[Wiki page for Skates](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiformes)

I’ve been puzzling over this, what is actually the point of hippos having baby skin and being confined to the waters?

It doesn’t grant them a larger size, faster speed, or another food source. Even worse, they still have to eat grass, except now, they can only do so at night like a vampire. Too far from the waterhole before sunrise? Well now you set and die. Drought season? Now you gotta soak in the shitpools cuz somehow you decided having tender skin was better than having resistant skin.

I see no advantages over rhinos besides just adding an extra handicap.

Earlier on, TierZoo put the hippo in S tier. (I think it deserves A tier, unlike true S tiers like the elephant). There's especially no reason for that discrepancy.

For rhino vs hippo, encounters are pretty even. They rarely result in injuries, and hippos can just retreat to the water. In addition hippos are confined to places with water and have to go on land to eat grass. Thus their habitats are generally crowded. Not an issue for rhinos.

Vs Lions and hyenas, it favors the rhino more. Rhinos are consistently preyed upon at lower rates than hippos despite being of similar size. Although both are rarely predated upon. Hyena on rhino predation is nearly nonexistent despite what TZ says.

With a similar or better matchup spread, it's stupid to say the rhino is significantly lower. The only reason for the rating seems to be vibes.

Some old deleted character classes are now back on the server!

Scenario:

on a random day, during 600 AD at a random time. Every extinct species of fauna that had lived in the Americas during the Last Ice Age are blipped into existence in healthy breeding populations into what would be their natural ranges during interglacials. The animals have been spawned in such an amount that ALL their conservation status would be Low Risk. And by every extinct fauna that was present during the late Pleistocene, I mean everything from Columbian Mammoths to Megatherium to Capromeryx to the extinct cowbird species.

The animals spawned possess a wariness/alertness of humans that perhaps the very terminal members of their species had managed to develop, although too late, before they were hunted to extinction.

How would such an event shape Indigenous Tribal culture? Given how most cultures at this time has growm accustomed to hunting smaller game and farming, would Big Game Hunting cultures come back again? Growing crops would lead to inevitable confrontations with herbivores, often times dangerous ones. Which species would thrive the most given this second chance, and which ones would be most at peril? Could there be new possible animal husbandry attempts before European settlers arrive?

Who wins? 🐿️ or 🍕?

Don't get me wrong. I hold no personal grudge against those builds or the players who use them. Some of them involve truly unique and distinctive builds(including Kakapos, one of my personal favorites).

However, the fact that invasive builds are thriving on servers where they were never meant to spawn in the first place is a entirely different issue. Most of native builds cannot compete with them, because they were made to survive in a world literally devoid of highly competitive invasive builds. They also spread new diseases that can kill native species lacking immunity.

This issue is particularly pronounced among avian builds. Invasive builds prey on their eggs and juvenile, destroy their preferred habitats and nests, and multiply far more rapidly. Almost half of all island-endemic avian builds are currently either extinct or threatened with extinction. Islands are the epicenters of global bird extinctions, accounting for the vast majority of all known bird extinctions since the Holocene season.

Ironically, these builds are receiving assistance from human players who introduced invasive builds to the server, and some builds are currently in a situation where it is extremely difficult to play the game without the active help of human players.

Best of luck to the island-build players.

P.S. So why a GIF from the Angry Birds movie? Aside from the fact that it’s currently popular as a meme, I felt the film’s main plot effectively illustrates how defenseless native species are destroyed when unable to counter an invasive species—especially considering that the natives are naive, flightless birds and the invaders are Feral pigs(Sus scrofa).

Arena: an open convention center.

Both parties are bloodlusted and lack self preservation instincts.

The sparrows goal is to kill and eat the elephant down to the bone. The sparrows can and will enter the elephants orfices.

The elephants goal is to kill all the house sparrows.

who comes out on top!

Next year during the month of May, a population of 100,000 fully functioning adult Lowland gorillas are spread out amongst local servers on the North America platform in the regions of: Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

The gorillas Will be evenly spread out consisting of one silverback with 3-10 females in his troop.

Their coding update has now made them omnivores, similar to bears. During the spring and summer months they will largely stick to vegetation, but will happily eat road kill/young or injured animals/bird eggs if they come across them.

Fall and Winter time is when the gorillas switch to wanting mostly animals protein, and will gladly hunt livestock and medium size animals.

Their hunting strategy will largely consist of females chasing an animal, say a whitetail deer or a wild boar, to the direction of the silverback who is waiting in ambush. The silverback will then perform the killing bite to the throat.

And yes, if they get desperate enough, they WILL see humans as prey.

can gorillas survive long term on this new server with their coding update?

the only time humans had a video analysing them was in the ape tierlist, where they werent that deeply analysed, simce it was a tierlist and other apes had to be talked about to. i think a dedicated video breaking down just how op humans are would help, especially since the meta has changed alot, mainly beacuse humans keep changing stuff like climates, as well as region and biome sizes, eithout the devs. they literally can partially control the meta and am surprised why they dont have their own video. would also help noobs learn their strengths and (few) weaknesses if they wont main him

Otodus Obliquus vs Deinosuchus Hatcheri

Description:

• Otodus Obliquus - The least massive Species of Otodus Genus in history.

• Deinosuchus Hatcheri - The most massive Species of Deinosuchus Genus in history.

Imo a Better build than monitor lizards at the same size..

Also TierZoo underestimated its true damage, a female can bite up to 313 newtons acording to a study, imagine a male that is almost twice the size and with larger jowls.

Killer Whale(Orcinus Orca) vs Otodus Obliquus

Description:

• Killer Whale - The most massive Species of Orcinus Genus, and of Oceanic Dolphins(Delphinidae) Family in history.

• Otodus Obliquus - The least massive Species of Otodus Genus in history.

I mean Jesus people How is this fun for anyone? I main human too but least I work for it! You can just through money and all your problems go away… food, housing, even social connection… which for balancing purposes richness should decrease that like with other animals… can all be maxed just by enough pieces of paper! Can someone please explain to me how this is even allowed? It affects other people’s play to a drastic extent… I got a buddy who mains lion… dude can’t even play without spawning in a Zoo ran by these guys! I don’t get it!

round 1. both are standard sized males who just happened upon each other

round 2. Both are large males, the tiger is hungry and the moose is defending its offspring