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Selfie time because why not :)

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Why was I not aware Cuban Crocodiles can move like this.

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I just had a heart-attack

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So I just finished watching #JurassicWorldDominion and, to be honest, I don’t understand the negative reviews. The action was amazing, the legacy cast was stellar and there was awesome new dinosaurs! Maybe I’m just bad at critiquing films, but I really didn’t feel it was bad.

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In case anyone missed it, a couple weeks ago a new Sumatran Rhino baby was born at the Way Kambas Rhino Sanctuary! With only 8 rhinos at the sanctuary, and roughly 80 in the world, this is huge news! 🦏🌎

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Ahhh science…

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If we don’t act now we are going to lose the Sumatran rhino. Since 2015, IUCN estimates have indicated a 13% population decline per year. Their are only 34-47 rhinos left in the wild and nine in captivity.

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This scene still gets my vote for best movie scene ever. The Action, the unbelievably good music, the subtle humour, it all comes together perfectly imo. What is your favourite movie scene?

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My god, listen to those sounds.

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Elephants react for the first time in over a year when they see their beloved caretaker. #Tiredearth

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Another sad day folks, apparently “Mr. Kabini” one of the last remaining Indian elephant super tuskers, is dead. At least we can take solace in the fact that this absolute king of an elephant died of natural causes, and wasn’t killed. Apparently he was around 60. RIP

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As many predicted, The Skull in @TheRock ‘s office was a replica. The Rock continues to be based.

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Two new Javan Rhino Calves were spotted in Indonesia! There are now 77 Javan Rhinos in Ujung Kulon National Park. Importantly, the births mean the rhino population can continue to grow!

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I get the simplest joy from seeing Turkey Vultures Soaring :)

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Check out this awesome cinematography! This clip is from the Netflix Documentary “Surviving Paradise”, and honestly is one of the best videos of an elephant in a documentary I’ve seen in a while.

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Check out this Hippo’s tusks!

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Recently I rewatched “Dragons World; a Fantasy made real”. Something that intrigued me was the Hydrogen/Methane filled sacks in the dragons. These acted not only as a store of flammable gas, but as a sort of “Flight bladder” as well making the Dragons lighter and able to fly.

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@Zhane_Star This shot was crazy though, literally scarred me as a child.

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Great News! 🦏🍃 A new Sumatran rhino calf was born at the Sumatran Rhino sanctuary in Way Kambas, Indonesia yesterday! This is the second birth at the sanctuary within 2 months, and is a glimmer of hope for the critically endangered species. ()

New male Sumatran rhino born | News | Save the Rhino

The Government of Indonesia has announced that a male Sumatran rhino was born in the Way Kambas Rhino Sanctuary!

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🐉 Since #Dragons seem to be on everyone’s mind today, a reminder that this is still the gold standard for dragon designs in media (in my opinion).

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POV: you visit Pleistocene Park, Siberia in the year 2050. (🎨: Raul Martin)

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No one does Documentaries as good as the BBC.

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Pair of massive bull elephants fighting at Kruger national park, South Africa. It’s moments like these that remind you just how powerful elephants are. Also, that poor tree got caught in the crossfire lol. (📸: Sara Zegut) 🐘

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@meganroseruiz Agreed, I’ve tried to think of some animated animal couples that don’t fall victim to this trope, only one I could think of is Manny and Ellie from ice age. Both are just mammoths. Also the Characters from King Fu Panda don’t seem to fall victim to this either.

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Central Asian Steppe ungulates>>>

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Friendly reminder that Indian Rhinos are huge.

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I workout so I can punch people like this

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I learned today that the horns of Watusi Cattle are actually, partly, hollow! Which helps makes them lighter.

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🔥🌊The Fauna of Avatar🪨💨 For an internet community so interested in Animals, (extinct, living or fictional), the fauna of the world of “Avatar the Last Airbender” is criminally underrated. This thread will attempt to showcase some of the wonderful creatures of avatar.

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Check out this wildlife cam footage from Yukon Territory, Canada 🇨🇦 An interesting variety of large megafauna is shown in the footage, which is always very cool to see in an area damaged so severely by the late-Pleistocene extinctions! 🦬🐎🐺

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The replies under science tweets be like

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The Queen of Tsavo is gone. Dida, one of the largest female tuskers in the world, has passed away. She has passed away of Natural causes, succumbing to the terrible drought Kenya is experiencing. (📸: Federico Veronesi)

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Terrible news everyone. Ulysses, one of Africa’s last Super tusker elephants, is dead. Rangers thus far haven’t been able to determine the cause of death, but it does appear to be a natural death. At only 43 years old, he was a relatively young elephant. (📸: Jeremy Goss)

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Anyone know what species is depicted here? Also, this documentary looks amazing!

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If mammals were coloured like dinosaurs in paleoart…

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This picture kills me inside.

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According to a study from 2012, elephant hair is used to carry heat away from the animals skin and into the air! According to the authors; “Elephant hair is the first documented example in nature where increasing heat transfer due to a low hair density covering may be desirable”

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In case you forgot, wild water Buffalo (Bubalus arnee) can occasionally have absolutely massive horns. Hopefully we will continue to find wild water Buffalo individuals with massive horns, like this guy.

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Hateg island will never not amaze me. The fact that the giant Hatzegopteryx rivaled local sauropods Magyarosaurus and Paludititan in size (dimensions, not weight) is insane. (🎨: Joschua Knuppe, Orribec)

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Which group of flying vertebrates is your favourite?

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Great Conservation news! On September 30th a baby Rhino was born at the Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas, Indonesia. The Baby rhino, born to mother Ratu and father Andalas, is a female and has not been named! 🦏🍃

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Looking through old dinosaur books is fun. 🦖🦕

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@PleaseBeGneiss Me leading the Javelinas

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Columbian Mammoth energy! 🦣🐘 In a world where big tuskers are becoming increasingly rare, every big tusker is incredibly valuable. (📸: sameer_kote on IG)

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@WholesomeMeme There is a story of a diver named Paul Nicklen who had a similar experience with among the most dangerous of pinnipeds, the Leopard seal! Apparently it kept bringing him dead penguins as gifts!

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Did you know that greater tusk size in male elephants correlates with lower Parasite loads? These are the results of a study on Elephants in South India, the authors write “Ivory poaching which targets larger-tusked elephants may thus affect the health status of the population”.

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Short Video of Dingos hunting Emus.

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Prehistoric planet reiterated in my mind just how big Edmontosaurus regalis was. I have a hard time imagining this being easy prey for a T Rex.

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Indian wildlife is so underrated. Quite amazing how these giant, dangerous, animals managed to survive in one of the most densely populated countries on earth. (📸: Anand Nambiar)

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@SerpenIllus Evolution is amazing

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I know this is probably serious, but this image is killing me 😂😂

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What is your favourite non-elephantid Proboscidean? (🎨: Julio Lacerda, Charles R Knight, Jay Matternes)

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This little modern day triceratops doesn’t get nearly enough love.

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Ahmed, the Great Elephant. Ahmed was an elephant with exceptionally long tusks that lived in Kenya from 1919 till his death in 1974. In 1970, to protect him from poachers, He was given presidential protection and he was declared a living monument.

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@ausar_the Imagine showing this to someone who has never seen or heard of an elephant in some isolated tribe.

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I don’t want to live in a world where the only place we can observe big tuskers is in museums. #savethebigtuskers (📸: Wim van den Heever)

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The Okavango Delta is among the most beautiful and ecologically diverse places in Africa. Sadly, This beautiful landscape is under threat. Canadian Oil company ReconAfrica has begun testing for oil right beside the park.

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Tell me you don’t understand ecology, without telling me you don’t understand ecology.

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This is yet another sad day folks. Tolstoy, a 51 year old big tusker elephant, is dead. I believe a statement hasn’t been released yet on his cause of death, but it should be noted he was recently speared and (though treated by vets) the infection could have played a role.

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Happy #EarthDay2022 🌎! we are constantly bombarded with news about how ecosystems around the world are dying, species are going extinct, and the earth is warming. Thus, it’s worth saying that Earth is still beautiful. It’s still full of life, and it’s still worth protecting.

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Jim Corbett National Park is something else... Seriously look at this place.

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Can we all agree that this mammoth statue is the “Papo T-Rex” of Mammoths? Seriously, it’s everywhere.

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I don’t understand how anyone can deny evolution after looking at the hands of other great apes.

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“It’s not a face off, but a humbling display of respect” @SheldrickTrust (📸: Mia Collis)

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@fasc1nate Reminds me of an account from 1866 Ontario, Canada of a 482km long and 2km wide flock of passenger pigeons. Sources say they darkened the skies for 14 hours. The passenger pigeon is now extinct. Safeguard biodiversity.

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This is still one of the hardest photos of all time. (📸: Johan Marais)

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Hot take: this is the best raptor in the Jurassic franchise, and it definitely doesn’t get enough love.

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What is your favourite Ceratopsian? I gotta say mine has to be Styracosaurus. Though it isn’t the largest ceratopsian, it’s unique horns are second to none! (🎨: Jerry LoFaro)

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So let’s talk about Elephants… 🐘 With elephants being somewhat viral lately, I want to remind y’all of the plight faced by “big tuskers”. (📸: Ryan Wilkie)

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Lugard is gone. Another big tusker of Tsavo has passed away of old age, accelerated by the severe drought Kenya is experiencing. Though sad, Lugard has been the father of many elephants and hopefully his super tusker genes will be visible in the next generation.

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The Black Wallaroo is objectively the best marsupial. I mean come on, look at in.

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The Magnificent Seven Elephants - a thread 🧵 The “Magnificent Seven” was a group of Seven Elephants that lived in Kruger National Park, South Africa. The group was named in the 1980’s by park officials due to their Massive Tusks.

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Just found this book from my childhood! Anyone remember these books?

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Musk Ox are my favourite Arctic animal. I really think they are overlooked. (📸: Weber Arctic)

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WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME CROCODILIANS CAN DO THIS?!?!?

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Can I just say this looks awesome! I’m sort of surprised they made the choice to portray Cave Lions as white, Perhaps a fun little callback to Walking with Beasts? Not the most scientifically accurate, but I would be lying if I said it didn’t look cool!

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To understand life we must go back to the beginning. Life on Our Planet — from executive producer Steven Spielberg and the team behind Our Planet — premieres October 25.

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What is the “coolest” animal you have ever seen in the wild?

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@WholesomeMeme JUST A CITY BOY

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It seems the Sumatran elephant has an extra pair of ribs than the other Asian elephant subspecies. It is also, apparently, the most primitive of the Asian elephant subspecies. More evidence of its uniqueness and further reason why it’s extinction needs to be prevented.

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Meet Padayappa! Found in the town of Munnar, (in Kerala, India) Padayappa is an elephant known for frequent appearances in residential areas. He is somewhat of a gentle giant, and hardly has any history of violence. He also has unusually long and curved tusks!

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I challenge you to name a cooler taxonomic family than Elephantidae.

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For absolutely no reason at all, let’s talk about the true #Mastodons 🦣🦣 (🎨: Beth Zaiken)

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War Elephants were a feature of wars for millennia. Yet there is only one battle where African and Asian War elephants fought each other. The Battle of Raphia, fought between the Seleucid empire and Ptolemaic Egypt (Both Hellenistic empires) over control of Syria in 217 BC.

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Wouldn’t it be awesome to have an Ice Age miniseries that focuses on Manny’s past?

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Guys I found the real life venom

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Here’s something interesting I discovered, apparently the area around Wapusk National Park in Manitoba, Canada is one of the only places in the world where black, polar and grizzly bears co-exist!

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This is a Critically endangered Cuban Crocodile btw. Video source; ()

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What is one game you wish you could play but can’t (for any reason)? I’ll start :)

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A big tusker Asian Elephant is the closest living thing to a Mammoth, both in terms of its close relation and similar phenotype. We cannot allow these individuals to be the last of their kind, we must ensure the genes correlating to big tusks live on. (📸: Yashas Narayan)

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What is your Favourite Natural History Museum and why??

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My prof just mentioned that the rate of CO2 emissions humans are currently releasing is close to that released by the Siberian Traps around 251 million years ago. You know, right around the time of the most devastating mass extinction of all time.

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This is my favourite “cliche” type of shot when filming elephants. Focusing on an elephant in the foreground, while having an older and larger elephant walk by in the background, dwarfing those in the foreground. (Via @BBCEarth ) 🐘

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Kermode bears are magical creatures. They aren’t albino, as they still have pigmented skin and eyes. A single, nonsynonymous nucleotide substitution in the MC1R gene causes melanin to not be produced. They inhabit the coastal rainforests of British Columbia.

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Excuse the low quality, but check out this video of wild (“feral”) horses running alongside Elk in Wyoming! Feels like something straight out of the Pleistocene! (📸: Kaylambrownn)

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This week rangers found Tolstoy, one of the few remaining “super-tusker” elephants on earth, had been injured. Likely speared by a farmer after a crop-raid. The Rangers and medics of @biglifeafrica and @kwskenya vet unit, were quick to respond and treated his wound.

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A new report is criticizing the Indonesian government for misleading the public into believing the population of Javan Rhinos is experiencing steady growth. The report says the real population may actually be declining. Read more ()

‘Misleading’ population count of Javan rhinos could chart their extinc

Javan rhinos, a critically endangered species found only in a single park in Indonesia, may be on a population decline that could see the species go extinct within a decade, a new report warns.

www.eco-business.com

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New reports are showing the Indonesian government is horribly mishandling it’s endangered Rhinos. From falsely reporting Javan rhino population growth, to refusing to translocate Sumatran rhinos and not building appropriate sanctuaries. 🦏🦏🦏 ()

Amid government inaction, Indonesia’s rhinos head toward extinction (analysis)

Margaret Kinnaird has worked in conservation for decades, from North America to Africa. But it was only when she started working in Indonesia that she heard the acronym NATO, or “No Action, Talk...

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So this is the Inside of a camels mouth. Basically mini Sarlacc pits.

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What do you think is the most popular Sauropod dinosaur?

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POV: you are an Antelope in Africa 500,000 years ago.

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It’s amazing to me that so many large mammals can inhabit the harsh landscapes of the Tibetan Plateau. Truly a testament to the hardiness of many species. (📸: Xizhi Nong, Dong Lei, Geraldine Werhahn)

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Help me out with a tough decision guys. Which one would you go with? Paleoloxodon antiquus or Mammuthus trogontherii? @Eofauna

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