animals of the 'verse
POSTED BY: crystalkei
UPDATED: Friday, December 21, 2007 04:29
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hey i'm writing a little one shot and i was wondering what animals do we know made it off earth that was. i got horses, cows, sheep, geese, and dogs. can anybody remember anymore?
Jayne Cobb, the Dick Casablancas of Firefly
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Probably most of them. Terraforming worlds would require establishing sustainable ecosystems, which requires a large variety of plants and animals. I'd imagine that most species' had DNA banks established for the trip out, and re-populated using in vitro gestation (possibly using retro-viruses to increase the genetic diversity). Assume most animals survived to be somewhere in the 'verse, even the icky ones :)
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I think a baddie is skinning a Rabbit in one episode Rabbits would be a natural choice for stocking a planet.
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that makes sense, but would you need to bring exotic animals. I mean, what are the chances we'd need to bring giraffes or manitees?
Jayne Cobb, the Dick Casablancas of Firefly
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that makes sense, but would you need to bring exotic animals. I mean, what are the chances we'd need to bring giraffes or manitees?
Jayne Cobb, the Dick Casablancas of Firefly
I would say we would bring them. Both giraffes and manatees play important roles in their ecosystems, so would be necessary on some worlds. I'm going on the assumption that terraforming does not create a world "made to order", that there will be variations in the type of climates and environments created on a fresh world. So, if the moon turns out to have huge tracts of hot, flat land that grow grasses and tall trees, giraffes would probably be a good choice to put there.
Also, there's just the human factor. DNA or embryos wouldn't take up a large amount of space, and who's going to want to be the one to tell their kids that they decided the giraffes couldn't come along? I doubt they could save every single sub-species of parrot, but parrots in general survived.
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i hadn't really thought about that...it's funny you should use the giraffe because the idea in my fic was that there weren't giraffes anymore. hmm...i suppose i should rethink that.
Jayne Cobb, the Dick Casablancas of Firefly
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Cats...definitely cats... anytime you have grain fed animals you need cats to keep the mice and rats at bay ( and mice and rats sneak into everywhere and such)
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.....There are Badgers....
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One factor in picking a rock to terraform would be its hospitability to animal life (preferably not too dangerous and edible) so in addition to what the settlers brought with them there would be the local snerps and zlurgs and warggles.
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Originally posted by crystalkei:
i hadn't really thought about that...it's funny you should use the giraffe because the idea in my fic was that there weren't giraffes anymore. hmm...i suppose i should rethink that.
Jayne Cobb, the Dick Casablancas of Firefly
Hey, if you like your idea there ought to be other ways to work it. Maybe giraffes haven't been successfully introduced on a world yet. Maybe the first attempts met with disaster (too many predators introduced too soon?). Maybe the genetic codes were damaged beyond repair during the exodus, and they are well and truly extinct. Heck, it could be that the DNA samples are still out there somewhere, waiting for some Big Damn Heroes to discover them.
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