The Future is Wild (2007 TV series)

***The Future Is Wild*** is a Canadian children's animated television series developed by Nelvana, Teletoon and IVL Animation in association with Discovery Kids and directed by Mike Fallow. Based on the documentary miniseries of the same name and serving as an extension of the same franchise, it aired for one season on Discovery Kids from October 13, 2007 to July 5, 2008.

The animated series, much like the documentary, is meant to encourage viewers to think about the future of the planet, but this time is devoted primarily to children and future science is woven into stories about time travel. Creatures speculated about in the original series are utilized, albeit with highly fictionalized elements. Portions of the original *The Future Is Wild* team returned to work on this series as well.

## Premise

10,000 years in the future, humanity is threatened by a mega ice age. Cassiopeia G (nicknamed C.G. or "Ceeg" by her friends) is sent on a time machine called the Time Flyer to find a new habitat for humanity. While in the Northern Forest, a Squibbon has stowed away on the Time Flyer, accidentally transporting C.G. to the 21st century. Once there, C.G. is greeted by three kids, Ethan, Emily and Luis, who accompany her on her mission.

## Characters

 CG's father | Cedric Smith | CG's father informs CG of what the crew's mission objectives are in each environment. He doesn't know that Squibbon is with them until "Sweet Home Pangaea II". It is often shown he doesn't approve of C.G. brining Ethan, Emily, and Luis along, often calling them "primitives". Like his daughter, his eyes are blue and has lines under his right eye.

## Animals

### 5 million years

#### Amazon Grasslands

* **Babookaris** - A type of long-legged plains-dwelling monkey that travels in troops. Featured in episodes 11, 18, 24, and 26.
* **Carakillers** - 7-foot-tall carnivorous birds that hunt in packs. Featured in episodes 11, 18, 24, 25 and 26.
* **Rattleback** - An armored rodent that uses its plated armor for defense. Featured in episodes 11 and 26.

#### Northern European Ice

* **Shagrat** - A large rodent that is built for the cold and travels in herds for protection. Featured in episodes 12 and 25.
* **Snowstalker** - A saber-toothed mustelid and the environment's top predator. Featured in episodes 12, 20 and 26.
* **Gannetwhale** - An enormous flightless bird that lives in the ocean. Featured in episodes 20 and 25.

### 100 million years

#### Bengal Swamp

* **Lurkfish** - Predatory fish that kill with electricity. Featured in episodes 1, 5 and 6.
* **Swampus** - A swamp-dwelling octopus that can live on land. Featured in episodes 1, 5, 6 and 17.
* **Toraton** - A dinosaur-sized tortoise and the largest creature in the swamp. Featured in episodes 4, 5, 10, 17, and 25.

#### Antarctic Forest

* **Roachcutters** - Colorful forest-dwelling flutterbirds. Featured in episodes 2, 16, 17, and 22.
* **Spitfire birds** - Colorful flutterbirds that spray acid for defense. Featured in episodes 2, 16, 17, 22, and 25.
* **Spitfire beetles** - Predatory beetles that work in groups. Featured in episode 2.
* **Falconflies** - Predatory wasps that prey on flutterbirds. Featured in episodes 2, 16, 17, and 23.
* **False spitfire bird** - Flutterbirds that mimic the spitfire birds to ward off predatory falconflies. Featured in episode 16.

#### Great Plateau

* **Great Blue Windrunner** - Large blue birds that sail and live on the highest points of the plateau. Featured in episodes 3, 11 and 25.
* **Silver Spiders** - Spiders that gather seeds to farm and feed poggles. Featured in episodes 7, 12 and 17.
* **Poggle** - The last mammal on earth, dwelling in the caverns of the silver spiders. Featured in episodes 7 and 17.

#### Shallow Seas

* **Reef Gliders** - Swimming sea slugs that prey on ocean phantoms. Featured in episodes 8, 17 and 25.
* **Ocean Phantoms** - A colonial jellyfish that sails on the ocean and carries an army of sea spiders. Featured in episodes 8, 15, 17 and 25.
* **Spindletroopers** - Sea spiders that live on and protect the ocean phantom from attack. Featured in episodes 8 and 15.

### 200 million years

#### Central Desert

* **Terabytes** - Future termites that store water in underground caverns. Featured in episodes 9, 13 and 19.
* **Garden Worms** - A worm that harvest algae on its leafy lobes, which the terabytes collect. Featured in episodes 9, 13 and 19.
* **Slickribbons** - A transparent predatory worm that lives in underwater caverns. Featured in episode 19.
* **Gloomworm** - A simple worm that lives in underwater caverns and prey of the slickribbon. Featured in episode 19.

#### Northern Forest

* **Squibbons** - Arboreal cephalopods that live in trees. Featured in episodes 1-26.
* **Forest Flish** - A bird-like fish that flies and hangs from trees. Featured in episodes 14, 21, 23 and 24.
* **Megasquid** - A five-meter squid that walks through the forest and preys on squibbons. Featured in episodes 10, 14, 21, 23, 24 and 25.
* **Slithersucker** - A parasitic slime mold that relies on the megasquid for reproduction. Featured in episodes 14, 21 and 23.

## Technology

* **Time Flyer** - The time machine and main use of transportation for the crew when traveling to the different future periods and locations. It is also their main base of operation and way for CG to communicate with her father.
* **Holodat** - A device used by CG to gather information and data on the future animals and habitats when out in the field.
* **Chameliographic helmet** - A helmet which, when worn, can allow one of the crew members to project a holographic image, whether it be of an animal or each other. Used in "Monkey Brains" and "Ghost in the Machine".
* **Robot crew** - CG's former crew. As revealed in "Be True to Your Crew", they were originally meant to be CG's sole source of companionship and scouting team meant to collect information on the future periods and animals. They were indirectly destroyed by Squibbon after he snuck on board.