The Future Is Wild Prairies of Amazonia Part 2

[hasemisport]

3:05 - 3:09 dat ass

[hentesgyik95]

The Baboocaris are very similar to the Horranes in After Man: Zoology of the future

[hentesgyik95]

Titanis had claws on wings. Carakiller have claws on arms

[Katsause]

rattle backs=walking pinecone

[Katsause]

@ 6:07 u can see a baby monkey grab a mama monkey liike ooh human with a camera!

[Katsause]

@Katsause actually 6:11

[Katsause]

i <3 babukari fishnets! hAhA! tites!

[mkocja5a]

in fact, karakillers were ALWAYS my favorite

[mkocja5a]

karakillers are my favorite from these documentaries

[pallatanga]

There are echoes here of a bygone era!

[nuclearzeon]

Don't those Rattlebacks looks a little too reptilian?

[weelittledragon]

@nuclearzeon A little? They look positively lizardlike! Now don't get me wrong, I like this show. It's fun. But that is not a rodent.

[callumheathis]

If those baskets were man-made they would be 10% Uranium, 80% Toxic Waste,10% any other shit the makers could find.

[pallatanga]

@callumheathis and better

[grey9438]

I wonder if rainforest parrots could live here, by adapting, parrots such as budgies and cockateils are adapted to Australian grasslands, but I guess that's a fair bit different situation.

[nuclearzeon]

Um, fishing traps? Really? FISHING TRAPS?! Isn't that a little TOO smart for a New-World monkey?

I wouldn't be too surprised if I saw a chimpanzee making one. They've been known to fashion SPEARS for crying out loud.

[rayrayluver]

@nuclearzeon Idk. Five million years is a decent amount of time for intelligence to develop. You figure 5 million years ago we were basically chimps. All it takes is for one primate to get a bright idea and the knowledge can be taught and passed on

[MaskOfFlame]

@vinniedurant Yes we're a different genus, but 'Primates' is an order. We're still part of the same order as monkeys, apes, lorises, and lemurs, so yes we are primates.

Oh, FYI, orangutans build umbrellas out of leaves, chimps shove sticks down anthills, and howler monkeys build multi-level nests. Yeah...they could do a basket.

[lifeform106]

these people make grasslands hard to live in its easy because there is grass all around to eat

[ChevRcr454]

I'm still not getting why alot of the modurn critters died out. without humans bison, bears, wolfs, big cats should be doing just fine. many of them where around befor the last ice age and only the biggest breeds died out.

[lifeform106]

you know what i don't see is any grazers ? why have monkeys why not make a forest deer to be a grazer and this monkey can't be real i know alot more monkeys that be on the ground than this monkey.

[amm019]

@lifeform106 I've wondered that too. I was like "No toxodon-like capybaras (hippo-like rodents)?"

[lifeform106]

@amm019 i know right and they need better meat eaters like where are the big cats they can learn to live on grasslands they are can change to the climate better then stupid birds!

[Junketh71]

Actually the south american monkeys aren't the smartest of the primates, and their hands are less dexterous than those of Africa and Asia. I doubt that their future descendants would learn to make baskets - if apes weren't able to evolve basket-weaving (except for humans, of course), then monkeys probably won't be able to either.

[vinniedurrant]

Im sorry but primates are not reflective enough nor have the hand eye co-ordination to build fishing nets.

[Skywalker91]

@vinniedurrant - Aren't we primates? ;)

[vinniedurrant]

@Skywalker91 I wouldnt say were primates, were about as different as we are from primates as cats are from civets, we are parts of the same branch but the differences are enough to make us a different genus.

[Scoinsoffaterocks]

What can I say, they're not accurate but this brings up more future biologist than anything else I can think of.

[Redrung]

humankind live on moon at this vid time.

[jmerrife]

They would build fish traps, but not any shelter. o...k.

[Nobodywantsme]

But well if you want my opinion I doubt even Seriema will produce any large ground predator as long as the same canids and big cats that drove the terror birds to extinction are still around. I'll rather see an oversized ocelot roaming these Amazon grasslands than any big bird.

[vinniedurrant]

@Nobodywantsme Thinking maybe the jaguar will take to the grasslands, evolve longer limbs to run in open spaces and might evolve to become the biggest cat?

[Junketh71]

@Nobodywantsme I agree, with big mammalian carnivores terror birds whether past or future just wouldn't make it.

[Spootchies]

@Nobodywantsme I found Terror birds much more awesome predators then any prehistoric canid or cat and I would love for a bird like the phorusrhacids to develop one day millions of years into the future. :U

[Nobodywantsme]

Honestly, we all know that it is impossible to predict the future. This program's main aim is not to make an accurate prediction but to teach aspects of evolution to the mainstream audience (why birds could give up flight and become ground hunters in this case - similar creatures appeared several times in the past and at lest one of them, Titanis walleri, did have the same wing-turned-claw thing). The "future zoology" is a tool, not the objective.

[Ag3nt0fCha0s]

@Nobodywantsme

Smart

[LionHeart9619]

Seriema would of been a better ancestor, the arm claw is unrealistic, their body plan looks unrealistic, etc...

And primates are not going to go extinct in 5 million years, they survived the spread of the grasslands in the Oligocene!

[Kailyn16]

terrorbirds make a comeback