Worldbuilding Wednesday 3/18/20: Carnivores

Thylacoleo carnifex

Thylacoleo carnifex, a megafauna marsupial predator. Art by Peter Schouten.

Exotic mammalian carnivores are heavily featured in SFF literature. William Rice Burroughs had his eight-legged, lion-like banth in his Barsoom series, and more recently Tomi Adeyemi took up the trope with her lionaires and leopardaires in Children of Blood and Bone and Children of Virtue and Vengeance. Prehistoric carnivores like the sabre-toothed tiger and short-faced bear once tortured our ancestors, and mythic beasts like the manticore and gryphon may be trace memories of these.

For this list I mashed up the names of terrestrial carnivores and added some additional modifiers. If you’re looking for a predator for some lost world or earth-like planet, here it is!

 

Carnivores

Polar Foxion

Pumhyena

Meercatel

Ginger-Maned Tigrina

Black-Maned Dholepard

Rusty-Crested Wildcat

Pampas Jaguarine

Bearfisher

Yellow-Ticked Racoonet

Red-Tailed Badger

Big-Eared Oncepard

Yellow-Crested Jungle Genet

Meercaroon

Catiger

Dingoroona

Gray-Crested Jaggerine

White-Spotted Fox

Ant-Eating Canival

Long-Tailed Musteiger

Bearot

Gray-Striped Pantherion

Black-Lipped Ottravine

Ferretion

Gray-Nosed Fisher

Red Genetine

Canipard

Mercafeli

Maned Bear

Ginger Ursverine

Martecoug

Crab-Eating Grizette

Little Marten

Brown Felival

Gray-Tailed Canivine

Dogerine

Serviger

Striped Dholeon

Black-Backed Dhole

 

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