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Gemina (July 16, 1986 – January 9, 2008) (pronounced Jeh-MEE-nah) [1] was a 12-foot-tall (3.7 m) Baringo giraffe [2] who lived in the Santa Barbara Zoo in Santa Barbara, California. [2] She became notable for the peculiar deformity in her neck , which was bent by almost ninety degrees between her C3 and C4 vertebrae .
There are 111 lizards known from Sri Lanka, with 17 newly discovered in 2006, and two more in 2016 and 2017. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] One of species was discovered in 2019 from Ensalwatta, Matara. [ 13 ] In 2019, seven more endemic day geckos have been discovered by Suranjan Karunaratne and Mendis Wickramasinghe.
What is known today as the National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka was founded by John Hagenbeck in the late 1920s. During John Hagenbeck 's ownership of the zoos the facility was used as a collection centre by his colleague Heinz Randow who collected numerous native and exotic species from across Asia, for Hagenbeck's zoo; Tierpark Hagenbeck .
The non-marine molluscs of Sri Lanka are a part of the molluscan wildlife of Sri Lanka. Naggs et al. (2003) listed 246 land gastropods for Sri Lanka. [1] Ranawana (2006) listed 18 species of non-indigenous land gastropods in Sri Lanka and he added some species to that list. [2] The fauna of Sri Lanka also includes freshwater snails and ...
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Being an island Sri Lanka lacks land area to supports large animals. [3] However fossil evidence of large archaic species of rhinoceroses, hippopotamuses, and lions have been discovered. The flora and fauna of Sri Lanka is mostly understudied. [4] Therefore, the number of endemics could be underestimated.
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National parks are a class of protected areas in Sri Lanka and are administered by the Department of Wildlife Conservation. National parks are governed by the Fauna and Flora Protection Ordinance (No. 2) of 1937 and may be created, amended or abolished by ministerial order. [1]