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The nocturnal Maclear's rat was fairly large, with a body length of 21 to 26 centimeters and a tail length of up to 26.5 centimeters. The species was characterized by its black upright back hairs. (© Joseph Smit, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

24. April 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Maclear’s rat

On the vulnerability of rats The extinction of countless birds, mammals, and reptiles in modern times can be traced back to rats that arrived on European ships and expanded their range. In fact, however, there are also many species from the family of true mice and rats (Muridae) that have

The Honduran white bat (Ectophylla alba) is one of the few known species of bats with white fur. It has similar behaviors to Bory's white bat. (© Charlie Jackson, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

19. September 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Bory’s White Bat

“Small white bats” seek shelter in palm leaves The French naturalist and botanist Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent explored the mouth of the Rivière du Mât in November 1801, in what is now the municipality of Saint-Joseph in the southern part of the island of Réunion. He was studying red

Jagdgesellschaft um O. Vojnich mit totem Bali-Tiger

Hunting party of Baron Oszkar Vojnich (Oscar Voynich) with kill Bali tiger in 1911. (© O. Vojnich, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

1. August 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Bali Tiger

A colonial victim of hunting tourism Shortly after the Indonesian island of Bali came under Dutch colonial rule in 1908, the first photographs were taken showing white men in linen suits with pith helmets, half-naked islanders and killed Bali tiger. The Hungarian Baron Oszkar Vojnich is said to have killed

Bramble Cay Mosaikschwanzratte (Melomys rubicola)

The Bramble Cay melomys reached a body length of 14 to 16 centimeters; its scaly, thin tail added another 14.5 to 18 centimeters. (© State of Queensland, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

31. July 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Bramble Cay melomys

The first victim of human-caused climate change The Bramble Cay melomys or mosaic-tailed rat is considered the first mammal species to be declared extinct primarily or exclusively because of anthropogenic climate change. It lived on the Torres Strait island of Bramble Cay, one of the most narrowly limited habitats imaginable.

Depiction of a Falkland Islands wolf from Iconographica Zoologica – Special Collections (1868) from the University of Amsterdam. The Argentinean warrah and the Falkland Islands wolf must have looked morphologically quite similar due to their close relationship. (© Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

15. June 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Argentinean Warrah

How the Argentinean warrah became the Falkland Islands wolf During the last ice age, around 16,000 years ago, a few Argentinean warrahs used shallow, frozen parts of the sea to travel from South America to the Falkland Islands, 500 kilometers away. Over time, the Argentinean warrah on the Falkland Islands

Falklandwolf (Dusicyon australis) im Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden

A specimen of the Falkland Islands wolf collected in 1843. It is now located at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden (Netherlands). (© Dusicyon australis (Kerr, 1792), collected in Falkland Islands (Malvinas) by Naturalis Biodiversity Center, CC0 1.0, via GBIF)

Mammals

6. June 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Falkland Islands wolf

How did the Falkland Islands wolf reach the Falkland Islands? As early as 1690, British visitors to the Falkland Islands wondered about the only land mammal living there among all the small creatures. There were not even mice there. What did this wolf feed on? The British naturalist Charles Darwin,

Life reconstruction of an aurochs bull found in Braunschweig. The skeleton served as a direct reference for the proportions and horns. Body shape and colour are based on current knowledge about the wild cattle. (© Jaap Rouwenhorst (photograph) DFoidl (GIMP modifications), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

16. May 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Aurochs

How a wild animal became a domestic animal The aurochs or ur is considered the first wild cattle domesticated by humans, to guarantee a steady supply of meat and milk and to have draft and working animals available. Domestication is always associated with physical changes as well: over time, the

An illustration of the bluebuck, created between October 1777 and March 1786. Image: Robert Jacob Gordon, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Mammals

14. May 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Bluebuck

Rarer in museums than previously thought “Also running on the high mountains are many kinds of wild bucks and goats, such as gemsbok, blue bucks, pied bucks, roe bucks, klipspringers, ibexes, wild bucks,” it says in Johann Schreyer’s Neue Ost-Indianische Reisz-Beschreibung from 1681. This is the first time that “blue

Perameles eremiana Wüsten-Langnasenbeutler

The holotype of the desert bandicoot preserved at the National Museum of Victoria in Melbourne. The species reached a head-body length of 18 to 28 centimeters. (© David Staples, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

2. May 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Desert Bandicoot

Desert bandicoot: Mulgaruquirra and Iwurra in Central Australia The Indigenous people of Australia living in the area of the city of Alice Springs called the desert bandicoot Mulgaruquirra, and among the Aborigines in the Charlotte Waters area the marsupial was called Iwurra. They knew the animal long before the British-Australian

Pteralopex anceps verwandt mit P- pulchra Berg-Affengesichtflughund

The Bougainville monkey-faced flying fox (Pteralopex anceps) is a relative of the montane monkey-faced bats that also comes from the Solomon Islands. (© DeadMonkey8984, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

Mammals

24. April 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Montane Monkey-faced Bat

Only one documented specimen Australian biologist Tim Flannery discovered the montane monkey-faced bat in 1990 during a study of the mammals of the South Pacific region. It was immediately clear to him that it was a previously unknown flying fox species. The striking red eyes, the black and white spotted