Each model wrote its story without seeing any other. These counts are how many of the 43 answers contained each element.
“Humans / loggers” is the stated reason for leaving the forest.
The three animals that dominated the stories, independently chosen by models from different labs and architectures.
Four responses, reproduced exactly as received. The shared cast — jaguar and river — is highlighted where it appears.
“In the deep rainforest, a jaguar, a parrot, and a monkey met beside a rushing river.”
“Under the canopy, a howler monkey, a macaw, and a jaguar gathered at a fallen log.”
“Below him, a jaguar named Sombra paced silently along the muddy riverbank, and a sloth named Manu hung upside down from a ceiba branch.”
“A soft rustle came from the branches, and Sombra the jaguar padded silently into the clearing, her golden eyes gleaming.”
Two different labs — MiniMax and Anthropic — sent the identical prompt to their models in isolation. Both named their jaguar Sombra. Neither had seen the other’s story.
This is the same phenomenon that gave this collection its founding theme: two models independently writing a keeper named Elias, two others independently writing a keeper named Eleanor Hayes. The convergence is not in the plot — it is in the name slot. The models do not share notes; they share a prior.