#extinct subspecies

[menelaiad]

the infamous 'last sighting of a barbary lion in the wild' photo taken by marcelin flandrin (1925) haunts me to my core. there's something so achingly poetic about it.

[cannibaltranssexual]

hey guys did u know that um. deer

just a heads up

[chipped-chimera]

Augh Fish Karlach video popping off right after she died ... swim in peace girl. You deserved better breeding than you were stuck with 😔

[notes-from-hisui]

I wonder why Hisuian Arcanine and Hisuian Growlithe don't live in Hisui/Sinnoh anymore. Where they out-competed by something? Do they need more space than the landscape allows now? Did a disease or other disaster happen?

[lore-of-the-mushroom-kingdom]

Mushroom Kingdom Yoshi Extinction And Rewilding 2

In a previous post I spoke about how it seems to be heavily implied Yoshis used live all over the Mushroom Kingdom and primarily went extinct. With the Yoshis we see nowadays being Mario's Buddy Yoshi, his friends, and Yoshis from the Wild Yoshi Sanctuary all coming from Dinosaur Land. But I also believe have seen a few straggler Yoshis before, what little remains of Yoshi populations within the Mushroom Kingdom.

So first off there is the Yoshis of Yoshi Village which is on Lavalava Island. Lavalava Island is located in the lake or inland sea to the South of the Grasslands which is part of the Mushroom Kingdom and the Greater Mushroom Continent. I believe these Yoshis are Native ones and did not come from Dinosaur, and these are some of the few remaining Yoshis that still live in the Mushroom Kingdom.

The second ones are the Yoshis from New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe. These Yoshis seem to be on roaming around places like Acorn Plains on their own which is part of the Mushroom Kingdom and the greater Mushroom Continent. I believe these are also some of the few remaining Yoshis within the Mushroom Kingdom that did not come from Dinosaur Land. I also believe due to them not growing up form eating a lot,their unique abilities, and their different colored eggs. That these Yoshis are part of a subspecies of Yoshis like the Mini Yoshis. But these ones in particular are exclusive to the Western regions of the Mushroom Kingdom.

Speaking of Mini Yoshis, I might as well talk about them. So Mini Yoshis are a subspecies of Yoshis that can hatch as any color and come from a Multi Color Egg. Mr. Hoggles says in the game about the egg, "No! Please! Come back to me! Someone, help! My rare, imported egg has escaped! Please catch it!" This reveals to us Mini Yoshis are not native to Rogueport or the Mushroom Kingdom. So they are probably from Dinosaur Land and given the dialogue are a rare subspecies of Yoshis which would explain why we don't see so many.

Edit, Dinosaur Land is actually located in the Mushroom Kingdom, and thus the Yoshis from the Western Mushroom Kingdom are some of the few that still exist on the mainland, separate from Dinosaur Land's Islands and Lavalava Island. Explanation

[boyduvet]

I see lots of posts for and by therians about doing at least a little 'research' (loosely) on your kintype and I mean yeah but you do you either way I guess if you don't want to let's just stay out of it but I love love love googling mine I have spents hours on the wiki pages for my habitat, my diet, similar species, taxonomy disputes, etc etc and I feel like I need to reiterate again you don't have to do that and that's cool and all but oh my god I love it so much :333

[horizonandstar]

if sun and moon were different subspecies i would probably go with this as their scientific names:

sun: Caelestiscantor affinis aureus

moon: Caelestiscantor affinis caeruleus

[lepurcinus]

The lagomorph inferno of having a lot of subespecies, species with little or no information, invalid, synonyms and "lost" species.

Oh boi

[sitting-on-me-bum]

An Anatolian pars, a leopard subspecies, is seen by a camera trap set up in Turkey. It was thought that the endangered animal was extinct for years until 2013 when two of them were spotted

Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

[biophonies]

made in honor of the now-extinct population of Falasteen crocodiles, the sunbirds that almost lost their names, and everyone else surviving the attempted erasure.

posted the other week as part of an ongoing fundraiser offering free prints and paid, with 100% of proceeds going to Care for Gaza. it has since been translated, wheatpasted, and flown on kites all over the world from Saigon to Scotland...!!!

monetary donations are never a substitute for holistic political action, and a push for a different world... but the shows of solidarity and support have lifted my spirits so much.

this is now available on a t-shirt too, screenprinted by hand in Texas!same deal: all profits go to food, medicine, and other critical supplies via Care for Gaza (& the PCRF). thank you for sharing.

image description below:

a Palestine sunbird holds red poppies in their beak next to the text RIGHT TO EXIST. a Palestine crocodile (a subspecies of the Nile, now extinct thanks to occupying forces) guards a shining key next to the text RIGHT TO RETURN. a Palestinian olive tree, full of fruit is next to the text RIGHT TO RESIST. a Palestinian family of five, all embracing each other next to the text RIGHT TO REMAIN.

[rebeccathenaturalist]

Okay, I know people as a general rule tend to not care about invertebrates as much as cute, fuzzy mammals, but this is a must-read if you care about animal welfare. The short version is that horseshoe crab blood has been used for decades in medicine as a way to test whether something is truly sterile; the blood clots in the presence of bacteria. Since then millions of horseshoe crabs have been captured and drained of blood, even though a synthetic alternative was developed a few years ago.

They go through a pretty brutal experience in the process. They're caught by fishermen who often throw them by their tails into a pile in the open air, and they're then trucked to a bleeding facility where they're strapped down and their blood is removed with needles jabbed directly into their hearts. Over half their blood may be taken, after which they're supposed to be returned to the ocean. However, it's likely many of them never make it back, instead turned into fish bait and sold by the same fishermen who caught them in the first place.

Apart from the fact that this is a horrific thing to put any animal through, the attrition due to fatalities has put a serious dent in horseshoe crab numbers. This is compounded by massive habitat loss, pollution, and the capture of horseshoe crabs as food, particularly as the females of one species are considered a delicacy. And other animals that rely on horseshoe crabs are suffering, too. The American rufa subspecies of the red knot, a medium-sized shorebird, is critically endangered as the horseshoe crab eggs it must have in order to successfully complete migration have become increasingly scarce, and it is likely the bird will become extinct if trends continue.

While there are guidelines for medical horseshoe crab harvest, they're considered optional. The few laws that exist are poorly enforced. Short of a complete ban on horseshoe crab blood in favor of the synthetic alternative, these animals are in very real danger of going extinct after a history spanning over 400 million years on this planet.

Thankfully, this article is not the first to bring forth the issues surrounding horseshoe crab harvest. Here are a few resources for further information and action (US based, though horseshoe crabs are threatened throughout their entire range):

Horseshoe Crab Conservation Network - https://horseshoecrab.org/conservation/

Wetlands Institute - https://wetlandsinstitute.org/conservation/horseshoe-crab-conservation/

Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition - https://hscrabrecovery.org/

[herpsandbirds]

May I request animals that were endangered but are now recovering please?

Was endangered, but has now recovered...

The first creature to come to mind is the American Alligator, which was in real trouble at one time, being close to extinction in the 1960s (due to overhunting and habitat destruction). Protection helped them recover by the 1980s.

American Alligator (Alligator mississippiensis), family Alligatoridae, Georgia, USA

photograph via: UGA Coastal Ecology Lab

Lake Erie Watersnake (Nerodia sipedon insularum), family Colubridae, found in islands of western Lake Eerie and in one county along the lake in OH, USA.

A subspecies of the Northern Water Snake.

Declared endangered in 1999, from habitat destruction, this snake had recovered by 2011, when it was removed from the endangered species list.

photograph by Jukka Palm

Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), family Accipitridae, order Accipitriformes, Kachemak Bay, Alaska

Affected by variety of causes, overuse of DDT (a pesticide) hit them hard. The birds bioaccumulated the chemical through prey (mostly fish), causing the birds to produce thin egg shells, which would break easily when the parent sat on them.

Placed on the endangered species list in the 1970s, the birds had recovered by the 1990s, due to a ban on use of DDT in the U.S.

photograph by Andy Morffew

[reasonsforhope]

"A 2019 sighting by five witnesses indicates that the long-extinct Javan tiger may still be alive, a new study suggests.

A single strand of hair recovered from that encounter is a close genetic match to hair from a Javan tiger pelt from 1930 kept at a museum, the study shows.

“Through this research, we have determined that the Javan tiger still exists in the wild,” says Wirdateti, a government researcher and lead author of the study.

The Javan tiger was believed to have gone extinct in the 1980s but only officially declared as such in 2008...

Ripi Yanuar Fajar and his four friends say they’ll never forget that evening after Indonesia’s Independence Day celebration in 2019 when they encountered a big cat roaming a community plantation in Sukabumi, West Java province.

Immediately after the brief encounter, Ripi, who happens to be a local conservationist, reached out to Kalih Raksasewu, a researcher at the country’s National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), saying he and his friends had seen either a Javan leopard (Panthera pardus melas), a critically endangered animal, or a Javan tiger (Panthera tigris sondaica), a subspecies believed to have gone extinct in the 1980s but only officially declared so in 2008.

About 10 days later, Kalih visited the site of the encounter with Ripi and his friends. There, Kalih found a strand of hair snagged on a plantation fence that the unknown creature was believed to have jumped over. She also recorded footprints and claw marks that she thought resembled those of a tiger.

Kalih then sent the hair sample and other records to the West Java provincial conservation agency, or BKSDA, for further investigation. She also sent a formal letter to the provincial government to follow up on the investigation request. The matter eventually landed at BRIN, where a team of researchers ran genetic analyses to compare the single strand of hair with known samples of other tiger subspecies, such as the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae) and a nearly century-old Javan tiger pelt kept at a museum in the West Java city of Bogor.

“After going through various process of laboratory tests, the results showed that the hair sample had 97.8% similarities to the Javan tiger,” Wirdateti, a researcher with BRIN’s Biosystemic and Evolutionary Research Center, said at an online discussion hosted by Mongabay Indonesia on March 28.

The discussion centered on a study published March 21 in the journal Oryx in which Wirdateti and colleagues presented their findings that suggested that the long-extinct Javan tiger may somehow — miraculously — still be prowling parts of one of the most densely populated islands on Earth.

Their testing compared the Sukabumi hair sample with hair from the museum specimen collected in 1930, as well as with other tigers, Javan leopards and several sequences from GenBank, a publicly accessible database of genetic sequences overseen by the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

The study noted that the supposed tiger hair had a sequence similarity of 97.06% with Sumatran tigers and 96.87% with Bengal tigers. Wirdateti also conducted additional interviews with Ripi and his friends about the encounter they’d had.

“I wanted to emphasize that this wasn’t just about finding a strand of hair, but an encounter with the Javan tiger in which five people saw it,” Kalih said.

“There’s still a possibility that the Javan tiger is in the Sukabumi forest,” she added. “If it’s coming down to the village or community plantation, it could be because its habitat has been disturbed. In 2019, when the hair was found, the Sukabumi region had been affected by drought for almost a year.” ...

Didik Raharyono, a Javan tiger expert who wasn’t involved in the study but has conducted voluntary expeditions with local wildlife awareness groups since 1997, said the number of previous reported sightings coupled with the new scientific findings must be taken seriously. He called on the environment ministry to draft and issue a policy on measures to find and conserve the Javan tiger.

“What’s most important is the next steps that we take in the future,” Didik said."

-via Mongabay, April 4, 2024

[lizardsaredinosaurs]

Despite what my lesser cousin would say, I am indeed the greater chicken.

Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido)

Prairie regions of the USA, possibly extirpated in Canada

Status: Protected in some states, Attwater subspecies federally Endangered

The Heath Hen subspecies once existed in New England, and went extinct in 1932 despite efforts to preserve it.

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[probablybadrpgideas]

There's the High Elves, the Wood Elves, the Dark Elves. But there's a been a development. A subspecies of elves that was long thought extinct has returned.

The world must make space for the long forgotten Cishet Elves