[Bears Armed]

Note that the western side of your nation should have a ‘dry season’ & ‘wet season’ (whose effects on the inland forest I have already mentioned in one or two places…), but that due to the different pattern of lands & seas these should be less extreme than those in RL experienced by [e.g.] India (i.e. the ‘Monsoons’). I have now added this explanation to the 'Location' section in the first post.
Also in that post, but in its 'Basic Ecotypes' section instead, I have improved the definition given for 'cloud forest'.

I have now added suggestions for three more families of Mammals, two from the order Lagomorpha (i.e. rabbits & hares, and their relatives) and the other — listed here in the ’Other Eutheria’ section — from an order called the Anaglida that formerly existed on RL Earth as well but became extinct in that Reality quite early on in the “Age of Mammals”.

Various short suggestions have been added to the sections about Insects and about Plants.

Re my previous suggestion that the ‘Gymnosperm’ plants present should include a group that had become extinct in RL, so that this could continue supporting ‘Kalligrammatidae’ insects: I made this suggestion because explaining the continued existence of those insects seemed easiest if we gave their adults a food plant for which other insects could not compete because of poisons to which the Kalligrammatids — having started feeding on those plants earlier, before the poisons were evolved to their current strength — had managed to evolve resistance. Thinking further about this, though, we don’t actually need those extinct-in-RL trees for this purpose: We have already agreed to use the ‘Mint-Trees’, whose secretions are toxic or at least repellent to many insects, so having the Kalligrammatids feed on (and pollinate) these would work quite nicely anyway. I’m provisionally assigning the Mint-Trees’ family to the order Lauralaes, some of whose other members (such as ‘Laurel’ itself, of course) also use chemical defences, and that has been around since quite early in the Cretaceous period so there would have been enough overlap in time between these two groups before the food-sources relied on by RL Kalligrammatids became extinct for such a relationship to have developed…

This comment has been moved down the thread to make room for more 'Ecosystems' notes.