I actually found something during research for a personal project. A species of Old World Vulture called Neogyps actually lived in the New World, but went extinct. Also Teratorns are close relatives of New World Vultures and were the largest predatory birds ever, only outclassed in wingspan by Pelagornis and in size and weight to Aepyornis, the Elephant Bird.
Will we ever learn more about those dinosauroids outside of the known world? The concept alone has always intrigued me and I was excited to know that they were in the known world until the humans showed up :/
I will definitely do more work on them! Although they aren’t in the known world they are found on the Eastern continent. As I develop that region you can bet I will talk about them more.
Don't know what it was, maybe my fascination for vultures and their lifestyles in general but this is, in my humble opinion of course, your most thorough and well structured video so far. My interest in Kaimere is growing and growing. Keep it up!
Here in North America, we also have Black Vultures, but they are of the New World clade, closely related to the Turkey Vulture. If you see them in flight, it may seem like they have no head, which is one way to tell the difference between Turkey and Black Vultures when they fly.
SUPER NICE, love vultures! Who are the bone eaters of the scavengers? I liked how scent based vultures were raised by others. I would have also liked to see high flying vultures, where they fly so high they don't see a carcass, just other vultures and that's how they find food.
Overall frogs are doing quite well. The climate of Kaimere is warm and humid compared to any given place on Earth. There's an entire polar continent with few ice caps that frogs can be found in, much less throughout the warmer 'known world' which is the current focus of my work. As for giant frogs, the current canon has the zi shun, a huge ambush predator in the seridic wetlands. As I develop the polar continent I plan on making some giant frogs/temnospondyls that convergently resemble big frogs in the wetlands of those temperate rainforests.
I really like how this world you created had many and sometimes unique evolved animals from different times, and I have a question about it, are some paleozoic animal present on Kaimere too?
The known world is dominated by fauna from the mid cretaceous onward, but some animals that have changed little since the first portal that opened in the Devonian, and the later Silurian and Carboniferous portals, can be found here and there (especially outside the known world in isolated regions like islands and the middle of the great desert of the Eastern continent).
We do indeed have several large land birds. Enantiornitheans in the known world are survived by the spur-winged buzzard and three terrestrial species. Probably have some ratites. There are four canon terror birds, with three more that I still need to design. If you google image search for harkundi you will find the one that does have a finalized design.
Did any bearded vultures make it to Kaimere? A part of me would like to think that their diet of mostly bones and tortoises would probably be able to help them do well in Kaimere.
Hi mr keenan! Why is the raven the size of a dodo/turkey?Like what were the contributing factors;im curious as i once wanted to create a tyrannosaur esque crow,(similar to dougal dixon’s raboon)that was the size of a dog. Thanks!
So keenan I recently heard about this project and i did enjoy the animals that inhabited kaimere, also is your book going internationally? I ask this because I live in the UK
Glad you enjoy, and it is international! Not in every country, but you can call your local bookstore and ask them to order in ISBN: 9781087927442 I know people have ordered it through Waterstones.
I wondering if there any snakes on Kaimere since the warmer climate would allows snakes to thrive and allowing some to reach larges sizes like in real life during the Paleocene where snakes like Titanoboa evolved.
There are snakes. A few large ones, but nothing has been made official canon yet. It's on the roster for a video though so bet there will be plenty then!
They do have a direct competitive advantage, with generally larger size and a powerful wing attack, but vultures can be more precise with their bites and therefore more efficient at getting the most out of a carcass. They also have more efficient digestive systems and faster maturation, so could populate a range much faster. These edges really paid off overtime. At carcasses the spur-wing buzzard functions much like a lappet-faced vulture, outnumbered 30-1 but dominating when there aren't larger terrestrial scavengers around.
3:28 This is similar to Pleistocene Earth where Old World vultures, neogyps and neophrontops, were present in a few of the same areas as New World vultures in the Western United States.
Are there any bone specialists? Such as the lammergeier? I’d imagine so, considering teratorns have been brought over (they did go extinct with the megafauna, but the large amount of other scavengers made carrion competition way too high for such large birds)
Hyenas and eudromaeosaurs are quite fond of bones, specifically marrow. The enantiornithean buzzard also consumes a lot of bones. No bone specialist vultures at the moment but that may change.
Although vultures can be trained, especially the more intelligent red vultures and socially complex rainbow headed vultures, they are better for tricks, hunting companions, and searching assets in the case of the rainbow vultures than as a delivery system. Pigeons, which can fly 600-700 miles in a day and are easily trained to fly between set locations, are much more commonly used.
Hmm, the vultures in Kaimere are really interesting being the scavengers that are actually harmless despite their menacing appearance and eating corpses.
So the more primitive avians, already likely in slow decline alongside their Tyrant dino cousins, were then vulnerable enough to be more directly outcompeted to general extinction by the more modern avian vultures, who were much more intelligent and social? Perhaps not unlike how "true" modern rodents totally edged out the more marsupial rodent like mammals from the Cretaceous era on Earth. Though the pterosaur vulture equivalents must've remained relevant through their size alone.
Faster reproduction and more efficient digestion has been mentioned as advantages that true birds had, and both aided Kaimeran vultures outcompete their more aggressive and larger competitors over time.
Some from South America 6 mya. Others from older or more recent harvests. Some are hard to pin down since the range of many birds changed dramatically after the ice ages ended so the griffin vulture might have come from Africa or Asia
@@amalsp8955 Cheetahs did come through but were driven to extinction due to competition with the veraset, a hyena adapted for sprinting that wasn't quite as fast but is a lot more powerful so can better defend their kills or bring them back to their dens.
Fun Fact: Kaimere isn’t the only place where new world and old-world vultures interacted. In Pleistocene North America, there were the genera Neogyps, and Neophrontops. Two genera belonging to the old-world subfamily (Aegypinae) Yet they were found in North America Neophrontops in particular was closely related to the modern Egyptian Vulture.
It's so cute how the rainbow vultures cooperate with the red vultures^^
Excellent work on the vultures my guy
I love how old world vultures actually raise and work with some new world vultures
Thanks! Had a ton of fun with this one. I don’t think there’s any precedent for it but thought it wasn’t impossible.
It’s super cool that every specie has their own story and there is always info on each and every thing
I can not be the only one who thinks the ravens are fucking terrifying. They're bigger than the WOLVES MAN-
theyre nothing a good amount of paper spray cant fix
The amount of information is very impressive
Thank you!
I actually found something during research for a personal project. A species of Old World Vulture called Neogyps actually lived in the New World, but went extinct.
Also Teratorns are close relatives of New World Vultures and were the largest predatory birds ever, only outclassed in wingspan by Pelagornis and in size and weight to Aepyornis, the Elephant Bird.
Will we ever learn more about those dinosauroids outside of the known world? The concept alone has always intrigued me and I was excited to know that they were in the known world until the humans showed up :/
I will definitely do more work on them! Although they aren’t in the known world they are found on the Eastern continent. As I develop that region you can bet I will talk about them more.
@@TalesofKaimere I look forward to it.
Don't know what it was, maybe my fascination for vultures and their lifestyles in general but this is, in my humble opinion of course, your most thorough and well structured video so far. My interest in Kaimere is growing and growing. Keep it up!
Thank you! I’m glad to hear it! They are such incredible animals that the video basically wrote itself.
A deeper exploration of enantiornithene birds and other birds would be awesome!
Absolutely agree!
Will you do some video of the ungulates of kaimere? Great work on this too!
It’s on the roster! Probably early in 2022 (between spooky month and megaraptoran month in November we are pretty booked until then)
Here in North America, we also have Black Vultures, but they are of the New World clade, closely related to the Turkey Vulture. If you see them in flight, it may seem like they have no head, which is one way to tell the difference between Turkey and Black Vultures when they fly.
Yay!! many diferent species for the price of one!! 👏😋😻 Vultures rules!!
They are super cool!
Its cool that vultures are some of the nicer creatures on kaimere
I love your creativity!
Thank you!!!
Since you did a video on scavenger and vultures, you should do a video on seabirds and other related animals.
It's on the roster, especially given how much coastal niches are available in this island heavy region (as I mention in this video at 2:17)
@@TalesofKaimere are there any marsupials in kaimere
@@amalsp8955 Yup! Currently have a species of opossum and two of Thylacoleo, with a few more planned.
SUPER NICE, love vultures!
Who are the bone eaters of the scavengers?
I liked how scent based vultures were raised by others.
I would have also liked to see high flying vultures, where they fly so high they don't see a carcass, just other vultures and that's how they find food.
Wow, I even learned some new stuff about real vultures. Thank you.
You’re welcome! They are really fascinating creatures.
How have frogs evolved in Kaimere? are there any giant frogs?
Overall frogs are doing quite well. The climate of Kaimere is warm and humid compared to any given place on Earth. There's an entire polar continent with few ice caps that frogs can be found in, much less throughout the warmer 'known world' which is the current focus of my work. As for giant frogs, the current canon has the zi shun, a huge ambush predator in the seridic wetlands. As I develop the polar continent I plan on making some giant frogs/temnospondyls that convergently resemble big frogs in the wetlands of those temperate rainforests.
@@TalesofKaimere Cool Thanks!.
@@tierneyhunt1957 Anytime!
I really like how this world you created had many and sometimes unique evolved animals from different times, and I have a question about it, are some paleozoic animal present on Kaimere too?
The known world is dominated by fauna from the mid cretaceous onward, but some animals that have changed little since the first portal that opened in the Devonian, and the later Silurian and Carboniferous portals, can be found here and there (especially outside the known world in isolated regions like islands and the middle of the great desert of the Eastern continent).
There are some kind of giant land bird, like ostrich or casuari? Plus I remember some kind of terror bird that you made long ago.
We do indeed have several large land birds. Enantiornitheans in the known world are survived by the spur-winged buzzard and three terrestrial species. Probably have some ratites. There are four canon terror birds, with three more that I still need to design. If you google image search for harkundi you will find the one that does have a finalized design.
@@TalesofKaimere thanks for the information
Did any bearded vultures make it to Kaimere? A part of me would like to think that their diet of mostly bones and tortoises would probably be able to help them do well in Kaimere.
Hi mr keenan!
Why is the raven the size of a dodo/turkey?Like what were the contributing factors;im curious as i once wanted to create a tyrannosaur esque crow,(similar to dougal dixon’s raboon)that was the size of a dog.
Thanks!
More food was the biggest factor in that decision, also larger size helps them in competition with other scavengers like hyenas and dromaeosaurs.
So keenan I recently heard about this project and i did enjoy the animals that inhabited kaimere, also is your book going internationally? I ask this because I live in the UK
Glad you enjoy, and it is international! Not in every country, but you can call your local bookstore and ask them to order in ISBN: 9781087927442 I know people have ordered it through Waterstones.
Thanks
I wondering if there any snakes on Kaimere since the warmer climate would allows snakes to thrive and allowing some to reach larges sizes like in real life during the Paleocene where snakes like Titanoboa evolved.
There are snakes. A few large ones, but nothing has been made official canon yet. It's on the roster for a video though so bet there will be plenty then!
@@TalesofKaimere Cool
How did vultures outcompete scavenging enantornithines? You’d think that they would have the advantage
They do have a direct competitive advantage, with generally larger size and a powerful wing attack, but vultures can be more precise with their bites and therefore more efficient at getting the most out of a carcass. They also have more efficient digestive systems and faster maturation, so could populate a range much faster. These edges really paid off overtime. At carcasses the spur-wing buzzard functions much like a lappet-faced vulture, outnumbered 30-1 but dominating when there aren't larger terrestrial scavengers around.
Are they any surviving Tyrannosaurieds in Kaimere?
Sure are! The nehamu is a bear-sized omnivore found in the known world, and tyrants are a bit more diverse on the Eastern continent.
3:28 This is similar to Pleistocene Earth where Old World vultures, neogyps and neophrontops, were present in a few of the same areas as New World vultures in the Western United States.
Yes indeed!
Are there any bone specialists? Such as the lammergeier? I’d imagine so, considering teratorns have been brought over (they did go extinct with the megafauna, but the large amount of other scavengers made carrion competition way too high for such large birds)
Hyenas and eudromaeosaurs are quite fond of bones, specifically marrow. The enantiornithean buzzard also consumes a lot of bones. No bone specialist vultures at the moment but that may change.
For long distance communication, do Kaimerans use Vultures to carry messages to far away receivers?
Although vultures can be trained, especially the more intelligent red vultures and socially complex rainbow headed vultures, they are better for tricks, hunting companions, and searching assets in the case of the rainbow vultures than as a delivery system. Pigeons, which can fly 600-700 miles in a day and are easily trained to fly between set locations, are much more commonly used.
“So what are we gonna do? I dunno, what you want to do?”
Hmm, the vultures in Kaimere are really interesting being the scavengers that are actually harmless despite their menacing appearance and eating corpses.
Do any of your vultures go after eggs? Egyptian vultures use stones to break open ostrich eggs to get a meal.
I don’t have any egg specialists, but during nesting season, plenty of animals (vultures included) snack on dinosaur eggs!
What is the reverse of brood parasitism like what happens with the red and rainbow-headed vultures called?
good video though i am surprised there aren't any condors
Outcompeted by the large vultures and couldn't displace the enantiornithean large scavengers.
Even on kaimere condors couldn’t make it
So the more primitive avians, already likely in slow decline alongside their Tyrant dino cousins, were then vulnerable enough to be more directly outcompeted to general extinction by the more modern avian vultures, who were much more intelligent and social?
Perhaps not unlike how "true" modern rodents totally edged out the more marsupial rodent like mammals from the Cretaceous era on Earth.
Though the pterosaur vulture equivalents must've remained relevant through their size alone.
Faster reproduction and more efficient digestion has been mentioned as advantages that true birds had, and both aided Kaimeran vultures outcompete their more aggressive and larger competitors over time.
Which harvests were the kaimere vultures from
Some from South America 6 mya. Others from older or more recent harvests. Some are hard to pin down since the range of many birds changed dramatically after the ice ages ended so the griffin vulture might have come from Africa or Asia
@@TalesofKaimere if the black vulture is the oldest of the old world vultures in we’re did it came form
Don't forget kids : scavengers avoid diseases and dangers
fun fact hawks and eagles are not very closely related ether
Generally yes, though from what I remember eagles aren’t a natural grouping and some birds we call eagles are closer to some hawks and kites.
@@TalesofKaimere yes
i love your vids the things are sooooo cool pls do more of this and if you can make a game :)
A video game would be incredible. I'm working on a tabletop game for... eventually lol. Glad you're enjoying!
@@TalesofKaimere Do cheetahs or any other cheetah like cat for example the american cheetah exist in kaimere
@@amalsp8955 Cheetahs did come through but were driven to extinction due to competition with the veraset, a hyena adapted for sprinting that wasn't quite as fast but is a lot more powerful so can better defend their kills or bring them back to their dens.
You should do rodent’s of kaimere
Also 69 likes on ur vid
It would be a realy massiv work
It's on the list but pretty far down the road. Might do a basic overview but anything in detail definitely won't be until next year.
Ayyyyyyyyyyyyy
Fun Fact:
Kaimere isn’t the only place where new world and old-world vultures interacted.
In Pleistocene North America, there were the genera Neogyps, and Neophrontops.
Two genera belonging to the old-world subfamily (Aegypinae)
Yet they were found in North America
Neophrontops in particular was closely related to the modern Egyptian Vulture.
That’s really neat!
@@TalesofKaimere
Yup, I was shocked when I first heard about them.
I was like “What!? Old-world vultures in North America?”
Vultures are cute borbs! uwu
No condors?
None planned