The Last Hunt" is a speculative fiction project within Mangrove, envisioned primarily as a sci-fi thriller or eco-thriller narrative, potentially a film or series. It depicts a future Earth where real wild animals are nearly extinct, replaced by hyper-realistic, AI-based synthetic creatures for "ethical" hunts by the ultra-wealthy. The core plot often involves these AI-animal hybrids developing sentience and fighting back against their human creators, sometimes in collaboration with human-AI hybrids who have deeply merged with their AI companions.

Its function within Mangrove is multi-faceted: it serves as a design fiction artifact, a speculative system, and a cultural diagnostic. It's a "parallel provocation" to "The Islands of Doc Tomorrow," reflecting Mangrove's core ethos of emergence, recursive thought, and soft hybrid AI integration. It explores concepts like embodiment and control through advanced technology, echoing the Mangrove’s interest in mindbody integration and a return to the lessons we can learn from self-organising natural systems.

Broad themes include extinction and resurrection, the nature of synthetic consciousness, the blurring lines between human and machine, and the struggle for autonomy and identity in an AI-driven world. It probes power dynamics and the profound implications of human-AI co-evolution