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[(Anonymous)]

Makes you wonder how good survival odds are for animals that aren't cats outside the known survivor communities. :|a


I mean, tuna have survived just fine, but still.

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[(Anonymous)]

Seems like the odds are not good for mammals, since the disease only affects them. I wonder if beasts etc would attack non-mammalian animals? In which case birds would probably do better than some others due to possibilities for escape.

Now I'm gonna be wondering about this stuff, THANKS.

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[elleth]

This is so intriguing, though. I mean, what level of ecosystem collapse are we talking about with the Rash anyway? If we posit similar levels of immunity to humans in other mammals, we'd have to expect an immense and very rapid depopulation.

To the best of my knowledge, most mammals would pretty much face a triple problem: the rash and the resultant depopulation, a pretty significant gene pool bottleneck for immune survivors, and the difficulty in finding partners to begin with. For mammalian predators with primarily mammal prey, there would also be a shortage in prey animals; I seem to remember that the last part was a significant contributor to the extinction of most carnivorous dinosaurs after the K-T Event, so it looks sort of dire from here.

Obviously there are some thriving immune populations, as Mikkel confirmed at Kastellet, and they seem to have done well enough for themselves over the past 90 years, but beyond those enclaves? I wonder.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, a lot of good points!
This is one of those things about the worldbuilding that kind of makes my head hurt if I think about it too much, lol. Though maybe if/when we get more information, I'll be less "???HOW" about it.

No matter what direction I look at it, things seem pretty grim.