According to an announcement made by the International Rhino Foundation (IRF) and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), there are currently no more Javan rhinoceroses living in Vietnam. The last individual known to conservationists died in April 2010.During a study of dung belonging to Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus, all... |
25 October 2011
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Scientists figured out a new way of quantifying wildlife populations in Indonesia, thanks to strategically placed motion-triggered camera traps.Tim O'Brien of the Wildlife Conservation Society and his team, used the Wildlife Picture Index, or WPI, to follow changes within the diversity of the wildlife in Bukit B... |
9 September 2010
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1.We associate rhinoceroses with the African savannas and the forests of southern Asia. But rhinoceroses appeared in fact in North America 54 Ma ago, from a common ancestor with the horses and tapirs. In time, rhinos diversified in many genera and species. Baluchitherium, which lived 30 Ma ago in Central Asia in a ti... |
22 February 2008
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The Triceratops is one of the best known species of dinosaurs: the huge, horned, rhinoceros like beast, up to 9 m (30 ft) long, 3 m (10 ft) tall and 12 tonnes heavy. But the huge beast and its relatives rooted from dwarf, dog-sized hornless Asian dinosaurs. A new species of dinosaurs discovered in a Montana is the lo... |
4 October 2007
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The elephant was called "hatti", the bear "balu", the deer "sambar" and the tiger "bagh". Even if in his political and social writings Richard Kipling proved pejorative and even racist towards the Indians, he had as a source of inspiration the Hindu names of the beasts to create a universe that turned on the imaginat... |
3 October 2007
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