Canis+Mira+Auditu

<-Modern Animal **CANIS MIRA AUDITU**

The Canis Mira Auditu is a descendant from the coyote, and inhabits the earth 150 years from now. Many features of the coyote still exist, but new things have evolved into this animal that helps it to survive in the future world. It has grown in size up to about 1meters long and 70 cm’s tall. This muscular beast weighs about 40 kg due its superior muscles grown in their legs. Mia Auditu means “extraordinary hearing” in Latin which explains the size of the ears on this omnivore. Canis is Latin for “dog”, which sums it up as a dog who has extraordinary hearing skills.

= HABITAT =

is picture is an estimate of where the tectonic plates have moved and what earth would look like in 150 million years after. They are still mainly located around the area of North America and slowly made its way to the tips of S outh America as you can see the two continents are joining. As islands get closer, the Canis Mira Auditu will make its way over to Greenland up north. The habitat the Canis Mira Auditu will live in is much more warmer habitat than it was before due to global warming caused by humans.

During the future period, the climates would have risen by alot. In comparison with now, the weather would rise by 15 degrees Celsius, this is all caused by global warming made by the humans. With these weather conditions, there is practically no winter and the furs of the Canis Mira Auditu will shorten to adapt to this. The Canis Mira Auditu will still be a ver y adaptable animal that can live any where except deserts. They would no longer be able to live in woodlands like its ancestor the coyote due to deforestation, many jungles, forests will no longer exist and only certain areas have trees. Their main habitat will become grasslands, scrubs, swamps. Still being a omniv ore, by being easily adapted to different surroundings and habitats it can eat meat when available, or plants/berries/fruits which gives it a better survival rate from finding different varieties of foods.

The desc endant of the coyote; Canis Mira Auditu will still stay in the same range of area in Norrth America. The predators of the Canis Mira Auditu would be the descendants of the lion and mainly men who would go hunt them. How ever, Canis Mira Auditu will be able to run at fast speeds and and being at the size of 1meter ~ 1 meter 20, it does not really get affected by their predators.

Being a omnivore just like the chimpanzee the swamps, scrubs, grasslands will provide some trees and bushes to the Canis Mira Auditu to eat nuts and fruits with food is scarce during winter, it may also eat small mammals when foods are not as scarce. Their future prey will be the descendants of insects, arachnids, rabbits, deer, big horn sheep, chickens, and sheep.

= ADAPTATIONS =

= STRUCTURAL: =

**LONG EARS** This canis mira auditu will have longer ears for extraordinary hearing and for regulating their body temperature as the future is really warm. It will be sharp and pointy like a tall diamond that always erects which alerts animal 24/7 of predators or prey enabling them to hear up to 3 kms away. With extraordinary hearing skills it will help the canis mira auditu to avoid predators and also have a higher rate of catching prey such as birds, reptiles, fish. With a larger ear, it will be also is easier for it to regulate its body temperature where it can cool down easier in the hot weather. Rete mira bile which is a complex of intermingled arteries and veins; is located in the ear which will help them sweat and regulate body temperature. The movement and the position of the ears will allow them to communicate their moods. This adaptation helps the Canis Mira Auditu to survive because in such weathers, a canine with fur all over its body needs to cool off, sweat, regulate body temperature and the only way they are able to do that is by the ear or palms.

The environmental pressure that led to this adaptation is cooling down in such climates along with the use of more blood vessels. The larger the ear, the more vessels it has which helps cool down, regulate its body temperature. By cooling down it can slower the heart rate so it can rest and regain and store its energy for later use.

**LONG MUSCULAR LEGS** Their long muscular legs will help them run long and short distances at a very fast speed. These long legs will allow the canis mira auditu to run up to 80km/h which help its catch larger prey’s such as antelope, bears alone along with vampire sharp like fangs. These will also enable them to climb low leveled trees to rest and stay in the shade, catch smaller prey etc. Although they have big muscular legs, the implication of this is that they will have to rest often. These muscular legs will make the Canis Mira Auditu an excellent swimmer where they can also cool them selves off by swimming in swamps. This adaptation will help the animals survive by allowing them to catch bigger, fast animals since food is scarce in those climates. The environmental pressure that led to this is the scarcity of small animals. Due to deforestation, many small animals that once lived on trees e.g birds, lizards have all disappeared which was once the Canis Mira Auditu’s Diet. Now they need to hunt larger animals such as the __grizzly bear__  which requires faster speeds to catch.

The difference between the legs of the coyote and this current animal is the length and size. Even though the coyotes legs and long and slender they are not very muscular like the Canis Mira Auditu. The length has also increased since this current animal can run an extra 20km/h faster than the coyote. With the increase size in the hind legs, the bones such as the Tibia and Femur also thicken which gives them higher density in the in the bones.The higher the bone density, the probability of a fracture will lessen.

Similarly to the Teriyaki Turkey, Canis Mira Auditu will have long claws and sharp teeth to help it tear and chew meat easily. Along with the eating/hunting, these claws can be used to dig deeper, bigger and safer dens for it to sleep in and nurse their youngs. These claws can also assist the Canis Mira Auditu to climb low leveled trees for hunting. This adaptation helps Canis Mira Auditu to easily rip open meat, digest it faster. Also allows them grip onto the tree bark when climbing trees. These sharp claws may also assist the Canis Mira Auditu to dig deeper and bigger dens for it to sleep in and rest to avoid sun and predators.
 * LONG CLAWS **

The environmental pressure that led to this adaptation is urban sprawl that led to deforestation. With digger deeper dens it can help protect the Canis Mira Auditu. With less tall trees found, they are only able to rest/hunt on low leveled trees and due to the scarcity of trees, there are less birds, lizards, small animals that lead the Canis Mira Auditu to hunt down bigger animals with alot of meat.

= BEHAVIOURAL: = =** SOLITARY **= = They like hunting and living alone. With such strong hunting and adaptable skills, it is easy for the Canis Mira Auditu to survive alone. The only times it interacts with other Canis Mira Auditu’s is during mating season around February to June. After the pups are able to survive on the own through hunting trainings the male leaves the female to continue on his life. Since climates are warmer in the future, food becomes more scarce. When food is scarce they do not like to share, they need more energy and so living alone is more preferred. This behaviour give Canis Mira Auditu a higher survival rate, with not sharing food, they have more nutrition, more meat supplies more energy. The environmental pressure that led to this adaptation is the scarcity of food where many animals that have not survive due to the increase in climate change. =

= PHYSIOLOGICAL: =

**HEART RATE** = Canis Mira Auditu’s have a very fast heartrate on average around 100 -320 beats per minute (bpm) which is relatively faster than its ancestor the coyote at about 60-160 beats per minute (bpm). With a heart the size of two adult human fists that pumps a fast heart rate, it can produce more oxygen to circulate its body, they can breathe better when running up to high speeds. Due to the climate, it is very hot during afternoons where the canis mira auditu rests in shades or their dens in accompany of its big ears helping it cool/sweat and regulate body temperature. As well as that, when resting under trees or underground dens, the Canis Mira Auditu has a lower heart rate when resting so they can restore energy and reuse it when out hunting or running. = = A possible environmental pressure that led to this adaptation is having enough oxygen to run at very fast speeds white hunting. By having a high oxygen circulation in the body, the Canis Mira Auditu can run at high speeds from predators and to catch prey. =

= = =PRESSURE TO EXTINCTION:= = The Canis Mira Auditu may contribute to extinction due to the weather and deforestation. A main problem with the world right now is deforestation and global warming. Global warming increases the climate, and deforestation takes trees away thus producing less clean oxygen for the population and may also destroy habitats for animals. As a canine, full of fur it is only able to sweat and cool down from the paws and the ears. The fur protects the animals skin so that may not change, but having fur the animal may become too hot. With deforestation increasing, many small mammals that lived on trees will either die out or move locations. T he Canis Mira Auditu will starve since these small mammals are their main diet. Therefore, with increasing change in climate, the possible pressure to extinction is weather and deforestation. = = =

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