In truth, the animals of Stranglethorn Vale were not distributed exactly as they were in the game, with clear boundaries separating one species' territory from another. In reality, gorillas and other animals were often found throughout Stranglethorn Vale. For instance, the Gryphon Riders had spotted several tigers around this gorilla valley.
Those tigers did not dare come down the mountains and venture into the valley lightly, however. Many troops of gorillas lived there; it was the territory of those giant gorillas, those Tarzan the Ape-Men. Tigers were solitary hunters, not fools. Naturally, they would not casually venture down to hunt and risk provoking those great troops of ape-men.
Overall, though, the areas where particular animals congregated were not very different from those in the game. That was probably due to the food and environment! This valley, for instance, had plenty of tall fruit trees but no pools of standing water, so there were no crocodiles, cold-eyed lizards, or other water-loving animals in sight.
But whenever someone traveled through the thorny jungle, there was one danger they could encounter almost anywhere: thorn vines.
These plants looked like grotesque masses of enormous vines hung with fleshy sacs. Any person or animal that entered their attack range would be entangled by long vines covered in thorns.
Once the vines wrapped around someone, their thorns would pierce the victim's body and secrete a potent paralytic poison, leaving them powerless without killing them immediately.
Then the flowers that grew on the thorn vines like fleshy sacs-or perhaps they were the plant's leaves-would envelop the victim. They would secrete a highly corrosive fluid inside, dissolving the victim into bloody liquid that the thorn vines would absorb completely.
Of course, these plants did not only catch people. They caught animals too, large and small. That was why