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The Future Is Wild

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The Future Is Wild	comment	The Future is Wild is a Speculative Biology franchise that speculates on the possibility of how life might evolve in the future, focusing entirely on three distinct eras: an Ice Age 5 million years into the future, a wetter, warmer era 100 million years from now, and a period 200 million years ahead in which all the continents have merged into one again.It began with a TV Speculative Documentary miniseries produced by Britain and the United States that aired on Animal Planet and Discovery Channel in 2003. Each of the 13 episodes covered a different environment from one of the three time periods, as well as the animals that inhabited such places. A companion book co-written by consultant Dougal Dixon (who also wrote its Spiritual Predecessor After Man: A Zoology of the Future) and producer Joanna Adams was released alongside the show. The series was a huge hit with viewers, spawning various pieces of merchandise and even theme park exhibitions in Japan and France.The series also spawned a CGI children's animated series produced by Nelvana. This Animated Adaptation starred a teenage girl from ten thousand years into the future named C.G. who explores the environments featured in the miniseries alongside a group of twenty-first century teens (Luis, Emily, and Ethan) — as well as a future squid — picked up by accident. It ran for 26 episodes on Teletoon and Discovery Kids from 2007-2008. Tropes for the cartoon can be found here.A documentary film version of the series was originally set to be picked up by Warner Bros., however, the series may be rebooted by Vanguard Animation and broadcasting at HBO. There are also plans for a Virtual Reality game based on the series by the studio CGARTIST in development. But time will tell if anything comes out of all this.
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The Future Is Wild / int_10937270	type	Noisy Nature
The Future Is Wild / int_10937270	comment	Noisy Nature: Quite annoyingly, the Snowstalker is prone to roaring loudly to announce its appearance, alerting the nesting Gannetwhales to its presence, which for obvious reasons is a terrible hunting strategy. Then there is this whole other issue of a wolverine-like mustelid somehow roaring like a tiger...
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The Future Is Wild / int_113480b7	type	Canon Foreigner
The Future Is Wild / int_113480b7	comment	Canon Foreigner: The Japanese manga tie-in includes some animals which did not appear in the documentary series or other books, such as a whale shark-like silverswimmer (Global Ocean), a lizard with external ears (Amazon Grassland), a striped shark (Shallow Sea), and amphibious mantis shrimps (Bengal Swamp).
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The Future Is Wild / int_154148f9	type	Terrestrial Sea Life
The Future Is Wild / int_154148f9	comment	Terrestrial Sea Life: Twice. 100 MYH, a species of octopus known as the Swampus has become amphibious to avoid dangerous aquatic predators such as the lurkfish, even breeding in little pools of rainwater that form inside a certain plant. They still need to submerge every once in a while to replenish oxygen and mate though. 200 MYH, a group of squids have become fully terrestrial, producing species such as the huge lumbering megasquid and the arboreal squibbons.
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The Future Is Wild / int_166c3e6f	type	Speculative Biology
The Future Is Wild / int_166c3e6f	comment	Speculative Biology: It's a "documentary" speculating on the possible future of life on Earth.
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The Future Is Wild / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Future Is Wild / int_17ce80aa	comment	The primary reason giant flying insects do not exist anymore is not as much because of lower oxygen levels in the present, but due to competition with vertebrate flying animals. Thus the niche of the Falconfly would likely be taken by a bird or large carnivorous bat, but that's a lot less interesting. Hell, the original petrels the show has branching into insectivorous and nectarivorous species (along with every other bird niche in Antarctica, implicitly) already are vicious predators of vertebrates.
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The Future Is Wild / int_18aff462	type	Artistic License â€“ Biology
The Future Is Wild / int_18aff462	comment	Artistic License â€“ Biology: Some of the predictions are at best unlikely and not exempt from the Rule of Cool and Author Appeal. Your mileage may vary. The Megasquid is easily the most controversial creature in the show, as it is a terrestrial eight-ton animal with no bones or internal skeleton that supports its weight with muscle power alone. This is unlikely due to the sheer stress force of its weight without any rigid structures, with the largest land invertebrate ever being 6-foot giant millipedes (and even those had exoskeletons for support). The Spink. Eusocial bird? Maybe. Eusocial flightless burrowing bird? Less likely. Eusocial flightless burrowing bird with proportions completely different from any real bird? Getting increasingly unlikely. All of that happening in under five million years, from the starting point of a quail, an animal that does none of those things? Er... Not to mention rodents have already evolved eusocial burrowing forms multiple times, and they are still around when the Spink lives and even coexist with it, so even in the case of current burrowing rodents (like prairie dogs) going extinct due to human activity, any current generalist species of mice would have most likely beaten up birds for that niche before they even started. This concept would have made more sense in a much later time like the 100 MYH segment, particularly in an island-continent with no native land vertebrates like Antarctica. In a similar, but inverted case, the Deathgleaner is a diurnal predatory bat filling the niche of a bird of prey, unlikely to be opened for bats in a world where better-suited birds are still common. Using skin for sustentation, bat wings have much poorer thermoregulation than bird wings; they overheat in the sun (which is why most bats are nocturnal, a lifestyle for which birds are generally more poorly suited than mammals, and diurnal species live under the shade of rainforests), and also deal worse with the cold, which is why there aren't bats in the Arctic. The show handwaves this by having the Deathgleaner live in a cold northern desert and be active during the day (i.e. making the best of both bad situations) but it is still unbelievable that a generalist predatory bird wouldn't have beaten bats for that niche after birds of prey went extinct. On top of that, the Deathgleaner cannot attack its prey directly from the air (like fishing bats can, for example) but has to land and clumsily move on the ground first, where its hypothetical ancestors would have been themselves vulnerable to predators. Unsurprisingly the only bats that resorted to this evolved in New Zealand, which is devoid of native land mammals (and too cold for large predatory reptiles), unlike the North American continent in the show. The Titan Dolphin shown in the prototype VR game is a completely absurd depiction of cetacean anatomy: it is terrestrial and walks on its forelimbs like a theropod dinosaur, meaning that its torso is entirely ribcage and it has no space for internal organs whatsoever. The original art instead shows something more like a slug- or seal-like ambush predator. The question remains of how a member of a group of large, macropredatory oceanic vertebrates, which are practically the first to go extinct from global climate changes would survive for hundreds of millions of years and even make its way back to the continent against all odds and possible better-suited competitors, moreso when the original show had cetacens all go extinct by just 5 MYH. The Desert Hopper is a rabbit-sized snail that stands and moves around on in an erect, upright posture, like a bird, but only with one foot. Monopods like this are bio-mechanically unlikely: it's more energy intensive to move compared to two or more legs, it's hard to balance, it puts a lot of pressure on the body since the animal is constantly slamming up and down with no support from another leg etc., and the episode never explains how a land animal with no bones could be standing upright, never mind hopping, on top of that. A likelier scenario could see future snails not jumping or hopping per se, but maybe looping or inching along like modern-day inchworm caterpillars in order to minimize contact with the hot sand; rolling motion or non-drying mucous coverings could also help. The forests of future Antarctica are dominated by petrels. These are highly specialized seabirds that had literally countless opportunities to become terrestrial since they're usually the first birds to arrive to newly formed oceanic islands, yet never did. More likely, Antarctica would come to be dominated by descendants of terrestrial birds and bats blown away from other continents by storms, much like it happened historically in islands (and is the canonical origin of the insects appearing in the same segment). The primary reason giant flying insects do not exist anymore is not as much because of lower oxygen levels in the present, but due to competition with vertebrate flying animals. Thus the niche of the Falconfly would likely be taken by a bird or large carnivorous bat, but that's a lot less interesting. Hell, the original petrels the show has branching into insectivorous and nectarivorous species (along with every other bird niche in Antarctica, implicitly) already are vicious predators of vertebrates. The Falconfly is portrayed leaving behind chunks of meat for its underground larvae. However, the stock footage used is of a beetle grub rather than a wasp larvae, which, unlike beetle larvae, do not have discernible faces. The Toraton is a giant tortoise filling the niche of a sauropod, and growing to sizes as large as the largest of them. However, this is a bit of a problem as sauropods, like most dinosaurs, had relatively lightweight pneumatized skeletons with efficient respiratory systems, which allowed them to save on weight and get more oxygen to sustain their enormous bodies. Tortoises, lacking both features, would be unable to reach such sizes as they are too dense and heavy to grow much larger. It's mentioned that the Toraton is too large to mount one another during mating, as the adults are too heavy, so instead they mate back-to-back with a cloacal kiss. Strangely, it does not mention the fact male turtles have very large and mobile penises, so a cloacal kiss would be unnecessary (perhaps they thought this option would be too vulgar?). Babookaris have long, well developed tails that are used for communication. This is unlikely to evolve from uakaris, who have short, almost vestigial tails. Babookaris would be likelier to descend from Capuchin monkeys, who have long tails and are both more generalist and more intelligent than uakaris (even using stone tools). Among the species that live in the modern Amazon rainforest, peccaries are mentioned as one of the animals that are too specialized for the jungle habitat to survive its transition to grassland. However, peccaries are actually highly adaptable and all three species already live in dry, grassland habitats (and can even adapt to live in urban environments and deserts). If anything, they should be one of the current rainforest denizens most likely to survive. The Rainbow Squid is a gargantuan active marine predator (stated to be 25 metres in length), far larger than any marine macropredator that has ever been known to exist in Earth's history, yet instead of preying on large animals, or even preying on large numbers of small animals like giant baleen whales do, it has an extremely complex and high-effort method of hunting comparatively tiny prey (namely, ocean flish) singly, which would realistically not be enough to sustain it. It's stated that, 100 MYH, all coral has gone extinct because of how sensitive they are to changes in the environment, and reefs are instead made up of red algae. There seems to have been a misconception to how corals work, because while coral reefs are sensitive to environmental changes, corals are incredibly diverse and adaptable (they've survived the entire Phanerozoic Eon after all), in the same way jungles are sensitive habitats, but trees are not sensitive as a whole. And even if corals became extinct, the very closely related and similar sea anemones could have replaced them. Reefs have also historically been made up of animal types (if not coral, then crinoids, bivalves or sponges), due to their ability to produce motile larvae, supplement photosynthesis by feeding on plankton, and grow hard skeletons to strengthen themselves, none of which algae can do. The spitfire beetles' mimicry of the spitfire flower to hunt the spitfire bird would be rather clunky to implement in real life because the beetles have to face away from the bird in order to mimic the flower, unlike actual arthropods (like mantises, spiders, or ambush bugs) which mimic flowers that make sure to put their face towards where their quarry is approaching. The beetles also lack any sort of mandibles or raptorial forelimbs which it could use to quickly dispatch its prey, unlike real flower mimic predators. The great blue windrunner is able to fly in the thin air of the Great Plateau by using its back legs as a secondary pair of wings. This couldn't actually work in real life because birds can't pivot their legs horizontally like that, they would pop right out of the pelvic sockets. Also, the windrunner would actually be better protected against UV radiation if it had dark feathers, rather than light, as melanin would absorb much of the radiation before it gets to the skin. Birds are also naturally resistant to UV radiation due to producing the chemical gadusol. A number of birds frequently soar higher than the Himalayas already, and have no special adaptations for it. It is unusual that the Gryken, a large, ground-dwelling mustelid, evolved from a highly specialized arboreal mustelid species (the European tree marten), rather than one of the many mustelid species that already live on the ground and are adapted for winding through tunnels, such as weasels, minks, or stoats. Especially because the following Amazon Grassland episode states how specialized forest animals will struggle to adapt as the forest rapidly disappears. It almost seems like the producers picked the least likely mustelid for the gryken's ancestor. The Ratch is a rodent-descendant from either 20 or 50 MYH only appearing in artwork for the cancelled game. It is supposedly a scavenger, but instead of robust bone-cracking molars it has a pair of very long, thin looking fangs with no apparent purpose... that are impossible to evolve in rodents as they have no fangs at all. Indeed, Dougal Dixon's previous stab at a predatory rat descendant in After Man, the wolf-like Falanx and relatives, used piercing incisors to dispatch prey like the Pleistocene Thylacoleo. Adding insult to injury, the Ratch has a full set of four upper incisors like primates (yet none in the lower jaw?), when real rodents only have the two used by the Falanx. The Ratch is also supposedly specialized in retrieving "bodies from the mud" yet it has no obvious adaptations to a muddy environment like short legs, flat feet, rotund body, or hairlesness; it rather looks like a skin-wrapped, woolly bear. And to top it all off, it doesn't even seem to have eyes. The South American rattleback is also supposed to be a rodent, but its face looks a lot more like a reptile, never mind a mammal, since it's covered in scales, has no ears or whiskers, and most glaringly of all no cheeks. The idea of the world 200 MYA being claimed by the invertebrates is highly implausible given that there are still fish around, as internal skeletons give colossal advantages toward large-bodied animals in any environment - namely in beating the Square-Cube Law. The odds of the Megasquid evolving are less likely than fish evolving a new variety of terrestrial forms as they did in the Devonian. Similarly, Silverswimmers would likely be replaced by shark-derivatives past a certain size, as no marine arthropod has gotten anywhere close to the larger specimens seen in the show.
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The Future Is Wild / int_1a5bba2b	type	Artistic License â€“ Geology
The Future Is Wild / int_1a5bba2b	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geology: The mountains of the Great Plateau are said to be 33,000 feet tall. This is unlikely, because the height of mountains is limited by Earth's gravity — Mt. Everest's 29,028-foot height is essentially the limit for how tall a mountain can be without collapsing under its own weight. However, there are mountains that exceed Everest's height; the summit of Mt. Chimborazo is over 6,800 feet farther from the center of the Earth than Everest's peak due to the Earth's bulge at the Equator. In addition, there are mountains taller than Everest like Mauna Kea at about 33,500 feet, but mostly hidden under water, so a mountain can be far taller than Everest if a) they're near the equator, and b) if the water level is lower, which is very possible if there's an Ice Age. Neither of these apply to the Great Plateau, though.
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The Future Is Wild / int_1fdc1aa	type	See the Invisible
The Future Is Wild / int_1fdc1aa	comment	See the Invisible: The rainbow squid attempts to camouflage itself from the sharkopaths by turning itself the same colour as the water. It doesn't work because the sharkopaths can still detect its bioelectrical signals (and smell).
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The Future Is Wild / int_20e6d1c5	type	Running on All Fours
The Future Is Wild / int_20e6d1c5	comment	Running on All Fours: The spink, while a bird, walks on all fours due to its subterranean lifestyle and spikes its wings into the ground with each step.
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The Future Is Wild / int_26d2817c	type	Russian Reversal
The Future Is Wild / int_26d2817c	comment	Russian Reversal: In the 100 MYH shallow tropical sea ecosystem, ocean phantoms snatch up baby reef glidersâ€”but adult reef gliders turn the tables by preying on ocean phantom bells and tentacles; what counts for the "Russian" part is that, in some versions, the "surveyed" location is where Moscow used to stand 100 million years prior. (The show probably meant the continental region where Moscow once stood, not the geographical spot on the globe that was its former location, since the Eurasian continent holding it would've drifted a lot in the aeons since.)
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The Future Is Wild / int_27b2bccc	type	No Flow in CGI
The Future Is Wild / int_27b2bccc	comment	No Flow in CGI: This common problem was a reason for showing so few mammals, and having them die out early on in the end, replaced by animals with smooth and shiny skin like reptiles, molluscs, arthropods, and fish. Hair is hard to animate!
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The Future Is Wild / int_295087bf	type	Non-Indicative Name
The Future Is Wild / int_295087bf	comment	Non-Indicative Name: Gannetwhales, being semi-terrestrial and gathering in large noisy groups on the shore to breed, are less an analogue of whales and cetaceans, and more like a seabird version of a walrus.
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The Future Is Wild / int_2c4bfb76	type	Psycho Electric Eel
The Future Is Wild / int_2c4bfb76	comment	Psycho Electric Eel: The Lurkfish is a gigantic, carnivorous electric fish able to deliver shocks of up to 1200 volts (by comparison, an electric eel's shock is about 600 volts) to instantly kill or paralyze its prey.
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The Future Is Wild / int_2ddddebf	type	Hostile Weather
The Future Is Wild / int_2ddddebf	comment	Hostile Weather: 200 MYH, in the warmer climate and different distribution of winds in the future, super-hurricanes known as hypercanes can form which are far more powerful than any storms in the present day.
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The Future Is Wild / int_2fd985e3	type	Pit Trap
The Future Is Wild / int_2fd985e3	comment	Pit Trap: The Deathbottle captures prey by growing a biotic pit of poisonous spikes, with a thin membrane covering the top. When an animal of sufficient weight walks on top, it plunges through and is impaled, envenomated, and then digested, and then the membrane regrows to set the trap again.
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The Future Is Wild / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Future Is Wild / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: The premise is about how life will evolve millions of years after humans have disappeared (either dying out in the UK version or traveling through space in the US version). The 200 MYH episodes are set 100 MY after a cataclysmic mass extinction event wiped out most life on Earth, including all land animals except a small number of certain invertebrates.
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The Future Is Wild / int_35fa738	type	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart
The Future Is Wild / int_35fa738	comment	Fantastic Fauna Counterpart: Many creatures are expies of other animal species, both living and extinct, since they all fill similar ecological niches, and were subject to convergent evolution. For example, Shagrats are rodent musk oxen, Snow Stalkers are mustelid polar bears, Gannetwhales are avian walruses, Deathgleaners are mammalian hawks, Spinks are avian gophers, Babookaris are new world monkeys behaving like baboons, Carakillers are falcons acting like terror birds, Toratons are tortoise counterparts to sauropods, Flish are fish behaving like birds, Desert Hoppers are snails acting like kangaroos and Squibbons are squids acting like monkeys. The ocean phantom is basically a siphonophorae jellyfish writ large.
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The Future Is Wild / int_36e63b81	type	Rule of Cool
The Future Is Wild / int_36e63b81	comment	Rule of Cool: A lot of the predictions aren't especially plausible, but the series is as much about exploring the coolest and weirdest possible outcomes of evolution as it is about actually making serious predictions.
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The Future Is Wild / int_3a4f904c	type	Kill Steal
The Future Is Wild / int_3a4f904c	comment	Kill Steal: A falconfly kills a spitfire bird that was about to be ambushed by a pack of spitfire beetles (because the falconfly knows that spitfire birds only visit spitfire flowers when they're running on empty).
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The Future Is Wild / int_3b0bd0ab	type	Thirsty Desert
The Future Is Wild / int_3b0bd0ab	comment	Thirsty Desert: The Mediterranean Salt Flats are depicted as being utterly inhospitable to all life. The only places where animals survive are the brine lakes and small islands of rock and vegetation that jut from the salt flats. The cold desert of Kansas is shown even more harsh than a normal desert due to constant freezing temperatures and powerful winds from the ice age glaciers further north. Only the toughest and most specialized animals survive in this cold and barren environment, and the only reliable food can be found underground. The giant interior desert which covers most of Pangaea II is uninhabitable to anything larger than a rabbit, and most animals that do live there rely on underwater reservoirs or whatever washes in from the distant sea for survival.
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The Future Is Wild / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Future Is Wild / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: This is pretty much the Poggle's natural habitat. They are farmed by Silver Spiders, who provide them with loads of food, look after them, and protect them until they are fully grown, at which point they are brutally slaughtered and fed to the spider colony's queen.
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The Future Is Wild / int_3bce9346	type	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing
The Future Is Wild / int_3bce9346	comment	RagnarÃ¶k Proofing: Completely and utterly averted. The only times it's brought up are during the Paris time lapse scene and occasional mentions of how geological processes would have long destroyed any sign of human civilization.
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The Future Is Wild / int_41a48472	type	Bat Out of Hell
The Future Is Wild / int_41a48472	comment	Bat Out of Hell: The Deathgleaner, a species of giant predatory bats inhabiting the deserts the new Ice Age.
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The Future Is Wild / int_46a4f490	type	Carcass Sleeping Bag
The Future Is Wild / int_46a4f490	comment	Carcass Sleeping Bag: Bumblebeetle larvae inhabit flish carcasses both for food and protection from the dryness of the desert.
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The Future Is Wild / int_493a162d	type	Bioluminescence Is Cool
The Future Is Wild / int_493a162d	comment	Bioluminescence Is Cool: Employed by the Rainbow Squid to put on amazing light displays during mating, as well as Sharkopaths that use it to signal to each other when hunting down rainbow squids.
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The Future Is Wild / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Future Is Wild / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The carakillers killing the babookari, the snowstalker killing shagrats, and the sharkopaths killing the rainbow squid all omit actually showing the killing blows in favour of POV shots of the predators attacking the screen.
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The Future Is Wild / int_4b084bdd	type	Planimal
The Future Is Wild / int_4b084bdd	comment	Planimal: Garden worms have photosynthesizing algae in their body appendages, making them look like a cross between a fern and a worm. Terabytes attempt to harvest this algae by cutting out chunks of the lobes where they're stored. The ocean phantom has symbiotic red algae growing on its surface which provide it and its symbiotic spindletroopers with vital carbohydrates. The ocean phantom also hunts animal prey partly to fertilize the red algae growing on it.
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The Future Is Wild / int_4c4bebf4	type	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology
The Future Is Wild / int_4c4bebf4	comment	Artistic License â€“ Paleontology: In the American version, when describing the evolution of the carakillers, an image of a pterosaur is shown and erroneously described as a flying dinosaur. Not only are they a separate group of reptiles altogether, but birds are the direct descendants of theropod dinosaurs such as T. rex. It's stated the the snowstalker is only the second carnivore in history to evolve sabre teeth after the sabre-toothed cats. This is patently false, as sabre-teeth have evolved many, many times amongst therapsids; they even predate mammals, as they are first known in the gorgonopsids, which existed more than two-hundred million years before sabre-toothed cats evolved.
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The Future Is Wild / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
The Future Is Wild / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: The Lurkfish, a much larger and more threatening descendant of the electric catfish, with electric abilities similarly beefed up.
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The Future Is Wild / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Future Is Wild / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Adult toraton." To explain, the toraton is introduced as an elephant-sized herbivore descended from tortoises. It is then killed by a swampus. We then find out that it was only a baby. Adult toraton are the heaviest land animals ever, and have no predators.
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The Future Is Wild / int_5456f857	type	Too Important to Walk
The Future Is Wild / int_5456f857	comment	Too Important to Walk: Every terabyte caste except the porters, which haul the other castes' members around.
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The Future Is Wild / int_575fd5e2	type	Dark Is Not Evil
The Future Is Wild / int_575fd5e2	comment	Dark Is Not Evil: A few of the more cute and harmless future critters, such as the Spinks and Desert Hoppers, are mostly nocturnal and come out at night to avoid the heat and the predators.
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The Future Is Wild / int_5b075cd7	type	Flooded Future World
The Future Is Wild / int_5b075cd7	comment	Flooded Future World: The 100 million years segment takes place in this sort of world, where the ice caps have melted completely and shallow seas are much larger than they are today, with oceans now covering four-fifths of the planet.
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The Future Is Wild / int_5ced9082	type	Dire Beast
The Future Is Wild / int_5ced9082	comment	Dire Beast: Many of the creatures shown are imagined as gigantic, or at least bigger, descendants or relatives of modern-day animals: Snow stalker and gryken = dire mustelids Shag rat = dire marmot (but occupying the niche of a musk ox) Deathgleaner = dire bat (bigger than modern flying foxesâ€”though some versions of the show give its wingspan as a mere 1.3 m or 4 feet, smaller than even flying foxes) Ocean phantom = dire Portuguese man-of-war Toraton = dire giant tortoiseâ€”i.e., a dire dire tortoise? Falconfly= dire wasp Rainbow squid = dire Giant Squid or Colossal Squid. (In other words, a dire dire squid.)
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The Future Is Wild / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Future Is Wild / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The American version condenses all 13 episodes in just one program.
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The Future Is Wild / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Future Is Wild / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Some animals have names that are as scary as their appearance: the Sharkopath is a bioluminescent shark, the Carakiller is a flightless Feathered Fiend, and the Deathgleaner is a giant Bat Out of Hell. Also the Deathbottle, an enormous carnivorous plant, though since it can't actually move, it's more like "Names to Stay at Least Five Metres Away From at All Times".
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The Future Is Wild / int_6141b228	type	Full-Boar Action
The Future Is Wild / int_6141b228	comment	Full-Boar Action: Heavily downplayed with the scrofa, a descendant of the modern wild boar. It's only half as big and much more lightly built, but adults are more than tough enough to fight off their main predator, the weasel-like grykens.
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The Future Is Wild / int_63557923	type	Death World
The Future Is Wild / int_63557923	comment	Death World: The Mediterranean Salt Flats are easily the harshest ecosystem shown in the program. The sea has become a sweltering, barren wasteland of salt and a few hypersaline lakes. Outside of the rocky outcroppings that used to be islands, the only creatures able to survive are cryptiles and brine flies.
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The Future Is Wild / int_63cad64b	type	Threatening Shark
The Future Is Wild / int_63cad64b	comment	Threatening Shark: 200 MY in the future and they are still there! The consulting scientists state that sharks have been able to survive and evolve throughout hundreds of millions of years simply because they're the perfect killing machines and most likely will be around for a very, very long time. In appearance they've changed very little, but they have become far more intelligent, able to pack-hunt, allowing them to easily take on even the blue whale-sized rainbow squid.
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The Future Is Wild / int_67677940	type	Giant Flyer
The Future Is Wild / int_67677940	comment	Giant Flyer: The Great Blue Windrunner. The sources don't seem to agree on its size; some offer a realistic approach at 3 meters (about the same size as the largest modern flying birds), but the official site states a wingspan of 15 meters, which would make flight impossible given how thin the atmosphere is at the altitudes it flies at and how narrow its wings are (though it can increase the wing area by raising its legs, which have wing feathers). The deathgleaner bats are pretty big too, roughly around the size and wingspan of modern flying foxes or slightly bigger.
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The Future Is Wild / int_6820e212	type	Giant Squid
The Future Is Wild / int_6820e212	comment	Giant Squid: The rainbow squid is a gigantic predatory squid up to thirty meters long, with extraordinary colour-changing skills, allowing it to flash like a neon street sign, mimic a shoal of silverswimmers, or turn itself nearly invisible. It's still not the top predator of its time period, however.
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The Future Is Wild / int_6b7dc9e4	type	Unknown Character
The Future Is Wild / int_6b7dc9e4	comment	Unknown Character: The bromeliad which the swampuses breed in time their flowering at the exact time the cephalopods use their pools as nests, thereby defending the plant at its most crucial time. What animal pollinates the bromeliad is never said.
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The Future Is Wild / int_6cc39b20	type	Puppeteer Parasite
The Future Is Wild / int_6cc39b20	comment	Puppeteer Parasite: The slithersucker is a relatively benign example. It's a Blob Monster which tricks the megasquid into eating it, then a small portion of it infests the brain, while the rest migrates into the cephalopod's vocal sac. The slithersucker then commands the megasquid to "sneeze" onto trees, spreading its slime far and wide, with each glob becoming a new slithersucker. The leftover portion around the brain is subsequently destroyed by the megasquid's immune system.
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The Future Is Wild / int_6ce4c7b0	type	Ascended to Carnivorism
The Future Is Wild / int_6ce4c7b0	comment	Ascended to Carnivorism: The babookaris (descending from frugivorous New World Monkeys) of the future have gone from eating fruit, to eating fish. This isn't particularly far-fetched, as most species of primate are some level of omnivorous as it is. The slithersucker... in a way. The slime moulds of today are passive detritivores or otherwise feed only on microbes, while the slithersucker actively creates its own compost by trapping and killing small flying animals like flish and insects, and growing from their rotting carcasses.
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The Future Is Wild / int_6d4a4c29	type	Unspecified Apocalypse
The Future Is Wild / int_6d4a4c29	comment	Unspecified Apocalypse: What happened to humans is left unexplained, but apparently before we died out, there was a catastrophic ecological collapse that killed off practically all large mammals.
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The Future Is Wild / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
The Future Is Wild / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Sharkopath, Squibbon, Carakiller, Bumblebeetle, Babookari, Swampus, Flish.
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The Future Is Wild / int_7131e4c9	type	Rodents of Unusual Size
The Future Is Wild / int_7131e4c9	comment	Rodents of Unusual Size: The shagrats (big as sheep!) and rattlebacks.
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The Future Is Wild / int_71642c70	type	Viewers Are Goldfish
The Future Is Wild / int_71642c70	comment	Viewers Are Goldfish: The TV adaptation's 100-million-years-from-now segment explains that all mammals but one are extinct. Then the 200-million-years-from-now segment states that all mammals are extinct by then ... and goes on to list several human-era mammal types that are no longer around, just in case viewers forgot the previous segment of the program. The show also reuses the same animations over and over, often only a few minutes apart.
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The Future Is Wild / int_7215c26c	type	Man-Eating Plant
The Future Is Wild / int_7215c26c	comment	Man-Eating Plant: The Deathbottle is a huge, desert-dwelling carnivorous plant that works like a pitfall trap, allowing the rabbit-sized desert hoppers to blunder into its disguised digestive chamber, where they are impaled and subdued by the lining of poisonous spikes. It also makes a non-fatal trap to catch Bumblebeetles, which are used to transport its seeds.
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The Future Is Wild / int_74828aea	type	Killer Rabbit
The Future Is Wild / int_74828aea	comment	Killer Rabbit: The Spitfire Bird looks like a harmless orange bird, but it can shoot hot toxin from its nasal cavity. The Snowstalker and Gryken are mustelids, and like their relatives from the time of humans, they are both cute and vicious. Downplayed compared to the Spitfire Bird: they are larger than the largest modern mustelid, the wolverine, and they have exposed sabre teeth which make them look scarier.
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The Future Is Wild / int_767ef8a0	type	Flying Seafood Special
The Future Is Wild / int_767ef8a0	comment	Flying Seafood Special: The two species of flish. Most people would assume a flying fish would evolve from modern gliding species (or at least any pelagic one), but the makers decided to make it a codfish descendant.
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The Future Is Wild / int_7a9f921d	type	Extinct in the Future
The Future Is Wild / int_7a9f921d	comment	Extinct in the Future: The series begins at 5 MYH with nearly all modern megafauna having died out due to humanity's activities, until about 100 MYH, there's only one species of rodent left out of all mammals. By 200 MYH, all tetrapods have died out.
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The Future Is Wild / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
The Future Is Wild / int_7efe2c19	comment	Portmanteau: Boy, does this series ever love them. We have Babookaris, Bumblebeetles, Carakillers, Sharkopaths and Squibbons, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
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The Future Is Wild / int_82464731	type	Humanity's Wake
The Future Is Wild / int_82464731	comment	Humanity's Wake: The British version is set after humanity's extinction; the American version changed it so that the human race simply left the system.
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The Future Is Wild / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Future Is Wild / int_8409a385	comment	Falconfly: Falcon + dragonfly
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The Future Is Wild / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Future Is Wild / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: The rainbow squid may seem unrealistic, but it's just an exaggerated version of real bio-luminescent squid. In fact, it's probably the most realistic of all the cephalopods in the show.
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The Future Is Wild / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Future Is Wild / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: In a sense. Occasionally, the series introduces Fantastic Fauna Counterparts without explaining where their analogous predecessors went. For example, the Deathgleaner is a giant diurnal predaceous bat like a bird of prey, so where did birds of prey go? We know they aren't extinct, since the Carakiller is descended from one, so why aren't there any in the Kansas desert? In another case, we see that the shallow seas are inhabited by giant pelagic sea slugs, but there are no fish to be seen, even though they clearly didn't go extinct because the subsequent epoch depicts them.
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The Future Is Wild / int_88ebc539	type	Always a Bigger Fish
The Future Is Wild / int_88ebc539	comment	Always a Bigger Fish: Twice, in the same episode. A huge, predatory silverswimmer is warned away when it gets too close to the even bigger rainbow squid, which later falls prey to the pack-hunting sharkopath (which are, ironically, much smaller than both the predatory silverswimmer and rainbow squid).
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The Future Is Wild / int_89a98f45	type	Living Relic
The Future Is Wild / int_89a98f45	comment	Living Relic: Various living-fossil species in this future. Sharks are still around 200 million years from now and are largely unchanged from when they first evolved nearly 400 million years ago.
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The Future Is Wild / int_8bf8adfa	type	Just Before the End
The Future Is Wild / int_8bf8adfa	comment	Just Before the End: The 100 MYH episodes are set right before a massive extinction event wipes out most life on Earth.
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The Future Is Wild / int_8fcb5843	type	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
The Future Is Wild / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: 100 million years in the future, the predator/prey roles in the Antarctic Jungle have reversed, and bugs now prey on birds instead of the other way around. The Ocean Phantom preys on small aquatic creatures such as young Reef Gliders. Reef Gliders that make it to adulthood become its predator, and the Ocean Phantom requires help from Spindletroopers to fend them off.
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The Future Is Wild / int_9140b442	type	Nasal Weapon
The Future Is Wild / int_9140b442	comment	Nasal Weapon: The Spitfire Bird is able to spray a caustic acid from its nostrils at predators. The bird eats a certain flower to stock up on chemicals for this weapon.
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The Future Is Wild / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
The Future Is Wild / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: Class 4, Planetary Species Extinction. In the US release, humans simply left to settle/live in space. The probes documenting the various creatures were sent by them/their descendants. In the UK release, humans are extinct but it's never said exactly how they went extinct. In nature, there are two ways an animal can become extinct: by being killed off, or by evolving enough that you're eventually considered a different species. The US version and the UK version are not mutually exclusive: humans could have gone off into space and diverged into multiple "alien" species over the millions of years, thus rendering Homo sapiens to be extinct while leaving other species of humans alive. 100-200 MYH, a series of massive volcanic eruptions, a meteor strike, and the continents colluding into a single giant occupied by mostly desert all collude to wipe out most lifeforms, including all tetrapods, leaving fish and invertebrates, such as molluscs, insects, and polychaete worms, to inherit the world left over.
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The Future Is Wild / int_92eb3e7c	type	From a Single Cell
The Future Is Wild / int_92eb3e7c	comment	From a Single Cell: The ocean phantom can survive and regenerate being ripped to pieces due to being a colonial organism. As long as each piece has at least one of each caste type, each piece can regrow into a full jellyfish.
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The Future Is Wild / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
The Future Is Wild / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Literally. The Gannetwhales regurgitate and spit their last meal at possible predators while they are incubating their eggs at the shore. (The behavior is an evolved variation on how some birds, penguins in particular, regurgitate to feed their young.)
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The Future Is Wild / int_9aaf8eca	type	Crippling Overspecialization
The Future Is Wild / int_9aaf8eca	comment	Crippling Overspecialization: This causes some species to go extinct. Most monkeys die out once the Amazon rainforest gives way to vast grasslands, being unable to deal with a sudden change in lifestyle, though the Babookari is one notable exception. Terabytes have it in the literal and trope sense. Most of the castes are overspecialized in their job to the point where their legs are vestigial or even completely absent. As such, they require a transporter caste to carry them around.
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The Future Is Wild / int_9adcd93a	type	Bizarre Alien Locomotion
The Future Is Wild / int_9adcd93a	comment	Bizarre Alien Locomotion: The ocean phantom uses extensible sails to direct its journeys via wind power. The megasquid's numerous walking-tentacles give it a unique gait. Most terabyte castes are Too Important to Walk, but are carried by the transporter caste.
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The Future Is Wild / int_9eb7e397	type	Long-Lived
The Future Is Wild / int_9eb7e397	comment	Long-Lived: While their exact lifespan isn't mentioned, the toratons take a very long time to reach adulthood, as expected from a tortoise bigger than the largest dinosaur. Parents care for their offspring for thirty years.
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The Future Is Wild / int_9f3857d5	type	Draw Aggro
The Future Is Wild / int_9f3857d5	comment	Draw Aggro: Before baby swampuses are allowed to venture into open water, their mother draws away any predators nearby by using herself as bait, and then camouflaging herself to lose her pursuer and doubling back once the threat has been drawn far enough away.
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The Future Is Wild / int_a32334b4	type	Canon Discontinuity
The Future Is Wild / int_a32334b4	comment	Canon Discontinuity: The announced VR game... did the people behind it even watch the show? The show has cetaceans entirely extinct by just 5 million years in the future, due to human activity. Yet the game's announcement features prominently a cetacean descendant 195 million years later, the Titan Dolphin. Artwork for the game includes flying squids, with no other flying species present. While squids colonized the land by that time in the show, this niche was occupied by fish descendants.
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The Future Is Wild / int_a783166f	type	StockSoundEffect
The Future Is Wild / int_a783166f	comment	Stock Sound Effect: Bear cub cries for the young Snowstalkers, vulture screeches for ocean flish.
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The Future Is Wild / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Future Is Wild / int_a8559a9f	comment	Refreshingly averted in many cases. The Snowstalker realistically flees after the Gannetwhales bombard it with their vomit, the Deathgleaners give up on attacking the baby Rattleback after its mother charges them, and the Falconfly flees after the Spitfire Bird starts squirting it with reactive chemicals. Granted, the Snowstalker does wound a Shagrat and track it down until it dies from blood loss, but this is a Real Life tactic that many predators use.
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The Future Is Wild / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
The Future Is Wild / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: The Ocean Phantom is basically physically invulnerable. Being a siphonophorae colony, smashing it to tiny bits will just create new colonies springing from the parts.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ac7df45e	comment	Giant Equals Invincible: An adult toraton, said to weigh up to 120 tons, is immune from any possible predator.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Future Is Wild / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The Rainbow squid assaulted by Sharkopaths panics when it realizes the Sharkopaths are undeterred by its Invisibility Cloak, causing it to have an Invisibility Flicker.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ad982e04	type	Super-Persistent Predator
The Future Is Wild / int_ad982e04	comment	Super-Persistent Predator: Refreshingly averted in many cases. The Snowstalker realistically flees after the Gannetwhales bombard it with their vomit, the Deathgleaners give up on attacking the baby Rattleback after its mother charges them, and the Falconfly flees after the Spitfire Bird starts squirting it with reactive chemicals. Granted, the Snowstalker does wound a Shagrat and track it down until it dies from blood loss, but this is a Real Life tactic that many predators use. Played straight with the Sharkopaths, who aren't deterred by the Rainbow Squid's invisibility cloak, use their sense of electromagnetic detection to locate it, pressure it into panicking, before the school tears into it.
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The Future Is Wild / int_b0a91b69	type	Convection, Schmonvection
The Future Is Wild / int_b0a91b69	comment	Convection, Schmonvection: The rattleback can survive the wildfires that are common to the Amazon grasslands by hunkering into the earth and letting the flames pass over its fireproof scales. This strategy seems to gloss over the fact that it would still be cooked by the extremely high air temperature.
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The Future Is Wild / int_b42e16fb	type	Feathered Fiend
The Future Is Wild / int_b42e16fb	comment	Carakiller: Terror bird/dromaeosaurid + caracara + cassowary
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The Future Is Wild / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Future Is Wild / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: If you're a juvenile Toraton, then walking straight into a nest of amphibious squid, with a highly venomous bite, may not be such a good idea. The lost baby Scrofa, that, separated from its parents, runs out into the salt desert until it dies of heatstroke. When it was already on a safe place among the rocks, at that!
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The Future Is Wild / int_b6034ac5	type	Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth
The Future Is Wild / int_b6034ac5	comment	Cockroaches Will Rule the Earth: Not cockroaches per se, but the series ends with the implication that the descendants of squid will evolve into a new civilization. It's squid that get this treatment, with the tree-dwelling ape-like squibbon implied to be the ancestor of a future sapient species of squid people (or "squeople").
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The Future Is Wild / int_b728c1f6	type	Mimic Species
The Future Is Wild / int_b728c1f6	comment	Mimic Species: The False Spitfire Bird looks identical to the Spitfire Bird, which is able to spray a caustic acid from its nostrils at predators. This resemblance means that predators avoid the False Spitfire Bird as well. The Spitfire Beetle mimics the flowers of the trees that Spitfire Birds gather their reactive chemicals from. When a Spitfire Bird arrives at the fake flower to gather more chemicals, the beetles attack and kill it. The Deathbottle's top looks and reeks like a rotting fish, which attracts the Bumblebeetle. Thankfully for the bug, this one isn't lethal to them. The slithersucker disguises itself as a lichen "fruit" so that it'll end up eaten by a megasquid, and then it becomes a Puppeteer Parasite that mind controls the animal to spread its chunks around.
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The Future Is Wild / int_bfa56de3	type	Allegorical Character
The Future Is Wild / int_bfa56de3	comment	Allegorical Character: Virtually every portrayed animal is a summation of a recurring evolutionary process in the history of Earth. See Characters for specific examples.
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The Future Is Wild / int_c2c1f8d2	type	Exactly Exty Years Ago
The Future Is Wild / int_c2c1f8d2	comment	Exactly Exty Years Ago: Inverted. Exactly 100 million years from the present day, a massive spike in global volcanic activity wipes out over 90% of all life.
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The Future Is Wild / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Future Is Wild / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In today's age, flying predatory birds hunt for small burrowing mammals they can carry off to eat. In the cold Kansas desert, however, it's flying predatory mammals that hunt for small burrowing birds. 100 MYH, Antarctica is located in the Tropics and has rainforests of its own, while Australia is a high, mountainous patch of land near the Arctic. The Poggle is the last placental mammal, a rodent descendant. Its homeland is Australia, which was the last continent to be colonized by placental mammals back in their heyday. The megasquid is a cephalopod filling the niche of an elephant, two animals known for being surprisingly intelligent. However, the megasquid itself is notably very small-brained and nowhere near as clever as the tiny Squibbons. The rainforest 200 MYH (the wettest part of the new Pangaea) is centered around what is Western Sahara today.
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The Future Is Wild / int_c34a1799	type	Kaiju
The Future Is Wild / int_c34a1799	comment	Kaiju: The Toraton. Weighing 120 tonnes and 15 times the size of an elephant, the Toraton is the biggest land animal ever to live (dwarfing even the largest known dinosaur, the 90-ton Argentinosaurus).
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The Future Is Wild / int_c689efe5	type	Sea of Sand
The Future Is Wild / int_c689efe5	comment	Sea of Sand: The Endless Desert of 200 MYH, which spans most of Pangaea II's interior. It's explicitly the largest desert that has ever existed in Earth's history.
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The Future Is Wild / int_c8b7513e	type	Cub Cues Protective Parent
The Future Is Wild / int_c8b7513e	comment	Cub Cues Protective Parent: The Deathgleaners attempt to prey on a baby Rattleback, but are forced to retreat when its distress cries bring its much larger and angrier mother charging the bats. Although it's not necessarily the parent, the killing of a toraton hatchling by the swampus makes a nearby adult toraton rather annoyed. Downplayed example, as the toratons are not necessarily out for revenge, per se, they just happen to wander into Swampus territory in search of their missing baby, and unknowingly trample the Swampus nursery plants.
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The Future Is Wild / int_c95d04f2	type	It Can Think
The Future Is Wild / int_c95d04f2	comment	It Can Think: Occasionally, the extraordinary survival tactics of certain animals are examined, usually based off of preexisting animals, but pushed to new extremes. The Babookaris making tools as complex as fish traps shows they are more intelligent than chimpanzees. Unlike almost all birds-of-prey today, the Carakillers are strategic pack hunters like wolves, using numbers, communication, and cunning to hunt the wily Babookaris, which are too swift to catch on their own. Similarly, the Sharkopaths, unlike present day sharks but more like present-day killer whales, hunt in coordinated schools, communicating with one another using bioluminescent markings. This allows them to take down very large prey, such as the twenty metre long rainbow squid, itself a very intelligent predator. The squibbons are likely the ultimate example of the series, with intelligence and behaviour equivalent to great apes, including strong family bonds and tool use. It's implied that squibbons may eventually grow even more intelligent and evolve into the next sapient race.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ca2608c5	type	Wicked Weasel
The Future Is Wild / int_ca2608c5	comment	Wicked Weasel: The gryken and the snowstalker are larger descendants of modern mustelids 5 MYH, turning into sabre-toothed apex predators that hunt large animals and ambush their respective prey. The snowstalker is like a miniature polar bear with huge fangs that evolved from the wolverine, while the gryken is a descendant of the pine marten that Eats Babies. They're both presented as vicious, threatening hunters, but of course they're just animals.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
The Future Is Wild / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: The carakillers have re-evolved claws on their forelimbs, which are said to be used to kill and rip apart their prey, but we never see this in action. The animation shows it killing prey with its huge beak.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ca5938c0	type	Hive Caste System
The Future Is Wild / int_ca5938c0	comment	Hive Caste System: Similar to modern termites, the future terabytes, which descend from termites, have numerous castes to accomplish different roles in a colony. These have become even more varied and specialized in the hostile desert environment of Pangaea II. There are gum-spitters which spit fast-hardening glue to entrap garden worms, rock-borers, which spit strong acid to melt tunnels through rock, water-carriers, which have sac-like bodies to drink and transport lots of water, biters, which gnaw through rock and defend the colony, carriers, who transport the other immobile castes, the queen, and the nurses, which feed the queen the green algae they harvest from the garden worms and farm.
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The Future Is Wild / int_cb9d4c1b	type	Snowy Sabertooths
The Future Is Wild / int_cb9d4c1b	comment	Snowy Sabertooths: "Return of the Ice" is set in France during a glacial period, and features the snowstalker, a saber-toothed descendant of the wolverine, preying on shagrats, large herding rodents descended from lemmings.
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The Future Is Wild / int_d4055b8b	type	Square-Cube Law
The Future Is Wild / int_d4055b8b	comment	The idea of the world 200 MYA being claimed by the invertebrates is highly implausible given that there are still fish around, as internal skeletons give colossal advantages toward large-bodied animals in any environment - namely in beating the Square-Cube Law. The odds of the Megasquid evolving are less likely than fish evolving a new variety of terrestrial forms as they did in the Devonian. Similarly, Silverswimmers would likely be replaced by shark-derivatives past a certain size, as no marine arthropod has gotten anywhere close to the larger specimens seen in the show.
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The Future Is Wild / int_d525f857	type	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale
The Future Is Wild / int_d525f857	comment	Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale: Spindletroopers are said to grow a metre across, yet when compared to the adult reef glider — which is three metres long — only look to be a few centimetres in length. Possibly justified if the majority of 'troopers aren't fully grown.
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The Future Is Wild / int_dbc2a0cd	type	Hand Wave
The Future Is Wild / int_dbc2a0cd	comment	In a similar, but inverted case, the Deathgleaner is a diurnal predatory bat filling the niche of a bird of prey, unlikely to be opened for bats in a world where better-suited birds are still common. Using skin for sustentation, bat wings have much poorer thermoregulation than bird wings; they overheat in the sun (which is why most bats are nocturnal, a lifestyle for which birds are generally more poorly suited than mammals, and diurnal species live under the shade of rainforests), and also deal worse with the cold, which is why there aren't bats in the Arctic. The show handwaves this by having the Deathgleaner live in a cold northern desert and be active during the day (i.e. making the best of both bad situations) but it is still unbelievable that a generalist predatory bird wouldn't have beaten bats for that niche after birds of prey went extinct. On top of that, the Deathgleaner cannot attack its prey directly from the air (like fishing bats can, for example) but has to land and clumsily move on the ground first, where its hypothetical ancestors would have been themselves vulnerable to predators. Unsurprisingly the only bats that resorted to this evolved in New Zealand, which is devoid of native land mammals (and too cold for large predatory reptiles), unlike the North American continent in the show.
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The Future Is Wild / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
The Future Is Wild / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: 5 MYH, the interglacial period has ended and the icecaps have grown exponentially once more. Great herds of woolly, snow-dwelling grazers have evolved, and vicious sabre-toothed predators that hunt them as well, just as in the prior ice age. Likewise, giant predatory birds have once again evolved in South America, and the Mediterranean has once again emptied as the Straits of Gibraltar closed. 100 MYH, rising oxygen levels in the atmosphere have allowed the return of giant arthropods which existed 300 MY before the present day, and similarly concludes with a destructive flood basalt eruption just like the end-Permian extinction event. Gigantic reptiles also roam the land again, while mammals have been reduced to tiny rodents once more. 200 MYH, all the world's continents have fused back together again, creating a single vast interior desert and one immense ocean, just as it had 200 MYA.
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The Future Is Wild / int_e1896cff	type	Never Grew Up
The Future Is Wild / int_e1896cff	comment	Never Grew Up: The silverswimmers evolved from larval crustaceans which gained the ability to reproduce without metamorphosing into adult form (which is known as neoteny).
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The Future Is Wild / int_e26f04b4	type	Last of His Kind
The Future Is Wild / int_e26f04b4	comment	Last of His Kind: 100 million years in the future, nearly all mammals are extinct. The only one left is the Poggle, a tiny rodent-like animal farmed by giant spiders in mountain caves.
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The Future Is Wild / int_e5206db8	type	Brains Versus Brawn
The Future Is Wild / int_e5206db8	comment	Brains Versus Brawn: The predator-prey relationship of the rainbow squid and the sharkopath is presented in this manner, although in practice it's nuanced. The squid has no offensive capabilities, relying only on its highly sophisticated camouflaging abilities, but the shark has senses that can see through it, and the teamwork required to bring down such huge prey.
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The Future Is Wild / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Future Is Wild / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: There many species that take heavy inspiration from Dixon's earlier work, After Man: A Zoology of the Future, differing from them in only minor details. Snow Stalker: Bardelot Shagrat: Woolly Gigantelope Gannetwhale: Vortex and Porpin Cryptile: Fin lizard Gryken: Pamthret Scrofa: Zarander and Turmi Spink: Termite Burrower Great Blue Windrunner: Bootie Bird Rattleback: The Grassland Rattleback is an expy of the Testadon and Spine-tailed Squirrel. The Desert Rattleback is an expy of the Rootsucker.
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The Future Is Wild / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
The Future Is Wild / int_e543a655	comment	Light Is Not Good: The Sharkopaths, whose yellow bioluminescence fits them well. They're very ferocious and co-operative predators that viciously hunt and kill the more gentle Rainbow Squid. Also, one of the main problems for life in the high plateau is ultraviolet radiation, and thus both the Windrunner and the Silver Spider reflect it, looking as if glowing in blue and silver light respectively.
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The Future Is Wild / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
The Future Is Wild / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: Silver spiders, falconflies, slickribbons... hell, the future seems to be especially wild for invertebrates.
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The Future Is Wild / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
The Future Is Wild / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: The squibbons rescue one of their young from a megasquid. It actually plays out like a Saturday-Morning Cartoon.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ecac4c42	type	Why Won't You Die?
The Future Is Wild / int_ecac4c42	comment	Why Won't You Die?: The Carakiller trying to attack the armoured Rattleback, but its scaly armour is just too tough to penetrate.
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The Future Is Wild / int_ee19d278	type	Blob Monster
The Future Is Wild / int_ee19d278	comment	Blob Monster: The Slithersucker is a descendant of a slime mould which has evolved to be far more actively predatory and animal-like, including hunting forest flish (in a manner similar to modern sundew plants) for sustenance and tricking megasquids into consuming them by reshaping themselves to resemble fruit, in order to spread the mould across the jungle.
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The Future Is Wild / int_f1d05e8e	comment	Spider Swarm: One of the speculative future creatures is the Silver Spider, which has a similar eusocial caste system to ants or bees.
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The Future Is Wild / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A surprising amount of creatures are described as being three meters in size, whether it be three meters long, three meters tall, or having a three meter wingspan.
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