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In this version of a distant earth, humans have gone extinct due a bio-engineered nano virus known as the "Red Death." (Sound familiar, doesn't it. It's from "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allen Poe. The misanthropic mad scientist/animal rights activist who first concocted this ebola-type virus had read a lot of Poe) It killed off the entire human population, leaving only animals.
These future world marsupials presented here are the descendants of Australian animals that have escaped extinction of the present Holocene epoch.
The one in the upper-left corner is a nardi, it is similar in features and behavior to that of its wombat predecessors of present-day Australia.
Using rodent-like front teeth and powerful claws, they dig extensive burrows--tunnels sometimes reaching as much as 100 feet in length. One of the distinctive adaptation of wombats is their backwards pouch. The advantages of having such a pouch is that when digging, the nardi does not gather dirt in its pouch over its young. Although mainly active during twilight and at night, nardi will also venture out to feed on cool or overcast days. Nardi are shy and wary animals, but when cornered, they will kick backwards and hiss like other small marsupials. If food becomes scarce on the ground, they will cut down sizable trees, like beavers, to get at the foliage. When nibbling on the leaves, they use their forepaws like giant pandas to grasp and hold onto the stems.
The one in the right-hand side of the picture is a dendro, somewhat similar in shape to its red kangaroo ancestors, however it has evolved to large height and ponderous gait similar to the long-extinct megatheriid ground sloths. Although it seems at first sight ill-adapted to life on the confining conditions of the tropical forest where it dwells, it does have several advantages. Its great height allows it to feed on leaves and shoots that are well out of reach of the other forest herbivores and its bulk allows it to travel unimpeded by the thick undergrowth. As it crashes through the forest, it opens up trails that are used as trackways by smaller animals such as the soodox.
The sodox in the lower-left corner is about the size of a fox, in form, it was almost fox-like, having long, slender limbs, large, pointed ears, and a long tail. However, it is a further-adapted member of the family Dasyuridae, which includes most carnivorous marsupial mammals such as the tiger quol. Unlike other quolls, this species has doesn't have white spots, but has a pattern of dark vertical stripes that helps it blend in more amongst the dappled shadows and long grass of their forest environment .
(C) Copyrighted to mmpratt99. 2009-2010.
These future world marsupials presented here are the descendants of Australian animals that have escaped extinction of the present Holocene epoch.
The one in the upper-left corner is a nardi, it is similar in features and behavior to that of its wombat predecessors of present-day Australia.
Using rodent-like front teeth and powerful claws, they dig extensive burrows--tunnels sometimes reaching as much as 100 feet in length. One of the distinctive adaptation of wombats is their backwards pouch. The advantages of having such a pouch is that when digging, the nardi does not gather dirt in its pouch over its young. Although mainly active during twilight and at night, nardi will also venture out to feed on cool or overcast days. Nardi are shy and wary animals, but when cornered, they will kick backwards and hiss like other small marsupials. If food becomes scarce on the ground, they will cut down sizable trees, like beavers, to get at the foliage. When nibbling on the leaves, they use their forepaws like giant pandas to grasp and hold onto the stems.
The one in the right-hand side of the picture is a dendro, somewhat similar in shape to its red kangaroo ancestors, however it has evolved to large height and ponderous gait similar to the long-extinct megatheriid ground sloths. Although it seems at first sight ill-adapted to life on the confining conditions of the tropical forest where it dwells, it does have several advantages. Its great height allows it to feed on leaves and shoots that are well out of reach of the other forest herbivores and its bulk allows it to travel unimpeded by the thick undergrowth. As it crashes through the forest, it opens up trails that are used as trackways by smaller animals such as the soodox.
The sodox in the lower-left corner is about the size of a fox, in form, it was almost fox-like, having long, slender limbs, large, pointed ears, and a long tail. However, it is a further-adapted member of the family Dasyuridae, which includes most carnivorous marsupial mammals such as the tiger quol. Unlike other quolls, this species has doesn't have white spots, but has a pattern of dark vertical stripes that helps it blend in more amongst the dappled shadows and long grass of their forest environment .
(C) Copyrighted to mmpratt99. 2009-2010.
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Your style gives to this drawing a medieval tapestry style. They look sympatics and great ^^
You've done a very nice work for details and simplicity, in at the same time
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You've done a very nice work for details and simplicity, in at the same time
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