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You know how Wallacea combines Asian and Australian wildlife, with macaques, buffalo, babirusa, and tarsiers coexisting with australidelph marsupials?

Imagine a landmass combining Neotropical and African wildlife. Here's what I think would inhabit a land like this. The land could also be a holdover for otherwise prehistoric lineages to survive into historical times. Thoughts? This is a landmass give-or-take thrice the size of New Zealand.

• cichlids

• characins

• reed frogs

• poison dart frogs

• varanids

• iguanas

• anoles

• chameleons

• agamids

• coral snakes

• pythons

• sebecids

• caimans

• tinamous

• a unique flightless ratite possibly derived from the above

• odontophorid quails (since both Africa and the Americas have species)

• cracids (guans, curassows, and chachalacas)

• pygmy geese

• turacos

• flamingos

• coucals and anis (Old World and New World cuckoos, respectively)

• hummingbirds

• storks (I imagine ephippiorhynchines, the jabiru, marabous, and mycterias co-existing side-by-side there)

• hamerkop

• hoatzin

• limpkin

• cathartid vultures

• hoopoes (since South Atlantic island St Helena had its own extinct hoopoe species)

• rollers

• bee-eaters

• hornbills

• toucans (to maybe niche-partition with hornbills, toucans can be arboreal and a false ground hornbill can evolve)

• barbets

• honeyguides

• trogons

• seriemas and terror birds

• amazons

• caracaras

• macaws

• tyrant flycatchers

• cotingas

• manakins

• icterids

• weavers

• drongos

• bulbuls

• tanagers

• opossums

• sparassodonts (those and sebecids could be the top predators in the absence of native terrestrial carnivorans, but may face competition from introduced domestic cats)

• manatees

• basal proboscideans (though they may face competition with manatees, derived proboscideans, and hippos)

• a dwarf elephant of some sort, either being a gomphothere (dwarf Cuvierionus or Notiomastodon) or Loxodonta elephant

• otter shrews

• sloths (sloths are fairly good swimmers. Check out Thalassocnus)

• armadillos

• hystricognaths (I can see a sister lineage to caviomorphs evolving similar to caviomorphs proper and also evolving its own lineage of porcupines)

• anomalures (they'd be the token gliders)

• cricetids (possibly rafted from South America during the Quaternary)

• prosimians (I imagine something resembling pottos, lorises, and bushbabies)

• platyrrhines (or a stem lineage and evolving into the land's monkeys)

• bats

• pangolins

• hippos (I can see a dwarf species evolving as an extinct species evolved in Madagascar; maybe to partition niches with the basal proboscideans, these hippos can live a tapir-like terrestrial lifestyle)

Our last dog has died and my mom doesn't want another one because first of all, they're expensive. I live with my mom and she no longer has to worry about vet bills, finicky eating, and buying food. Second of all, they're messy. Inside or outside, dogs generally poop and pee in a random place and I'm no longer in any propensity to accidentally step on pee and poo on the floor. The floor pee days are thankfully a thing of the past. Third of all, they're work, and my mom doesn't want to walk them twice a day and give them baths. Fourth of all, we make too little money to justify dog ownership anyways.

I am a Doordasher, so the other day, I dropped off a Pizza Hut order at their house, and it said "leave at door", which IME, never asks for a PIN, but I digress. I couldn't leave at the door because they had two dogs, and one of them was a German shepherd. I heard their barks first before seeing them, so I was like "tell me these dogs are in a fence or inside", but no! They were roaming free.

I tried calling their number a few times in a bid effort to let them know what to do with their dogs and it kept on missing, so I went to the last resort and messaged the customers and I put their food in the mailbox (the pizzas were small enough to fit in it). The German shepherd especially was the reason why I was hesitant to go to the door.

Like, if you order Doordash and have a big ass German shepherd and have all sorts of reluctancies to reply, then I'd rather you own a tarantula!

I have viewed it as a hinderer in daily life because I have certain music and noises that trigger me and when people are watching TV and stuff, I am said I have "bionic hearing" by my own mom.

Today at the beach, I heard someone listening to a song in the distance to the point I was able to tell the key signature (B/G# minor key signature). The key itself isn't much of an issue, but the boogie-woogie chord progression in major, however, triggers me. Thankfully, that song wasn't in said progression.

An hour or so later while I was in the later, I noticed some grayish clouds coming in from the west and was able to hear thunder, but as other people were in the water, I scurried my way out to shore and told my mom and her friends to get ready, and it started raining by the time we drove away from the beach. Just like that, we were able to get to the car without being rain-drenched.

I have viewed it as a hinderer in daily life because I have certain music and noises that trigger me and when people are watching TV and stuff, I am said I have "bionic hearing" by my own mom.

Today at the beach, I heard someone listening to a song in the distance to the point I was able to tell the key signature (B/G# minor key signature). The key itself isn't much of an issue, but the boogie-woogie chord progression in major, however, triggers me. Thankfully, that song wasn't in said progression.

An hour or so later while I was in the later, I noticed some grayish clouds coming in from the west and was able to hear thunder, but as other people were in the water, I scurried my way out to shore and told my mom and her friends to get ready, and it started raining by the time we drove away from the beach. Just like that, we were able to get to the car without being rain-drenched.

September 10, 2001

3:30 AM Eastern US Time

A turktopus. Take a tom turkey and replace its bill and snood with a full set of octopus tentacles.

I'm a 2001 Metal Snake. M. Virgo. Bi.

I am like textbook esoteric metal snakes. I bear great ambitions in life, and I'm told I'm a go-getter by my mom (1970, metal dog).

I mainly vibe with dogs, monkeys, dragons, goats, and rats. I knew three rooster men who happened to be asses to me, one water (1993) of whom wanted me to delete his ex boyfriend (1989 Earth Snake) when the latter (1989) didn't do me harm, but he also did harm to his ex-boyfriend and he was a drunkard. I was also dating a water rooster man in person but because he got mad at me for a seggs mistake, we're still friends and are better as such. I have a rat daymaster and a rooster month slot. However, I do know two female roosters I get along swimmingly with. My current partner as of June 5, 2026 is a water goat and it's so far the mellowest in-person relationship I had. My previous in-person dates were the aforementioned latter water rooster, a pre-lunar rat, and two of the last ones were hetero passing, one being a dragon and another metal snake.

If the red fox, brown bear, and gray wolf both reside in the Holarctic realm (Palearctic and Nearctic and the cougar, jaguar, gray fox, and white-tailed deer reside in both the Nearctic and Neotropics, how come the red fox, brown bear, nor gray wolf spread into Central America or South America?

If the red fox, brown bear, and gray wolf both reside in the Holarctic realm (Palearctic and Nearctic and the cougar, jaguar, and white-tailed deer reside in both the Nearctic and Neotropics, how come the red fox, brown bear, nor gray wolf spread into Central America or South America?

Original light, idiosyncratic in bold.

Aged like milk.

Aged like goat milk.

Address the elephant in the room.

Address the elephant in the room, and then the adjacent giraffe.

The last two combine two into one.

No ifs, ands, or buts.

No excuses.

No ifs, and, buts, ors, whos, whats, wheres, whens, whys, hows, or excuses.

Better safe than sorry.

Safety first.

Safety first, sorrow last.

2001 Snake here. Anyone got stories of six-harm annual experience (rat-goat (sheep/ram), horse-ox, rabbit (cat)-dragon, dog-rooster, snake-tiger, and monkey-pig (boar))?

1.) Snake-tiger harm (2001-1998)
I was platonic friends with a 1998 Tiger from a Facebook autistic dating group and met them through the app July 2021. We were both queer, autistic, and best of all, guinea pig lovers. Video chatted them from time to time and met them about two Mays ago (three years after the 2021 meetup) in May 2024. They lived in England and they're the reason why I left North America for the first time (I'm US-based). Later that September that year, they have stopped talking to me, which happened to be around my birthday. Come the following Thanksgiving, their social media accounts became private, giving me an inability to communicate with them. To this day, I'm still like "How could someone I know and visited shared by neurodivergence, queerness, and guinea pigs do this to me. How on Earth could they justify this ghosting"?

2.) Dog-rooster harm (1970-1969)

My mom (Dog) met a Rooster man through Our Time, a dating app for older people, and the man moved down from Chattanooga, TN to live with my mom and I, and that was spring last year. Over the months until that fall, my mom learned he was a nervous driver and would be upset out of nowhere, which would bother her, so he was an ass to not only her, but to *me*, a snake, for politely telling him one time, that I didn't want to do chores until a later time, and one time he said to me "my phone was my enemy", and he would use "common sense" to justify his beration toward my Dog mom and Snake self. He was one of three Rooster people I couldn't get along with. He eventually moved back to Chattanooga that fall. My month is Rooster myself and Rat daymaster. Rooster is a self-punisher, which is attributed to three other signs, but not Snake, Rat, Tiger, or Dog.