Carrion-eating megafauna of the African plains

The wildlife of the future, the human-deprived African continent is largely dominated by a variety of differentially specialized primates. Being the evolutionary most successful group, they covered all possible ecological niches, ranging from enormous grazers to voracious predators. This is why, and by analogy to the Planet of the Apes, this unique biosphere was called the Planet of the Primates. The African plains throughout the continent and especially the Serengeti ecosystem became a scene of annual herd migrations because of the changing, drier and warmer climate. These migrating herds on the other hand became a constant source of food to predators, but also carrion eaters. The evolutionary process also shifted toward larger scavengers, most of which happened not to be primates.