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Harpia

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A harpia (Harpia harpyja), também chamada gavião-real, gavião-de-penacho, uiruuetê, uiraçu, uraçu, cutucurim e uiraçu-verdadeiro, é a mais pesada e uma das maiores aves de rapina do mundo, com envergadura de 2,5 metros e peso de até 10 quilogramas.

Ambos os sexos têm uma crista de penas largas que levantam quando ouvem algum ruído. Como as corujas, elas têm um disco facial de penas menores que pode focar ondas sonoras para melhorar suas capacidades auditivas. A harpia possui, como principais características físicas, olhos pequenos, um longo topete, a crista com duas penas maiores e uma cauda com três faixas cinzentas, que pode medir até 2/3 do comprimento da asa.
Esta ave da família Accipitridae possui asas largas e redondas, pernas curtas e grossas, e dedos extremamente fortes, com enormes garras, capazes até de levantar um carneiro do chão. Sua cabeça é cinza, o papo e a nuca, negros, e o peito, a barriga e a parte de dentro das asas, brancos. Tem entre 50 a 90 centímetros de altura, uma envergadura de até 2,5 metros e um peso variando entre 4 e 5,5 quilogramas quando macho e entre 6 e 9 quilogramas quando fêmea.
As harpias são predadores tremendamente eficazes, com garras mais compridas do que as de um urso-cinzento. É uma águia adaptada ao voo acrobático em ambientes florestais de espaços fechados. Elas se aproximam morfologicamente (não se sabe se filogeneticamente) de várias outras aves de rapina tropicais de grande tamanho adaptadas à caça de grandes animais arborícolas como macacos, preguiças, lêmures etc., tais como a águia-coroada africana, a águia-das-filipinas e a águia-da-nova-guiné. Todas essas são chamadas de "águias-pega-macaco" em suas localidades de origem devido ao grande porte, que coloca animais maiores, como macacos, em seu cardápio.
O habitat principal são as florestas tropicais e a espécie se dispersa geograficamente do México à Bolívia, na Argentina e em grande parte do Brasil, notadamente no Amazonas, vivendo em árvores altas, dentro de vasta mata, onde constrói seus ninhos. Habitava as matas brasileiras de forma abrangente. Hoje, pode ser encontrado na Amazônia e visto raramente na Mata Atlântica. Na região amazônica da Guiana, onde foi bem estudado, verificou-se que é um predador sobretudo de mamíferos.
É pássaro nacional e está desenhada no brasão do Panamá. Está desenhada no brasão de armas do estado do Paraná, no Brasil. É o símbolo do Museu Nacional, no Rio de Janeiro. É também símbolo e estampa o escudo da tropa de elite da Polícia Federal do Brasil, o Comando de Operações Táticas. Faz parte do símbolo do 4º Batalhão de Aviação do Exército Brasileiro. Denomina um esquadrão da Força Aérea Brasileira, o 7º/8º Esquadrão Harpia. É o designativo das aeronaves do Núcleo de Operações e Transporte Aéreo da Polícia Militar do Estado do Espírito Santo. É o animal em que foi baseada o personagem Fawkes, a fênix, do filme Harry Potter e a Câmara Secreta. É capaz de exercer uma pressão de 42 kgf/cm² (4,1 MPa ou 530 lbf/in²) com suas garras.
Pode erguer mais de 3/4 de seu peso. As garras da harpia são tão fortes que são capazes de esmigalhar um crânio humano. É a águia mais pesada da atualidade e a águia-das-filipinas é a única águia viva que se compara a ela em tamanho. Entretanto, a extinta águia-de-haast da Nova Zelândia era aproximadamente 50% maior do que ela. Dá dá nome ao projeto de inteligência artificial mantido pelo Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados. Em 15 de janeiro de 2009, nasceu um filhote de harpia no Refúgio Biológico de Itaipu. Com 100 gramas de massa, é o primeiro filhote a nascer com sucesso em cativeiro no sul do Brasil.

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The Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja), sometimes known as the American Harpy Eagle, is a Neotropical species of eagle. It is the largest and most powerful raptor found in the Americas, and among the largest extant species of eagles in the world. It usually inhabits tropical lowland rainforests in the upper (emergent) canopy layer. Destruction of its natural habitat has seen it vanish from many parts of its former range, and it is almost extinct in Central America.

The upper side of the Harpy Eagle is covered with slate black feathers, and the underside is mostly white, except for the feathered tarsi, which are striped black. There is a black band across the chest up to the neck. The head is pale grey, and is crowned with a double crest. The plumage of male and female is identical. The tarsus is up to 13 cm (5.1 in) long.
Female Harpy Eagles typically weigh 6 to 9 kg (13 to 20 lb). One exceptionally large captive female, "Jezebel", weighed 12.3 kg (27 lb). Being captive, this large female may not be representative of the weight possible in wild Harpy Eagles due to differences in the food availability.[ The male, in comparison , is much smaller and weighs only about 4 to 4.8 kg (8.8 to 11 lb). The wings are relatively short and stubby, the female wing length measuring 58.3–62.6 cm, and the male wing length 54.3–58 cm. Harpy Eagles are 89–105 cm (2.92–3.44 ft) long[ and have a wingspan of 176 to 201 cm (5 ft 9 in to 6 ft 7 in). It is sometimes cited as the largest eagle, however the Philippine Eagle is somewhat longer on average and the Steller's Sea Eagle is slightly heavier on average. The wingspan of the Harpy Eagle is relatively small, an adaptation that increases maneuverability in forested habitats and is shared by other raptors in similar habitats. The wingspan of the Harpy Eagle is surpassed by several large eagles who live in more open habitats, such as those in the Haliaeetus and Aquila genera. The extinct Haast's Eagle was significantly larger than all extant eagles, including the Harpy.

Rare throughout its range, the Harpy Eagle is found from Mexico, through Central America and into South America to Argentina. In Central America the species is almost extinct, subsequent to the loss of much of the rainforest there.[10] In rainforests they live from the canopy to the emergent. Within the rainforest they hunt in the canopy or sometimes on the ground, and perch on emergent trees looking for prey.

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2006-12-15 - KC-Artspace - Cryptozoology-0111

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From the exhibition Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, as shown at the Kansas City Art Institute's Artspace, October 28 - December 20, 2006:

A marginalized practice or a farcical adventure, cryptozoology is the quest for unknown, rumored, or hidden animals. Three themes are traced through the exhibition and catalog: Artists, Adventurers, Environmentalists; History of Science, Taxonomy, Dioramas, and Museum Displays; and Pop Culture, Myth, Spectacle, and Fraud. The exhibition is organized by the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute and Lewiston Maine’s Bates College Museum of Art.

The exhibition is curated by Mark H. C. Bessire and Raechell Smith and organized by the Bates College Museum of Art and H & R Block Artspace.

Artists include: Rachel Berwick, Sarina Brewer, Walmor Correa, Mark Dion, Sean Foley, Ellen Lesperance, Robert Marbury, Jill Miller, Vic Muniz, Jeanine Oleson, Rosamond Purcell, Alexis Rockman, Marc Swanson, Jeffrey Vallance and Jamie Wyeth.

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The Thylacine

was the largest known carnivorous marsupial of modern times. It is commonly known as the Tasmanian Tiger (because of its striped back), the Tasmanian Wolf, and colloquially the Tassie (or Tazzy) Tiger or simply the Tiger. Native to continental Australia, Tasmania and New Guinea, it is thought to have become extinct in the 20th century. It was the last extant member of its genus, Thylacinus, although several related species have been found in the fossil record dating back to the early Miocene.

The Thylacine became extinct on the Australian mainland thousands of years before European settlement of the continent, but it survived on the island state of Tasmania along with several other endemic species, including the Tasmanian Devil. Intensive hunting encouraged by bounties is generally blamed for its extinction, but other contributory factors may have been disease, the introduction of dogs, and human encroachment into its habitat. Despite its official classification as extinct, sightings are still reported. [...]

The last captive Thylacine, later referred to as "Benjamin" (although its sex has never been confirmed) was captured in 1933 and sent to the Hobart Zoo where it lived for three years. [...] This Thylacine died on 7 September 1936. It is believed to have died as the result of neglect—locked out of its sheltered sleeping quarters, it was exposed to a rare occurrence of extreme Tasmanian weather: extreme heat during the day and freezing temperatures at night. This Thylacine features in the last known motion picture footage of a living specimen: 62 seconds of black-and-white footage showing it pacing backwards and forwards in its enclosure in a clip taken in 1933 by naturalist David Fleay. National Threatened Species Day has been held annually since 1996 on 7 September in Australia, to commemorate the death of the last officially recorded Thylacine. [...]

The Thylacine held the status of endangered species until 1986. International standards state that any animal for which no specimens have been recorded for 50 years is to be declared extinct. Since no definitive proof of the Thylacine's existence had been found since "Benjamin" died in 1936, it met that official criterion and was declared officially extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

In December '06, Shane and I caught the exhibit Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale at the Kansas City Art Institute's Artspace. While most of the pieces dealt with cryptids - animals thought, but not proven to exist - one exhibit caught my eye.

In front of a projection screen sat a statute of the Tasmanian Tiger (pictured below). There playing, on a never ending loop, was the 62 seconds of Benjamin's life immortalized on film. 62 long, lonely seconds, spent pacing - in what? Frustration? Anger? Sadness? Boredom? Heartbreak? Only to die of human neglect, one of the last of her kind. I found the footage haunting then; I still do, upon recollection.

As an atheist, I don’t believe in unprovable religious concepts like karma. As an animal advocate, I sometimes wish I did.

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Schlanklori Gesicht

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Extinct monsters and creatures of other days
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Basilosaurus cetoides - total view - Smithsonian Museum of Natural History - 2012-05-17

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Skeleton of a basilosaurus cetoides in the Sant Hall of Oceans in the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. The name Basilosaurus means "king lizard"; the animal is a mammal, but was originally thought to be a kind of dinosaur or lizard. The name "cetoides" means "whale-like."

Basilosaurus cetoides lived 40 to 34 million years in warm seas around the world. It was first discovered in Louisiana in 1832. Skeletons were so common, people used them for chairs! Fossils have since been found in Pakistan and Egypt, and scientists think there may be anywhere from 3 to nine sub-species.

Basilosaurus cetoides grew to be about 60 feet (18 m) in length and was the largest animal on land or sea living at the time. The animal was extremely elongated. with the body behind the tail tapering rapidly. The bones at the tip of the tail indicate it had a very small fluke for its massive size. From the way the muscles appear to attach to the spine, the amazing flexibility of the spine, and other features, it's clear that basilosaurus cetoides used its whole body (not just the tail) to move through the water. It was much like an eel, although eels move sinuously side-to-side and the basilosaurus cetoides moved up and down!

Basilosaurus cetoides probably had a small dorsal fin or ridge, and had extremely tiny two foot (0.6 m) long hind limbs. These limbs had limited mobility, and in fact could only assume two positions: Against the body and against the belly. Scientists think that the limbs were used during sex, to help the male cling to the female.

The bones of basilosaurus cetoides were hollow and probably filled with fluid. This helped it maintain buoyancy in the ocean, and has led scientists to conclude that it did not dive much (if at all). It probably could not move very fast or for very long, and probably lurked at the surface as an ambush hunter. The brain in basilosaurus cetoides is quite small, which means it was probably a solitary animal. There is also no indication that it could echolocate like modern whales.

This skeleton in the Smithsonian is the only real specimen currently exhibited anywhere in the world.

3D Passenger pigeon, extinct

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3D Passenger pigeon, extinct

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DIPLACODON

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An extinct Rhino like animal from the early Cenozoic. see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brontotheriidae

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Errant Eagle

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Neogyps errans
This extinct eagle was about the size of the living Golden Eagle

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Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo)

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Known to many people from Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book, mongooses are small, catlike carnivores. There are more than 30 species of mongooses living in a variety of habitats in Asia, Africa, and southern Europe, as well as some Caribbean and Hawaiian islands, where they were introduced in the late 19th century to control rats and snakes and instead caused several bird species to go extinct.