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The only known specimen of Ridley's stick insect is now housed in the Natural History Museum in London. (© Paul Brock's photos, copyright Natural History Museum, London., CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

30. May 2022 Doreen Fräßdorf

Ridley’s Stick Insect

About walking leaves and walking sticks Insects that strongly resemble leaves or twigs in appearance are called walking leaves or walking sticks, stick insects, ghost insects or phasmids. Stick insects are considered the longest insects on Earth. The body length of some Southeast Asian species can exceed half a meter

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)

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

Drawing of a deer-pig by the naturalist painter Jean-Charles Werner (1830). Like wild boar (Sus scrofa), babirusas have two lower tusks that grow out of the side of their mouth. In addition, deer-pigs have two particularly large upper tusks that break through the trunk and are up to 30 centimeters long. (© Sitron, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

5. April 2021 Doreen Fräßdorf

Bola Batu Babirusa

Half deer, half pig The animal with the strange-sounding name Bola Batu babirusa is a presumably extinct species of deer-pigs (Babyrousa)—a combination of the Indonesian words for Deer and Pig. Scientists disagree about whether the species found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is extinct or still alive, and whether

vietnamesisches nashorn Rhinoceros sondaicus annamiticus

Head of a male Vietnamese Javan rhinoceros that was shot around 1930 in Perak on the Malay Peninsula. It is now kept at the Raffles Museum in Singapore. (© Kloss, C. Boden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

20. September 2018 Doreen Fräßdorf

Vietnamese Javan Rhinoceros

Subspecies believed extinct rediscovered in 1988 The supposedly extinct subspecies of the Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), the Annamite Javan rhinoceros or Annamite rhinoceros, was not rediscovered until 1988. At first, it was assumed that the rhinoceros subspecies, which once inhabited a large part of Southeast Asia, had become extinct as