Gliding April 2022 Special: Gliding Fauna of Kaimere
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- Gliding is an often overlooked but efficient and widespread method of locomotion. Although usually discussed as a transition to flight, it is worth exploring at face value, and Kaimere is a context particularly favorable to gliders in a way that Earth today simply isn't. Learn more about gliders both in our own history and unique to Kaimere in today's special, in honor of #GlidingApril2022!
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I completely agree with the statement that gliding isn't simply a transitional way of locomotion on the evolutionary path to powered flight. In fact gliding has appear many times in various animal groups, but powered flight has evolved only a few times which to me suggests that it requires different evolutionary pressures. So it's its own method of locomotion and quite an efficient one as you said, and in the same time it might be a necessity stage in most instances where the lineage develops a powered flight.
As the flying lemurs crossed the seas on the backs of titanosaurs I feel like there is something going on there, i like the idea that they're perhaps commonly found clambering over the behemoths hunting down pest invertebrates like dinosaur fleas(which are downright gnarlly).
Omg dude it amazes me how much the topics we discuss line up without actually planning it!
I’m so excited for your video man!
@Marshal Marrs Yup! The primatologist hired by the Assembly gave them the genus name Momo in reference to her favorite show.
@@petarbrkic6404 I have not
Ardzhu is a very interesting concept, I can just imagine you think it’s leaves dropping but no it’s a baby.
6:23 Momo. Hell yeah!
Mans really just made evil flying squirrels. And I thought the dinosaurs and literal arctic demons were scary.
This is the way lol
The Flying Lemurs are a complete reference to Momo character in Avatar The Last Airbender show (ATLA) universe. They genus name is also called Momo to further support the reference.
In the Tales of kaimere Universe Canon lore, it's one of the earth naturalists writing the bestiary for the Assembly who give and assigning this specific genus name due to the fact is also a fan of this universe.
Earth gliding mammals: cute sugar gliders and flying squirrels
Kiamere guiding mammals: cute flying lemurs but also a carnivorous gopher with a bolt cutter for a mouth and poison spurs because why the hell not.
I’ve cultivated a world that has room for both cute and horror lol
@@TalesofKaimere yep makes me fear for anyone who tries to explore the deep sea of Kiamere considering that where most of earth’s horror movie monsters live
Non-therian mammals love themselves some poison
Those with powered flight can glide as well, but it is very surprising how widespread gliding is. There are flying lemurs like the colugo, flying squirrels, flying frogs, flying lizards like the Draco, flying fish, flying squid, even flying snakes and gliding ants. Super fascinating stuff!
The colugos and petaurids are my personal favorites
I see the flying lemurs in Kaimere remind me of the lemurs from Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra like Momo. But the species are really diverse in Kaimere taking on gliding.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking to when I saw them as well.
@@stephenlamb6005 Haha, I really agree. But I think it's really cool, though since the only mammals that glide are sugar gliders, flying squirrels, and colugos.
Oh that’s my favorite show I had to give an homage to them. Their genus is Momo lol
@@TalesofKaimere Yeah, I really enjoyed the series when I was a kid. But that sounds like a cool reference to Avatar: The Last Airbender
Best surprise ever!
Thanks!!
@@TalesofKaimere You're welcome. Kaimere is one of the most interesting places I ever heard or red about, and so much bio-diversity in the clades of the gliders... Yeah.
The lemurs traveling on the Titanosaurs just make me remeber Momo and Appa, that was a great references
Thanks! Was a bit of a nod to that and to Disney’s Dinosaur, another childhood favorite
A bit unrelated but in the segment where you mentioned that the flying lemurs got to the known world on the backs of titanosaurs got me thinking about the Wa'Ayok and how they could lead to a lot of faunal interchange between the known world and the other continents they visit.
Great point! Does open a lot of doors!
Wanna hear about the gliders of the biodome ( and what should I do for the next video? )
An episode on your gliders would be cool! I’d be sure to tag #glidingapril2022 if you do it this week to get more views with that trend.
@@TalesofKaimere ok I’ll get working
Ardzhu is fantastically cool!
Thanks!!
Convergent evolution is common but I did not expect something to converge on a PLANT. Excited and scared for the Oligocene video because that camel must never see the light of day.
The camel is up there among the most cursed things I’ve ever made
I have three things to say about this video!
1. I really enjoyed this video, it never occurred to me that Kaimere had Gliding Creatures!
2. Giant, Gliding, Carnivorous, Venomous Gophers! Do you have something against Bill Murray?!
3. A Momo reference! I see you're a man of culture!
Haha thank you!
@@TalesofKaimere you're welcome!
Awesome video!! Can’t wait for the Oligocene harvest video!!
I’m super excited myself!
Some Gliding fauna of Objecia: Objecia's most well known gliders are flying squirrels and the Glider Whale. Flying Squirrels also exist on Earth, though the Glider Whale is native to another, larger planet named "Oceania". The Glider Whale got it's name because it's the only cetacean to glide for miles above the ocean. Glider whales are rorquals, just like Humpback and Blue Whales. Another glider type on Objecia is the flying fish. Like Glider Whales, flying fish glide for miles above the ocean. Objecia has 10 different species of flying fish. Another, less known gliding mammals are the flying dogs. A group of gliding canids. They range in size. The last gliders I want to mention are gliding marsupials. Objecia has 5 different species of gliding marsupials.
Nice!
Thanks!
Also, my profile picture is now Objecia itself.
Adapiforms? I'm glad that there are lemur-like prosimian primates native to this planet (as much as I want simians on the planet, it would be unfair if there's only simian primates and they having completely replaced all prosimian primates). Nice job as always! :)
😯 is incredible how relative are the big and small specimens and they ecosistems
Again, I pretty great video on a overall biologic subject generally overlook and put in second background place thus being a big part and fascinating important element of biologie and evolution of the Animal wold !
I think that the second video of this kind/categorie on the Channel, after the one about the coloration uses and importances the differents species of Kaimere have.
I hope there will be many others video like this one ! Speaking more of Biologics overall subject than the creatures or their groups themselves. Like one about the Speciation/Specialisation process (I even made and send to you a fanart, taking the example of the Kaimeran Tiger to illustrate some time ago) or the Speciation by hybridation process, or others subject like mutations etc....
Awesome video. Great work as always. Would love to see a video dedicated to the cute but terrifying Flying Gophers someday.
Would love to do so! If nothing else they’ll get a good segment in the multituberculates episode
I have a few questions for you so here they are. 1. How many topic are still left on your bucket list.
2. After Kaimere what are you gonna do. 3. Are there any animals that are in the burrowing niche.
1. Oh god I have over a hundred episode topics for the known world alone
2. Been working on Kaimere for a decade and between 10+ novels planned in the setting and a whole planet to design I don’t have anything else on the horizon.
3. Already have sloths, parksosaurs, mustelids, lagomorphs, afrotherians, and rodents. Will be more because it’s a great way to evade danger
Very interesting gliders. I loved the Momo reference, it even lives in the highlands! And the lizard sounds very funny, it reminds me some seed dispersal methods of flowers. The multituberculate on the other hand is terrifying, al least the big one, the smaller ones are cute albeit I would not get close with those talons which I assume are venomous like those of the platypus.
Sweet, another Paleo Analysis shout out. I remember learning about them in your PP sauropod video, and it is a channel that I enjoy now.
Heck yeah! He runs a fantastic channel Im excited to see his glider episode.
And yeah ATLA is my favorite show, possibly favorite story. Had to slip in a reference. One of the naturalists writing the bestiary is also a fan and will be assigning the genus Momo because I’m tacky like that
@@TalesofKaimere I mean, that makes sense. If I was a zoologist and found a gliding or flying lemur I would name it Momo too. I'm watching the series right now with my family and is very fun, albeit the last season have been much more intense.
@@Ditidos Yes, that was a good show, but thus more time pass and years after years, I think he's aged pretty badly, and many bad writting about the characters with some like Zuko or even Aang (thankfully girls stand up) becoming less great that they apperas to become with the time. And Azula got very undeserved things !
The entire Universe become more bad, more capitualisation without any ethics with Legend of Korra, who was correct too at the beginning, but falling into total shit and disgusting stuff at his complete end, his lastiest second, due to his stupid thoughtless and cliches and forced progressive stereotype about LGBT that completely ruined some correct characters at worst (Korra (whithout speaking of his hairs problems at season 4, oh boys, I never see so useless element in a show), Kyoshi, Kya and Asami, poor girls).
They just did it to be seen, which is very pejorative in itself already, and anything is made correctly with these representations.
it comes out of NOWHERE, as if by magic, and is IMPOSED to us at the very end like a doight of honor !
I known very good how thing must be to be correct, knowing many, MANY LGBT people directly as regular friend or people on the net that even themselves hate to death these representation ! I'm a expert on this topic.
If people want to see real positive and true good LGBT representations, so watch "The Loud's House", the "Dragon Prince" or "The Owl House" TV show or read "Wing of Fire" or "Nimona" book serie, to mention some of the best of them !
because at, least, we know at the starthow the concerning characters are from the beginning, making a better impregnation from the spectator (a detail that many studios seem to have forget in our current days, badly...).
Hey, sorry to speak about this subject that absolutely nothing with the current subject, but the second official trailer for "Prehistoric Planet" 2022 TV serie with David Attenborough from Aple TV+ just become released today some hours ago ! And it's wild !
There even some speculative elements or stuff like the Alamosaurus air sac you already speak recently ! Like a Carnotaurus display mating very similar (and likely highly inspired) to the same ideas behaviors that John Conway, CM Koseman and speak and Darren Naish present in their famous "All Yesterdays" book !
If you can, made another videos about it, the last one with sauropod air sacs was great !
You just might get your wish! Should be live in a few minutes!
7:09 "I am a leaf now" 🌿🦎
this is a weird question but if all the dinosaurs were to somehow dissapear, how would mammals fill the void? would the gigantic entelodonts on the eastern continent completely take over as apex predatory role along with the other giant herbivores like the sloths and chalicothere mammals taking over the roles of titanosaurs?
would any other groups oppose mammals such as reptiles, pterosaurs etc
Pterosaurs would probably still dominate island and isolated/low nutrient habitats. Being able to fly and feed on a wide range of prey is a huge advantage in that context. Mosasaurs would likely still dominate the sea in macroraptorial niches, but whales have a pretty solid lock on filter feeding and squid specialization (echolocation is broken af in this context). I’d imagine giant entelodonts would be similar to how they are and you’d see a huge proliferation of large cats and dogs in the absence of dromie and megaraptoran pressure.
I had to wait until after work to view this and it was well worth it. I've said it once, and I will have to say it again, the ecological world building always impresses.
Thank you kindly!
My favorite is the Ardzhu, I like the concept
The Ardzhu seems to be a surviving fairly ancient lizard like reptile stock from a Triassic harvest...
Hey, I'm early? Well I'm sure it's gonna be awesome as always
It's cool that you corrected the typo of Epidexipteryx's name from your Twitter/Facebook account, which was EpidexipterUS with Us instead of YX !
Outisde this, I'm not against that this specie was exactly in real life like his most well known Yi Qi cousin (since it's in this later one we discover this body plan patagium structure), but since most of the Epidexipteryx specimens recorded being very highly preserved to the level point where all there short proto-feathers and their four long feather teguments on their tails are very well present and preserved, but with ANY clues of a patagium structure, instead of the Yi Qi for example where in the exact same preservation level show feathers AND patagium structure as the same time, I think that it's alway possible that this creature was more Aye Aye like than the others glider members of his family !
Good stuff Keenan
I always love watching you’re content keep on doing epic kaimere stuff
Thank you!!
The Highland Flying Lemur looks familiar
Their genus name is Momo I have 0 shame
6:04 Is... is that a reference to Disney's Dinosaur??
Haha yes
Is the Ardzhu still a migrant from the Permian Islands? If so, is it the only species in its genus to have spread beyond the islands?
This is so cool! I’m certainly gonna use this info for my speculative evolution/fantasy world I’m thinking of making. But I need to ask, would a hominid be able to evolve a kind of gliding ability?
Awesome! Haha I have an old concept sketch of that very idea! I think we are too heavy. Larger gliders/fliers from what I can tell have tiny ancestors. If we got really small and arboreal (say island dwarfism then dangerous terrestrial predators) then possibly would have the right pressures that over a few million years could begin the process as long as the ecosystem was stable.
@@TalesofKaimere oh ok! Thanks for telling me this, I’ll try to take your information into consideration. :D
Ok, so on Kaimere, we have, on the Eastern Continent mainly, for sure :
- Eutriconodonta non -therian mammal representatives (including Triconodontidae family with Volaticotheria/Volaticotheriidae and Volathicothrium relatives),
- Microraptoria/Microraptorinae representatives (a sub-family of the Dromaeosauridae raptors)
- and the Scansoriopterygidae representatives (mainly classified in the Averaptoria/Avialae clades).
But concerning the others groups in the black and hite pictures, which are and are not on kaimere ?
- Sharovipterygidae for Sharovipteryx ? (Yes or No ?)
- Haramiyida
/Euharamiyida/Eleutherodontidae for Maiopatagium ? (Yes or No ?)
- Avicephala
/Coelurosauravidae for Coelurosauravus ? (Yes or No ?)
- and Drepanosauromorpha
/Drepanosauridae for Hypuronector ? (Yes or No ?)
How well would gliding snakes fare on kaimere
@@rylanbrewer3320 Don't know, but it's completely possible that they thrived.
@@dudotolivier6363 why
@@dudotolivier6363 why do you think they’d thrive
@@rylanbrewer3320 Because so far there isn't analogs to compete with them.
Of fucking course the highland flying lemur lives in the mountains xD
Hell yeah you know it! They’re nomadic too.
Sorry for being pedantic, but the singular of "patagia", as in 8:15, is "patagium".
Truth. The original script says ‘patagia connecting the back legs to the tail’ so I wrote it correctly but read it wrong.
Nice one Keenan, are the gliding lemurs actual lemurs, or are they related to colugos?
Thanks! They’re adapiforms so a clade kinda related to lemurs and other prosimians but definitely their own clade. I call them lemurs since there aren’t true lemurs in Kaimere and it’s how Earth naturalists translate the Kaimeran word that distinguishes them from monkeys, apes, and other prosimians like lorises if they end up being included.
Are there plans for snakes of kaimere?
Yup! Already have a few canon but I’m planning on an episode eventually
Transition what if Kurajacku was a transition into a creature permanently in the ocean, like the Ambelocetus did when is gave rise to Basilosaurs and other toothed whales?
There is no FORCE or PLAN to evolution so nothing is in the process of "transition into" anything else.
Oh boy, Momo lives 👍
Did the ardzhu have relative spesies?
Yes
Wait a second, is the Ardzhu a deparnosaur like Hypuronector?! Was there like a late Triassic harvest that occurred during the Permian dynasty(like the oligocene harvest that occurred during the Tyrant dynasty)? If there was, we’re there any other triassic animals brought in like phytosaurs, triassic-stock dicynodonts and other drepanosaurs (oh, and I guess the triassic dinosaurs too)? If such a harvest exists, how did this affect the Permian dynasty and would any of the species brought from the harvest have living representatives (aside from possibly the Ardzhu)?
If the Ardzhu is not a drepanosaur, then that is some interesting convergent evolution! Also where would it then place on the family tree of diapsids? Also, is it possible for Weigeltisaurids like Coelurosauravus to have been taken to Kaimere during the Permian harvests? If so, do they have any living representatives on the “Permian Island” (will say those guys are particularly fascinating due to how their gliding structures were entirely new instead of being something like elongated ribs)?
No drepanosaurs. This guy is a descendant of Younginiformes (although with 200+ million years of evolution I don’t consider them in the same clade) and the similarities are down to convergent evolution.
Probably going to have some descendants of Weigeltisaurids, although with gliding and flying therocephalians their survival to modern times may be challenged. Will see as we get closer. I absolutely love their look and vibe so my bias might help them a bit lol
@@TalesofKaimere ah okay, very interesting case of convergent evolution then!
Well gliding lizards like the Dracos live alongside both flying mammals (bats) and gliding ones (colugos), so I imagine the Weigeltisaurids would do just fine alongside therocephalians.
Can you do a video on the bats and terror birds in Kaimere.
Both are on the roster!
@@TalesofKaimere yeah
are gliding snakes a predator of gliding lemurs or did gliding snakes not make it to Kaimere?
Not sure! If they coincide then they’re probably doing well considering the same competitive advantages I’ve discussed. Was mostly focusing on a few unique to Kaimere species due to time constraints but that would have been cool to feature!
@@TalesofKaimere they would do quite well on kaimere plus there it does make me wonder though are draco lizards, gliding frogs, sugar gliders, flying squirrels, and colugos(and there extinct relatives) on Kaimere?
@@augustusvillanueva2008 I've included in the video all canon gliders. As long as they coincide with a harvest all the ones you mentioned are eligible, and bringing disease would give them a competitive advantage.
@@TalesofKaimeresugar gliders would definelty be included in the Australian hsrvest
@@rylanbrewer3320 Yes, but did they survive to modern times? I don't know and don't want to canonize it off the hip, especially if I look into it and decide no later.
I can see the Flying Gophers (especially the bigger one) preying on birds, bats, reptiles, and occasionally similar sized mammal gliders from a different or same species.
Yup! They’re generalists and go for just about anything they can tackle.
I saw a Momo reference!
besides sea beavers and flying gophers, what other multituberculates dwell in kaimere?
Those are currently the only ones but I’ll probably make more small ones
What the firebirds
The hippo must've done that out of pure spite
My dude heard I wrote the line and immediately went for a swim
Can magic replace oxygen increases ?
Possibly
@@TalesofKaimere increase size like bugs in dino times i mean sorry?
@@skistorm739 You mean in the Carboniferous era. Giant insects were possible then because of increased oxygen, but that only happened because of how insects "breathe"
@@rickkwitkoski1976 using magic?
And what about Kaimeran bats???
Kaimere has a bunch of bats! Planning an episode… eventually. There’s a lot to cover lol
The fact that some animals, like the Flying Lemurs or Flying Gopher, have vernacular names of others animals despite even being not related to this laters, indicate that there (by obligation) true Lemurs and Gophers on Kaimere, currently or at least in a certain point in the past.
Same for the Kaimeran Jackal, who is not a jackal at all but a 100% specie of wolf creating by the hybridation of two mothers Wolves species), but have his name because there was at least one specie of true jackal one time in Kaimere fossil records or something like that (and now extinct) to be call by this vernacular name by Kaimeran by mistake because of their overall similarities.
It's a good point, right !?
And so, there are true lemurs and Gophers on Kaimere currently ? At least Gophers since I see one time a illustration showing a Zentaur using his echolocalisation feet ability with a generic gopher specie. Right ?
There are no lemurs in Kaimere. If any were brought during the South African harvest 10 mya they were outcompeted by adapiforms from the Eastern continent and monkeys from Earth. There are gophers though! The use of the term lemur is that Earth naturalists don’t have common names for adapiforms (and indeed didn’t initially know that was the ancestor of the flying lemurs) and translated their Common tongue name as ‘lemurs’ by mistaken
A lot of common names are misleading because the Earth naturalists translating their names from various Kaimeran languages to French and then English results in a lot of errors like that and then the common name/translation stuck.
@@TalesofKaimere Okay, yes, it's true, I forget that it's the EARTH naturalist that namedmost of the animals and not Kaimerans themselves. Good point and immersion detail !
@@TalesofKaimere Okay, there any modern or true lemurs on Kaimere, but that very strange ! Because this order of primates is very resilient, incredibly high diversified, with many species fitting niches that any others primates or mammals use on earth !
For example, coming from an island (Madagascar) with an extremely seasonal environment, they have many exceptional abilities and adaptability, such as relatively low basal metabolisms and can have seasonal reproduction, dormancy (such as hibernation or lethargy).
Their sheer number and variability in shapes, sizes and ecological niches make them one of the most adaptable groups of primates in the world despite being island animals, being even superior and fitter than all other small and great ape primates. on many points. Most of them are as diurnal as nocturnal.
The diet of lemurs is highly variable and shows a high degree of plasticity, being highly omnivorous overall. Thus there are species ranging from mainly to exclusively frugivorous, insectivorous, folivorous, herbivorous with most species in these last two diets being able to eat or eating mainly and in large quantities hard and inedible plants for most other herbivorous animal species (such as bamboos, woody plants, shrubs, lianas, inflorescences plants (clusters of flowers) and which even possess the usual means of defense such as tannins, alkaloids or even cyanide, such as giant bamboo or climbing sumac).
But also mainly or exclusively granivores, nectarivores, pollinivores or even eating the bark, gum and sap of trees! This last food is very little used by other species of mammals. The number of aliments and vegetations species plants is also numerous and very large.
Most lemurs also have an incredible concrete digestive system, very resistant capable of digesting very difficult food, including even the hardest and most toxic fruits, seeds or vegetation! (like grinding Canarium seeds, which are too hard for New World monkeys to crack).
The majority of lemutians are also ultra resistant to serious illnesses and are even immune to levels and levels of toxic elements that they ingest into their bodies through their diet, such as the golden bamboo lemur (Hapalemur aureus), for example, eats giant bamboo (Cathariostachys madagascariensis) or climbing sumac (Taxicodendron radicans), which contain high concentrations of cyanide and show no ill effects. This lemur can even go so far as to consume daily twelve times the lethal dose for most mammals ! The physiological mechanisms that protect it against cyanide poisoning are unknown.
Most of the lemurs !
Their ecology, moving/deplacement methods, communication methods, reproduction/mating methods and social behaviors are also all ridiculousely, highly, extremely diverses and variable, even inside each specie, being specialize in something or not. Their cognitive abilities and levels of tool use are also very high. Most of them, even for small species, live very long, more than 30 years, without signs of aging (senescence) and still being able to reproduce.
Lemurs are also naturally adapted to persistent and constantly changing extreme climatic and geographical hazards, while Kaimere has seasons but less harsh and more stable and permanent climates.
So, with all theses ability and unique features, that very strange that any species of this order manage to adapt on Kaimere despite the presence of others primates and adapiforms, since many of them can techniquely use unused ressources that others species don't use to survived with some having any concurrent competitor who fitt the same ecological niche (like the famous Aye Aye, who haven't any equivalent animal specie on kaimere since Epidexipteyx is not reconize to have a similar lifestyle, or Forked Phaner (Phaner furcifer) and Coquerel's Mouse lemur (Mirza coquereli) regularly consume tree gum and sap).
But since you decide and choose with time on what there is on Kaimere as your universe progresses, maybe you will give this fantastic group of primates a chance, at least some surviving species, who knows?
The high land one reminds me of momo from avatar
Absolutely! A direct reference.
Multituberculates are non-therians, so what does their reproduction look like? Do they lay eggs, or do they have more marsupial-like reproduction?
All non-therian mammals, including monotremes, produce small, fetus like yuoung due to the epipubic bones constraining the torso and preventing long term pregnanies/large eggs. Its just a matter of whereas they gave birth directly like marsupials or had eggs that lasted for a few days like monotremes.
@@carlosalbuquerque22 interesting. So nothing like bird or otherwise reptile eggs.
@@ALLHEART_ Indeed, monotreme eggs are extremely simple and last only for a few days. Likely the same for all egg-laying synapsids.
Just a thing, Microraptor is no longer considered to have been an efficient glider, falling more in line with burst flyers like fowl:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4941780/
I would argue the same for volaticotheres, but some people are unable to discuss the idea without falling into hysterics so I understand your reservations there.
Oh interesting! That’s what I get for not bothering to study microraptors (since they aren’t in Kaimere I just threw em in for variety) and assuming what I knew from a few years ago was still valid. Hubris got me again.
Good to know about the Volaticotheres. In my quick study they did seem a little controversial so I just uh gave em a sketch and moved along lol
@@TalesofKaimere Indeed, hence why I understand your caution. Hell. probably some hellions on twitter will start whining about the very idea lol. But as for Microraptor, yeah, there have been a lot of published studies on its flight capabilities in the past few years.