| Antarctica; What fauna could inhabit it in the future? | |
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| martiitram | Jan 14 2014, 09:41 PM Post #1 |
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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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| Heliosphoros | Jan 21 2014, 06:09 PM Post #2 |
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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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| martiitram | Jan 24 2014, 01:22 PM Post #3 |
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Well , tinamous do live in Carbocene Antarctica and they could develop some interesting forms. |
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