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A Fictional Description of a Species in its Environment
If it were in the 20th or 21st century, the animal feeding in the meadows would be described as a horse, but a slightly mutated version of it. For purposes of fiction, let’s call it the ‘hortant’. It is rather well-built and could be confused for a tall adult male hippopotamus weighing around 1500 kg. It has hooves, similar to that of its ancestor, the horse but they are more extensive in stature, with an approximate additional girth of 0.5 meters. Even before one sees the creature, they will be alerted by its chewing and loud swallowing as it has extra teeth at the front of its mouth. When approaching the ‘hortant’, the resemblance of its skin to that of a seal is quite striking. See, its surface in most parts is not covered with hair but with blubbers of fat with the occasional hair strand peeking out. Its tail is much shorter than its predecessor with the most hair on its body covering its nether regions. This mammal is the result of years of allopatric speciation when an unexpected continental drift with harsh climatic conditions makes one species different from the rest.
You see, much can be said about the ‘hortant’, but failing to mention its eyes would be an error. Its eyeballs rotate 360 degrees on its sockets, much like a chameleon. Furthermore, the rims of its eyeballs are surrounded with multi-layers to shield it from the season. Its environment could be brutally cold or warm, depending on the sun’s position. Its hooves have hidden claws to help it forage for nuts in the dead ground after the leaves and grass fade away in the dead of winter. At this time, the rays of a warm Summer day burst through the meadows where the ‘hortant’ eats, giving life to a wealth of green grass. For now, the animal will feed on the lush grass and convert it into fat for as soon as the Summer exits; a harsh season follows suit. Allopatric speciation occurs when members of a family like birds, fish or animal are separated geographically hence have to adapt to their climate. In this case, the focus is on the Equus Caballus, otherwise known as a horse in the English language.
The environment this unique animal finds itself in does not exalt in a specified duration of seasons. Still, it slightly oscillates according to the moon’s rotation and other solar system generics. Repeated reproductive cycles due to the geographical isolation lead to an animal with independently rotating eyes to search for predators and food concurrently. Successive adaptations and hybridization lead to a complex where the animal is suited to survive on land and in water. The reduction of hair on the ‘hortant’s body is to allow it to swim frictionless in the seas to search for seaweed essential for its survival. With a full foot, it can face off its attackers and deal deadly blows to them to allow it to make its escape. As Darwin said, speciation could be categorized as a mystery of all mysteries (Price, 289). The resultant effect in this study is an animal with chemical DNA similar to its counterparts. However, ecological imbalance is remarkably different.
With the imbalance of the environment, little wing structures are developing at its side. In a few hundred years, the animal will learn how to fly. To spot its food from the skies to enable it to survive, but it will still find its home on land.
Works Cited
Price, Trevor. “Allo-parapatric speciation goes offshore.” National Science Review 6.2 (2019): 289-289.