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Boverisuchus — Rewilding Future Outback - Rhino
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Published: 2017-08-12 06:10:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 5114; Favourites: 78; Downloads: 7
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This is a response to Memo Koseman's recent podcast, which was a response to a question of mine. My question was, how would future ecosystems look, if mankind had implemented rewilding before becoming extinct. Memo made a specific example of rhinos and Dingos, speculatively, so I have drawn them for him.He suggested that descendants of rewilded Australian rhinos would be smaller due to less resources and a lower energy ecosystem, I figured they might become more horse-like in shape to move between food-sources more effectively also. Accordingly this evolved version has longer legs and more ass-like ears.
The podcast is here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoZdYW…
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Did you listen to the podcast that inspired it? Did you read the description?
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I read the description, but not the podcast
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I'm guessing the longer ears would probably be for picking up sounds better, as well as the more effective shedding of heat, as with elephants and fennec foxes, taking the climate into account? Either way, it's still pretty interesting.
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Thanks, I based them on donkeys.
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Ah ic, that makes sense
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I wonder if the long legs would be enough to have the surface necessary to lose heat... the indricothere model with large ears is just a hypothesis. 
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This one is somewhat smaller than a typical rhino, because Australia is less productive ecologically than Africa.
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I had a discussion with Memo about this a while ago and I drew a rhino almost exactly like this, except it had smaller ears and a different horn shape!
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I love convergent ideas.
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Me too, it is always a compliment and I take it as such.
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I'm not sure what else I could do, but maybe.
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I could send you a note with some ideas.
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Ah.
Well, what about lions and elephants? I could see the former losing their manes to help with heat, maybe becoming more cursorial to better pursue prey like kangaroos - that, or becoming more dedicated ambush predators to attack before their prey can escape. Elephants, meanwhile, would probably get smaller like the rhinos, maybe develop stronger tusks for more easily peeling through bark and digging through dirt and/or a bison-like hump to store nutrients.
Ooh, camels might also work - they'd probably become more cursorial to better escape from the dingos you drew earlier.
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Watch the podcast. Memo speculates that elephants would be to destructive yo rewild into Australia.
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Australian rhinos?? I think an explanation is needed...
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Maybe you should watch the podcast.
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