Wild Airliners

This is a serious picture and to understand it please read the description. thank you.

NOTE: A lot of time was spent watching various documentaries to help broaden my ideas in my Living Machines.

You all remember my character Gary who's a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737-800 theangryfishbed.deviantart.com… well if you do know him he's one of the few living airliners that once lived and worked alongside humans before the Apocalypse. (Actually thinking of making a few more characters)

**Note: This information goes for ALL Airliners not just the Boeing 737 that's shown in the image above. I just drew it because I wanted to draw it and I like the 737. But it's also one of major survivors from the 2015 Apocalypse in the Wild Skies series.

FACTS: Airliners are probably the most abundant species on the planet, varying in different size and shapes. They're so abundant that humans domesticated them and made them a primary form of transportation to get from place to place. Later variations of Airliners and even new sub-species were created from humans that started selectively breeding them.

Diet: They're primarily Herbivores and due to the immense size of some airliners they have to eat tons of vegetation everyday to maintain that bulk, this means they're on a constant search for food. They'll eat any type vegetation from tall grasses, shrubbery, and Foliage from low hanging trees. On some cases they're capable of doing so they'll use their size and weight to knock trees down to get to the fresh leaves on the top. They don't chew, they just tear off the leaves and swallow it whole but they do swallow small stones called Gastroliths to help break up the vegetation in their gut to aid with digestion.
**Humanity took advantage of this by placing major airports very close to primary feeding grounds around the world.
Social Structure: In the wild they're a species that travels in vast herds of up to 30 individuals, but they're not exactly that social. They mainly travel in herds for mutual protection since they're a major prey item for more predatory aircraft. This does not mean they wont protect a member who's in trouble but that determines the threat at that moment. Their sheer size and grouping together is their best defense.
Breeding: Like majority of the aircraft living throughout the world airlines lay eggs which are the size of a watermelon. unlike most aircraft however, airliners don't nest they just lay a clutch of 12 to 15 eggs and hope that one survives. So when they hatch the hatchlings have to fend for themselves right away but they grow quickly as they eat and bulk up, though the life expectancy for hatchlings are low out of an entire clutch only one will be lucky to survive.
After the Apocolypse: The airliners were the hardest hit due to the fact that their main food supply practically disappeared, Most of all the Captive airliners are gone except for a select few, and the numbers of wild airliners were drastically weeded out. of all the airliners around the world the largest ones went extinct, there's just not enough food to support very large herbivores. For the survivors they're a lot smaller than their ancestors and can go a lot longer without food or water.  (Example: normal size of a Boeing 737-100 is length: 94 ft/28.65m, height: 36 ft 10in/11.23m, weight: 62,000 lb/28,100kg, The surviving 737-100s would be half that size)
the airliners do somewhat make a come back as the Earth recovers and surviving humans begin getting involved with them again.


**Majority of the facts used are true and have been used by different animals species now and in the past, so it's only natural that living machines would adopt something similiar if they're suppose to be "living" creatures that were not created by man. Oh and before I forget, Living Aircraft are warm blooded.

Anyway I am pretty happy how this came out even the description I find appealing and hope you enjoy it too. Not sure if I'll make this 737 a character but I might, and I still don't know what inspired his color scheme. But do note that my Living Machines are more like animals than humans, there's a lot of problems with them if they strictly acted like humans. 1. Generic and overly used. 2. It would just be another knock-off of Cars and Planes.


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