Favorite "The Future is Wild" (Animal Planet) creature

Mine is a toss up between a few of them.

I can’t decide between the Neon Uber Shark thing (forgot the name), the “Rainbow Squid” thing or the Squid-Ape thing (forgot the name).

Oh and BTW, I thought that although that show was VERY well done and high class, it was a little contrived and seemed to copy the past (dinosaurs, etc.). Still I really like the very unique and (supposedly) scientifically derived creatures.

The question is which is your favorite and why?

(Mods, I couldn’t decide between IMHO and Cafe for this one, this is a Poll, but it is about fictional things. Please move accordingly or complement me on my choice of forums…ty)

i missed the show, but a good book on evolution in the future is:

After man, a zoology of the future by Dougal Dixon. there is also a sequal invovling what dinosaurs would look like had they not suddenly gone extinct.

There’s a thread in IMHO about this show. I will just say I did not enjoy it.

Check here.

Hrm…I think my thread is sufficiently different from that one…

My “Neon Uber Shark thing” = the Shark-O-Path. I like my name for it better…

And my “Squid-Ape Thing” was called Tree-o-pus. Something very "HotHouse"ish about that…

I wasn’t trying to say you made a duplicate thread, Bio… just pointing people to more discussion on the same topic.

Also, the “Tree-o-pus” is not what the show called it. I made up that name following the lead of the “sharkopath”.

I’d have to give it to the spiders. I was sort of surprised that the show didn’t say they would “rule” the earth. I mean, in the show, they were already getting intelligent (trapping the last mammal).

I sort of liked the Ocean Phantom. How can you not love a 30-foot regenerating jellyfish with little eye stalks and a defensive line of sea spiders to attack predators? I also liked the killer bats–the Deathgliders or whatever they were called. They seemed to have the most naturalistic CGI movement, and looked simply feaky swooping through the sky. Maybe it’s all the Magic threads here lately, but I kept seeing every animal as a possible Creature.

The “squid-apes” were called “Squibbons”, and the big bats were called “Deathgleaners”.

I didn’t care much for most of the allegedly-scientific creatures, though the one that I felt was most likely was the Carakiller (I guess you could, then, call it my “favorite”).

As for the rest: fire-proof rodents?! giant land-walking squids?! giant, goose-necked bats?! super-giant tortoises?! Intelligent, tree-dwelling squids?! Most of the creatures presented were highly unlikely, if not outright impossible.

Did the show go into detail about why a squid would evolve into a land dwelling creatures, bats grow goose necks, etc…? Also, does anyone know when it will be showing again?

I liked the spiders that were farming those little rodent creatures. I enjoyed the show for its sheer entertainment value. I think I laughed for 5 minutes straight when I heard the word “Flish”.
By the time I saw the flish, I knew that the show had thrown science right out the window and was now just wildly speculating.
The sharks were pretty cool too.

I liked it. I think if you ignore the pseudoscientific aspects of it, it becomes an interesting speculative look at the future. They probably shouldn’t have tried for the scientific viewpoint and just gone ahead and made it a purely speculative show.

The Spinks, those little ratlike creatures with the bird-beaks, scared me. I mean, there was just something wrong about them. It was disturbing.

I don’t have a favorite, though I really liked those blue birds, and the silver spiders. :slight_smile:

[Those last two sound like names from a ‘Legends of the Hidden Temple’ type show]

The Ocean Phantom did the same thing for me. It was something about the red in it. Uhhhhhhhhg ::shiver::

awww man, I missed this - will it be airing again sometime soon?

I liked the sharkopaths, but the name could have used a bit of work. I loved the idea of bioluminescent communication, but how well would that work underwater? I would think a form of auditory communication would work better.

Those killer ostriches were pretty cool, too.

But I agree that a lot of the creatures were wildly beyond what would be practical. Flish? How on earth do they sustain flight with their piddly wingspans? Why would they need to sustain flight? Flying fish do well enough with gliding away from harm. I would think that it would tax the energy of a dense cold-blooded creature far too much to flap hard enough to keep flying.

But it was a cool show, anyways.

This was FICTION people, although it tried to stay somewhat scientific.

:eek: I thought the spinks were cute

Like I said before I wish they would have said something about roaches. A roach community with human level inteligence would have ROCKED!

And yes, I admit it, I am an Isaac Asimov geek.

I only saw a couple of minutes of the show, but I checked out the site, and the sharkopath idea is stupid, especially considering that vision is one of the sharks weakest senses, if not their weakest. It would make so much more sense to have them communicate by scent, sound, or even electromagnetically. In fact, when I saw the name ‘sharkopath’ I thought maybe they were going to do something where the sharks communicated ‘telepathically’ using their exceptional electromagnetic senses. Maybe that was the original idea, and someone figured that it would be difficult for people to understand or believe, and went with the lame bioluminescence system.

I liked the CaraKillers, or whatever they were called, the killer birds. But it got annoying when every other shot was a close-up of one looking into the camera going RRRAAAWWW! and fanning out its head feathers.

I too laughed for a good five minutes at “flish”

I was greatly disturbed by the walrus-birds toward the beginning of the show.

It wasn’t a bad show I thought. I don’t really see squids dominating the world anytime soon but hey, the show was researched by SCIENTISTS! They’re smarter than me.