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The Great American Biotic Interchange (commonly abbreviated as GABI), also known as the Great American Interchange and the Great American Faunal Interchange, was an important late Cenozoic paleozoogeographic biotic interchange event in which land and freshwater fauna migrated from North America to South America via Central America and vice ...
They are widespread throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America, and are found in a variety of biomes, most typically forest, savanna, shrubland, and grassland. Bovids range in size from the 38 cm (15 in) long royal antelope to the 3.3 m (11 ft) long gaur , which can reach 1,500 kg (3,300 lb) in weight. [ 1 ]
2.3 North America. 2.4 South America. 3 Asia. Toggle Asia subsection. 3.1 Central Asia. 3.2 Eastern Asia. 3.3 Southeastern Asia. 3.4 Southern Asia. 3.5 Western Asia ...
The ‘bucket list’ of big creatures to capture on camera was chosen by more than 50,000 votes from enthusiasts around the world. New ‘Big Five’ animals of wildlife photography revealed ...
Big Five animals of the Kaziranga National Park, Assam, India: Indian rhinoceros, Indian elephant, Bengal tiger, swamp deer and wild water buffalo; Big Five animals of Alaska, United States: bears, moose, reindeer, Dall sheep and wolves; the Big Five fish UK consumers overwhelmingly eat: Atlantic cod, haddock, Atlantic salmon, tuna and prawns.
North American beaver: Castor canadensis: Extant: 50 kg (110 lb) 5: Lesser capybara: Hydrochoerus isthmius: Extant: 45.4 kg (100 lb) 6: Eurasian beaver: Castor fiber: Extant: 40 kg (88 lb) 7: Cape porcupine: Hystrix africaeaustralis : Extant: 30 kg (66 lb) 8: Crested porcupine: Hystrix cristata : Extant: 27 kg (60 lb) 9: North American ...
A member of this family is called a deer or a cervid. They are widespread throughout North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and are found in a wide variety of biomes. Cervids range in size from the 60 cm (24 in) long and 32 cm (13 in) tall pudú to the 3.4 m (11.2 ft) long and 3.4 m (11.2 ft) tall moose.
American black bear: Ursus americanus: Ursidae: 159-226: 409-500 [3] 1.4 - 2.0: 2.41 [3] 1.10: North America: 5 Tiger: Panthera tigris: Felidae: 227-300: 388.78 (disputed) [4] [5] [6] 2.5 - 3.9: 4.17 [7] 1.32: Asia: 6 Lion: Panthera leo: Felidae: 190-272: 375 (in the wild; [8] [9] disputed) [10] 2.5 - 3.3: 3.9 [11] 1.4: Africa, Asia. 7 ...