After the melting of the Antarctic icesheet, life soon settled this continent and began evolve. Antarctica is home to the most unusual communities of creatures in the Allocene period.
The Gremlins (Scansoriopteridae) are a family of arboreal flightless bats endemic to the tropical and sub-tropical forests and grasslands of Antarctica. Gremlins have a number of adaptions allowing them to live in the trees; they have long arms and short legs, making them capable brachiates, an opposable digit on each hand and foot, stereoscopic vision, given their faces an almost simian appearance, and large brains, making then quite intelligent and very curious. They live in small organised sociable troops lead by a dominant male and female. Females give birth to one, often two, pups, which cling to her back until their old enough to be ind
Trolls (Elasmonopsinae) are large knuckle-walking flightless bats endemic to the tropical, sub-tropical and temperate forests of Antarctica. Trolls are in the same family as Gremlins and share a number of their features, including; long arms and short legs, opposable thumbs, intelligence, stereoscopic vision and an almost simian face. Trolls are less sociable than Gremlins, living in small groups of 4 or 6 adults and their young, and are mainly herbivorous, feeding on leaves, fruit, nuts, roots and tubers and edible fungi, occasionally eating eggs or scavenging meat from a carcass. Trolls will swallow small stones to aid in the digestio
Gargoyles (Cryptotheridae) are a family of arboreal flightless bats endemic to tropical, sub-tropical and temperate forests of Antarctica. Their common name comes from their hunting technique, similar to Frogmouths elsewhere in the world. Gargoyles sit atop a tree branch completely stationary, waiting patiently for their prey to come to them. Most Gargoyles are small and feed on insects and other invertebrates, but larger species feed on small birds and bats. Gargoyles are solitary, territorial and aggressive towards each other. Although their territorial displays consist of little more than opening their mouths wide and sticking out their to
Slothbats (Monodactylidae) also called Fruit-sloths, are a family of flightless Bats native to the tropical and sub-tropical forests of Antarctica. Despite being flightless, Slothbats are not related to the rest of Antarctica’s flightless Bats, instead they are descended from Fruit Bats. Slothbats get their common name from the single clawed digit, their thumb, that remains. They use their claws to aggresively defend themselves if necessary. The four digits that made up their wing are absent in females and form a small flag in males, which they flush red with blood to display to females and each other. Their legs have grown longer, stro
The Heart-nosed Bats (Cardiorhinidae) are a family of bats endemic to the tropical, sub-tropical and temperate forests of Antarctica. They are named for the phalanges that grow off their nose, fully encompassing it in a love-heart like shape. As Heart-nosed Bats echolocate nasally, these phalanges are believed to aid in echolocation. Their diet includes invertebrates, small birds and small mammals, depending on their size. They roost communally on the undersides of branches, large leaves and rocky overhangs and inside tree hollows and caves. Females give birth to a single pup that clings to either her under or upperside. They range between 3