History Characters / TheFutureIsWild

* StockSoundEffect: Their young make bear cub cries.

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: A baby Scrofa (or scroflet) escapes instant death from the jaws of a Gryken, but gets lost in the confusion. Separated from its family, it wanders the salty desert below. It wouldn't be able to drink any water from the scarce lakes that dot the salt flats, since they're hyper-saline and therefore lethal, containing 10 times more salt than modern day saltwater. It finally meets it end, when it succumbs to the hellish heat. Becoming Gryken chops never looked better.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: The spiders feed Poggles with seeds without harming it. This is to fatten up the poor thing so that it will make a meal for the queen.

* ImmuneToFire: The scales covering its back allow it endure wildfires without issue by simply hunkering down as the flames go over them.

* WhyDoesItHaveToBeSnakes: It's eventually revealed that he has Claustrophobia - fear of being in small spaces.

* PrehistoricAnimalAnalogue: Of terror birds and raptorial dinosaurs..

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The franchise only portrays them as eating Flish, which are ''thousands'' of times smaller than the squid. Unless they also eat larger varieties of Silver Swimmers, there's no way they'd be able to sustain themselves on such tiny fare. But they might very well eat the big Silver Swimmers, judging by how common they are. Also, modern cephalopods can change colour just like the Rainbow Squid does.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of hopping mice and wallabies, being a herbivore living in arid areas that moves around by hopping.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of the evolutionary arms race between prey and predator. It also references Island Gigantism and the evolution of giant insects during the previous "greenhouse Earth" in the Carboniferous.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of the evolutionary arms race between prey and predator.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of full adaptation of once aquatic groups to land and once again, the evolutionary trend towards greater size. In practice, the Megasquid is equivalent to the first giant reptiles of the previous Pangaea.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: In the companion book the Poggle is not the last, but one of "a few" last mammals, only described as "strange, highly specialized creatures".

** Despite the PersecutionFlip involved (or oddly because of it), of rodents being the most successful and adaptable mammals ever. 100 million years on, rodents are still there and have colonized a completely new environment and niche, even if both are kind of pathetic.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of neoteny, in particular in the context of the early evolution of vertebrates; and as successors to fish, of the emergence of new dominant classes in the oceans that completely replace previous ones (like how jawless fish replaced trilobites, then were replaced by jawed armored fish, the by jawed unarmored fish).

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of large flying predators and carrion eaters.

* AllegoricalCharacter: Of endlings, the notion that even a dominant group of animals can be reduced to just one relict species over geological time, followed by complete extinction. So suck it, mammals.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of seabirds.

* ShesGotLegs: They're very long.

* TurtlePower: ''Gigantic'' descendants of tortoises, the adults of which have no predators due to their massive size and power.

* BlobMonster: They're a form of slime mold. 200 million years have made it more... everything. Bigger, creepier, and even ''smarter.''

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of polar bears and sabre-toothed cats. Oddly also of Komodo dragons, as they are also stereotyped as wounding and tracking their prey rather than killing it outright (though reality is more complex). This was also once a theory on how the most derived sabertooth cats like ''Smilodon'' hunted, though it was already becoming obsolete when the show was made.

* {{Portmanteau}}[=/=]PunnyName: Baboon + Uakari.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the terror bird. Or quite possibly the velociraptor.

* {{Portmanteau}}[=/=]PunnyName: Caracara + Killer.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the sauropod dinosaurs. They've even evolved to have their legs positioned directly underneath them, like the actual sauropods once did.

* {{Portmanteau}}[=/=]PunnyName: Terra (as in earth)+ Termite. Also, it's a pun on the word terabyte.

* {{Portmanteau}}[=/=]PunnyName: Flying + Fish.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the shark, obviously. Though as they are implied to be smarter and more social than current sharks, they may be better counterparts of killer whales and dolphins.

* {{Portmanteau}}[=/=]PunnyName: Shark + Psychopath

* {{Portmanteau}}[=/=]PunnyName: Bumblebee + Beetle.

* FantasticFaunaCounterpart: Of the ''Cordyceps'' fungus.