Last Full Breath of a Free God: The North African Harvest

[@LordMaster1231]

Ok, but can we take a moment to appreciate how metal 'Last full breath of a Free God' is as a title? Cuz these people live in a world where their lives are shaped by beings that are effectively their gods! The portal killed them and then remade them for it's own purposes and this was the last time a harvest went its way before its children turned upon it

[@Stooltoad5017]

Makes you wonder if the door will deteriorate over time. Sure for now it is secure, but since nobody knows how the darn thing works I doubt they preform maintenance on it. Now given The First Children it would probably take thousands-if not tens of thousands of years for that to happen. But for a being(s) that lives on a time scale of millions that not be too bad.

[@Aerostarm]

The worldbuilding of naming stuff in Kaimere is really good.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@mokasaam1819]

@@TalesofKaimere I totally agree 💯. You are very talented and creative

[@levinjoseph233]

Leopard be everywhere The addition of humans alone make it one of most important harvests ever

[@levinjoseph233]

As an Indian I can confirm leopards are found everywhere they be roaming around the snowy mountains Himalayas or the rainforest of North east marches of Bengal the thar desert of Rajasthan dry forests of gujrat the entire coast line and all the plains and forests even mangroves and literally inside cities if I recall correctly I think mumbai has the largest leopard density in the world + everywhere else they are found it africa or the Russian far east They are really adaptable

[@shinygamer3424]

Its really interesting how kaimeran humans domesticated cats and dogs independently of earth humans. It makes me wonder, what kind of creatures have been domesticated by kaimere's non-human sophonts? With hominins being the only kaimeran sophonts who didnt originally evolve there, surely the sophonts who first evolved in kaimere have had a long time to domesticate unusual creatures.

[@thenerdbeast7375]

When people think of the destructiveness of invasive species, they think of predators like the Burmese Python in Florida or swarms like Rabbits in Australia but few things can impact an ecosystem like an alien plant. When invasive plants out-compete native ones, entire food chains may starve.

[@thephilosoraptor8565]

Oh THIS is going to be _GOOD_ Edit: Yes. Yes it was. Keenan casually dropping ginkgo trees, giant lions, narrow-nosed rhinos and terrestrial enantiornitheans all in one video 1. Why was the Houze Grass subgenus _Gramentyrannus_ upgraded to full genus level? 2. Are there still rheas on the prairie or has the Kundi replaced them as the Kaimeran not-ostriches? 3. How long were the Natodomeri lions around before the uktan outcompeted them? 4. I remember a while back you were considering the African Aurochs as a part of this harvest. Did anything come of that plan? Or is the Kaimeran Wild Bull no longer canon? 5. Is next week's video going to be on Firebirds? Also I'm loving referring to the giant extremely powerful magic hives as gods, and the influx of harvest-specific videos we've been getting!

[@EdwardWarburton]

Terrestrial enantiornitheans were mentioned in the Sahul video, and in the one for the south pole continent.

[@thephilosoraptor8565]

@@EdwardWarburton Yeah true but I didn't realise there were any on the houze prairie

[@shingtiong9425]

Although I'm glad to see new animals.The plants are more interesting for me here as people don't take them into consideration often in their projects.

[@Andrey.Ivanov]

Having a really rough week but this episode helped me to distract myself for a few minutes. I know that escaping from reality won't solve any problems, but thanks for creating something that gave me a brief moment to catch my breath today.

[@TalesofKaimere]

My pleasure. I am glad to hear I bring some levity and hope your day only improves

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

"Swiggity Swooty I'm coming for Megafauna booty". - Kaimeran Ancestors c. 250,000 years ago.

[@beastmaster0934]

This also works for The First Children when they purged Qajar of megafauna.

[@BigBossMan538]

Great episode, I like the twist that the invader was grass, not humans. I like the addition to the rhino cast. I hope you make an episode/series on the history of rhinos on Kaimere! I have to ask, how did African reptiles adjust to Kaimere?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! Yes, humans were a problem, but the grass is what devastated the prairies first! I very much hope rhinos and horses get a sponsor at some point. Between them and notoungulates there's a lot left to cover. Depends on the reptile. I didn't get a chance to draw a nile crocodile, but hope to include that if I get a crocodile episode. Most lizards on the prairie are from this harvest, which would have been good to include

[@EdwardWarburton]

I hope there is a croc series, exploring more the just archetypical crocodilians, but terrestrial ones as well, and also on that note were Sebecids harvested from Miocene South America, what is the current state of notosuchians in Kaimere, and were the mekosuchines harvested in the Sahul harvest, and how well did/have they done?@@TalesofKaimere Note: Are there any fully aquatic crocodilians extant in Kaimere? Second Note: how far into the Pacific did the Sahul harvest strech, and did any insular animals find success? For example, New Zealand mudsnail or flatworm?

[@BigBossMan538]

What about civets and mongooses?@@TalesofKaimere

[@vasantmasurekar4826]

Extremely informative episode. Great to see a new Rhino species and the mighty Buffalo survive. Rhinos are one of my favorite animals so seeing them survive in Kaimere makes me happy

[@aaronbeckett0714]

Thank you Keenan for another amazing addition to the tales of Kaimere. Love the emphasis on the big cats of this episode and have me some ideas for carnivores descended from lemurs and gophers!

[@josephlongbone4255]

"Look at me, I am the captain now!" -Humans, arriving literally enywhere...

[@alghoulaj7172]

Another perfect episode. I admit, that Harvest Episodes had became my favorite, which is saying something as.... Well, any knowledge about Kaimere is something.... Thank you for making my week. Also, giant lions? I wonder how large they were and what basal giant Megaraptoran ruled before the Uktan arrived? Speaking of which, how far and wide are these giant? Like, half of Kairul and most of Nik'har? If that's the case... Well, it might be the most widespread animal ever to walk through Kaimere, no?

[@stoatsarebetterthanbeavers]

Amazing video as always, i have watched your channel for around 18 months now, and kaimere has only gotten better, keep up the great work

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you so much! Very appreciated

[@cro-magnoncarol4017]

The four horsemen of screwing the known worlds biodiversity... 1. Hippos 2. Houze Grass 3. Leopards 4. Humans

[@redlycan5064]

This turned out fantastic! The number of species that became part of the Houze prairie, whether they migrated from Kairul or harvested from Africa, is impressive. Knowing that some species I hoped to be found on the prairie, such as the acacia, warthog, and honey badger, are doing well or well enough. A giant lion thriving on the prairie before the Uktan arrived was honestly the most surprising thing to me, along with a species of rhinoceros. Keep up the fantastic work! A few questions: 1. What reptiles from the harvest managed to find success or go extinct in Kaimere? Reptiles such as leopard tortoise, Nile monitor, rock python, Senegal chameleon, or West African crocodile, for example. 2. In the video, you mentioned that African forest species are either extinct or critically endangered. Which ones would be those critically endangered? 3. Aside from the Giant Buffalo, did any other species from this harvest find their way to Kairul? 4. Did any other small cats, such as caracals, African golden cats, and servals, manage to find success in Kaimere, or did they go extinct?

[@dboot8886]

Just had a thought, is the wax from houze grass collected by anyone for any sort of practical utilization? And as an aside, there is *so* much I've learned from browsing Homesteading and Permaculture about different plants, fungi, and bugs that it seems a series on Kaimeran agriculture would be an excellent dive in between species and biomes.

[@thylaconical2840]

I’m very glad to see this harvest and especially the Houze grass get the time they deserve.

[@dudotolivier6363]

9:31 About the fully Freshwater Desmotylian, the Hippos have outcompeted to extinction all of them except ONE single species. Desmotylian as a whole still numerous and diverse in Kaimere's oceans, but it's all marine creature. Fully freshwater species are represented by only one single species in Modern Time.

[@wildtoonproductions4427]

Lovely this episode and also it really cool you add much more animals into kaimere's animal roster, it add so much more diversity into kaimere also I am proud to I gotten your first book, the first anthology! I haven't read all of it just death walks on broken wings I gotta say, I loved it good story with great characters i might read again to review it but over all it enjoyable. I also going to the nhs to get training and though I wanted animator and artist, (and i still pursue it) i think will this job can do nicely for me

[@extraordinarytv5451]

Keenan is my writing hero!!

[@dudotolivier6363]

8:02 One of the numerous species of Gazelles Antelope living in the Houze Prairie in Modern Times is called the Eshim ! The Eshim is a recent migrant from Earth, sharing a common ancestor with the Cuvier's and other North African gazelles. They are one of the few bovids that can digest the harsh houze grass that dominates the prairies, enabling them to thrive when other members of their family cannot. Given the height of the grass, they are very prone to stotting, leaping high to signal warnings of predators as well as to keep track of one another. As it can inhibit fleeing, they avoid dense stands of grass. Their fur blends with the color of the flaxen houze grass, an indicator of their reliance on camouflage when they do venture into the dense grass to feed. The Dolani hunt them for their meat, and their grace and speed has made them a popular symbol in nomad clans. (Note: info from Keenan Taylor's official social accounts)

[@chancegivens9390]

Very nice! Its a shame you didnt do any art of them giant lions, but the newer animals were pretty cool! The kundi and houzie rhino caught my eye specifically. On a different note I have two questions for you. One. Did the honey badgers get bigger as a result of a diverse ecosystem? 2. Do you plan on covering the kaimerian tiger in any point in the future?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks! I considered drawing a giant lion but was short on time and since they're extinct it wasn't as much of a priority as for example the rhino or kundi. Honey badgers aren't any bigger than their Earth counterparts. Might have slightly longer legs for more efficient travel but they're not any sort of dominant. If I get a sponsor for the tiger I'll talk about them but nothing has changed since I talked about them in the Big Cat episode.

[@chancegivens9390]

@TalesofKaimere Yeah. I don't blame you. If they're gone what's the point. They must have been badass when they were around. My bad on the tiger thing. I forgot you covered them in the big cat video. Man, I bet kaimere's Cockatrices weren't ready for the fury of the Honey Badger! I just imagine the hilarious scenario of a group of the dromies coming across a sleeping ratel. One goes and pokes it, the ratel wakes up and does its whole honey badger shtick, then one of the dromies Lunges at it, and the ratel swings around and bites onto its face, where then all hell brakes loose with the cockatrice squaking, screeching, and leaping around with the Honey Badger dangling from its face! While the other dromies try to get it off or end up panicking! Hahhahahahaha!!

[@TalesofKaimere]

@@chancegivens9390 haha absolutely! I mean cockatrices are predators of badgers, so most encounters end badly for them, but there's something to be said about the intimidation factor of a frothing little critter charging and not quitting!

[@chancegivens9390]

@@TalesofKaimere Damn right!

[@BigBossMan538]

@@chancegivens9390it gives me great joy to know that honey badgers are surviving on Kaimere

[@dudotolivier6363]

It's no surprise that the Pleistocene African Harvest was so successfull in term of introduction ! The Portal harvested animals from a place from Earth very analogous to the Houze Prairie, and the part of the Houze Prairie being an complete open door to Ni'Khar continent as a whole mean that the species intorduced were able to exit directly the Known World and established directly in the stable region beyond the Known World, which it is unstable. In addition that most of the pre-Harvest fauna in the Prairie was low in number to being recent arrivals from Kairul and not yet in a good number. The introduction of these African species prevent more Kairulan species to established on the Houze Prairie range on Ni'Khar ! It really what we can call to be at the good place at the good time ! X)

[@DeinoWolfhybridhero]

Another precious piece in the Saga

[@andrewsart123]

This video was great can’t wait for more videos dude ngl!!!!!😃

[@liambrandley2716]

I hope you will one day make a video on the animals that migrated from Kairul at that time

[@koopajuniorsavannah5170]

The description is very dramatic its making me excited!

[@reshi606]

I hope someone comissions an episode on the types of seagrasses at some point. Would really love that.

[@jacobjerny7502]

I’m sure someone has already pointed it out, but you mentioned that agave was harvested during this time? The genus Agave is native to the americas. There is a similar plant, the genus Aloe, but their range is further east I believe. Just a small nitpick in another great video!

[@TalesofKaimere]

100% my bad. I assume it was an error as I was typing flora from the formation I was studying from the article onto my computer because I remember looking it up after and verifying its adaptive potential but not double checking it’s range haha. Let’s just say it’s from a much earlier harvest.

[@Stooltoad5017]

I can’t say I am normally a huge fan of Rhinos, but the Houze Rhino looks interesting, I’d imagine they lead interesting lives given their habitat of preference. Are the Western Carnosaur and Ba’khar the last of the top predator non-robust Megaraptorans? While the Robust Monarchs run the show in many places, the more Basal Megaraptorans interest me more.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Indeed, they were fun rhinos to design. Got another species or two to make down the road. Yes, western carnosaur and the ba'khar are the last basal top predators (though the ba'khar is sometimes hunted by kurajaku but it's rare enough that they can still claim the title). Might have a couple regions with giant alar, but for the most part, robust monarchs run the show

[@Stooltoad5017]

@@TalesofKaimereI figured as much, I have to say the giant Alar sounds interesting, Is this the same giant Alar that ruled the Islands awhile ago (I forgot what the exact time period) before the Saltwater crocodile was harvested?

[@sivanlevi3867]

While I love all the new creatures from this, what really surprised me was the amount of flora showcased here. The only plant with major spotlight time is Houze Grass, so it's great to know what other plants are out there in Kaimere. BTW You mentioned a giant rhea going extinct during this harvest. Are there any smaller rheas left or have they gone extinct too? I'm only asking because of what you said in your Terror Bird video that the Harkundi was harvested along with their rhea prey.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Heck yeah! Working in more flora in the coming weeks. There are forest rhea, but the grassland species that were prey to the harkundi were wiped out by the spread of houze, and the southern steppe rhea were outcompeted when the emu arrived at a point of their general decline

[@dudotolivier6363]

The Spotted Hyena still managed to established on Kaimere, but earlier by its Cave Hyena subspecies which come by the Europe/Northern Eurasian Harvest there almost 805-770 kya. This animal in only found in the Highland of Arvel. The Spotted Hyena was introduce on Kaimere a second time in this Pleistocene African Harvest, by its current living African form, both on the Houze Prairie and Pakardia, but failed to established.

[@rylanbrewer3320]

Do you think pachycrouta was ever harvested

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@rylanbrewer3320 Don't know.

[@Storm-crow13]

The houze maple is so cool

[@ryanchen1819]

I realized that as this harvest reached a bit of the Southern Europe, cave hyenas, cave lions, cave bears, aurochs, and more fauna from the Mediterranean could’ve been harvested. Speaking of which, as you said that bokodu fossils have been found in the Known World, were bokodu one of the animals that went with Houze grass from Kairul to the Known World during this time?

[@TalesofKaimere]

It's possible. Though most of the harvest was concentrated in North Africa (around 90%), there was still some reach down to central Africa and southern Europe. That's likely the point of origin of the kaimeran aurochs for example, though that will not be finalized until the bovine episode. As for bokodu, probably not. Bokodu males often venture out to the prairie to feed and travel between female populations, though as males alone cannot establish a population, the giant entelodont has only ever an occasional stranger to the region. Females prefer to be in forests or wetlands, or at least have some ground cover especially for their young.

[@cerberaodollam]

Nice to know that Kaimerans also have meow-friends. :)

[@ryanchen1819]

Exactly how big were the giant lions? As you said they surpassed the Arvelith cave lion in size, they must certainly have exceed 1,000 lbs (454 kg), making them the largest lions of Earth or Kaimere. Speaking of which, were they vassal predators before the uktan arrived.

[@TalesofKaimere]

Considering the Natodomeri lion came to Kaimere weighing as much as 750 pounds, getting to half a ton with competitive pressures and an increase in the size of their favored prey certainly seems reasonable. Would certainly count as a vassal predator, though would be prey even to the 2-4 ton megaraptorans of the prairie at the time.

[@extraordinarytv5451]

We love you Keenan🗣🥳🥳

[@TheGBZard]

I think it would be cool if someday a video on the prehistoric grasslands was made, the one with grassland oliphants that was wiped out by house grass

[@MrT_Rex]

Keenan : African harvest Me : play Africa from Toto Edit : it's a good song

[@TalesofKaimere]

I don't think this channel could survive an unlicensed copyright strike lol

[@Stooltoad5017]

I would like this channel to not get crushed into a pulp.

[@seanessdracosaurus2793]

Awesome

[@BigBossMan538]

Making the houze oryx, I assume, a relative of the scimitar horned oryx is a good choice. It’s such a pretty animal

[@MegaRumia217]

Does the old grassland still exist somewhere on Kaimere?

[@Stooltoad5017]

Non Houze prairies still exist, although the diversity before this harvest is gone, at least as far as I am aware.

[@dudotolivier6363]

8:02 The Atlantic Gazelle, Gazella atlantica, is (on Earth, in real-life) a extinct species of gazelle of the genus Gazella, the namesake and type/main genus of Gazelles antilopes. The others type are Eudorcas (Thomson's gazelle's genus) and Nanger (Dama gazelle's genus). On Kaimere, this species is still living, while on Earth, it's extinct. On Kaimere, most Gazelles found throughout the Houze Prairie are from either from Gazella or Eudorcas. With few others from others genus, but in a low degree.

[@xavier84623]

Wouldn’t the flammable oil in the stalks contain calories? You could mention that might have something to do with why some species can eat them, their guts have the ability to break down the oils.

[@dudotolivier6363]

Note ! The Kaimeran Lion's distribution range was edited since the "Big Cats of Kaimere" episode, with the part which cover Pakardia being now an historical range. Meaning that lions were present on Pakardia before, but are no more on it in Modern Times. Lions were directly replicated on Pakardia as well as on Arvel (on the Lowland) and Ni'Khar (on the Houze Prairie), alongside the African Spotted Hyena and Leopard, but the Lions and Spotted Hyena quicly become extinct on Pakardia some time after their replication, while the Leopard get success. Today, and as currently, Kaimeran Lion are present in all the Lowland of Arvel, Qajar and most of the Southern Island. But Pakardia isn't no more part of their range in Modern Times. The part that include Pakardia still present in the Assembly description of the species due to being still a previous range in which they still have lived once and before this specific population was present until very recently. But some updates should be neccessary to avoid some confusion, just the Assembly currently haven't many time to made them.

[@rylanbrewer3320]

What forest and woodland animals from North Africa could have died out on kaimeee

[@dudotolivier6363]

@@rylanbrewer3320 Well, most in fact haven't succeed to established. Only some like the Chimpanzee managed to established. Because if the Houze Prairie need to be filled with new life, the forests areas of Kaimere were, them, stable and filled at maximum.

[@rylanbrewer3320]

@@dudotolivier6363but what carnivorian from North Africa could have been harvested like viverids

[@dudotolivier6363]

I like and agree completely on the aspect to display actual real-life pictures/photographies of the (african) animals that have established and that lived as well current on Earth in Africa. Given that these animals/species are real in reality, and the same species both on Earth and Kaimere (or completely identical physically for some despite being new young apart species), using typical picture that everyone can find and take on Google Image is better and clever rather than getting tired and wasting time drawing new illustrations for each ! :) If you have the exact same species (or almost identical in appearance, like in the same genus or sister or direct daughter species) in your setting that currently live in reality on Earth in Modern Times, and that there pictures of it made by people and easily accessible online, why not just taking them ? Like that, this saves a lot of valuable time ! X)

[@InnahaNyellaV]

Is their a elasmotherium on the houze prairie, I know the creature has gone through a change, due to it’s horn being sawed down, but scince their is a species of Megaloceras present in this grassy landscape is their a possibility that these Siberian unicorns, are charging through this barren landscape?

[@dudotolivier6363]

I think Elasmotherium and his subfamily, Elasmotherinae, have zero chance to be present, at least inside the Known World. Elasmotherium, all the species in it's genus and close relative were cold-temperate animals. The Megaloceros Prairie Elk is a pretty good case that such animals from such biome can adapt to a such warm and somewhat arid biome like the Houze Prairie, but that still more or less a rare exception. Also because megaloceros was a deer, and deers are way more adaptive and generalist than rhinos are. They were also open-space grazer animals, like a White Rhinoceros in a steppe-toundra biome, and the Stephanorhinus Houze Rhino here is mainly a grazer and already fit this niche, and actually fit the niche that the White Rhinoceros fit on Earth. (White Rhino was harvested but failed to established, and it Stephanorhinus that managed to make it instead and fit its niche). It's also impossible for Elasmotherium or a relative to fit a Black Rhinoceros niche on the Hoze Prairie. Because as said in the video, Black Rhioceros and most forested animals don't managed to make it. And the Houze Prairieis almos complete pure savannah, and not savannah with frequent areas of bushes. Because the Black Rhinoceros is a browser, eating bushes and low trees vegetations, hence why the Black and White Rhinos end up coexiting togethers in Africa. As said, Elasmotherium was a grazer, so cannot fit a Black Rhino niche, in addition that the Houze isn't made proprely to allow a Black Rhino-like animal to live. But the biggest point to remember is that any Elasmotherium species coincide with an Harvest in term of location, being found in Middle Eurasia, and not in Europe or Southeast Asia where Harvests occured. And the Elasmotherinae other taxa Fossil record during the Pleistocene is low, rare, scarce and messy. So, whatever on the Houze Prairie or in the Highland of Arvel, it extremely low, if just impossible to have a Elasmotherium or relative. Maybe in egions outside the Known World, but not inside it.

[@dubuyajay9964]

When do you cover the humans in the title card?

[@extraordinarytv5451]

Also were there any harvests from maastrichtian or cenomanian sub-saharan Africa? I know not much is known about the area, it's why I ask. Possible opportunities for ghost lineages and extra creative leisures

[@EdwardWarburton]

That would be an interesting harvest, with the only animals we know were present being Abelisaurids.

[@extraordinarytv5451]

@@EdwardWarburton yup!

[@matthewschuchardt684]

So where does the prairie Ass fit into all of this? Also, is there a wiki where we can look most of this up?

[@samuelscott-schroeder8597]

Hello!

[@troycoley-cn5bb]

Great Video :)

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thanks!

[@maozilla9149]

hey in the future will there be Early of Late Cretaceous Harvest video?

[@berserkergaming0240]

I wonder of the Great Auk could thrive in Kaimere. Or the Dodo🤔

[@dudotolivier6363]

Great Auk is well present and is fine. Dodo was never harvested and would not even established.

[@EdwardWarburton]

How well would eucalyptus due in the Houze, and are any present their?

[@ryanchen1819]

Other than the styraconychine, where there other large megaraptorans like the giant taro and if so, how did they niche partition?

[@rylanbrewer3320]

What was the ambush saber tooth that lived on the prairie

[@happynihilist2573]

Excellent world building, quality spec evo, bad audio 10/10

[@Feranogame]

Considering nowadays it is mostly consensus no Homo sapiens subspecies are recognized, Kaimerans become a really interesting organism classification-wise, being the only other sapiens subspecies

[@TalesofKaimere]

Indeed. Most in the Assembly assign them to their own species, since given the difference in pregnancy length most mixed unions don’t come to term, but they are much closer to us than say Neanderthals. Looking forward to unpacking it more down the road!

[@dudotolivier6363]

In Tales of Kaimere universe, either Kaimeran are regarded as a apart species, which still descend directly from Homo sapiens (so our own species), or either a subspecies of Homo sapiens. In the last case, that will mean that Homo sapiens is composed by two subpecies, the earth subpecies (Homo sapiens sapiens), and the Kaimeran subspecies (Homo sapiens kaimeriensis). But as Keenan as said, there no definitive consensus about their classification. But it either these two scenarios for sure. Also, whatever happen, it change nothing that kaimeran descend more specifically from the very early first Homo sapiens members, aka the Primordial Black People, which are the common ancestor to Modern African Black people and all others varieties/morphs (aka races, but race is a term for artificially breed of animals, not natural variations). Hence why almost all Kaimeran have normal to very dark skin over almost all their entire species as a whole. In real-life, Homo sapiens, due to being a extremely very young species (only around 300,000 years, which on a geological time would be yesterday), haven't yet developped subspecies, but already numerous varieties/(color)morphs/races. The fact that all these varieties interbreed frequently between them slow the processus of subspecies apparition, but the fact that subspecies will one day come for sure it something that will happen one day for sure, but not before a long time, way after our own deaths.

[@bmw895]

That's not entirely true homo sapient idaltu is a thing

[@Feranogame]

@@bmw895 not anymore, I was also surprised, but it is now considered mostly invalid

[@bmw895]

@@Feranogame I'm not entirely convinced by the argument the researchers put forth. It seems more like an overcorrection of an issue. Spurred more on by certain politics than anything substantive

[@Tuna_the_shark]

this is the first time that you referred to the portal as god

[@TalesofKaimere]

I've mentioned it a couple times in passing, but for these videos I tend to avoid it so people don't get confused and think it's actually a deity. Its nature has not changed, it's still a collection of microbes, but many Kaimerans consider it to be an ancient god so I sometimes describe it as such here.

[@aaronbeckett0714]

Hey Keenan, don’t know if you’ll see this, what do you think about the possibility of a giant predatory bat? I’m thinking of one, but I’m unsure, and I was thinking it would kinda behave like a mountain eagle, using its weight to hit its prey off of the cliffs, and was thinking of having it called the Sky Fox

[@professorsimosuchus7954]

Has the portal ever caused like a minor extintion or at least local extintion on earth from overharvesting? Or the harvesting dooming a specieas that was on it’s last leg on earth?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Most likely. The interrupted harvest for example took a tremendous number of Pleistocene megafauna from Earth but wasn't able to replicate them all, and this was at a time when many animals were going extinct on Earth. The portal almost certainly harmed the populations if not outright taking the last in some cases, only to not be able to replicate them as the whistling door was constructed.

[@1998topornik]

Damm I was sure that my third prediction (about biome Houze Prairie) will appear but it seems it is not that time.

[@ryanchen1819]

How did the giant lions interact with na’hashet and harkundi?

[@EdwardWarburton]

I have been rewatching some videos on Kaimere, and I seem to get a lot of Disneynature adds, does this happen anyone else?

[@TalesofKaimere]

That’s interesting. I’ve got no say what ads show up and I know a lot of it is personalized to the viewers search history in addition to the video itself, I’d honestly be interested to know what regularly comes up regardless of who’s watching

[@TalesofKaimere]

If Disney is in any way requesting ads (which I doubt) that would be very cool

[@miquelescribanoivars5049]

BTW, did the Prairie Ass also migrate along Houze Grass?

[@TalesofKaimere]

They did indeed! Not nearly as abundant as the speckled horse but still in small herds

[@SupahTrunks7]

Wow never been this early before lol

[@maozilla9149]

nice

[@ryanchen1819]

How impressive was the short term success of African bush elephants?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Not particularly.

[@liambrandley2716]

Howany of these creatures made it to kairul

[@ReptiliansRule]

Comment just because I'm early. Hello!

[@ashenen2278]

Does the Houze Maple fruits stink as much as the Gingko in our world?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Absolutely. Gotta attract the seed spreaders somehow

[@ryanchen1819]

Speaking of which, are there houze noodles?

[@TalesofKaimere]

haha probably

[@TreyNewman-m1r]

Neaderthals when?

[@KylerBrazda-we9kb]

SET THE PORTAL FREE. MY BRUTHER(S) DID NOTHING WRONG!!!

[@leonidbalaklav5022]

LOVE FROM ISRAEL TO YOU

[@TalesofKaimere]

Much appreciated!

[@leonidbalaklav5022]

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[@leonidbalaklav5022]

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[@TheGBZard]

This episode was really cool, I really like it. I am a bit surprised though that giraffes weren’t mentioned in the video whatsoever, I know they died due to the uktan + ghlanos but I would have thought they would be mentioned

[@TalesofKaimere]

A mention would have been good, but they were among the many that didn’t get a chance: in the far southern reaches of the harvest, and specialized for plants not present in their only suitable habitat.

[@TroyTheCatFish]

Keenan, do you have any plans to write any more books for Kaimere?

[@TalesofKaimere]

Absolutely. I have one more anthology in the works, a standalone novel, a novel series, and several other anthologies and supplementary books like bestiaries to make down the road.

[@TroyTheCatFish]

Amazing Video as Always! :) 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 ❤❤ 💖💖

[@TalesofKaimere]

Thank you!

[@TroyTheCatFish]

@@TalesofKaimere Your Welcome 🤗

[@amm019]

Nice as always :D I'm guessing the okapi didn't make it in the rainforests? What is the difference between the common hyena and the spotted hyena that they weren't successful than the other? Are the wildebeest in their large herds as on herd?

[@TalesofKaimere]

1. Okapi indeed failed to outcompete the resident browsers, in no small part because this was a stable ecosystem and most of the flora wasn't easily digestible to them, so they couldn't push out the resident browsers. 2. Common hyenas being used to the houze grazers, which were much more common than the zebra and wildebeest spotted hyenas were used to, was a significant mark in favor of common hyenas. Common hyenas are also larger and better adapted for endurance (both are adapted for endurance but the commons are better at it) which helped a lot. Both species are socially complex and live in large matrilineal groups, so no major difference there. 3. The wildebeest live in large herds, but have to follow houze horse herds if they're going to get enough food, so are extremely dependent on these mixed species groups.

[@rylanbrewer3320]

I’m also assuming bongos and forest buffalo didn’t make it either