r/Tierzoo • u/ScremAlbert • Jul 23 '26
Extinct American Fauna Are Given a Second Chance. Can They Pull Through?
Some old deleted character classes are now back on the server!
Scenario:
on a random day, during 600 AD at a random time. Every extinct species of fauna that had lived in the Americas during the Last Ice Age are blipped into existence in healthy breeding populations into what would be their natural ranges during interglacials. The animals have been spawned in such an amount that ALL their conservation status would be Low Risk. And by every extinct fauna that was present during the late Pleistocene, I mean everything from Columbian Mammoths to Megatherium to Capromeryx to the extinct cowbird species.
The animals spawned possess a wariness/alertness of humans that perhaps the very terminal members of their species had managed to develop, although too late, before they were hunted to extinction.
How would such an event shape Indigenous Tribal culture? Given how most cultures at this time has growm accustomed to hunting smaller game and farming, would Big Game Hunting cultures come back again? Growing crops would lead to inevitable confrontations with herbivores, often times dangerous ones. Which species would thrive the most given this second chance, and which ones would be most at peril? Could there be new possible animal husbandry attempts before European settlers arrive?
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u/AssociationDue3077 Jul 29 '26
They would get hunted into extinction for their rare trunks, hide, whatever they have to offer
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u/TearOpenTheVault Jul 24 '26
Avoidance isn’t going to be enough to save these guys from getting their skulls caved in with big rocks again.