I know it’s been a while but Vera the Tiger has something to entertain you!
It was amazing to see on how a Serval can catch animals such as birds up to 10 feet up into the air!
The Original Penguin, The Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis) was an aquatic flightless bird that hunted fish, crustaceans and plankton in the Northern Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It may look like it but the Great Auk is not a species of Penguin and is not related to them, they resembles a Penguin of both similar color, how much they spent their time in the water and both are flightless but they are not related to each other. Great Auk’s would usually stay out in the sea for about 10 months mainly just for hunting for fish and other animals and than when the time is right, they will come to the shore lines to mate and make nests for raising chicks which takes the remaining 2 months of the year. Great Auks were swimming these oceans for 23 Million Years until their downfall occurred, the Vikings wiped out a good portion of them for food since they were easier birds to catch since they were flightless thanks to these acts, the last known pair of Great Auk were killed in 1844 and declared Extinct. This Flightless Bird was filmed during UNEXTINCT at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
The Tiger of Down Under. The Thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus) was a large marsupial carnivore that lived in the Grasslands, Wetlands and Dry Eucalyptus Forests of Papua New Guinea, Mainland Australia and Tasmania. The Thylacine also known as the Tasmanian Tiger or Tasmanian Wolf looked like a hybrid of a Tiger, Wolf and a Kangaroo putting it all together. It may not look like it but the Thylacine is a Marsupial meaning for females it carries its young in a poach like Kangaroos and Koalas. Thylacines primally hunted animals such as Wallabies, small mammals and small birds. During the time when they were around, they were the apex predator down under until disaster struck for them, around 3,500-4,000 years ago when the dingo arrived which were killing and stealing the Thylacine’s food, this act is very similar we see with the large predators in the Savanna’s of Africa, after these acts, the Thylacine disappeared from New Guinea and Mainland Australia. Tasmania was the last stronghold for the Thylacine until Europeans arrived in the 1800’s when they decided to destroy the forests to make fields for sheep to make some money which lead to the final blow to the Thylacine. similar to the facial tumor disease for the Tasmanian Devil, Thylacines were been threatened with disease along with starvation and than the last known wild Thylacine was shot and killed in the year of 1930, the very last know Thylacine died at the Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart Tasmania in 1936 and later declared Extinct. This Marsupial Hunter was film at UNEXTINCT at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
A Animal the resembles a Unicorn, The Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) is a species of antelope that lives primally in the dense tropical rainforest in the Annamite Mountains near the border of Vietnam and Laos where the original sightings have been taken place. The Saola is nicknamed the Asian Unicorn because when the animal looking a different position, you noticed their horns look like they are merged into one something like a Unicorn. The interesting thing about the Saola is it discovery, the Saola was first Discovered in the mid 1990’s when strange horns was found which are very different from the Indochinese Serow which is the other Bovine in the area, as well a few photograph were taken from trail cameras which was later classified as a new genus, making this the first large mammal discovered in over 50 years. The Saola can grow up to 5 Feet Long and weighs up to 200 Pounds. The Saola is one of the rarest large mammals on earth and mainly due to hunting and habitat loss the Saola hasn’t been seen in years until 2013 when one was photographed from a WWF trail camera, to this day the Saola is still one the rarest large mammals on earth and is classified as Critically Endangered. This Rare antelope was film during UNEXTINCT at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
The Elephants of the Congo Forest, The African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is a subspecies of African Elephant that roams the Rainforest, Wet Grassy Meadows and Coast Lines of the Congo aka Central Africa. Similar to their cousins from their Cousins the African Bush Elephants, they are herd animals lead by a alpha female aka the matriarch which can lead a herd up to 10-20 elephants per herd which mainly includes adult females and their offspring while Adult Males are usually Solitary unless it’s mating season. Along with the Bush Elephant, the Forest Elephant are one of the largest animals on land, Forest Elephants generally grow up to 8-10 Feet Tall, 8-10 Feet Long and weigh somewhere between 3-5 Tons, so they’re slightly a little smaller than the Bush Elephant. In the same story of what’s happening to elephants in both Africa and Asia, they’re primally hunted for their ivory tusks for useless Chinese medicine which is very similar of what’s happening with Tigers and Rhinos, because of these acts there was once 700,00 African Forest Elephants and now there is less than 30,000 African Forest Elephants and was classified Critically Endangered. Video Taken During the nighttime experience called UNEXTINCT currently at Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
This is a close to a live Caspian Tiger as I can get. The Caspian Tiger (Panthera Tigris Virgata) was a large species of tiger that lived in the shorelines of the Caspian Sea along with the Forests,Tall Grasslands and Semi Deserts of Iran, Iraq, Southern Caucasus and Eastern Turkey where they hunt animals such as Wild Boar, Red Deer, Roe Deer, Goitered Gazelle and Wild Water Buffalo. During the time when they were alive, the Caspian Tiger was the second largest tiger around, it would grow up to 10 Feet Long and up to 550 Pounds, they were slightly bigger than the Bengal Tiger but slightly smaller than the Amur Tiger. Recently there has been genetic studies to find the Caspian Tiger’s Closet Living Relative and the results of the closet living relative to the Caspian Tiger is the larger Amur Tiger from Russia and China, genetic studies show that they have almost the same long light orange fur with stripes that are more spread out than other tigers such as the Sumatran and the BengalDuring the 1900’s Caspian Tigers were being threatened by habitat loss along being hunted from people for the tigers fur and bones being used for useless Chinese Medicine as well for the loss of the Tigers Prey such as deer and wild boar, the final blow to the Caspian Tiger was somewhere between the 1960’s and the 1970’s when last Caspian Tiger was shot and killed and was declared extinct. This Tiger was featured during UNEXTINCT, currently a nighttime experience at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium.
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Clearly Nyasi the African Lioness wanted to let us know that she loves the temperatures we’ve been having lately.
Though it’s not the best but I got a rare male Amur Leopard Call at the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo
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