Twilight Nightmares

[weswood]

Originally Posted by Targan

Sounds like a fun adventure. One question though... why would there be woolly mammoths on a jungle island? Wouldn't jungle suggest a tropical or semi-tropical climate. I think the poor mammoths would die out in one generation, maybe two. Elephants on the other hand... Asian elephants love jungle.

Mainly i wanted some large extinct mammals for the saber toothes (or saber teeth???) to hunt. From what little research I did, there was a typs of wolly mamoths that lived in forest type areas.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by weswood

Mainly i wanted some large extinct mammals for the saber toothes (or saber teeth???) to hunt. From what little research I did, there was a typs of wolly mamoths that lived in forest type areas.

The need for large game for the sabre tooths to hunt makes sense. If the island was forested like, say, Pitcairn Island maybe you could have some kind of pygmy forest mammoth. But not mammoths with woolly fur designed for ice age conditions. And probably not in the jungle. Unless the the mammoths had independently invented air conditioning. How about something from the deer family, or really big wild pig-type things. Or how about a species of large flightless bird like the Moa or the roc aka Aepyornis. Both those species almost survived into the modern age, and the moa lived on remote islands (New Zealand).

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Targan

Or how about a species of large flightless bird like the Moa or the roc aka Aepyornis. Both those species almost survived into the modern age, and the moa lived on remote islands (New Zealand).

And it also has the virtue that for a time, after the Dinosaur Age, that the large flightless birds were the apex predators of the world.

[weswood]

I think I like the large pig things. Huge snorting beasts with razor sharp tusks. Thanks for the idea.

[copeab]

Originally Posted by weswood

I think I like the large pig things. Huge snorting beasts with razor sharp tusks. Thanks for the idea.

Hogzilla?

[Targan]

Originally Posted by weswood

I think I like the large pig things. Huge snorting beasts with razor sharp tusks. Thanks for the idea.

The largest eagles that ever lived, the Haast's Eagle was native to New Zealand and hunted among other things the Moa. Imagine a flying predator that size coming at you!

[waiting4something]

Originally Posted by Targan

The largest eagles that ever lived, the Haast's Eagle was native to New Zealand and hunted among other things the Moa. Imagine a flying predator that size coming at you!

Sounds like a mythical thunder bird to me. Some people believe thunder birds still exist, just like Nessy.