There seems to be an ongoing debate on the subject, and whether a european pack is interesting, so let's aggregate it. This is not a pack speculation or idea, just a continuation of discussion of the viability of European fauna.
Even in the scenarios where humanity goes extinct (After Man, The Future Is Wild) or evolves into new species (Man After Man, All Tomorrow’s), or is not there (The New Dinosaurs, Hamster’s Paradise, Serina), all of them have some depressing bits, like the deaths of endlings (like Serina’s Stormsonor and Woodcrafter), one book takes the most pessimistic viewpoint of all, Peter Ward’s book Future Evolution. I’ll admit, it has plenty of cool future Earth animals, like lion-like predatory crows, but compared to other spec-evo works about aliens (we’ll get to that soon enough), or Earth animals, it has the most depressing and pessimistic outlook of humanity’s future, where humanity doesn’t go extinct in our lifetimes, but it would have been more merciful for humanity if it DID. There is a portion of the novel where the Time Traveller (never named) arrives in 3000 A.D. Human expansion has ravaged the planet, and megafauna is confined to zoos and safari parks forever, and that doesn’t include rhinos, many marsupials, many primates including great apes, hippos, almost all big cats including tigers, and many others, and it’s NOT because they have recovered. Mankind is also not developing starships with FTL propulsion like Star Trek, or meeting aliens, and I’ll let the book itself explain. “The Chronic Argonaut smiled briefly, closing his well-thumbed novel. He pushed the lever forward and sped into the future. At the year 3000 A.D. he came to a stop. His time machine was located on a small grassy field in northwestern Washington State. In the distance the familiar Cascade Mountains looked just as they had when he had last seen them, on the first day of the year 2000. A thin rain was falling, not unusual for Seattle at this time of year, no matter what the century, he thought. But it was a warm rain, and he noticed how tropical the air felt. He began to stroll. The park was filled with plants, and at first he took no notice of them. But with wonder he began to notice the large leaves and brilliant colors of foliage he had never seen in this area before. Citrus trees were visible, and acacias, and as he looked at the greenery around him he was struck by the lushness and clearly tropical nature of the vegetation. Nearby he could see buildings, clearly different in composition and architecture, but recognizable nevertheless. He was a bit crestfallen. Other than the dramatic changes in vegetation and climate, he found that the future was not so very different. He came u
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For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
This is a species list for a zoo/aquarium in Royal Woods, Michigan (where The Loud House takes place). I mainly made this to see how the Fandom would use it, but this is also kind of a passion project. I've been planning this for quite a bit, and here's the species list:
(Also, if anyone wishes to help with it, feel free to DM me on Reddit or on DeviantArt.
Wetta Eagle Canyon
- Andean Condor
- Steller’s Sea Eagle
Outback Trail
Willawong Station
- Budgerigar, Cockatiel, Eastern Rosella, Princess Parrot, Red-Fronted Parakeet
- Blue-Faced Honeyeater
- Palm Cockatoo
- Kea
Roo Valley
- Bennett’s Wallaby, Red Kangaroo
- Common Wallaroo, Emu
Koala Crossing
- Queensland Koala
- Short-Beaked Echidna
- Southern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
Devils Of Tasmania
- Tasmanian Devil
Desert Dome
Free-Flight Birds
- Australian Wood Duck, Blue-Bellied Roller, Cape Teal, Cape Thick-Knee, Chestnut Teal, Cinnamon Teal, Gambel’s Quail, Hooded Oriole, Hottentot Teal, Magpie Shrike, Orange Bishop Weaver, Red Bishop Weaver, Scott’s Oriole, Speckled Mousebird, White-Winged Dove, Yellow-Billed Duck, Yellow-Crowned Bishop
Namib Desert
- Black-Footed Cat
- African Jacana
- Blacksmith Plover, Chestnut Weaver
- African Helmeted Turtle, Klipspringer, Nile Softshell Turtle
- Serval
- Common Dwarf Mongoose
- Rock Hyrax
- Puff Adder
- Cape Cobra
- Northern Sand Gecko
- Red-Billed Hornbill
- Black Mamba
Red Centre Of Australia
- Rough-Scaled Python
- Lace Monitor
- King Brown Snake
- Rough-Scaled Death Adder
- Brown Tree Snake
- Common Death Adder
- Centralian Python
- Collett’s Snake
- Woma Python
- Inland Taipan
- Perentie
- Laughing Kookaburra, Masked Lapwing, Tawny Frogmouth
- Cunningham’s Skink
- Eastern Pilbara Spiny-Tailed Skink
Sonoran Desert
- Collared Peccary
- Cougar
- American Kestrel
- Burrowing Owl, Greater Roadrunner
- Bobcat
- Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Mexican Spiny-Tailed Iguana
- Baja Blue Rock Lizard, Common Collared Lizard, Giant Mexican Horned Lizard
- Western Diamondback Rattlesnake
- Black-Tailed Prairie Dog
- Mexican Spiny-Tailed Iguana, Sonoran Box Turtle
- Swift Fox
- Arizona Black Rattlesnake
- Cantil Viper
- Mexican Beaded Lizard
- Santa Catalina Rattlesnake
- Mottled Rock Rattlesnake
- Great Basin Rattlesnake
- Sonoran Sidewinder
- Redtail Splitfin
- White-Nosed Coati
Himalayan Highlands
Yeti Camp
- Red Panda, Reeve’s Muntjac
- Bar-Headed Goose, Red-Crowned Cra
It really does, I swear!
