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"Name that Animal" picture game.

 
 
Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 9 Feb, 2008 02:07 pm
Those look like tarsiers, Rosborne.
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rosborne979
 
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Reply Sat 9 Feb, 2008 04:36 pm
Roberta wrote:
Those look like tarsiers, Rosborne.

Yes, they are Tarsiers. They are Philippine Tarsiers to be precise.

http://www.primates.com/philippine-tarsier.jpg
You're up. Smile
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 9 Feb, 2008 05:08 pm
http://www.divediscover.whoi.edu/images/ss_deepsea4.jpg
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Pauligirl
 
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Reply Sat 9 Feb, 2008 09:00 pm
http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/animal/PREVIEW/Deepsea-Tripod_fish_J01-walking_on_ocean_floor-s160.jpg

Quote:
All tripod fish exhibit both male and female sex organs. While this trait (hermaphroditism) is not uncommon in other animals of the deep sea, the tripod fish is unusual in that the male and female organs reach maturity at the same time, thus allowing the tripod fish to fertilize its own eggs. It is supposed that tripod fish may be so sparsely distributed through the oceans that one fish may not be able to find another to mate when the time comes; thus as a last resort a single tripod fish could still reproduce.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod_fish


I learn something new every day.
It's a shame I don't remember it.
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Roberta
 
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Reply Sat 9 Feb, 2008 11:44 pm
Yes, it's the tripod fish from the deep ocean. Your turn, Pauligirl.
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Pauligirl
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 12:18 am
Ok, try this one...

http://paulag.home.coastalnet.com/critter2.jpg
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dadpad
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 12:43 am
looks like me a little
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nimh
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 09:51 am
Those tarsiers are cute...
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mars90000000
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 12:50 pm
is it a Slender-Horned Gazelle??
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gustavratzenhofer
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 12:58 pm
tarsiers resemble giant, furry tree frogs.
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Tryagain
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 01:09 pm
Burmese honey badger
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Pauligirl
 
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Reply Sun 10 Feb, 2008 03:37 pm
mars90000000 wrote:
is it a Slender-Horned Gazelle??



No. I didn't see where this one was referred to as a Gazelle, but I don't know the difference. Embarrassed
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Francis
 
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Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 11:56 am
Well, from all the characteristics I can see, I tend to think this is a sub-species of the Aepyceros (Impala family).

But that white strip over/between the eyes is puzzling me...
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Francis
 
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Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 02:07 pm
Ouch! Found it.

Hunter's antelope (Beatragus hunteri).
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Pauligirl
 
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Reply Mon 11 Feb, 2008 02:14 pm
Francis wrote:
Ouch! Found it.

Hunter's antelope (Beatragus hunteri).


That's it.

Also known as The Hirola (Beatragus hunteri, sometimes Damaliscus hunteri also known as Hunter's Hartebeest) is found in arid grassy plains in a pocket on the border between Kenya and Somalia.

Hirola are known as the "four-eyed antelope," due to their large preorbital glands. Hirola stand 100 to 125 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh 80 to 118 kilograms. Their coat is a sandy brown colour, greyer in males than females, with a lighter underbelly and a small white strip over the bridge of the nose. The nape of the neck has very thick skin which forms ridges when the ears are pricked up. The horns are lyre shaped and very conspicuously ringed.

Your turn...
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Francis
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 02:07 am
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/gismonda/geez.jpg
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Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 05:18 am
Harpy eagle from South America. The largest eagle in the world.

I said that with great authority. I could be wrong.
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Francis
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 12:48 pm
You are right about the eagle's name, Roberta.

But, look here:

Quote:
Norita Scott-Pezett of Audubon-Panama, a fellow BirdLife International Global Council member (1999-2004), was shocked when I told her that, as far as I know, their Harpy Eagle (Harpia harpyja) is the largest eagle in the world! "What?" she responded incredulously. "I thought all along that your Philippine Eagle (Pithecophaga jefferyi) is the largest in the world!" Huh? Really?

Since then I started to doubt what I used to know and gladly suspected that she was right. I began to believe that the Haring Ibon is the largest eagle in the world even without any solid basis yet, save for my hazy recollection of two specimens displayed in the Smithsonian Museum at Washington, D.C.

Who or what authority proclaims which eagle is the largest in the world, anyway? What would be the basis? I personally had no access to any documents about it. Or perhaps, I was not looking hard enough in the right places.


Source
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Roberta
 
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Reply Tue 12 Feb, 2008 01:20 pm
Thanks for the info, Francis. Sounds like an anaconda/python comparison of size. The reticulated python is the longest, but the green anaconda is the biggest by weight. The harpy is the biggest by weight, but the Philippine eagle wins with wingspan.
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Roberta
 
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Reply Wed 13 Feb, 2008 04:08 am
My turn. Here's one:


http://www.wmnh.com/ptiab17.jpg
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