lack of time. There were probably some cetaceans and pinnipeds harvested although the more northward region of the harvest collected more fauna.
I can’t wait to hopefully see a profile on insect and plant species on Kaimere in the future! By any chance did any Roadrunner species have any significance on Kaimere?
Both plants and insects have episodes in the coming months! Haven’t looked into roadrunners yet so I can’t say
Shame that the giant bovids like the Gaur don't make it in Kaimere... They should have thrived...
But how, in this situation, such Southeast Asia tropical rainforest species such Giganthopithecus or the Hugor, who came by the exact same harvest manage to survived them ???
Bovines need grass to survive, which at the time of gaur's arrival, was in very low abundance (Arvelith grasslands were only just starting to appear, and House prairie territory was still a fern prairie/sparse grass scrubland).
Some questions about the domesticated pouch lions
1) Just what are they used for
2) How safe are they around people
3) How are they different from their wild counterparts ?
Originally they were magically domesticated by the first children since these sloth hunters snuck into the burrows of sloths that the First Children mind controlled and killed sloths and children, so they were controlled to both stop eating the first children and their beasts and also deter other predators. The domesticated species of modern times are much more intelligent than wild counterparts, although still unintelligent compared to say dogs or Nerotan lions. They are safe around their people since the Maku imprint on them, but quite dangerous to those they are sent to attack. They are also fairly small and gracile compared to their mainland cousins
How did Ausie magpies and European magpies hybridise? They're only somewhat closely related. Oh also, genuine question on the worldbuilding. Why are so many species far larger on Kaimere than Earth? Is this mainly because of dinosaurian predation?
That was a gaff on my part. I think I addressed it in the pinned comment that I erroneously assumed they were both in the same genus. As I was wrong, they cannot hybridize.
In some cases, animals do get larger due to competition. In some cases, like the emu, they got bigger to better endure a colder habitat, as the niche in their preferred climate was occupied by rhea so they made do in the cooler highlands, and following Bergman's rule, grow bigger. In some cases, such as tigers and lions, they actually got smaller to avoid competition.
I wouldn’t be surprised if an Aussie got harvested onto the Arvelan highlands, and with all the Emu’s there, they’d would assume they were in Wilson’s Prom, until they spot the big cats
I didn't expect the Kaimeran Echidnas to be that big. Also quick question what kind of medical plants or herbs do Kaimerans use?
I’m pretty sure you confirmed in a qna that koalas couldn’t establish themselves. If lack of eucalyptus trees (if they were even brought over) didn’t kill them, then leopards, pouch lions, etc did.
Yeah koalas we’re unsuccessful. They had more diverse relatives in the past and I might integrate some later but none are currently canon
as an aussie i loves this
Awesome video. Absolutely love it. Hope to see a video dedicated entirely on Kangaroos.
Thank you! They (alongside deer, sloths, and hippos) are among the most successful mammal herbivores and found in pretty much every habitat.
Are we just never going to get an explanation for the *absurdly massive* ravens?? Or are they ACTUALLY that big, here, on Earth, and I'm just not as intelligent as I should be??
Ravens of Earth are large, with the biggest species having a wingspan of 4-5 feet. These guys have wingspans of 5-7 feet, being more in the size range of eagles.
Really dope stuff. I'm sure the petaurids are sad their kind didn't survive.
Keenan had said anything about the petaurid or Flying possums. So there always a chance that there ar least some representatives that make it.
Good work!
Thank you!
From what specie the Water Kangaroo descend/came from ?
And what is the others small to medium ground Kangaroos and wallabies classification ?
If some of them descend or are related to extinct (on Earth) genus such the Sthernurus, Silvaroo, Protemnodon etc... or if all are related to modern extant species ?
Also, just a personnal one but.... How about the Propleopus wallabies ? The one known to be mainly a slavenger, flesh-eater macropodid ?
He make it or not ?
Great episode. Would have liked to see more monotreme diversity. they have a weird mix of strategies compared to bird and mammals which might have help to achieve larger body sizes. For one they lay eggs which helps to lesson the limit to body size. Two they feed a milk like substance to their young and more child care so more would reach adolesence or adulthood. This might give them a size range of between paraceratherium and sauropods. The only issue I can so far see is the lack of herbavores in the monotremes. So far the largest land animals were herbivores.
I have an idea two large carnivore monotremes. The first is a creature that has many traits to that of an owl that hunts at night. The second hunts in the day and will steal kills from cockatrice due to quills amongst the fur and larger pack sizes to other mammals. Add in an immunity to coakatrice poison and you have a pain in the behind for those trying to steal a kill. Do to both species bear like appearance they could be called owl bears.
The night bear has many features of the owl even though they are not related. The special fur dampens noise from the animal on the move. The face fur funnels sound similar to an owl. Padded paws also dampen the foot steps. The beak however is composed of hardened fur shaped for carving up meat. The adults grow the size of a large bear. They hunt in packs 6 for medium prey and small prey. At least two packs come together for large prey. Predators that try to steals large kills from night bears get a rude awakening. The packs take turns feeding while while the other hides in ambush for kill stealers. The scavengers only see the six night bears and stroll past the ones in waiting. In minutes the odds are evened and the kills are eaten by the hidden pack. The larger predators are leaped upon by the hidden pack driving it away.
When guarding eggs from thieves the pack takes turns in twos guarding the nest while the others hunt. The two guards hide in wait for thieves using their eggs for bait. When in range one rushes to the nest while the other tries to kill the thieves. When the eggs hatch this behavior turns back to taking care of the young.
Sounds cool! Unfortunately the fossil record of monotremes suggest they were very much like platypuses since even back in the Cretaceous. There are tons of other nontherian mammals in Kaimere and they are quite diverse. Some are truly massive!
@@TalesofKaimere The second species is called the caltrop. It diverged from platypus along with echidna's but kept its carnivore side. It kept a similar body plan to both with the land walking structure of the echidna along with quills and flat tail. the head how ever looks like a duck meets a bone crushing wolf head. However due to lack of canine teeth mean they rip it up with their claws. they grow to the size of a black bear. They are pack scavengers in one moment and stealing from cockatrice kills the next. A caltrop's back to tail is covered in spines long enough to pierce feet before claws or teeth can pierce skin. Groups are called are called ambushes and they cover the kill so other carnivores carnivores can't eat it. Large pterosaurs however can kill it do to their long beaks. That's only if they don't charge the feet.
Just had to finish the other creature. Thanks for letting me know. hadn't seen an animals that used quills to steal food.
How diverse this Sahul legacy is and spread outside the Known World ?
Very prominent in Arvel, and the two kangaroos of the prairie have reached the Eastern continent, as has the water wallaby.
The reason why Kaimere is so dangerous is because Drop Bears were introduced.
Do you plan to eventually post some content focused on invertebrates?
I do indeed! Mostly my interests lie in megafauna but I’ve done an episode on a termite and it was a lot of fun. For Big Bug Week next month I’m going to be doing a few large arthropods like the trident scorpions.
Love your stuff
Thanks!
You really made the platypus in another hipo uh.
It is the law of Kaimere
What? No huntsman spiders?
If there is Tree Kangaroos in Kaimere, and if they are very successfull (which is the case here), are there really giants species such the extinct Bohra genus ?
Also, when it's come about to be arboreal, it's truly a Key success in Kaimere !
The leopard being the best example.
(Being arboreal = being successfull in Kaimere !)
I don’t have any giant tree kangaroos planned. Just this genus, which had the most adaptable diet which enabled it to compete with apes and other monkeys
@@TalesofKaimere Okay. For know, at least, keep this genus just in case for another video on another subject (maybe a Kangaroos or a arboreal species special).
Who know ?
Suggestions still suggestions and always good to keep in mind ! 😁
"Emu are the breakout stars if the birds."
Me:Not surprised since they won a war.
Emu when they landed on kaimere
Crikey mate,what is this place? You see this a place for colonization.
Out of curiosity are there cave species on Kaimere?
As it seems easily imaginable that Kaimere has a cave/chasm system inhabited by all kinds of more or less monstrous cave-dwelling species (much like the pits in King Kong, the cut scenes from the original and the version of 2005).
As a planet Kaimere as a far less dense core than Earth so an intricate cave ecology is a possibility. Still in its early stages as a concept so no canon creatures
Nice video
Thank you!
@@TalesofKaimere your welcome
I’m hope these roomer’s about those Australian megafauna to still livening to this day in kaimere.
Megaraptorans should keep an eye on emues, the real avian threat... Great video as always! How is the climate video going?
Thanks! Climate video is coming along great. Still touching up elements of the script
Oww, so sad Thylacines also went extinct in kaimere, I was hopping some small population could survive here
Unfortunately not