Dinosaur Kings of Kairul Part I: The Titan Slayer, Komu Ka Bawe
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- Опубликовано: 18 сен 2023
- During the Tyrant Dynasty, Tyrannosaurs held firm the apex predator niche. In their shadows, dromaeosaurs, ceratosaurs, and entelodonts vied for vassal titles. With the passing of the tyrants, all three grew large to stake their claim. While megaraptorans rule today, the three lords of Kairul still hold niche titles.
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Can we just acknowledge the fact that kennan Taylor has really been doing an amazing job fleshing out this amazing world. Great job man. I'm a mammalian paleontologist and I'm really impressed with everything.
Thank you so much!!
@TalesofKaimere, when will you add your Bokodu video in your Apex Predators playlist
The idea of a giant raptor that Hunt sauropods is truly scary.
Doesn’t uathraptor do it to
this raptor is much bigger and much more deadly.
I appreciate that their honey badgerittude just grants them the unique position of being able to force the Robust Monarchs/Extravagant Wrestlers to leave them alone. It's a surprisingly fun take after Kaimere's massive line-up of animals that just try to outwrestle.
Agreed. Obviously it doesn’t always go in their favor but it works well enough. I am Curious as to how Tikakatik deal with Kurujaku in the Kairulan Inland sea. He has said the they outweigh them by a very large margin and crush them in an open contest. Now this will probably be explained next week, but I am still curious.
Robust Monarch: *t-poses to assert dominance*
Komu Ka Bawe: That’s nice *Rips throat out*
I like how it grows into something that looks like a utahraptor, the largest earth dromeosaur, and then keeps growing but even faster. Fun to imagine naturalists initially mistaking newly independent subadults as their own species, like a dromeosaur t rex and nanotyrannus situation.
Finally we got the lost Titan of the Dominion of Cockatrices Episode.
The known world has a an impressive cast of giant animals, but Kairul is on a whole different level.
Absolutely. A huge mostly tropical continent with an inland sea so most of it is a lush forest or wetland. A very productive and competitive habitat. Not as diverse as the known world since there's no portal, but this is where things go to get big
@@TalesofKaimere We still have large, infinites looking houze prairies and deserts, but they are condensed at the North part of the continents, at the complete opposite of the coasts of the Kairulan Inland Sea.
@@TalesofKaimere oh yeah, that inland sea has always been a personal point of curiosity of mine. Hope we eventually get a cool video on that sooner or later.
@@memesandtreasure4272you mean the inland sea of Kairul?
@@TheGBZard yeah.
OMG! We finally get to know about the King of all Dromies. And the Uktan's cousin is so cool. I never expected this, nor next week. Thank you for this wonderful surprise.
Absolutely!
Hoplititan: Who are you?
TitanSlayer: I'm your worst nightmare.
For some reason all the art of the dinosaurs just looks... yummy. Like if I was in this world, I'd be tempted to become that maniac who dedicates their life to eating one of every type of dinosaur.
Oooh, so we’re getting episodes on the other Kairulan kings?
Awesome!
Heck yeah!!
(+ The one we already got on the Bokodu).
Kairul is such an interesting realm, seeing more of it makes me really happy
Thank you!
Giant muder turkey that hunts giant four-legged noodles? Heck yeah >:D
The Komu Ka Bawe is probably my very favourite Kaimeran theropod! I love its cassowary-esque colours and carcharodont lifestyle. I wish I could have done some Fanart for this episode, but it was immensely enjoyable nonetheless.
The music reminds me a lot of the Great Jaggi theme which seems kind of fitting
Looking forward to the Tikakatik episode, seeing as this huge creature always fascinated me whenever its art popped up. Can't wait to watch it!
I love that we have slowly been expanding more and more outside of the known world
I love the Hoplititan artwork
Thanks!
Apex predator no doubt
Heck yeah
I was about to sponsor a video on the giant raptors guys. Hell yeah!
I love how you are fleshing out the “Kairul rivals” you introduced in those Megaraptoran videos so long ago.
In that, I got the impression that the Uktan was dominant over them all, but between the Bokodu video where a “knight” is something that any Uktan should be wary of and the way you describe Komu Ka Bawe immediately charging for a Megaraptoran’s throat while the latter is in mid display, I’m getting a bit of different vibe.
Makes sense too!
After all, one predator being more successful than the others doesn’t mean it can walk over them in every interspecific conflict.
Indeed. Are the megaraptorans ecologically and numerically dominant? Absolutely. Doesn’t mean they dominate every engagement, and all three non-meg giants are able to hold their own
I wonder what will be said about the alebilosaur
You have very interesting creativity, good luck ih the future.
Thank you!
The titan killers finally get their due time in the spotlight! One of my favorite large theropods in Kaimere. They inspired one of my own predators specialized in hunting giant humanoids, and I loved getting to see these giant dromaeosaurs in full color and glory.
I must say though, I'm just as, if not even more impressed at the Uktan's updated design, and the new robust monarch Megaraptoran of Kairul!
I like how Komus interact with megaraptorans. Shows how behavior and boldness can be just as important as size or weaponry.
It's also nice that some of the things the monarch has going for it also works in the dromeosaur's favor in a way.
Their more dangerous weaponry makes them prone to intimidate as oppose to immediate violence, so being extra agressive works for the komus favor.
Though you didn't mention it and I am sure this me speculating, but Komus being smaller doesn't seem to be that big of a deal. They hunt titans, they probably aren't strangers to being outsized. Though I know that fighting a megaraptor and hunting a sauropod is definitely two very different things.
Excellent episode. Great to learn about these mega predators who take down the Titans.
Heck yeah. Specialists can be a lot of fun
A large theropod size dromeosaurs that would be insane
I suspect that's something that would have happened in the real world if the K-Pg extinction never occurred and tyrannosaurids went extinct at some point.
Would be cool to have a mysterious arctic/Antarctic island that had a surviving massive tyrannosaurus that acts like a wendigo like creature in folklore
Giant dromaeosaur, that hunts like a carcharodontosaurs, and had its family got bullied by a mega (not) dromaeosaur.
This episode remind me and have VERY strong vibes of the BBC 2002-2003 documentary "Chased by Dinosaurs" second and last episode, "Land of Giants", with Nigel Marven ! One of the several spin-off mini-series part of the wider "Walking with..." franchise (with famousely Walking with Dinosaurs").
Don't know if you go again on this episode to get inspirations for this Kaimere's video and the Komu Ba Kawe, as we know that you watch this franchise when young, but it really a nice episode of the "Walking with" franchise !
The overall plot being Nigel Marven tracking the giants carcharodontosaur Giganotosaurus and titanosaur Argentinosaurus, and ending on a hunt between the giant predator and the giant herbivore, the two among the biggest animals of their categories to ever lived !
Hunts between Komu Ba Kawe and Hercules Titan must be overall identicals to the one seen in this episode.
Yet, despite being good overall, this episode is also famous after so many years to be the one of the least accurate piece of the franchise as a whole.
While the main problem being that Giganotosaurus and Argentinosaurus in question didn't lived at the same location, and only had a small period of time where they effectively lived in the same time.
With of course a lot of time traveling species that didn't lived and coexisted in term of places and times, such Ornitocheirus, Pteranodon or Iguanodon.
And innacurate depciting such pterosaurs showing to be forced to take flight from a cliff in order to fly.
For this episode, I think, as a base model and inspiration, that it would have been so better to look more with the 2011 documentary series, alway from BBC "Planet Dinosaur", episode 5 "New Giants".
In which we have a very good sequence depciting a "hunt" of Mapusaurus taking and cutting pieces of flesh on living Argentinosaurus specimens.
The two taxa lived at the same time and place, the hunt depicted onscreen is similar but with the interesting idea that the predators don't everytime kill their prey, but left them alive by taking piece of them from their body to eat these pieces in a safe place.
Which is even gruesome in a way, but not farfetch by any mean.
So, yes, was good to speak on that again thank to this Kaimere episode ! X)
Oh boy this is going to be a good one
Been interested in this topic since you first introduced the concept of carcharodontosaur like raptors
Man, the Komu Ka Bawe is impressive! I can't believe the males are dromaeosaurs the size of T-Rex, but it just goes to show you that you can never tell where evolution will take a species to.
a megatherapod dromaeosaur being convergent on carcharodontosaurs actually makes a lot of sense. amazing video as always !
the largest dromie in my spec evo world hunts sauropods too, but at a smaller scale (utahraptor and amargasaurus)
IT IS THE LAD.
HE IS HERE
The weeks are longer now when you're waiting for the next Kaimere lore drop.
Indeed. I have to wait until I get home to watch these videos. The wait is a long one on Tuesdays.
So, a dromaeosaur the size of a giant theropod. Neat. Though I must say, it's kinda funny how we now have a genuine "Megaraptor" on Kaimere.
My favorite titan❤
Wow what a great design. Can't wait to see the next giant of Kairul.
So many redesigns of the dinos shown at the beginning and the video was fantastic 10/10
You didn't lie in the comments of the recents videos from the recents weeks, we are really in a theropods mania event !
Little thing about the speculative evolution thing I’m doing. The descendants of the Aztecs known as the “Tuma” by later British arrivals basically after figuring out how to use sauropods in war established a sort of mongol empire conquering other near by nations such as the Kawa.
I am always looking forward to more info on kairul and its fauna, so I am really excited about this video and next weeks!
yesss the Titan Slayer or Deathmetal turkey
Kairul must have very few or no large predators to occupy the middle of the ecological niche, the pressure of having to deal with multiple giant predators and the fact that theropods occupy these middle animals when they are young would make life difficult for any predator in the the size of a lion or bear, a hell of eternal harassment and robbery. I imagine that smaller predators are the overwhelming majority in Kairul since there are so many mega-predators sharing the same habitat. I wanted to know more about Kairul.
Dude, this sh*t is bigger than our Giga, they can slaughter anything he wants, even the Hercules Titan have double-think before step around this huge killer.
Nice single animal video of an animal outside the Known World after the chimpanzee, bokodu, and koga. Some questions:
1. Exactly how tall are komu ka bawe?
2. How did the ancestors of the Hercules titan survive during the Tyrant Dynasty?
3. How would a komu ka bawe fair against a giganotosaurus or carcharodontosaurus?
2. They where small generalists before the extinction. (I forget which platform he said this on)
3. It could probably go either way given a lot of the adaptations are roughly identical.
1. Seems to be about 12-13 ft
David addenburough voice''A young female chaku ka bawe wanders the forests of kairul with a large wedgehead in it's mouth. But a herd of hercules titan's signal the arrival of the titan slayer''
Yay, large dinosaurs
Looks terrifying and cool
Komu ba kawe is my favorite theropod in all of Kaimere
It's a giant Dromaeosaur that fills the niche of a Carcharodontosaur, and I think that's cool as hell
Thank you!
Yo this was PEAK
Thank you!!
Speculative evolution is always fun when done well, love your channel 😊
It’s very enjoyable. Thanks!
I’ve been waiting for this magnificent beast for so long! Can’t wait for next week’s abelisaurs!
Holy shit it’s happening
im so excited to see the next episode, i love abelisaurs
The actual and genuine Megaraptor.
I thought the title said Cairo just spelled incorrectly, idk why thought this tho
Dinosaur Kings? I’m assuming that's what most of the theropods wanna be (yeah).
AMAZIIIIIIN!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Fuck yeah! The redesign is fantastic! And it's a good thing this video came out before I got started crafting it. I'm excited to see what you do for the giant abelisaurids
Heck yeah! I'm glad you like it. Took a few iterations but I'm very pleased with the finalized design.
@TalesofKaimere I just remembered! I must know something! Do all the Cockatrices have those predator like face flaps? I'm making a Kaimerian Jersey Devil, and part of its makeup is a black cockatrice, that's why I'd like to know.
@@chancegivens9390 That's awesome! The common ancestor of Infernogallus and Titanophonaeus does indeed have the face flaps as do all descended species
@TalesofKaimere Much appreciation my friend! One last question. Is there a limit as to how many creatures can make up a Homunculi? Because the Jersy Devil has five species. Black Cockatrice, Arum, Titan Stork, Common Boar, and Komatu.
@@chancegivens9390 Not at all! While Class I homunculi usually only had one or two deviant entries, later homunculi had whatever would be most efficient. All ogres have elements of sauropod and megaraptoran to make them lighter even if there's also sloth or elephant in there, for example.
Can’t wait to see more of the Kairulan Inland Sea! I wonder if we will briefly meet other fauna of the sea as well as the Tikakatik.
Bro super excited I love abelasaurids
Was hoping for another Abernathy segment but I guess Bokodu stays winning.
1. How does Komu fare against proboscidean prey?
2. What does Chaku ka Bawe translate to?
3. Is there any significant human interaction with Titanophons?
Regarding question 2: On Deviantart Keenan has said that Chaku Ka Bawe means 'slayer of all things'.
1. They fare rather well according to Keenan. Something to Do with how more compact mammals are in comparison to a dinosaur of the same size. This means the Komu can tear quite a lot out in a single go.
3. I remember Keenan has said the Kairulan people regard the Komu as an animal of honor given they hunt titans and largely feed on animals of their own size class. They also leave humans alone as adults as long as they don’t bother the chicks.
Yeah, this is definetely my favourite Kairul video so far (as much as love the hokodu), I really like the rainbow colourations of the adults.
Thank you! I'm quite fond of them
I really like your interpretation of Dromeosaur socialisation. A good mix of somewhat social and highly territorial. The gangs of juveniles that are extremely aggressive to one another is to me quite reminiscent of the raptors in the Jurassic Park books, but is also very believable for such animals. More social than say a Komodo Dragon, but far from comparable to say lions, hyenas or canids.
Thanks! I definitely wanted something that felt more avian than mammalian. There was a bit of lion influence, but mostly I was inspired by crows for the gangs of young and less but still present interaction in adults.
I find it interesting is that it depends on the gender, Females get along just fine. Male despise each other when they leave the nest and only work together to get food or to use each other as food.
Are there any Utahraptor sized relatives still extant?
Yes
Have any prosauropods survived, or did they all die out in the Jurassic in Kaimere too?
They are all gone
That is unfortunate, but expected.
Did they last longer in Kaimere?@@TalesofKaimere
oh yeah! Dinosaurs!
By the way love your episode ❤😊.
Thank you!
Amazing video :)
Thanks!
@@TalesofKaimere Your Welcome
Noice
Btw
I finally finalised what type of world where most of my fictional dinosaurs/prehistoric animals would live in
The living breathing reason that Old Bone Skins, the herd witch, keeps bolt throwers (giant crossbows) mounted on the howdahs of his larger companions. He might have a cloak made of these Titan slayers feathers.
Awesome looking beasts!
Everything Utahraptor could have been. If Acro's ancestors didn't come over from Spain amd put the stomp down.
I really want to do something like this but I can’t draw :/
cool
Very nice video. I love it. Tho I have to comment on one thing that is a bit unrealistic. It’s the fact that these large carnivores have such heavy feathering. It’s bee suggested or studied that Large animals would most often not need feathers or fur because there large size would keep them warm most of the time or something like that, and the feathers for such a large animal would simply make the creature overheated quickly. It’s fine with feathers in colder regions but that these large animals seem to live in tropical environments in your setting, it doesn’t make sense for them to have heavy feathering. Light feathers are still fine and Feathers on smaller individuals and young ones is completely fine and makes sense. And for smaller species. But these creatures in this episode like the titan slayers or the megaraptorines shouldn’t have a heavy feather coat as adults.
That’s the only complaint and the and is mainly a nitpick. Still love what you’re doing. 🎉 👍
This is true. From what I remember of the study, which it's been a few years since I read, found at between 1 and 2 tons, animals loose thermoregulatory benefits from integument. This is part of why the current trend shows T. rex without noticeable feathers as adults, as even though their environment likely got seasonally cold especially at night, they were large enough as adults to keep warm, yet juveniles would certainly benefit.
For the komu, I decided to keep some feathering on the back to keep it cool. Thermal studies of ratites suggest the feathered regions are actually cooler, with the idea being that broad feathers shade their skin. I may not have rendered it well, but in adult komu ka bawe and uktan, the lateral feathers are very broad in adults to shade the skin, but the legs and bellies have no feathers so the open surface area can better shed heat. Juveniles komu have more feathering as in their temperate range, it can get quite cold at night, especially in winter. I stand by its possible and feathers can do things fur can't, so it's important to keep in mind that fur and feathers don't always interact with the animal the same way, but it must be said that I'm not arguing in favor of all large theropods having lots of feathers. It's more parsimonious to assume they did not, just that this theory is not entirely without merit, and exploring possibilities beyond the most likely assumption is something I like to do with this project.
One more thing I hope to explore at some point is the idea of individual variation. By simple virtue of statistics, I try to draw the average healthy individual in these profiles. Large mammals in forest environments often lose their fur from it rubbing off as they walk through dense foliage. That's a concept I do plan on exploring in some large theropods, namely the zentaur and komu ka bawe. In a dense forest, their feathers offering shade isn't that helpful anyway as there's shade from the trees, but in the open forests where the titanosaurs are more common, having the shade from their feathers to keep the torso cool is beneficial.
Anyway, thank you for the comment, and I'm glad you enjoyed the video. I hope you have a great day!
God bless
Dinosaur king is what you wanna be yeah!
Really glad to see the updated Komu, probably my favorite theropod of the project. Also nice to meet new megaraptorans as well.
Pretty sure titanopheonus belongs to a Permian synapsid (although the name is rather fitting.)
Life as male Komu must suck. The awkward adolescent stage is killer for them.
I knew that the latin name sounded familiar! However I noticed that the spelling of Komu's generic name is TitanophonAEUS, while the synapsid is TitanophonEUS, so maybe it would still count as a valid name? I'm not completely sure about the rules of nomenclature in such instances.
@@Andrey.Ivanovthat would make sense. Pretty sure I misspelled it myself lol.
I believe it would still be an invalid name@@Andrey.Ivanov
The spelling change was done to avoid the conflict of homonyms, which has been validly done on a number of occasions
WAIT! Are we gonna see the Naihamu????? I wanna learn about the last tyrants so baaaaad
Has does everyone.
Nice buddy. Besides, Keenan, I got a very good question for you that you’ll be clearly interested in: since megaraptorans, dromaeosaurs, ceratosaurs and entelodonts are the apex terrestrial predators in the world of Kaimere, is there a chance for a ceratosaur yet not an abelisaur but one of a few possible descendants of Ceratosaurus itself, in this case; a huge one equal in size to the other apexes? I mean, if Allosaurus was the lion of its time with Torvosaurus being the Jurassic counterpart of the tiger today, Ceratosaurus was like the hyena of the Jurassic. It was a brave, clever and adaptable hunter and scavenger like hyenas, for example, spotted hyenas. Even Allosaurus and Torvosaurus wouldn’t easily underestimate Ceratosaurus. If there are chances, it’s not impossible for Ceratosaurus to harvested and brought to Kaimere and since being an adaptable carnivore, it’s possible for a few descended species to survive and live to this very day, including one that evolved to be an apex predator and even the other apexes wouldn’t underestimate this one. Is there a chance for Ceratosaurus and its descendants to be on Kaimere? If that was possible, they would adapt quicker than other large predators besides megaraptorans and dromaeosaurs and easily become apex predators, able to hunt the largest prey like oliphaunts, giant ground sloths, chalicotheres, buffalo, hippos and titanosaurs too including the Modotitan, even adults but rarely yet young individuals, even teenagers and young adults, shouldn’t be a problem. So what’s your respond Keenan?
While ceratosaurs is very cool, and was indeed influential in some design elements of the tikakatik, they are still abelisaurids.
@@TalesofKaimere Understandable yet both are two of three major clades in Ceratosauria unless you already know that. Either way, it’s a very cool idea to see a ceratosaurid being an apex predator.
Lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Is Gynandromorphism well documented on the beasts, and homunculi, of the known world?
Wait the giant Cockatrice is still around?
Yup! Only in a few forests of Kairul but it’s still around
Unexpected but amazing, and also, for the last two comments, I told you I recently received my copy of your first anthology and only read death walks on broken wings and man, I loved entertaining and you bet I will read all the others soon. Just to ask are going update some information in the first anthology because though good it does need some updating because of your new details from your recent videos
I don’t know if the stories themselves need adjustment but it would be good to do sketch art like the second anthology. Think it looks much better in the lower print resolution and black and white than the first anthology art.
@@TalesofKaimere I talking about creature glossary really to show the designs and info but it nice hear plus haven't read all of the stories just started from death walks on broken wings and going to read fire in the shadows on friday, because I have nhs work. P.S I gotten myself to project search, it a program from my college to help us become independent and help get a job or career
I have a question: How does Kairul maintain a great variety of large predators when in the Known World that place is almost completely monopolized by one family of Theropods?
It is a much larger continent, and the predators there are all specialists. Many generalized members of these clades were wiped out by the megaraptorans, so we're only seeing a few relics. In the known world, the resident theropods were also megaraptorans, and they overlapped too much with zentaur.
Throwing out my own guess: Kairul’s the home of the advanced megaraptorans, so all the fauna evolved to be competitive with the advanced megaraptorans, whereas the fauna of the new world was not evolved to be competitive with the advanced megaraptorans, so they were replaced.
@@jessehunter362 Things are totaly the opposite.
Modern Megaraptoran of Kaimere, the ones from the Robust Monarch, evolved on Arvel, which still their homeland ans stronghold, and overtime reach Kairul.
The Know World local fauna have coexisted with these predators, to which they are the only giant large theropod family thank from competition from them thank to their high diversity and number. And also the limited space on land given the Known World is a small region on the map of Kaimere.
The Uktan's and Kurujaku's ancestors arrived some millions years ago on Kairul, which the local megafauna wasn't adapted against such predators.
Leading to an local extinction, mostly among the three local clades of Giant Predators that are the Giant Dromaeosaurs, the Giant Entelodonts and Giant Abelisaurs.
Leading to one surviving species in each groups.
As such, it's the Megaraptoran that have replaced the local predators.
And if the three Giant Clades still exist today, it is thank to Kairul giving very large space to inhabit, as well than niche partitioning due to differents diet or preys items.
Zentaur got a glowup, now Uktan, on DeviantArt we can see Kurajaku glowup, now only Oritaku left. Also, am I wrong or Robust Monarchs no longer have only 2 claws on each hand?
The monarchs have 3 claws, but the 3rd digit is more like a nail
lets fricken gooooooooooooooo
I love the Chaku Ka Bawe! Always good to see new megaraptorans. For what habitat is it specialized?
Thank you! The chaku is a forest specialist, occupying the same niche as the zentaur all the way back in the known world. They are more lightly built and nomadic, tending to prefer smaller prey, though if they were on the same continent they would undoubtedly compete.
Heck yeah!!! it's honestly my favorite megaraptoran in kaimere so far.
I read that as “dino kings of kaishel” and was confused as you already did plenty of kaishel videos
Well, Kaishel also has a giant apex theropod that's potentially worthy of a single species episode imo.
I wouldn't say we've had plenty of Kaishel. Sure it's mentioned occasionally, but as standalone episodes so far we've got only the overview and the moørkutlot one. Still a lot to unpack about this continent.
When were (before the tyrants or after) the Kairulan abelisaurids harvested, and from where?
Also on the Jurassic Island are there a proceratosaurids still extant? and if they are, could they not be used along with the tyrant of the Houze to determine if megaraptorans are tyrannosauroids
Keenan has said that a Gondwanan harvest has happened so I assume that is where they originate.
I believe that harvest was what populated Arvel. @@Stooltoad5017
Great questions! So the Assembly has estimated at least 2 if not 3 Gondwanan harvests between the Cenomanian and Campanian-early Maastrichtian, but they have neither determined specific taxa ancestral to each clade nor the times with any precision beyond general ages like those mentioned above. The chances of harvests happening where we happen to have fossiliferous formations with well preserved and represented biota is very slim so the Assembly usually doesn't try unless they get very lucky, such as a Allosaurus fragilis in the archives of the Great Library in Ni'Khar meaning they can definitively say a harvest occurred in the latest Jurassic harvest from North America.
The cladistics of basal theropods on the Jurassic Islands is uncertain. The cursorial clade is presumed to be noasaurs, but they might be proceratosaurs. If they have the cladistics of these dinosaurs wrong, it could substantially throw off any genetic testing. For now it remains uncertain.
They could determine if they are noasaurs with genetics easily enough, considering that both noasaurines and abelisaurids known to be extant, so they could quite easily determine if they are abelisauroids easily enough, considering that the two clades above are sister taxa, so that would be much easier than the megaraptorans, and even if the cursorial clade hunter are noasaurines, a clade of basal coelurosaurs could still survive in the jungles.@@TalesofKaimere
So indo-madigascar is off the table, due to the presence of a Kairulan Elasmarian clade, are their parankylosaurs that have been in kairual since one of these harvests?@@TalesofKaimere
Tikakatik vs kurajaku who would win
Will be covered next week, but in short: not really a fair fight an average bull kurajaku is about 6-8 meters longer and more than twice as heavy. Even so, the superior armor and bite of the tikakatik means they put up a much better fight than the weight class might suggest. Still an easy kurajaku win, but the abelisaur is a tough fighter
@@TalesofKaimere interesting
1:32 Wait! Hold on ,I remember kaimere have 4 robust monarchs.
So what is Chaku Ka Bawe??is this the new 5th monarch?
4 robust monarchs in the Known World. Chaku Ka Bawe is a endemic to Kairul.
Chaku is a species related to the uktan and occupies the same niche as the zentaur. As Andrey said, Chaku is only in Kairul, and zentaur is only in Arvel and Ni'Khar.
16:25 My fanart made it.Yes thank you keenan.Just asking did you like it?
I did indeed! Really brought your A game on the colors it's good
Damn, I made it really late to this one, absolute fire concept and amazing redesign!
1:18 Does this mean Zentaur's are absent from Kairul?
Thank you! And yes, zentaur are not found in Kairul. The journey between Ni'Khar and Kairul is a passage over a few thousand miles of desert and prairie. Difficult for a forest specialist like the zentaur, especially one that prefers subtropical climates over the scorching tropics.
@@TalesofKaimere Alright, that makes a lot of sense. Looking forward for next week!
While specialists are often the most vulnerable to change, they also always able to survive when competition is intense, and hunting sauropods, as shown by the carcharodontosaurs of our world, has always been a succesful strategy, and Komu Ka Bawe makes this clear.
I got a question, given than the Chabu Ka Bawe fills the same ecological spot of the Zentaur, what megafauna does it hunt, and does it participate on intraguild predation (when a predator eats another one)?
Absolutely. Specialization is a reliable path to dominance, and it’s not as if an animal is not going to choose to abstain from mating with a successful partner because it would make their offspring more vulnerable 5 million years in the future when the context changes if they chose a less fit generalist. While I say that specialization often leads to eventual ruin when context changes and generalists inherit the ashes, it certainly isn’t a bad thing to specialize.
They primarily hunt a range of pachycephalosaurs, rhinos, thescelosaurs, camels, leptoceratopsids, and other undisclosed dinosaur clades. Generally more dinosaur focused than zentaur simply by virtue of the zentaur living with a lot more large mammals. It does prey on other predators, but only opportunistically and rarely with much focus or effort.
@@TalesofKaimereI am surprised so many dinosaurs managed to survive in Kairul, and I would love to see the species that await us on that massive conjointed continent, as such, it is to be expected that the Chabu hunted more dinosaurs because of it's more mesozoic context, and it's probably one of my favorite Megaraptorans, hope we see more about that theropod in the future, as well as the species it coexist with
@@TalesofKaimere The thing I find interesting about the Fossil record is just the sheer time span it is on. Sure the generalists inherit the ashes, but even just 5 million years already has 100s of thousands of generations of a specialized animal.
Rewatching the Sahul video and is the island with the last Mastodon the same island with the giant giant echidnas?
It sure is!
Are there any plans to make an episode about that island?@@TalesofKaimere
@@user-hu7qs7cp1u None yet but I would totally be open to it! Is a very fun location
Yo, i have a question.
So i watched a bit of the “arms and aromours of kaimere” video and it was stated that a few cultures use the parts of creatures to make gear.
Now im a big fan of the franchise known as monster hunter, and was wondering if there were any people who hunted large and ferocious beasts to both make gear and to keep their numbers in check.
(The people in monster hunter also hunt monsters for other reasons but its usually for a good reason most of the time)
Kaimerians will cull man-eater fauna for obvious reasons, although how successful they are is debatable. People don’t regularly hunt giant fauna though. Not saying it doesn’t happen (as Nobles do it sometimes, although this is less Monster Hunter style and is probably more comparable to Earth than the Monster Hunter franchise.) but digging ditches and using giant air horns is better sloth/titanosaur deterrent than culling them.
I am thinking about doing a speculative evolution project where the Maastrichtian faunas get sent to the modern day (With humans on their last legs) in the nearest biome analogous to where they lived, for example hell creek lance etc. to the American southeast, (Florida with even more invasive species)
It ok if I refer to tyrannosaurs has tyrants, and titanosaurs has titans?
Go for it! I'm hardly the first to use such monikers
thank you@@TalesofKaimere
This is probably a question that has never been asked before but, are their any notoungulates in Kairul. I know that the portal is more focused on its overall territory but, ever scince you brought up hukolgurs precense it made me wonder has their been any small genera that may have migrated across the desert despite the already present fauna. 🤔
I haven't done much with the notoungulates of the known world yet so I'm not sure which clades might be eligible for the crossing
Okay, just wanted to clarify
do the titan slayers hunt other prey like the koga or ghlanos?
Yes, though as both of those prefer more open terrain, and the komu isn't great with distance travel, they aren't preferred prey.
This makes me wonder if a morph exists where they don't mature? I would imagine a sub-adult wouldn't do poorly niche wise?
Unfortunately the juvenile morph only works up to half a ton. Once they exceed that, balancing at the knees like a bird is untenable. They might last a year or so, but pretty quickly knee joints and ligaments would strain and break.