06-12-2018, 07:38 PM
Also, of course, butterflies...
... and what's the IC story behind their selection as your national animal?
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The pair of moderately-sized islands off of your western coast could have been connected to the mainland & maybe also to each other back when sea levels were lower due to an Ice Age (although most of this region apparently doesn't show signs of heavy glaciation...) some thousands of years ago, and consequently are likely to have had a natural fauna similar to the one that the nearer parts of the mainland would have had then. However they'd probably have lost [or never acquired] some of the larger species, even without any losses due to human activity. One or more of the surviving herbivores might exhibit "island dwarfism"... Wild ponies that are only three feet or so tall at the shoulder, perhaps?
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... and what's the IC story behind their selection as your national animal?
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The pair of moderately-sized islands off of your western coast could have been connected to the mainland & maybe also to each other back when sea levels were lower due to an Ice Age (although most of this region apparently doesn't show signs of heavy glaciation...) some thousands of years ago, and consequently are likely to have had a natural fauna similar to the one that the nearer parts of the mainland would have had then. However they'd probably have lost [or never acquired] some of the larger species, even without any losses due to human activity. One or more of the surviving herbivores might exhibit "island dwarfism"... Wild ponies that are only three feet or so tall at the shoulder, perhaps?
^_^