Anthro furry in African history civilization

Fred Patten’s notes and introduction sets this up to be a book about national animals, but, half of the time, it feels like stories just happen to have animals that have been national animals before, but it’s not really relevant to the story. The theme genuinely gets lost in the anthology at points showing herbivores and carnivores struggling survive without food in Middle East like Zootopia's Sahara .

Hollywild had Harambe and Zootopia away too much about the story. found myself reading the story and then going back to read the note, rather than the intended use. However, the introduction was a solid idea for a great anthology.