![]() ![]() Surviving plants would be almost entirely wind- or insect-pollinated and their fruits would have to appeal to the surviving mammals. In ten thousand years the world would be recovering from the damage. I don't know how severe it'd be, perhaps not quite enough to compete with the Big Five, but a mass extinction nonetheless. Plants would be without seed dispersers and pollinators, surviving animals would be without their prey, communities dependent on guano for fertilizer would starve. Given all the niches flying and gliding mammals and especially birds fill, their sudden disappearance would cause a mass extinction no doubt.
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