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Stephanorhinus hemitoechus
Sculptured hyperrealist reconstruction in fire retardant polyester resin. Very resistant to outdoor conditions and public areas.
Plasticine model moulded with silicone.
Oil paint and glass eyes.
Internal metallic structure.
· Year
2008
· Commissioned by
Benia de Onís Town Hall
Skull of Andrewsarchus mongoliensis at Natural History Museum, London.
Andrewsarchus mongoliensis Pao, 1923
Triisodontidae
Mesonychia
The South Island takahe is a rare relict of the flightless, vegetarian bird fauna which once ranged New Zealand. Four specimens were collected from Fiordland between 1849 and 1898, after which takahe were considered to be extinct until famously rediscovered in the Murchison Mountains, west of Lake Te Anau, in 1948. Until the 1980s, takahe were confined in the wild to the Murchison Mountains. They have since been translocated to seven islands and several mainland sites, making them more accessible to many New Zealanders. Conservation work by the Department Of Conservation and community groups aims to prevent extinction and restore takahe to sites throughout their original range. The success of DOC’s Takahe Recovery Programme relies heavily on a partnership with Mitre 10 who through Mitre 10 Takahe Rescue is helping to ensure the long-term survival of this treasured species.
Identification
The South Island takahe is the largest living rail in the world. An enormous gallinule, it has deep blue on the head, neck and underparts, olive green on the wings and back, and a white undertail, The huge conical bill is bright red, paler towards the tip, and extends on to the forehead as a red frontal shield. The stout legs are red, with orange underneath. Juveniles are duller with a blackish-orange beak and dull pink-brown legs.
Voice: the main calls of takahe are a loud shriek, a quiet hooting contact call, and a muted boom indicating alarm.
Similar species: the extinct North Island takahe was taller and more slender. Pukeko can fly, and are smaller and more slender, with relatively longer legs, and black on the wings and back.
Distribution and habitat
South Island takahe originally occurred throughout the South Island. Hunting, predation and habitat loss resulted in a remnant population in the mountains of Fiordland. The modern conservation programme has set up additional populations; a captive breeding and rearing facility at Burwood Bush near Te Anau, plus free-ranging populations on wildlife reserves in the North and South Island and several offshore islands including Tiritiri Matangi and Motutapu (Hauraki Gulf), Kapiti and Mana (Wellington) and Maud (Marlborough Sounds).
Takahe inhabit grasslands predominantly, using shrubs for shelter. In Fiordland, alpine tussock grasslands and the red tussock river flats are preferred. When winter snow covers these areas, birds move into adjacent beech forest. At other sites the vegetation is regenerating farm pasture in various stages of reversion to mixed native lowland forest. Some now have substantial forested areas. At these sites takahe prefer the grassland areas with scattered shrubs, although they do spend some time under forest.
Population
The South Island takahe population in 2011-12 was approximately 276 birds, with ~110 in Fiordland, ~107 at restoration sites, 11 at captive display sites, and 48 at the captive breeding site.
Threats and conservation
Natural hazards influencing the Fiordland takahe population include avalanches and cold climate. Modern threats include predation by introduced stoats, and competition for food from introduced red deer. Deer numbers have been controlled to low levels since 1980, allowing tussock grasslands to slowly recover their original size and nutrients. Stoat predation impact is relatively low in most years but when environmental conditions conspire, stoat populations increase significantly, and have greater impact on takahe survival. The Fiordland takahe population is under a recently extended stoat trapping programme.
From 1986 - 2009, takahe in Fiordland were managed by captive-rearing wild eggs, releasing yearlings back into the wild. Artificial incubation and puppet-rearing were used to maximise productivity. From 1986-1991, yearlings were released outside of the source population in an attempt to extend the range. From 1991-2009 there was a change to releasing among the source population which improved survival of released birds.
Also, from 1984, captive-reared birds were used to establish breeding populations on predator-free offshore islands and predator-proofed mainland reserves. Now that the island/reserves population is well established, eggs for captive rearing are no longer removed from Fiordland. Since 2010, rather than augment the Fiordland population, captive-reared yearlings have been used to establish populations at new sites and expand the captive breeding population.
Numbers on island/mainland reserves are managed by the removal of surplus young. This activity both limits population density to a suitable level and avoids inbreeding by mixing genetic lines between different sites. At the captive breeding facility, puppet rearing is redundant and artificial incubation is minimised. Instead, the enlarged breeding group is intensively managed through egg and chick fostering, ensuring each pair is laying, incubating good eggs or raising chicks. Genetic lines are managed to ensure none is over-represented.
Breeding
Takahe in Fiordland lay late October-January. In the lower altitude sites nesting begins in September. One to three eggs (usually two) are laid two days apart; male and female share incubation and chick rearing equally. Eggs are pale buff colour with reddish-purplish blotches (c. 74 x 48 mm, and 95 g when fresh). Incubation takes 30 days, with chicks hatching two days apart. Chicks stay in the nest for about a week, as they become stronger they climb out and follow their parents begging for food. Chicks are brooded in the nest in cold or wet weather. Parents provide tussock shoots for the chicks with the tougher outer leaves peeled off. Parents move the family to access a fresh feeding area as soon as the chicks are able, repeating as necessary. If the first clutch fails, takahe may lay a second. They can lay a third in an intensively managed situation.
Behaviour and ecology
Takahe live in pairs or small family groups. Young stay with parents until just before the next breeding season, or stay for second year. Unusual cases of breeding trios or greater (two females laying) have been observed. Pairs defend their breeding territory by calling, or fighting if necessary, returning to the same areas each year.
Food
Fiordland takahe feed mainly on leaf bases of tussock grasses (Chionochloa spp). Sedges (Uncinia spp, Carex coriacea), rushes (Juncus spp) and Aciphylla spp are sometimes taken. Smaller grasses are grazed from the tips down, this being the staple on islands and lowland reserves. When available, grass seeds are stripped from the stem while still attached. In Fiordland winter (forest) habitat, alternative carbohydrate is found by grubbing starchy rhizomes of a fern Hypolepis millefolium and the rhizomes of the sedge Carex coriacea. In other sites the diet does not vary as much seasonally - pasture grasses are available all year round. Takahe opportunistically take a protein in the form of large insects (moths, beetles, weta), or very rarely will take ducklings or lizards.
Weblinks
Takahe Recovery website
Department of Conservation’s website, takahe
L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival,
Docklands. March 19th, 2011
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Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Infraclass: Euselachii
Superorder: Galeomorphii
Order: Orectolobiformes
Family: Ginglymostomatidae
Genus: Ginglymostoma
Species: G. dartevellei†
This is the closest I have ever come and ever hope to be near an extinct species. The El Paso Zoo asked the Centennial Museum at the University of Texas in El Paso, to bring this extinct Imperial Woodpecker from northern Mexico to the Zoo for an Earth Day press conference. You can see more of our day at the Zoo when volunteers read the names of endangered species from around the world on the Zoo's website at www.elpasozoo.org/videos.htm on the video page. That's me on the left and Scott Cutler who is the museum curator at the Museum.
Hes no longer extinct and hes coming right for you!! RUN!!!
This dinosaur is oh so cute and BENDY.. yes thats right.. i said bendy! hehe hes FLEXIBLE and you can wiggle him and move him about...
this dinosaur can terrorize your tiny mooshoo dolls too!
at mooshoopork on etsy
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An extinct volcano over the Arizona border from Nevada. Scientists have calculated during its lifespan of several hundred million years it erupted over 50 times, shaping the land.
Great Auk
The largest species of penguins. It reached up to 75cm in height.
In the past it lived in Iceland, Greenland, northern Canada, Norway.
The mass hunting of this species leads to their extinction.
Aurochs
One of the most popular types of animals disappeared and one of the largest...
Sabre-toothed cat skull at Natural History Museum, London.
Smilodon populator Lund, 1842
Felidae
Carnivora
Aurochs-type highland cattle at Highland Wildlife Park, Scotland.
Bos "primigenius"
Bovidae
Cetartiodactyla
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
I haven't seen a Lost Energy Drink can like this in a long time. There's a new can out with a different image and a slightly different taste. I like this one the best.
Mandrill (Linnaeus 1758) - Mandrillus sphinx Ordre : PrimatesFamille : Cercopithecidae Sous-famille : CercopithecinaeGenre : Mandrillus
· Project
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus
Sculptured hyperrealist reconstruction in fire retardant polyester resin. Very resistant to outdoor conditions and public areas.
Plasticine model moulded with silicone.
Oil paint and glass eyes.
Internal metallic structure.
· Year
2008
· Commissioned by
Benia de Onís Town Hall
This horse is extinct in the wild. Most of them are now inbred. So experts are trying to use selective breeding to rebuild the population.
The number of Marbill vehicles left in the orange livery is now down to low single digits. VDL Bova DAZ 1504 is seen here on Helensburgh sea front prior to the afternoon works contracts.
Kiyomizu-dera is well-known landmark of Kyoto and one of the most touristical temples in Japan. It is a prime destination during the cherry-blossom and autumn-leaves season.
It was founded as early as 798 by the Hosso sect of Buddhism, as one of the six virtually extinct schools of Nara Buddhism. The present buildings were reconstructed in 1633 and some were recently restored.
The particularity of Kiyomizu is its broad veranda facing the picturesque forested hills of South-East Kyoto. Tracks run from underneath the temple around the woods and back to the veranda.
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Infraclass: Euselachii
Superorder: Galeomorphii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: †Pseudoscapanorhynchidae
Genus: †Protolamna
Species: †P. borodini
This badass pronghorn had two sets of horns. If only we had the outer sheathes of these. I bet they were incredible looking.
Skull of Parasaurolophus walkeri at Natural HIstory Museum, London.
Parasaurolophus walkeri Parks, 1922
Hadrosauridae
Ornithischia
passenger pigeon! this is the entire reason why i wanted to go to the reading public museum. i've been wanting to see a real passenger pigeon for years and years
Skull of Protoceratops andrewsi at Galerie de Paleontologie, Paris.
Protoceratops andrewsi Granger & Gregory, 1923
Protoceratopsidae
Ornithischia
Superdomain: Neomura
Domain: Eukaryota
(unranked): Unikonta
(unranked): Obazoa
(unranked): Opisthokonta
(unranked) Holozoa
(unranked) Filozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Clade: ParaHoxozoa
Clade: Bilateria
Clade: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Chordata
Clade: Olfactores
Subphylum: Vertebrata
Infraphylum: Gnathostomata
Clade: Eugnathostomata
Class: Chondrichthyes
Subclass: Elasmobranchii
Infraclass: Euselachii
Superorder: Galeomorphii
Order: Lamniformes
Family: Alopiidae
Genus: Alopias
Species: A. leeensis†
Extinct monsters and creatures of other days : a popular account of some of the larger forms of ancient animal life / by Rev. H. N. Hutchinson. With illustrations by J. Smit, Alice B. Woodward, J. Green, Charles Knight, and others.
London : Chapman & Hall, 1910.
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs performing at TT the Bear's place in Cambridge, MA. www.thezenderagenda.com