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>Australian forests evolved to burn every few years. Except that seems to have happened after they started burning them. >Any megafauna living in Australia wo
by jojobas 3y ago
>Australian forests evolved to burn every few years.
Except that seems to have happened after they started burning them.
>Any megafauna living in Australia would know how to survive a forest fire (as modern fauna in Australia does), because they'd experience them regularly.
As per above, not really. Also as many animals worldwide experienced, surviving a bush fire is not as hard as surviving a bald ape with a pointed stick.
https://theconversation.com/how-aboriginal-burning-changed-australias-climate-4454 https://theconversation.com/how-aboriginal-burning-changed-a...