How Advanced can Societies of Hooved Animals be?

Humans have come and gone. Their aggressiveness and pride have caused their own end. War has torn apart all society, engineered diseases pick them off one by one. The last remaining people have fled to the corners of the world. Some say they still live there, hunting and growing crops in primitive villages in the far-flung lands of Siberia, parts of Canada and Alaska, and Oceania. But as far as the rest of the world is concerned, they are long gone.

And the next ones up for civilization are the ungulates.

Many hooved animals already have fascinating and large social structures, and with the disappearance of their largest predator they have started to take on the task of society. Flocks of sheep rule the empty farms. Deer herds patrol the forests. Mustangs wage war against each other. Everyone is competing against their enemies for food, shelter, and safety. Fighting the huge buffalo and horses would be suicide for the weaker species, so they turn to cunning. The race for survival becomes a race of smarts and inventions start to form. Goats make herbal medicines, buffalo find out how to sharpen their horns. But even with the most advanced of innovations, the question still lingers:

How far can these fingerless ungulates advance? At what point is the limit?

posted over 5 years ago

GalaxyCat‭

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