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Originally Posted by kennyc
That's what I got as well. No birds, no fish, no insects even, though I find it somewhat difficult to accept that ONLY humans remain alive, surely some animals would be eating the humans (as per The Year of the Flood  ) and surviving. Humans unaware of the wild would likely be somewhat easy prey. |
He finds apples. Apples can't produce fruit without crosspollination. This would require insects of some kind. Of the larger animals, Homo sapiens is a highly successful species, and the book doesn't give impression that they'll disappear - even if many individuals don't make it through the change. Life on earth is very resilient and adaptable