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The pig-tailed macaques are two macaque sister species.They look almost identical and are best distinguished by their parapatric ranges: . Northern pig-tailed macaque, Macaca leonina (Bangladesh to Vietnam, south to northern Malaysia)
The species epithet, nemestrina, is an adjective (derived from Latin Nemestrinus, meaning "the god of groves") modified to agree in gender with the feminine generic name. [4]
Great green macaw or Buffon's macaw (Ara ambiguus) 85–90 cm (33–36 in) long. Mostly green, red on forehead, green and blue wings [10] Central and South America, from Honduras to Ecuador: Blue-and-yellow macaw or blue-and-gold macaw (Ara ararauna) 80–90 cm (31.5–35.5 in) long. Mostly blue back and yellow front. Blue chin and green forehead.
The macaw, named Aurora, was first surrendered to this bird rehabilitator in fall of 2022. She had been bought from a pet store as an unweaned baby and probably an illegal capture.
In natural habitats, they have been observed to consume certain parts of over one hundred species of plants including the buds, fruit, young leaves, bark, roots, and flowers. When macaques live amongst people , they raid agricultural crops such as wheat, rice, or sugarcane ; and garden crops like tomatoes, bananas, melons, mangos, or papayas ...
All Spix’s macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past their home, the ...
Primolius is a genus of macaws comprising three species, [4] which are native to South America. They are mainly green parrots with complex colouring including blues, reds and yellows. They have long tails, a large curved beak, and bare facial skin typical of macaws in general. They are less than 50 cm long, much smaller than the macaws of the ...
Plate XLIII from Samuel Pepys's hand-coloured copy of Francis Willughby's 1678 Ornithology [1]. Early scientific works on birds, such as those of Conrad Gessner, Ulisse Aldrovandi and Pierre Belon, relied for much of their content on the authority of the Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle and the teachings of the church, [2] [3] and included much extraneous material relating to the species ...