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Ask The BellHunters; Hybrid Climate Complications
Dawn: Well, to be honest we don't really know yet.
Vernon: Paige is sorta the first...well, first in a long time in terms of really dramatic cross-species hybrids. And considerin' she's just a little over a year old, we're kinda...learnin's stuff as we go.
Dawn: While the door is sort of open now for hybrid lambs and pups and what have you, it's still quite hard to achieve depending on the genetic gap between the parent species. Granted, Paige being born has led to an...*ahem* uptick in mammals trying the old fashioned way more aggressively...at least, if some of the fan slash advice mail is anything to go on. But medical science has just really gotten started figuring things out in terms of hybrids, and I imagine it will take some time for them to create and offer medical procedures that can help with cross-species fertility and viability. I kind of imagine this is the kind of question we'll have more concrete answers for thirty to fifty years from now, when we actually have a number of examples to go by.
Vernon: That said, Paige seems fine...o' course both me and Dawn come from species that basically...share similar climates. Now iffin' Giselle and Wade somehow manage to have a pup...er' cow, er' whatever y'alld call it, maybe there'd be something to worry about.
Dawn: Goodness, can you imagine a ...Girolf? Waffe? It would be so tall...!
Vernon: Or, it'd be real short for somethin' that looked like a giraffe... *Chuckles*
Ask The Group; Heterochromia Iridium
Vernon: I can't say I know anyone with that condition...that's the one when y'all have two different eye colors right? Like one eye is blue and the other is green?
Joel: That's right, you see a lot of characters in Animalme with Heterochromia Iridium.
Gus: Yeah, cause it makes them 'more mysterious' or 'special' right?
Joel: I...would be lying if I said that was untrue. Depending on the anime clichés in place in a series, you can usually figure out if that's going to be a frequent design decision.
Nick: I'm pretty sure I know a mammal who works at the ZFD that has that condition.
Judy: Really?
Nick: It was either him or his mate...I can't entirely recall. It's not like I really enjoy hanging around the ZFD for obvious reasons.
Judy: We still have some pretty bad blood between us and the ZPD after the chili tasting contest fiasco a few months back. There was some...cross division sabotage on both sides and it made tensions between both sides higher than it's ever been.
Nick: And I know what your thinking, and no, I wasn't the ZPD's saboteur.
Judy: I'm kinda surprised Wolford would pull a trick like that. It was so out of left field...
Nick: I guess that rivalry between the ZFD and ZPD ran deeper than even we were aware of. Still, considering there was no telling who would be tasting who's chili, mixing in laxatives into the ZFD's dishes didn't go well for either side. I think it took a day tof hosing down the park just to clear out the stink...
Ask Ulric; Precious Bodily Fluids
Honey: Ully is...sort of past that now. I say sort of because he's...well...he's 'solved' the problem in his own 'unique way'.
Ulric: See, I know Honey is on my side. So I know she doesn't mean to steal my essence...
Honey: Uh-huh...
Ulric: It's just an unfortunate side effect of her attempts to properly mind meld with me...mind meld, geeze you guys probably don't understand.
Honey: Ever see Star Trot? The Volkcan mind meld thing? He thinks it's like that.
Ulric: I know it's like that! Except instead of a psychic connection, it's a physical one...that...feels...really...like really really good.
Honey: *Chuckles* I'll say...
Ulric: So while it give us the power to share memories and ideas through rut-melding, it still has the side effect of draining my vitality.
Honey: And calming him down significantly.
Ulric: Exactly! It' dulls my edge! Like those meds work forces me to take! But thankfully with the help of online supplements and caffeine I've been able to counteract the drain, making me even more of a force to be reckoned with.
Honey: It's mostly coffee and some sort of...weird Pandese 'vitamins' that...I'm not entirely trustworthy of. I mean, it says ground up dinosaur bones are a key ingredient in it, and-.”
Ulric: Exactly! It has the essence of the most powerful and vital creatures to ever walk Animalia! It makes me a sexual tyrannosaur!
Honey: Not that he needed help in that department anyway *Giggles* Ully's got stamina for days...
Ulric: The lizard creatures would never expect me to use the DNA of their very own ancestors against them. Clever, clever Ully...
Honey: Clever indeed...
Ask Vernon; Dreadful Company
Vernon: Well, first off, when it comes to actually goin' out to the work sites where mammal's er' puttin' my designs to use, I try to avoid goin' as much as possible. Usually I try to send Moira in my place, er' another one of my rodent co-workers. It ain't cause I'm afraid of takin' criticism personally, but I mean...it's a wolf thang. It took me well long enough to get the mammals around the office to look down their muzzle at me as little as they do now. But Goin' out to a work site? It's almost always new mammals, er' ones hired fer this specific job by the company that paid out fer the buildin'. Once they see I'm a wolf, I have to spend the first half hour reassurin' them I am the mammal that designed the buildin', and wait fer 'em to call the office and confirm. After that, it's all the more criticism, more so than they had even called about in the first place. At that point they start diggin' fer stuff to pick at just because I'm a wolf, and they're doublin' up their scrutiny cause they no longer trust the handiwork.
Oh course, in terms of mammals that are a consistent thorn in my side, I suppose I'd have to levy that title at one of the construction managers who gets called to a bulk of my design jobs named Bruce. That badger's been called to enough of my projects that we've come to recognize each other well enough, and while I don't get the impression he's got any species bias against me, the mammal is a damn stickler fer detail. We're talkin' about the kind of mammal who will look at a blueprint, and tell ya that all the molding installation is a eight of an inch too far into the room, and that it needs to be revised with less bulky molding to meet regulatory standards. Or that the slant of the roof is a millimeter above or below safety regulations. He seems like a nice enough fella casually. But whenever I turn up to a worksite and see him standin' there, I know I'm gonna be stress sheddin' like I'm losin' my winter coat by the end of the day.
Ask Dawn; Zootpia's Population Distribution
Dawn: Well, I've been out of office for some time now, so I don't exactly have the most recent census memorized, but I can at least give you some degree of a rough break down of the district populace.
The most densely populated district in Zootopia is the Savannah Central area, housing about 7 million mammals total. The other more well know districts, have significantly smaller populations by comparison, but they are still nothing to sneeze at. The next largest of them would be the Rainforest District at roughly 2.5 million mammals, followed by Tundratown at 2 million, and Sahara Square at 1.5 million. After that you've got Alpine Glade and The Meadowlands. The Meadowlands having about 1.2 million mammals living there, and Alpine Glade having around 800 thousand. Of course, if you break up the North Meadowlands into it's Northern and Southern areas, you'll find a majority of the million mammals live in the South Meadowlands, where as 200 thousand are scattered in increasingly smaller numbers the further you go north.
Of course, that's also not counting the mammals that live and work on Outback Island, or the Animalia fair island, as those are so big there is housing for some of the employees and guests. But that number would be miniscule.
I hope that was informative. Although that was going by what I remember 2016's numbers were. I imagine the 2020 census would show the number has grown to some degree.
Sunday, November 15, 2020
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