Wildlife

Setup

Each player chooses a species board at random and takes matching pawn . With 3, 4, or 5 players use these species:

3 Players: (Man OR Mammoth) AND ((Crocodile AND Eagle) OR (Bear AND Snake)). That is, any of the following combinations

4 Players: Crocodile, Eagle, Bear, Snake
5 Players: Man, Mammoth, and any other three. One species will be at relative advantage (i.e., able to expand in a terrain with no natural attacker):

Each player gets 8 Food points, 10 Wildlife cards and a number of species tiles (rest removed from game) depending on # players:

Remaining Wildlife cards from a draw pile.
Sort Adaptation tiles by terrain and type; set beside the board.
Sort the Ability Cards by type and set them beside the board.
Place the Purple Scoring Pawn on the purple dot left of the Big Scoring Track.
Place the 11 white pawns on the Small Scoring Track.
The start player is the person with the oldest organism (noted on player board); play proceeds to the left.
In turn order, players place their pawns on the score track, 1 per space, starting at space 1.
Players take turns placing their starting animals onto the board, one animal at a time.

Can place animals anywhere they can migrate, expand, or attack, with the following restrictions:

<>If an action results in an unscored area being completely filled with tokens, a Small Scoring takes place.
If the Small Scoring was a purple space on the board, a Big Scoring takes place.
<>At the end of your turn, draw back up to 10 cards.
Actions explained:

Terrain: The action(s) you may execute depend on your adaptation level for the terrain of the card.
Adaptation (Wheel): Improve your adaptation for any one terrain by one level. Migrate --> Expand --> Attack
Ability (Arrow): Take a new ability card (max 2 of same type); if desired type is not in supply, take it from player who's furthest along the score track. For ties, you choose from tied players.
Joker (Lightning Bolt): Choose to play as a Terrain, Adaptation or Ability card.
Event: Follow card instructions.

Minimum bid is 3 food points. Active player may not bid.
If a player "overbid", he must move backwards on the score track, gaining 3 food points per space (this is the only time this may be done; can move back up to 2 spaces).
The player who wins the card pays the active player & must use the card immediately.

Use owned ability cards: Each card may only be used once per turn. Use "Defense" only on other player's turns.
Migrate once for free, following standard migration rules.
Convert food tokens to success points: discard 3 food points / 1 point.

Small Scoring

Occurs immediately whenever the last space of an area is filled for the first time.
Place a white pawn in the area to mark it as having scored.
The player who played the last tile to the area scores the # of points revealed by the white pawn used

Big Scoring

Occurs when a different colored space is revealed by a Small Scoring (#s 4, 8, and 11).
Resolved after the current player's turn is finished.
Score all 12 areas. In each:

Big Monopoly: area filled by 1 player: 5 points
Small Monopoly: area occupied by 1 player but not completely filled: 4 points
Area with multiple players' tiles: 3 / 2 / 1 points for 1st / 2nd / 3rd places; ties move down a rank.
Herds: Herd is all tiles connected in a chain (no diagonals). From largest to smallest, herds score 10 / 7 / 5 / 3 / 1 points. Ties push all scores down one rank. Players may not tie with themselves, and so score all equal-sized herds.
Adaptations, Abilities and Food: for each, having the most scores 4 points, having 2nd-most scores 2 points.
Ties push scores one rank down.