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“Everything touches me—I see too much, I hear too much, everything demands too much of me.”

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Clarice Lispector II Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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Laughing Owl Charles Joseph Hullmandel - The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror

From: Here’s Every Single Animal That Became Extinct In The Last 100 Years (PHOTOS)

#Laughing owl #Bird #EX #Art

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Instagram Store Indian Javan Rhinoceros Working on this one was very nice. My reference was an old and pixelated black and white photography so I had to figure out textures and colors. Working on these animals awoke my curiosity about them. Am I ever going to see one? What would it be the sensation of it? the feeling of the air around, the smell, its movements. How would I feel around him? I probably would never know because I am almost sure I will never see a Javan Rhinoceros but drawing them somehow pulls me closer to them. I really hope this animal survives extinction, it will be a great defeat to humanity. ____________________________ This animal never did well in zoos and hasn't been in one in more than a century. The oldest one lived to be 20 years while in the wild they can live up to 40 years old. There are registers of 22 Javan Rhinos in zoos but there were probably more because it was commonly confused with the Indian Rhino. The last Javan Rhino in a zoo was in Adelaide, Australia in 1907 and was thought to be an Indian rhino. This subspecies is extinct.

______________________________ If you like the content please follow my blog. A like or reblog is very much appreciated. The last species from this family is my favorite one.

#Javan rhino #Javan rhinoceros #Mammal #CR #Art #Text

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Gérard DuBois (French, b. 1968, Argenteuil, France, based Montreal, Canada) -Illustration for NY Times Opinion, Saving Our Birds by John W. Fitzpatrick, 2014, Paintings

#Passenger pigeon #Bird #EX #Art

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I pace in circles so the camera will see Look hard at my stripes, there'll be no more after me

#Thylacine #Marsupial #EX #Art

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Ya know, hunting and gathering was probably even better before all this civilization got in the way and caused multiple waves of biodiversity collapse, just sayin

#Passenger pigeon #Bird #EX #Text

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#Golden toad #Amphibian #EX #Art

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That's so cool! And they found a few of them, and they're now growing seedlings in greenhouses for eventual replanting!

Quercus tardifolia is a relic species leftover from when the climate was much cooler and wetter in the past, and can only really live in a few high-elevation spots in Texas. It's definitely still at risk of extinction due to increasing heat and drought caused by climate change, but the discovery means this species still has a chance.

#Quercus tardifolia #Plant #News #Article #Lazarus species

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Red wolf By: Russ Carmack From: Natural History Magazine 1977

#Red wolf #Mammal #CR #Photo #Wild #Live specimen

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Source details and larger version.

#Passenger pigeon #Bird #EX #Art

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TO BE FREE. its been nearly 3 years since my original of this piece, so i wanted to recreate it. 🐺🖤🔥

#Mammal #Art

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A thylacine resting at the Hobart Zoo By: Miss D. O. Park 1917-1921

#Thylacine #Marsupial #EX #Photo #Live specimen #Captive

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A preserved Syr Darya sturgeon specimen. The species, last reliably sighted in the wild during the 1960s, is one of the smallest of all sturgeons, growing only up to a foot in length. [ x ]

#Syr Darya sturgeon #Fish #CR #Photo #Mummified #Upload

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This was quite haunting to read.

#Kauaʻi ʻōʻō #Bird #EX #Photo #Live specimen #Wild #Text

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martyr

#Mammal #Art

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Day 6 of January extinct birds - the laughing owl / whēkau

Another NZ bird. The name came from the owl's calls, one of which has been described as a “prolonged cack-cack-cack”. When the arrival of indigenous people brought the pacific black rat and bird extinctions to NZ, the rat became a big part of the owl's diet. The rats, humans and adaptive owls were coexisting pretty well in parts of NZ until people brought weasels and stoats to control rabbit populations. Surprise, the mustelids didn't do much to control rabbits, and instead caused (and is causing!) many problems for native birds.

This will probably be the last NZ bird for January! Famous ones like the haast's eagle and moa will have to wait.

#Laughing owl #Bird #EX #Art #Text

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The mysterious Delcourt’s Giant Gecko was once thought to have been native to New Zealand, however more recent DNA analysis suggests it may have origins in New Caledonia. Not much is known of this species except a single stuffed specimen found in the basement of a museum collection. It is currently thought to be extinct as it has not been seen alive since the 19th century.

#Delcourt's giant gecko #Reptile #EX #Art #Text