After Man | A Comedic Summary

dang i'm to lazy to do this one

I would like a documentary or sci-fi series based entirely based off the book

bats losing their ability to flight became the new crustaceans evolving into crabs

Very well edited and explained!

Yippeeee

Do Man After Man, please.

Reed stilt is the one who made me wonder and google how animals get more vertebrae in the process of evolution.

I never really got into this book despite being big into spec. Thank you Cree. 🙏

Another of my favorite animals, for how insane the concept is, are the predatory monkeys: The horrane and the raboon.

As if monkeys weren’t already big enough bastards, these guys decided to just be big cats and theropod’s respectively. Cuz I guess all the big carnivores like cats, dogs, etc are just almost all gone. The designs aren’t great scientifically, I don’t think predatory monkeys would look like this, but it’s fun.

And let’s not forget the striger, a cat who decided to be a monkey

Night lurker huh?


Also I was sure that was a rabbit

I asked Dougal Dixon for permission of the "After Man" pre-publication, because in it's biome introductions, they got these little maps and, unlike it's published counterpart, they have the coordinates on where it's ecosystem is located. However, he dismissed because i was putting to much importance on that original pitch document.
And also, in Metazoica, there are animals located in isolated islands/continents (this includes the north american deserts) mentioned in his book, but they don't appear in the chapters referring to those regions.
For example:
South america: swimming anteater, trevel, mud gulper, purrip bat, reedstilt, parashrew, gigantelope
Lemuria: sand-flapjack, horrane, raboon, ziddah, flunkey, trovamp, ghole, zarander, gigantelope, rundihorn
North American deserts: spitting featherfoot, desert leaper, khilla

Spec evo has gotten wackier since, just look at the likes of Athyrmagaia where a clade of aliens evolve to always merge in teams of four and have the head, torso, abdomen and rump of each "animal" are actually a separate creature, or Hamster's Paradise where a velociraptor-like descendant of the hamster on a planet with two suns ends up giving rise to a fascist empire of cannibalistic ewoks with rodent oliphaunts which then bring about a zombie apocalypse

iirc the main families of bats all evolved flight separately from each other. So sever lineages losing their flight isn't off the table. (plus birds do it all the time. Flight's very stressful).

Absolutely NO mention of the fucking penguin-whales?

Jerry, bugs bunny, and Bambi glow up years

Hi

The Reedstilt is a hedgehog not a frog

What a terrible video

You're welcome doctor clown

Im tired of every one being brainless

The night lurker isnt the spawn of satan




IT IS SATAN 😰😥 (the night lurker is my ex)

Having Ratkin Flashbacks !!! 😮

For anyone curious about the flightless bats, they’re all located on an archipelago called Batavia. Essentially, bats were the first animals to populate the island instead of birds.

Reed stilts are not amphibians, they are hedgehogs descendants who remove they're spikes and decide to live in swamps.

Flightlessness is pretty common in a bunch of otherwise unrelated bird species. It seems like for vertebrates at least the benefits of powered flight are so marginal that they lose the ability to fly as soon as it’s no longer a strict necessity of survival. With that in mind, different lineages of bats converging on flightlessness doesn’t seem so far fetched.

I bet the horseshoe crab is still the same

Dougal dixon's bestiaries look more like concepts for star wars creatures that he tried to pitch but was rejected by George Lucas

"Thanks to those aforementioned extinctions, these lowly rodents were able to fill the vacant niches left by big cats and canines all over the planet."

Shows Thylacoleo - a predatory ( wombat ) marsupial.

Also cool pic of a flightless bat. Maybe I'm gonna nab this design someday in the future.

I back

Actually the name is night stalker but you were close on the name👍👍👍

actually the reedstilt is a true mammal it's a member in the talpidae family like the hedgehogs and moles but over the course of evolution they lost their quills and became mid-sized predators and the parashrew isn't actually a rodent its ancestors the modern shrews are actually related to elephants as their apart of a superorder of mammals called afrotheria which also inculdes manatees, dugongs, hyraxes, aardvarks, tenrecs and etc

😂😂😂😂

I like to think this is what happened to earth in all tommorows after the humans abanonded earth and mars for the stars.

a year later, this reminds me of fantastic planet (a 1973 animated French film).

Fun Fact: there a japanese documentary from this and author himself also in the documentary that has stop motion animation of the creature but sadly there no English sub even author was heavily dub in Japanese

Where was the comedy?