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Antarctica; What fauna could inhabit it in the future?
Topic Started: Jan 14 2014, 09:41 PM (120 Views)
martiitram
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After the Antarctic ice melts , what animals could inhabit it?
These are some concepts:
-Dromornis like giant geese
-Paca like rat , descended from mice that island hopped from New Zealand
-Didelphodon sized , didelphodon like flightless bat
-Terrestrial fur seal that lives in groups and has the diet of a black bear (they live in large groups of up to thirty , but when searching for food , like berries and prey , they're never more than 5 and then they share the food with the others at the end of the day)
-More aquatic , freshwater relative of the terrestrial fur seal that has a more serpentine body , longer face and feeds on fish , crustaceans , shellfish , turtles and waterbirds) and inhabits the many large lakes and rivers of temperate Antarctica)
-Ratite-ish rails
-Predatory , flightless , terror bird-like kea parrot descendants

Edited by martiitram, Jan 15 2014, 01:40 PM.
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Future terrestrial antarctic animals would probably descend from south american stock, at least initially.


I was hoping that some of Patagonia's less flight-capable birds, like tinamous and woodpeckers, rafter their way into the Antarctic Peninsula.
Edited by Heliosphoros, Jan 21 2014, 06:10 PM.
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Well , tinamous do live in Carbocene Antarctica and they could develop some interesting forms.
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