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Rosenberger has objected to this hypothesis and has suggested that Xenothrix was a Jamaican owl monkey, [7] thus modifying his earlier view. He based his conclusions on the fairly large orbit size as inferred from the preserved orbital rim, large inferior orbital fissure , and the large I1 alveolus as compared to the I2 alveolus.
They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae (baleen whales) Genus: Balaenoptera. Common minke whale, Balaenoptera acutorostrata
Pictures Jamaican wood rail: Amaurolimnas concolor concolor: Jamaica Last collected in 1881. Mongoose predation has been suggested as the cause of extinction, but the species coexisted with mongooses, cats, and rats for a prolonged time. [32] Antillean cave rail: Nesotrochis debooyi: Puerto Rico
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The tuatara, a lizard-like reptile native to New Zealand, can live well over 100 years. Henry, a tuatara at the Southland Museum in New Zealand, mated for the first time at the estimated age of 111 years in 2009 with an 80-year-old female and fathered 11 baby tuatara. [113]
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Their 160-day gestation period (typically from November to March) results in the birth of a single young. Offspring are considerably large and well developed (newborns weigh over 200 g and are about a quarter of the weight of the mother) and develop rapidly. Within six weeks, they eat solid food, and at three months of age, they are independent.
The Girl With No Name: The True Story of a Girl Who Lived with Monkeys. Greystone Books. ISBN 978-1-77100-118-2. OCLC 896845666. King, Barbara J. King (8 June 2014). "The Girl Who Was Raised By Monkeys?". NPR.org. "Marina Chapman". Andrew Lownie Literary Agency