The mammals inhabiting the lands of the Bird Empire, whose geography consists predominantly of deserts, savannas, and sclerophyll forests.

A medium sized herbivore found in open forests. While it may resemble a horse from a distance, it is actually quite different from it both in niche and anatomy. Ancylotherium is robust in build and forelimbs are equipped with three large claws. While usually used for grasping branches of trees, they can and will use them as formidable weapon. At first they may look slow and docile, allowing hunters to get quite close to them. But the moment you hurt them they are ready to tear you apart without hesistation. Adult Machairodus have been known to die from a single strike by ancylotherium's powerful forelimbs and claws.

Skeletal restoration of a species from a widespread Schizotheriine chalicothere genus that lived in Eurasia and Africa 11-1.8 million years ago from the late Miocene to the early Pleistocene. Since I couldn’t find a single skeletal reconstruction of this creature anywhere on the web, I decided to do one myself and some of the postcranial elements are based on the related Moropus of Miocene North America.

Ancylotherium - Walking with Beasts (2001)

As prehistoric megafauna go, Ancylotherium is less well-known than its slightly larger relatives Chalicotherium and Moropus, owing any popularity it has to a cameo appearance on the popular BBC show Walking with Beasts. Ancylotherium was a perissodactyl (odd-toed ungulate) remotely related to modern horses and tapirs; however, it and its fellow "chalicotheres" looked unlike any other modern mammals, with their horse-like heads and longer front than hind limbs (at least Ancylotherium doesn't appear to have walked on its knuckles, as Chalicotherium did). Notably, fossils of Ancylotherium have been found in the same areas of southern and eastern Africa populated by hominids, the early, direct ancestors of modern humans.

Sivatherium - a bigass giraffid, sort of like a 7.5 foot okapi with elaborate, antler-looking ossicones.  Ossicones are calcified cartilage and remain covered in skin and fur instead of being exposed like antlers.