< The Future Is Wild

The Future Is Wild/Characters


This is a list of species in The Future Is Wild and the tropes they go with.

== 5 Million Years == Earth has entered another Ice Age 5 million years into the future. Many of the animals familiar to us have gone extinct (Including Human Beings). In their place, other creatures fulfill the roles they used to play in the ecosystem.

Ice Age Arctic

Snowstalker

The Apex predator of the Arctic. The Snowstalker is a mustelid and descended from the modern-day Wolverine. It hunts for prey while camouflaged against the snow.

Shagrat

These herbivores descended from Marmots, and much like modern-day Musk ox, they live in herds and migrate with the seasons. They are preyed on by the Snowstalker.

Gannet Whale

The impact of humans on sea mammals was too great. Most of them have gone extinct by this time. In their place, sea birds have filled in. However, they can't really cut their ties to the land completely since they need dry land to lay their eggs.


Mediterranean Salt Flats

Due to the extreme climate changes of the Ice Age, the Mediterranean Sea has dried up, leaving the largest salt pan on the planet. Very few things can live on the salt itself, but a few creatures manage to eek out a living on the former Greek islands.

Cryptile

A lizard that mainly subsists on brine flies. It catches flies by using its sticky frill and then licking it with its tongue.

  • Expy: Of the frilled lizard.

Scrofa

A miniature descendant of the Wild Boar. The Scrofa is a very small pig with long legs and hooves that are modified to tip-toe on the uneven rocky ground. It is mostly herbivorous, but it won't turn down Cryptile eggs.

  • Messy Pig: Averted, since they aren't that messy.

Gryken

Another mustelid, its ancestor was the Pine Martin, but it evolved to live and hunt on the ground when the forests disappeared. It hunts Scrofa.


Amazonian Grassland

What was once tropical rainforests have now given way to a dry savanna-like environment. The creatures here have adapted or perished. A similar event happened in Africa some 10 million years in the past which eventually gave rise to Human Beings.

Babookari

One of the few New-world monkeys have have not gone extinct from the shrinking of the forests. The Babookari descended from The Ukari, one of the few monkeys that was generalist enough to survive. It is clever enough to weave a net to trap fish.

Carakiller

A predatory flightless bird that inhabits the grasslands. South America used to have something similar in the distant past.

Rattleback

A creature that resembles a pangolin. It isn't fast, but its armor protects it from predators. There are two species. A smaller one that lives in the Amazonian Grasslands, and a larger one that lives in the North American Desert.


North American Desert

The continent of North America has become a very cold and very dry desert environment, only the most hardy and specialized of creatures can live here.

Spink

A bird that has taken up an extremely unusual lifestyle. It is flightless, but it uses its wings for digging rather then flying. They live in groups that are lead by a queen that is capable of determining the sex of the eggs. It has rather poor eyesight and relies on clicking to echo-locate. Descended from Quails.

  • Expy: Of the naked mole rat.

Deathgleaner

A very large bat. Unlike today's bats, the Deathgleaner is completely diurnal and take on the role of vultures or hawks. They either feed on carrion or hunt for live prey like the Spink.


== 100 Million Years == 95 million years have past since the 5 million year mark. Earth has become a very different place. The continents have moved to very different locations and there is far more greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which is the result of extended volcanic activity. As a result, the climate is far hotter then it is today. There is also more oxygen in the atmosphere, and much less ice in the polar regions, leading to lush jungles and warm shallow seas.


Bengal Swamps

Swampus

Toraton

  • Expy: Of the sauropod.
  • Portmanteau/Punny Name: Tortoise + Ton
  • Wham! Line: It's first introduced as an elephant-sized creature, which a swampuss soon kills. Then comes along an "Adult toraton".

Lurkfish


Antarctic Forest

Spitfire Bird

Falconfly

Spitfire Beetle


Great Plateau

Great Blue Windrunner

Silver Spider

Poggle


== 200 Million Years ==

Global Desert

Terrabyte

Garden Worm

Gloomworm

Slick Ribbon


Global Ocean

Silver Swimmer

Flish

Rainbow Squid

Sharkopath


Rainshadow Desert

Desert Hopper

Bumblebeetle


Northern Forests

Megasquid

Squibbon

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