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Signature. Dian Fossey (/ daɪˈæn / dy-AN; January 16, 1932 – c.December 26, 1985) was an American primatologist and conservationist known for undertaking an extensive study of mountain gorilla groups from 1966 until her murder in 1985. [ 1 ] She studied them daily in the mountain forests of Rwanda, initially encouraged to work there by ...
Temple Grandin. Mary Temple Grandin (born August 29, 1947) is an American academic and ethologist. She is a prominent proponent of the humane treatment of livestock for slaughter and the author of more than 60 scientific papers on animal behavior. Grandin is a consultant to the livestock industry, where she offers advice on animal behavior, and ...
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member. A taxon may become functionally extinct before the death of its last member if it loses the capacity to reproduce and recover. Because a species' potential range may be very large, determining this moment is difficult, and is usually done retrospectively.
The longest known male tusk is 4.05 m (13.3 ft) long (measured along the outside curve) and weighs 115.5 kg (255 lb), with a historical report of a 4.30 m (14.1 ft) long tusk found in Siberia, while the heaviest tusk is 121 kg (267 lb), suggested to have been 125–130 kg (276–287 lb) when complete; [52] [53] 2.4–2.7 m (7 ft 10 in – 8 ft ...
They are absent from the North Atlantic, although fossil remains of short-tailed albatross show they once lived there up to the Pleistocene, [2] and occasional vagrants are found. Great albatrosses are among the largest of flying birds, with wingspans reaching up to 2.5–3.5 metres (8.2–11.5 ft) and bodies over 1 metre (3.3 ft) in length. [ 3 ]
Release. June 10, 2018 (2018-06-10) – July 16, 2021 (2021-07-16) Extinct or Alive is an American wildlife documentary television programme produced for Animal Planet by Hot Snakes Media of New York City, the United States. It is hosted by wildlife biologist and television personality Forrest Galante, who travels to different locations around ...
The Ediacaran (/ ˌiːdiˈækərən /; formerly Vendian) biota is a taxonomic period classification that consists of all life forms that were present on Earth during the Ediacaran Period (c. 635–538.8 Mya). These were enigmatic tubular and frond-shaped, mostly sessile, organisms. [1][2] Trace fossils of these organisms have been found ...
The reindeer or caribou[ a ] (Rangifer tarandus) [ 5 ] is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America. [ 2 ] It is the only representative of the genus Rangifer.