Conquest of the Behemoth: Hippos of Kaimere
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- As many of you know, hippos are an important part of Kaimere’s wetland ecosystem. They represent the pinnacle of mammalian potential. For Hippo Day, you know I had to do a full episode!
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The fact that this video is almost as long as the robust monarchs' says a lot about your love for hippos
They deserve it you know?
@@TalesofKaimere They sure has hell do! I had so much fun with the art for the video. Can’t wait for the pangolin vid!!
@@TalesofKaimere Yes, the deserve it... but for the bads reasons let be agree. Because on earth, they are very dangerous and adaptable creatures that is better to not bother.
Otherwise, it's cool to know that there pangolin on Kaimere, so I can retire this specie from my "Are there on Kaimere ?" specie list.
it's should be more fun if you made a parallel or reference with the current pandemic ;)
@@dudotolivier6363 haha I will be avoiding reference to COVID in the pangolin video, especially since they aren't responsible
@@TalesofKaimere You right, plus it's more polished since the pandemic made million of deaths and the two precedent years were not really fun themselves. But, we know that this was the bats the real responsible, the pangolin was just an intermediate between the bats and the humans.
“A few other semiaquatic megafauna were introduced here and there, but the stability of the last 6 million years or so was maintained.”
…But everything changed when the common hippo attacked.
Kaimere wasn’t ready
@@TalesofKaimereneither was Venezuela
harvasting portal be like: oh i want a hippopotamus for christmas
And then it backfired horribly for pretty much every other species of megafaunal herbivore that lived in the wetlands.
i'm surprised any humans would willingly settle on the same hemisphere as a behemoth but then again with megaraptorans about arguably there are more scary things about, but still holy shit that is probably one of the scariest creatures any kaimeran traveler could have the misfortune of running across
They have elevated and suspended settlements in part because of The Hippo Problem
@@TalesofKaimere but how do they harvest their food if they have problems with hippos?
@@demonofreason7574 You see that's why we have BIG POKY STICKS.
And humans are the scariest creatures any animal from Earth or Kaimere will encounter
This world gets even better. Again, I'd love to see a fully animated nature documentary style series based on this.
That would be a dream come true!
even with dinosaurs hippos are feared and respected. beware the water horse, good video as always.
Thank you!
@@TalesofKaimere Yes ! They made a lot of troubles. They made mostly a big reduce (small to medium) diversity number of many groups of animals than completes extinctions. The Kaimeran Rhinoceros, that Keenan spoke about in a precedent video, is still alway alive and far to become extinct. It's just the the introduction of the normal hippo made him mainly terrestrial and mainland creature than a swamp animal. His current range is reasonably enought large too to maintain his population. But the lost of one of this biomes where he has the habitudes to live still a hit.
It's not oftenly show but Rhinos, especially the asiatic ones, are goods swimmers !
The subject of mass extinctions and resulting episodes of adaptive radiation is becoming a pretty regular topic for both of us. (This week I will be talking about that quite a bit once again)
Looking forward to it!
@@TalesofKaimere Yeah, a topic so true to our own world !
By the way, I don't sure to heard well but, so there is only ONE specie of Desmotylian on Kaimere !?
It's a shame since kaimere should be a new second chance for this formidable marine mammal group from the Afrotheria (that include elephants, manatees, aardvark and hyrax) that gone xtinct on earth.
Even with the intoduction of hippos, it's surprising that the group gone almost extinct since the desmotylian are mainly sea creature and lived under temperate and cold temperature, biome and temperature that hippos hates. So, why they gone almost extinct since the two groups don't really fill a so similar ecological niche ?
@@dudotolivier6363 I may have misspoken: there's only one species of *freshwater* desmostylian still in the known world, where they competed with hippos. Several species are still known in the inlaid sea, and other marine and freshwater species can be found on the Eastern continent.
@@TalesofKaimere Oh ! thank ! Sorry ! It's a great news to know. One of the best attractive element of this project is exactly the fact that extinct groups in our planet survive in an others and received a second chance to become even more prolific in success than before. It's a sort of reserve for the majestic and impressive species who walked the earth long time befoe us and we badly never see the chance to comtemplate.
Kaimere needs a figure line . And a movie that’s just how good this series is . Trust me . Kaimere needs a movie and figure line
That would be incredible!
9:37
An 8 ton Hippo......
My nightmares have a new addition. 🤗
agree
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ALL HAIL THE WETLAND KING!!!
I'm sorry but I started dying once it clicked into my head how much of a meme hippos are in the community AND how long the video is. They really do be dominating in a world of dinosaurs and magical creatures lol.
Kaimere really was a perfect world for hippos. As soon as they got the herding defense behavior, it was over.
Wow is incredible how this version of Hippopotamus become a invader and conquer species! Also even more variant in size and shapes! Interesting metaphor of the pie and the hippo influence the biome
The Highland Hippo looks adorable, and I want one. I do not care if it would permanently cripple my systems via biting, it would be worth it.
I would die for the highland hippo.
Yes, really cute ! Is he a real nomal dwarf hippo or a relative of the common/normal hippo who become small after a island dwarfism ?
In all the case, it's shoulb be a good pet to keep in our house ! Plus it's the hippos who live in the coldest region of the Know World, really impressive !
This video aquatic nightmare monsters of kaimere has given me a newfound appreciation for these animals
Really like the sonajaku specifically very asthetically pleasing and intresting cultural veiw
Thank you! I was glad to finally put my concepts for them to paper!
One question. Since you are starting to develop the microfauna of Kaimere, are the seas and smaller groups of Kaimere overall more similar to those found in Paleozoic fauna? Or there was an extinction event similar to the Great Dying after this one happened on Earth that also completely reshaped the ocean ecology? Or is it a mix of both with either very recent or incredibly unrelated to Earth taxa creatures? I ask because some of the microfauna could get very weird if say, hibbertopterid euripterids had time to continue evolving or with conodonts, trilobites and crinoids which could develop truly strange clades after more than two hundred million years of evolution when compared to Earth taxa.
I'm definitely planning on getting weird with microfauna, particularly on islands. Some have been terrestrially isolated for hundreds of millions of years, and have relics of very ancient times that evolved very little, sometimes living alongside quite recent flying fauna like bats and birds or swimming animals like crocodiles.
only on Kamiere can you consider hippos and crocs "microfauna"
Would love to see a video on any potential surviving tyrannosaurids on kaimere
Based on what information I've gathered about hippos on Kaimere, I find it interesting that unlike on Earth where they (even in groups) would usually flee from animals larger than themselves such as elephants and sometimes rhinos. But on Kaimere, they would instead group together to fight larger threats. Speaking of which, how do hippos directly interact with elephants and rhinos on Kaimere?
If you follow the precedent videos of Keenan and read the devianart posts, you can see that most of the Elephants and the single Rhino specie on Kaimere have not the same repartition that the differents hippos. Even in the somes places where their respective ranges are the same, the hippo still dominants to them. But the elephants and rhino are mainland terrestrial animal and the hippo freswaer swamp creature, so their interactions are really rares.
Before their introduction, the Kaimeran rhino was a regular of the swamp and aquatic places in addition with their mainland habitats. But after the hippos arrive, the rhino was extirpate from most of the swamp of Kaimere. The rhino is not in danger but the reduce of his range wasn"t a good thing for him.
Their herd bonds are generally a bit stronger, driven in part by the larger predators in their environment. Over time standing and fighting was selected for, those more aggressive hippos ended up passing that along, and it spread like wildfire. The rhinos that share their habitat are a bit larger but solitary, and tend to flee when more than a few hippos are involved.
@@TalesofKaimere What about the proboscideans that the hippos encounter?
@@ryanchen1819 Palaeoloxodon is quite rare, although does coincide with the Western hippos in their lowland range. When they interact, the proboscidean far outclasses the hippo in size. However, both animals are not that aggressive, so confrontation is minimal. When Palaeoloxodon come to the lowlands it is to bulk feed and avoid detection from predators like the zentaur, so only bulls in musth draw attention to themselves (and even then their musth is somewhat muted, naturally selected against being extreme due again to the threat of predation)
Hippos when they arrived in Kaimere: *It is free real estate*
For real. Give no quarter
13:03
That’s funny, considering the Pygmy hippo was once thought to be a member of the Hexaprotodon genus.
I enjoy stealing outdated ideas lol
The idea of calling triceratops shield drakes is just genius! Imma steal it for my d&d world!
*tips hat*
You've gotten so much better at making and producing these videos!
Thank you! The music helps a lot I feel.
great video I was expecting the hippos of kaimere to shorts but this really surprised me that the hippos are little more diverse specially the smaller species of hippos, they remind me of dwarf species of our own world ( also on the the date on the shield drakes I got covid 19 and afraid I might infected my family so didn't went but I am recovering plus here my option on the shield drake video a well done job you did on detail on one of your favourite dinosaur hope you finish your novel I can't wait for it release see next time )
Hippos seem arguably the most dangerous giant mammals and the larger Parksosaurs arguably the most dangerous giant sauropsids (and they're both aggressive, generalist omnivores).
I love how dynamic this world is. Been looking forward to this one!
Thank you! I love hippos so you know I had to go hard on their special
Hippo day is finally here! Let's go!
IT'S GO TIME!
16:03 Hurray
I'm gonna ask the question everyone wants to know: have Blobfish made it in, if so how they doing? (AMAZING job, I've just binged watched almost all your videos today xD)
haha I haven't done much with the ecology in the abyss. If not that species, then similar species are quite likely!
It's was awesome ! The hippo are truly a mostrous beast in every aspect! Despite their docile appearance of big fat animal who dabbles and rest in water all the day and yawns time to time.
The most notable exemple of the adaptivity and dangerousity of this creature is the famous "Pablo Escobar's Hippos". Idon't know if you know or hear of them despite their celebrity, but here, their story is the following :
Somewhere in 1980, the famous narcotrafiquant build for his son a private zoo in his hacienda Nápoles (his ravate house domain) in the department of Antioquia near the Río Magdalena, Colombia, and buy and import many exotique animals, included 3-4 common hippopotamus. But at the death of the infamous man in 1993, his domain was taken by the autority and all the animals exported to many zoos througout the america. Except of course, for the hippos, because they deplacement will be too expensive and difficult, lus any zoo wanted them. So they were simply
left in place.
But with no predators or real treat to regulate them and even despite from one male ancestor to mataining a good genetic diversity, their population grow over the years without apparent problems, to up to 16 specimens in 2007, to 40 specimens in 2014, to 60 or 80 specimens in 2019. Number who still continue to up everytime ! Making not only the biggest and only wild hippo population outside Africa, the biggest hippos population wild and zoo togethers in the entire world but also the biggest introduce and invasive specie in the world and in history !
Certaisn estimations predict that their number will become to 100 specimens in 2026, to 400 or 800 specimens 2050 to even 5000 one day if nothing is made against them !
So yes, becasue of their prolification, propagation, and the fact that their excrement give too many nutriments at the same time to the local ecosystem and the number of mass vegetal they eat everytime, theses hippos are truly a treat to the indigene species and environment.
They pose a big problem in all about their gestion and what can we do with them. Because even it's hightly reconize their bads and desastrous impacts in the environments, it's difficult to regulate them because male and females has any real sexual dimorphism and sterilize only one hippo is difficult and expensive, plus before, of course, to capture him with the same difficulty. Plus made estimation of their excact number is also difficult.
But more important, it's that the locals people made problems when the gouvernement try to made something with the hippos, for many reasons, mainly because the locals Colombians accept them (at my knowledge, there any real incident the hippos made to the locals since their importation) and, of course, animals protection society are against the idea to exterminate them brutally (like with fire weapon like fusils or machine guns, that shame because it's should be very effective on the to solve the problem).
For example, in 2009, to prevent the establishement of a new population after the leaving of three individuals from the original population (one couple and their young), the locals autorities made a hunt, with many big means and resources, and one o them is kill, the male called Pepe. But one photo psoted the 10 july, one month later, showing the militarian exibiting the corspe of the animal, create a big polemical wave of indignation througout the country, with many flash mob protestation event and even a celebrity chroniker named Daniel Sampler denounces the "very Colombian" death of Pepe in a country "which only solves its problems with gunshots", something indeed not very rewarding in a country with such a troubled past.
So yes, it's was really a bad luck that the only big mammals on earth who reproduce quicly everytime (in good ideals conditions, an hippopotame can reproduce at the age of 3 years old, male and female togethers) while all the others (elephants, giraffe, rhinoceros) who reproduce one time every years and made only one baby or two each time and reproduce lowly and slowly, was introduce in a country/continent where there was any equivalent conterpart in his evolution history (there had been the most giant rodents Capybara like relatives that the evolution and earth know in his history Dinomyidae, with the bison or rhino sized Phoberomys and Josephoartigasia, and who lived from the Early Miocene to the pleistocene. And who fill a ecological niche identical to the hippos, but we can clearly see that don't work, so hippos can't be a good example of reintrocudtion by taxon substitute).
In Ice Age South America, there were no animals exactly like the hippos and it turns out that the giant rodents had a different diet consistency different than hippos and were already extinct millions of years ago.
@@ryanchen1819 Yes it's true. More pecisely the Dinomyidae has a lifestyle mainly exactly like the Hydrocheres with the current Capybara (H. hydrochaeris) and the Panama's Cabiai (H. isthmius). They was just bigger version of them, with just the size like difference. But I think that, officially with officials evidence, they were alway alive until the pleistocene (I read many sources on that) and became extinct with the Meriungulata (the local ongulates of south america) when the North and South America become one by the Central America especially with the Panama's isthm.
But they have still similar behaviors and similarities intheir own niches with the one of the hippos. But not completely identical. It's why the Pablo Escobar hippos can't replace them in their role.
First because since the extinction of the giant rodents, the local environment adapt to their disappearance and their absence. But one of the most mains point about the hippos in Colombia and their negative inpact come from their feces, who are hightly full of nutriments of the vegetations they eat.
In Africa, where there are oftenlty big and high dry season period during month, the important level of nutriments the hippos give to the local environnment (mainly during the wet season and before the dry season) is hightly beneficial and crucial for the vegetation and the others animals who compose the food chains, when the others sources of nutriments become rare or insufficient.
But in Colombia and South America, the dry seasons are less big, important and dure less time, so there already everytime enough nutriement for the ecosystem during dry and wet season.
So the overabundance of nutriments give by the hippos turn bad because somes of the local organisms like microbacteria or plants can take advantage for themselve and overplant the others locals species. Like algae or nuisible organisms in a lake eutrophication process who can cause the death of fish, especially at high temperatures, which is believed to be due to a lack of oxygen in the water, algal blooms leading to reduced oxygen levels. So it's a big butterfly effect we have here and as in Africa as Colombia, the hippo are reconize like keystone species and ecosystem engineers, that means they can significantly change the landscape, here in Colombia, prevent floodplains from filling up and destabilize banks, thereby accelerating erosion and destroying riparian areas and altered highly the behaviros and life of local species
which need a stable food or water point permanently or during a significant part of their development to live, like the endangered Manatee who feed on the same aqutic plant the hippos feed too.
He feces of the giant rodent and the hipos was also in their constitution very different too, same case in australie with the feces of extinct marsurpials and new introduce placentarian mammals. The local insects who feed on the marsupials feces were not adapt to eat the placentarian feces.
So yes, despite the arguments of some ecologist who said that the hippos impact in Colombia can be “measurable but not dramatic” and said that the hippos can be a good candidats for the Rewilding processus by taxon subtitute (that mean introduce a animal, even completely unrelated to an other who is extinct, in a biome and replace the precedent extinct animal in his role to maintain the bome) the hippos are not a good specie to use and are really a invasive and destructrive species
Plus, official reports put in evidence that the hippos, who happily hasn't transmitted exotic deseases to the local environnement, can instead become vectors of local deseases and give to human and others organisms the tuberculosis, brucellosis, anthrax and the leptospirosis which can cause meningitis.
But I have a good new, recently, in september-october 2021, a special Colombian to US decree authorized the sterilization of the majority of the herd. In a chemical way, thus implying the administration of the sterilizing product from a distance, without capturing the animals, and without killing them. By preventing them from reproducing by destroying their male and female genitalia from within instead of removing them, the population will stagnate before declining and completely disappearing on their own. It will therefore take time before there are no more hippopotamuses in South America, but this is already a huge step forward!
5:46 imagine seing this pictures without knowing the context 😂
lol
Just what I needed after a long day. Thanks. Also, the background music is great
Glad to hear it! Hoping to work more in the future especially with the reception it’s gotten. Thanks!
YEEESSSS I've been waiting for this
Love the artwork in this one.
Thanks man!
Love the work you've done on this video.
Thank you!
@@TalesofKaimere You're welcome.
Ah yes, *🦛H I P P O S🦛*
gotta love your worldbuilding skills!
Thank you!
Every time I see a hippo I hear motomoto theme or will I am
Damn I’m upset this didn’t come into my recommended until now. I’m happy to see it now though!
I've been excited for this ever since it's been talked about
Heck yeah! I'm hella pumped!
@Marshal Marrs Pangolins
@@TalesofKaimere It's was awesome ! The hippo are truly a mostrous beast in every aspect! Despite their docile appearance of big fat animal who dabbles and rest in water all the day and yawns time to time.
The most notable exemple of the adaptivity and dangerousity of this creature is the famous "Pablo Escobar's Hippos". Idon't know if you know or hear of them despite their celebrity, but here, their story is the following :
Somewhere in 1980, the famous narcotrafiquant build for his son a private zoo in his hacienda Nápoles (his ravate house domain) in the department of Antioquia near the Río Magdalena, Colombia, and buy and import many exotique animals, included 3-4 common hippopotamus. But at the death of the infamous man in 1993, his domain was taken by the autority and all the animals exported to many zoos througout the america. Except of course, for the hippos, because they deplacement will be too expensive and difficult, lus any zoo wanted them. So they were simply
left in place.
But with no predators or real treat to regulate them and even despite from one male ancestor to mataining a good genetic diversity, their population grow over the years without apparent problems, to up to 16 specimens in 2007, to 40 specimens in 2014, to 60 or 80 specimens in 2019. Number who still continue to up everytime ! Making not only the biggest and only wild hippo population outside Africa, the biggest hippos population wild and zoo togethers in the entire world but also the biggest introduce and invasive specie in the world and in history !
Certaisn estimations predict that their number will become to 100 specimens in 2026, to 400 or 800 specimens 2050 to even 5000 one day if nothing is made against them !
So yes, becasue of their prolification, propagation, and the fact that their excrement give too many nutriments at the same time to the local ecosystem and the number of mass vegetal they eat everytime, theses hippos are truly a treat to the indigene species and environment.
They pose a big problem in all about their gestion and what can we do with them. Because even it's hightly reconize their bads and desastrous impacts in the environments, it's difficult to regulate them because male and females has any real sexual dimorphism and sterilize only one hippo is difficult and expensive, plus before, of course, to capture him with the same difficulty. Plus made estimation of their excact number is also difficult.
But more important, it's that the locals people made problems when the gouvernement try to made something with the hippos, for many reasons, mainly because the locals Colobians accept them (at my knowledge, there any real incident the hippos made to the locals since their importation) and, of course, animals protection society are against the idea to exterminate them brutally (like with fire weapon like fusils or machine guns, that shame because it's should be very effective on the to solve the problem).
For example, in 2009, to prevent the establishement of a new population after the leaving of three individuals from the original population (one couple and their young), the locals autorities made a hunt, with many big means and resources, and one o them is kill, the male called Pepe. But one photo psoted the 10 july, one month later, showing the militarian exibiting the corspe of the animal, create a big polemical wave of indignation througout the country, with many flash mob protestation event and even a celebrity chroniker named Daniel Sampler denounces the "very Colombian" death of Pepe in a country "which only solves its problems with gunshots", something indeed not very rewarding in a country with such a troubled past.
So yes, it's was really a bad luck that the only big mammals on earth who reproduce quicly everytime (in good ideals conditions, an hippopotame can reproduce at the age of 3 years old, male and female togethers) while all the others (elephants, giraffe, rhinoceros) who reproduce one time every years and made only one baby or two each time and reproduce lowly and slowly, was introduce in a country/continent where there was in equivalent conterpart in his evolution history (there had been the most giant rodents Capybara like relatives that the evolution and earth know in his history Dinomyidae, with the bison or rhino sized Phoberomys and Josephoartigasia, and who lived from the Early Miocene to the pleistocene. And who fill a ecological niche identical to the hippos, but we can clearly see that don't work, so hippos can't be a good example of reintrocudtion by taxon substitute).
I loves this channel
Thank you!
Still awesome! And now I have a model to make a Behemoth figure, as well as your other hippo species.
How aggressive are the small species compared to the bigger ones?
BTW I finally got the chance to read your collection of short stories. For being your first released book it is really impressive. How animals and creatured are portrayed is especially well done.
Thank you so much! Very glad to hear that!
The dwarf hippo is quite timid and shy, but with 4 inch tusks, can be quite dangerous when threatened. Highland hippo is usually docile but males in particular are quick to charge and bite/strike with their clawed hooves when something threatens them or their group.
@@TalesofKaimere The Dwarf hippo (Hexaprotodon liberiensis) is one of my favorite animal ! But the Common hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) still the most well know and popular of the two.
But you know, there was dwarf hippos from the Hippopotamus genus who lived in the Mediterranean island (Sicile, Maleares island etc...) or in Madagascar. It's a case of Insular Nanism !
The Hippopotamus genus was really diverse in specie in the past.
But, if a understand well, so the Hippopotamus gorgops was completely assimilated by the Behemoth subspecie (H. a. ? I let you to chosse the second epithete subscpecie name), and so become extinct, and the Hippopotamus antiquus specie assimilate Common hippo genes, modifing his behavior.
So techniquely, the two gorgops and antiquus specie was the first hippopotames specie to introduce kaimere, but when the Common hippo arrive, one become "extinct" by fusioning with one of his subspecie and the other see his genome become no longer "pure".
In total, that made only 4 specie :
- the Common Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) split into three subspecies (Common form, Behemoth (who posses now gorgops genes), Western form)
- The Sonjaku (Hippopotamus antiquus, with now have Common hippo genes).
- The Dwarf hippo (Hexaprotodon liberiensis)
- and the Highland Drawf hippo (Hexaprotodon/Choeropsis specie relative or Hippopotamus dwarf specie relative ?)
I am right ? Because to be honest, this showing of the hippopotamuses is quite simple but interesting like representation of the current status of theses latters.
It's true that from the Kameran point of view, it's difficult for them thes study since they haven't our technlogy to directly compared the ADN of the animals, that theses latters don't let the Kameran approach them and that any Kameran lived where the Western hippo subspecie live (only the explorators and travellers you mention time to time can study them a little).
@@TalesofKaimere Hey Keenan, Sorry to say that to you but.... recently in 2021, the American Society of Mammalogists and the UICN reclassified the Dwarf/Pygmy hippo, formely Hexaprotodon liberensis, to the genus Choeropsis, making the animal Choeropsis liberensis !
And in your video, you show the pygmy hippo like Hexaprotodon....
But at the same time, like since many decades, the taxoomy of the animal continue to make controversies and debates and the majority of the authors mainly use the Hexapotodon genus instead of Choreopsis.
So because even with the recent reclassification his real status is not officialy resolved (even now it's hightly that the Choeropsis genus is the real genus for the animal), you can techniquely use without problem the Hexaprotodon name for him.
Plus, the Hexaprotodon genus contain a plenty of extinct normally asiatic dwarf hippos, so if a day we finally discovered that it's really the Choeropsis genus for the current dwarf hippo we have on earth, you can alway said and decide that the one in Kaimere is a representative of this extinct species group !
@@TalesofKaimere Okay Keenan ! Sorry for the disturbances ! I just make some reseach on Wikipedia about the Dwarf Hippo and some search in your Facebook account, I a made mistakes about the Dwarf hippo specie !
The Dwarf hippo of Kaimere is not our actual current Dwarf hippo Hexaprotodon libenrensis of our earth ! But one of the dozen species from the genus Hexaprotodon who lives in Asia ! But other than this details, the Asian Hexaprotodon Dwarf Hippo have the same physiology and behaviors than the African Dwarf Hippo.
Since the current dwarf hippo was reclassified as a specie of the Choeropsis genus (making the Hexaprotodon genus completely extinct, but it's still debeted) that give the chance and the opportunity without any problems to call the Dwarf Hippo of Kaimere with the name Hexaprotodon !
For the other Striped Dwarf Hippo the Highland Hippo represent, it's not a Choeropsis, Hexaprotodon or Hippopotamus specie hippo but a specie from the genus named Kenyapotamus ! So he is completely unrelated to all the others hippos !
So, I will reclasified the little overall list I made in my first commentary response to your precise commentary
So, in total, there are only 4 specie of hippos only Kaimere :
- the Common Hippo (Hippopotamus amphibius) split into three subspecies (Common form, Behemoth form (who posses now gorgops genes) and Western form)
- The Sonjaku (Hippopotamus antiquus, with now have Common hippo genes).
- The Dwarf hippo (Hexaprotodon sp.)
- and the Highland Drawf hippo (Kenyapotamus sp.)
It's better and well improve like this !
I kinda want to make a clay hippo all of a sudden
I love these hippos and the memes around them. Moreover, I love that soundtrack.
Thanks!
great video as always, i also recently purchased your collection of short stories off of amazon and am greatly enjoying it, i really look forward to when the bestiary is released.
So glad to hear it! Chipping at the bestiary, will focus on it more once I send my novel out to readers. Hoping for an end of year release on the bestiary but it depends on a few factors. Still a lot of art to do. Thank you for your support, and I hope you continue enjoying the stories!
@@TalesofKaimere You made really good art ! Okay,at some shot of the video we can see a little the remaining pixel you forgot to remove from the
clipping (the colrs around the animal illustrations, processus very difficult and long), but we pass on that very easily.
@@TalesofKaimere I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for any updates on the bestiary.
Great video! Have the Kaimerans tamed any of the more docile subspecies?
Also, was the hippos’ success inspired by that of the Colombian hippos?
Now and then they have a few tamed individuals, but a docile hippo is still a hippo. Not anywhere close to viable for domestication. Columbia definitely underscores the adaptability of hippos and was part of their inspiration!
Can you explain about the kaimeran equids?
I do have a horse video planned for the near future!
i love chungk
Ah it’s a good day to see the hippos back
16:55 NICE
I think that's cool you have different species of hippopotamus in Kaimere. I bet they are dangerous just like common hippopotamus in Africa though pygmy hippos are not dangerous. I remember reading that hippopotamus were once found in Madagascar until they went extinct because of humans
Yes indeed! Lots of hippo species to play with!
@@TalesofKaimere Yeah, but I do like the colors on them and I noticed they're preyed on by the megaraptorans
Yeah hippos
I'm just having a hard time understanding how the hadrosaurs, one of the most successful and adaptable dinosaur clades, went extinct so easily
Even if climate change from the shifting continents changed the environment around them, hadrosaurs were generalists that could graze, browse, and eat almost any vegetation, and had an advantage over the other groups because of their ability to chew. Did they really just die off so easily?
I have a question. When a portal takes a creature to Kaimere does its concouseness or if you prefer soul go into its copy or is it just an identical clone that is still technachly a diffirant person despite being otherwise exactly the same?
It's technically a different person. You have your memories and everything, the replication is quite precise, but your original body has been consumed to fuel the process.
THE SHEER AMOUNT OF HIPPO MEMES 😂
Stocky came out swinging with this one
Are kaimeran hippos adapted to swim in the inland sea?
No although they can run along the bottom. Can’t be in salt water for too long though
Great video. What's the small flying, feathered dino at 6:14 ?
Those are karakai! Small flying firebirds. They have been domesticated by the Pakardiant as hunting companions and pest control.
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Those are dope. What clade are they in? Are they related to microraptor or whatnot?
@@ALLHEART_ Keenan recently said that the Firebird, who evolved from Kaishel the south continent like their close cousin relatives the Penguin raptors, were originaly place inside the Eudromeosauria but after some time become to be reconsidered to be in the Birds/Avialae clade. In a basal placement and to have a Archeopteryx relative like ancestor. Their ressemblance with the normal raptors is due to a convergent evolution, like with the Balaur Bondoc on our earth on the ancient Hateg Island.
@@dudotolivier6363 Interesting. Thanks for the info.
@@dudotolivier6363 Do you think birds with tails would have any disadvantages compared to tail-less varieties?
"wild ass"
How well are the Dwarf hippo population beyond the Crescent doing?
Pretty rare. The crescent jungles are definitely their haven
I LOVE PYGMY HIPPOS!!!
I would like to ask,sir?Are there any synasids on kaimere?
The vanyu is a flying therocephalian iirc
@@dirandrous7682 Thanks for answering.
@@shingtiong9425 There's also a place outside the know world that Keenan refers to as the Permian Island, which I assume will have a greater not-mammal synapsid diversity, but he hasn't developed it yet.
What Anja said. Got a whole Australia-sized island of them, but non-mammalian synapsids are pretty rare, with only a handful of species in the known world, and all migrants from that island as they were outcompeted by dinosaurs in the regions connected to the portal.
16:53 A Hippo from Jojo's!? :V
Haha yup! Was so excited when Smily sent me that
If the portal take any Animals from earth and put themselfs on kaimere, can the portal even take some Animals from kaimere and put themselfs on earth?
That’s not how the portal normally works. The hive on Earth exists only to collect life and populate it on Kaimere. Kinda like an old school zoo: it wants specimens, doesn’t feel a need to send them home. The First Children built a device around the portal so not only can Kaimerans control when it opens and closes, but also make it so the hive on Earth can replicate stuff from Kaimere and put it on Earth, making it essentially 2-ways
I T H I N K G I A N T H I P P O S L I K E D Y O U
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Would it be possible to make a D&D like role playing game out of Kaimere?
Absolutely! Setting is still in development, but once I’ve solidified more about the known world I’m planning on starting work on an RPG system and setting. Won’t be D&D (most powerful witches in Kaimere are like 7th level casters so the scaling would be bonkers) so a lower magic setting is going to be the base.
@@TalesofKaimere I don’t mean like full on D&D just the role playing aspect of using your imagination. Like you gather a few friends make characters and explore.
Are there any kind of creatures in kaimere from the Cambrian period
If there are, they would be quite different than the ancestors brought through
@@TalesofKaimere And Carboniferous period ? like giant insects Meganeura or Arthropleura ?
@@dudotolivier6363 Although the oxygen content in Kaimere's air is higher than modern Earth, and could hypothetically support large arthropods, birds and pterosaurs drove the flying species to a quick extinction. Might have some big ones in isolated places, but would be completely unrelated to the familiar taxa of Earth.
@@TalesofKaimere Oh... So any giant awesome dragonfly or giant herbivorous millipedes....
Okay it's your world after all.
Recently, I learn that the level oxygen impact only not flying arthropodes, since the flying ones can obtain massive amount of air when they fly. But for theses latters, the birds and pterosaurs overcompeted them like you said, mainly as predators.
Herbivorous crocodiles?
Yup! Already got one in the odaga and there will be more on the Eastern continent
I have a question what if humans discover kaimere
That is a very real and present fear for many Kaimerans.
You think that the aquatic rhinoceros managed to survive anywhere in remote populations?
They’re quite common on the eastern continent and possibly the north tropical wetlands further north
@@TalesofKaimere Ah that's cool! Atleast they're making it somewhere.
Out of curiosity, why hasn’t the Behemoth spread further into the wetlands?
It's bulk is in some ways it's weakness: it can only support that much mass in the more prolific Seridic wetlands. A lot of nearby wetlands simply don't have the year-round food supply. Common hippo is so much more widespread because it not only needs a lot less food, it can eat a much wider range, whereas the behemoth needs a lot of high-protein water plants.
Are there pachycephalosaurs in kaimere?
Not in the known world, but I’m considering them for the Eastern continent!
@@TalesofKaimere Cool ! It's like theses beast, especially since the recent researchs on them show they were herbivores with a high omnivrous preferences. They should ate dead carrion and be good scavenger when there aren't vulture or pterosaur in the area !
I like the fact there also Ornithomimosaurs like Deinocheirus relatives outside the Know World ! But it's a little shame that there are no longer other sauropods groups like the short necked Rebbachisaurid or the ones who was Argentinosaurus relatives in the Wesern Continent and lived alongside Carcharodontosaurid carnosaurs, also extinct on Kaimere too.
I said that because there a plenty amount of creatures groups who change their niches and habits at all to survive the new arrivals.
Yeah, honestly I'm not surprised that hippopotami are competitive, I don't care if you're a dinosaur, they're a hippo and they don't give a fuck, lol. They are one of the most dangerous animals on modern Earth for a *reason*
That's the truth!
Well all I have to say is hippos are real pets and dangerous animals.
“pets”
it’s p e s t s (no offense)
@@joshuagonzalez4183 none taken
Hit me up dude. I'd love to talk to you about this type of work. Twitter name a no spaces version of my RUclips channel name
I’ll seek you out!