There is something missing from our world. The amazing creatures that time has left behind. But what if we could bring them back?
What if extinction didn't have to be forever?
We're going back in time on a safari with a difference as wildlife adventurer Nigel Marvin plunges into prehistory to rescue creatures on the brink of extinction. His plan is to bring them back to the safety of the present and give them a second chance.
This time, the team goes back roughly ten thousand years, to rescue some of the most well known Mammalian Megafauna from the most famous of all Death Traps.
Welcome to the ultimate wildlife sanctuary.
Welcome to Prehistoric Park!
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Holding a host of animals once thought extinct, Prehistoric Park has become a success beyond doubt. From herds of Sauropods, to ground sloths, and even a giant millipede, the park has all kinds of weird and wonderful residents. For Nigel, however, there will always be room for more.
Now, in particular, Nigel wants to go after some of the most well known beasts of the ice age.
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Once again back at his den, Nigel is looking over an assortment of photos, all of mammals. Glyptodonts, Mammoths, Bison, saber toothed cats, horses, dire wolves, even vultures, themselves the only non-mammals in the assorted pictures, are displayed in their full glory.
"Now, these animals might not seem to have much in common, but they are all known from one place - the La Brea Tarpits in California. The most well known predator trap in nature, the tar pits were the final resting places of a variety of different creatures. See, water will float on top of tar, leading many drinking animals to mistake the pit for a lake, which they will start drinking from, only to find themselves stuck. Additionally, during the summer, the surface of the tar would cake over, leading many animals to mistakenly assume it was safe to walk over the caked material, only to sink when they went too far. Herbivores that were trapped like this would cry out for help, which would in turn attract carnivores who thought they had found an easy meal. In turn, the scavengers would inevitably become trapped in the muck as they tried to exploit the seemingly easy to obtain feast, and their cries would attract even more animals to their doom. Even birds couldn't escape, as the tar would clog their feathers, leaving them unable to fly.
"There's so many species known from this location that, honestly, I couldn't even list a fraction of them. All of them, though, would make excellent additions to the park."
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While Nigel prepares for the mission, though, the rest of the team is making other preparations - Christmas is around the corner, and they don't want to miss it.
Hastily, the team checked their schedules - tomorrow, they would head back home for the holidays, if only for a day or two. Nigel had given them access to a special advance that Tiberius had made using the portal - one that could open to two different locations in the present time. This teleporter would allow them to be home for one instant, then back at the park the next. As they already had one last rescue planned before the new year came, it was vital to be sure that this machine worked. Luckily, it did.
Around the park, others were also hard at work preparing for the coming holidays. Suzanne and Bob were busy preparing a tree for the staff who weren't going home, assisted by Martha, the elephant herd, and the Zygolophodon. Some attempts to train them had been made, and for the most part, it had been successful. Already, the tusked herbivores were setting up ornaments all over the park.
In the Northern Tundra, the Wooly Rhinos were finding their grazing lands being occupied by a well known holiday animal: reindeer, otherwise known as Caribou. The only deer to have antlers regardless of gender, these creatures could be driven away from the rhinos using a show of force, but only for so long. Occasionally, the Megaloceros would wander amongst the herds, using their antlers to secure the choice grazing spots. Foxes and wolves observed all this from a distance, hoping for a potential meal that would never come.
The rest of the residents, though, were baffled as to what was going on around them. Predators unaccustomed to human activity wondered what all the fancy lights were for, whilst herbivores could only meekly retreat as the humans rearranged the world around their exhibits. Even the newly arrived residents from Nublar, some of whom saw humans as edible morsels, knew better than to go after such single-minded workers.
Only the aquatic residnets were unaffected by this activity, but for how long this lasted was up in the air - you never knew how humans would act.
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Nigel's team is on a tight deadline - they only have a few hours to finish this mission before its time for the team to head home. It is, quite literally, a race against time.
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As the portal opened, the team prepared to venture into the past. Consequently, they barely had time to roll out of the way when a giant bear and sloth tumbled into the exhibit. As the two creatures suddenly realized they were not in California anymore, a trio of darts knocked each beast out cold. The team only glanced at them for a moment before charging into the past - they had not the time for this!
As the team thundered into the past, the staff began to move the knocked out mammals into examination pens, careful to avoid harming each one. You did not want to hurt sleeping animals, as doing so carried the titanicm if rather obvious, rsik of waking them up. And when the animals in question were, respectively, a giant ground sloth and a bear, the results of that happening could be...catastrophic, to say the least.
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AN: Christmas chapter, should have uploaded earlier, sorry.
Read and Review! Merry Christmas! This is Flameal15k, signing off!
