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tasmanischer beutelwolf Thylacinus cynocephalus

Male and female thylacine, photographed around 1904 at the Washington, D.C., National Zoo. Between 1850 and 1936, 68 thylacines are documented to have lived in zoos. (© Baker; E.J. Keller., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

1. September 2024 Doreen Fräßdorf

Thylacine

Tasmanian wolf or Tasmanian tiger: Neither wolf nor tiger Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman, who in 1642 was the first European to reach the island of Tasmania, reported “footprints, not unlike the claws of a tiger”. In doing so he had discovered the island’s top predator, which later became known under

The Hokkaido wolf, one of two wolf subspecies that went extinct in Japan, was captured in this illustration by the English zoologist St. George Mivart in 1890. (© Mivart, St. George Jackson (30 November 1827 – 1 April 1900), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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18. August 2024 Doreen Fräßdorf

Hokkaidō Wolf

Harmful animals in Hokkaido In Japanese mythology, both the extinct Honshu wolf and the Hokkaido wolf, also known as the Ezo wolf, are revered as benevolent beings. One legend, similar to the Roman myth of Romulus and Remus, recounts that a son of Fujiwara no Hidehira, a 12th-century Japanese noble

Nördliches Sumatra-Nashorn Begum London Zoo

A photograph taken around 1890 of a female northern Sumatran rhinoceros named Begum at London Zoo. This specimen formed the basis for the first scientific description of the species in 1872. The holotype lived at London Zoo from February 15, 1872, to August 31, 1900. (© Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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3. December 2023 Doreen Fräßdorf

Northern Sumatran Rhinoceros

How the Sumatran rhinoceros came to London In February 1868, some villagers captured a female Sumatran rhinoceros on the Sangu River near the Chittagong Hill Tracts, a mountainous region in southeastern Bangladesh—such a species had never before been reported so far west of Chittagong. The rhinoceros came into the possession

The broad-faced potoroo had gray-brown fur on the upper side with lighter hair tips, giving the coat a striped appearance. It was gray on the sides, while the underside and feet were light gray. (© John Gould, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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8. February 2023 Doreen Fräßdorf

Broad-faced Potoroo

Of hare-kangaroos, rat-kangaroos and true kangaroos The Australian broad-faced potoroo is not a kangaroo (Macropodidae) as we know it, but at family level a rat-kangaroo (Potoroidae) and at genus level a potoroo (Potorous). It is closely related to the true kangaroos, but differs from them in several respects. The rat-kangaroo

The only known photo of the Badlands bighorn. It shows Jim Hart from South Dakota holding an animal shot by Charley Jones in 1903 into the camera. An adult male could reach a weight of 160 kilograms. (© archived source link, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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18. December 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Badlands Bighorn

Wild sheep east of the Rocky Mountains Bighorn sheep are wild sheep that live mostly in mountains and sometimes in deserts and other dry regions of western North America. Both male and female animals have horns, although those of females are much smaller and do not twist like males, but

östlcihes hasenkänguru lagorchestes leporides

The image from 1853 is by John Gould, who first described the eastern hare-wallaby scientifically in 1841. (© John Gould, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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9. October 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Eastern Hare-Wallaby

Dancing hare down under Early settlers found a wide range of kangaroo-like marsupials on the plains of southeastern Australia—both huge animals that could incapacitate hunters with a single kick and animals smaller than hares. Alongside the now extinct toolache wallaby, hare-wallabies (Lagorchestes) were among the most popular game animals in

The American hog-nosed skunk is one of four species of the genus Conepatus. The other three species are Molina's hog-nosed skunk (C. chinga), Humboldt's pig-nosed skunk (C. humboldtii) and the striped hog-nosed skunk (C. semistriatus). (© en:Louis Agassiz Fuertes., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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26. July 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Big-Thicket Hog Nosed Skunk

No other specimen since the first description The American hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus leuconotus) belongs to the family of skunks and stink badgers (Mephitidae) and, thanks to their adaptability, occur in a relatively wide range in different habitats. The IUCN classifies them as not endangered, but two out of three subspecies

Illustration by the Japanese painter Hasegawa Settan showing a Japanese sea lion that washed ashore in 1823 near the city of Karatsu on the island of Kyūshū. (© Hasegawa Settan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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13. June 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Japanese Sea Lion

One of the most recently extinct marine mammals At almost the same time and for the same reasons, two marine mammals were wiped out in different places in the 20th century: the Caribbean monk seal and the Japanese sea lion. Both were hunted commercially: lamp oil was extracted from their

A Barbary lion in Algeria, photographed by Sir Alfred Edward Pease in 1893. The particularly dense, dark mane was striking, but this provides little information about the species; rather, it may represent an adaptation to climatic conditions. (© Alfred Edward Pease (29 June 1857 – 27 April 1939), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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12. June 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Barbary lion

The cultural significance of North Africa’s lions Lions already played a role in early Egyptian art and literature. Archaeologists, for example, found statues and statuettes of lions from Egypt’s Early Dynastic Period (3100 to 2686 BC) in Hierakonpolis, the religious and political centre of Upper Egypt, and in the former

The head-body length of the bubal hartebeest was 150 to 244 centimeters. Its shoulder height ranged between 109 and 150 centimeters. (© Goldfuss, Georg August; Schreber, Johann Christian Daniel; Wagner, Andreas Johann, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

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10. June 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Bubal hartebeest

The bubal and ancient civilizations The German zoologist Alfred Brehm writes in the 1911 edition of his world-famous zoological reference work Brehms Tierleben: “Of the various species, the one known the longest is the bubal hartebeest, frequently depicted on Egyptian monuments Bubalis buselaphus.” And indeed: the bubal must once have