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Megaloceros
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Megaloceros is an extinct genus of deers that
lived in Eurasia between the late Pliocene
epoch and the late Pleistocene epoch, between
about 2 million and 11,000 years ago.
The best known species of the genus is
Megaloceros giganteus which
is popularly known as the "Irish Elk".
For the most part Megaloceros were large
animals, for example
Megaloceros giganteus was nearly 7 feet (2.1 meters)
tall at the shoulder, and had antlers that were as much
as 12 feet (3.7 meters) from tip to tip. There were
however some smaller species of Megaloceros,
and in particular species living in Mediterranean
islands such as Corsica and Sardinia were prone
to dwarfism, and stood less than 3 feet (1 meter)
tall at the shoulder.
Megaloceros were herbivorous (plant-eating) mammals that lived between 2 million and 11,000 years ago
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| Hert: Edelhert, Rendier, Eland, Europese ree, Gewei, Damhert, Witstaarthert, Prins-Alfredhert, Sikahert, Megaloceros giganteus, Chinese muntjak (Dutch Edition) |
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Bron: Wikipedia. Pagina's: 28. Hoofdstukken: Edelhert, Rendier, Eland, Europese ree, Gewei, Damhert, Witstaarthert, Prins-Alfredhert, Sikahert, Megaloceros giganteus, Chinese muntjak, Hertachtigen, Javaans hert, Muildierhert, Afghaans edelhert, Rood spieshert, Axishert, Pater-Davidshert, Chinese waterree, Sambar, Pampahert, Zwarte muntjak, Capreolinae, Lierhert, Wapiti, Zwijnshert, Roedel, Poedoe, Kuifhert, Calamianenhert, Siberische ree, Ozotoceros bezoarticus arerunguaensis, Baweanhert, Witliphert, Moerashert, Ozotoceros bezoarticus uruguayensis, Spiesherten, Filipijnse sambar, Sumatraanse muntjak, Cervinae, Muntjakherten, Cervus. Uittreksel: Het edelhert (Cervus elaphus), in jagersjargon roodwild, is een hertensoort die voorkomt in Europa, Azië en Noord-Amerika. De Noord-Amerikaanse ondersoorten, die in de Verenigde Staten wapiti en in Canada elk (niet te verwarren met het Britse elk dat een eland is) worden genoemd, worden soms als een aparte soort, Cervus canadensis, beschouwd. Ook Europa en Azië kent enkele ondersoorten. Het edelhert is op de eland na het grootste hert. Het edelhert komt in Nederland voor op de Veluwe, de Oostvaardersplassen en sinds 2005 in het Weerterbos. Af en toe wordt er een edelhert op de Utrechtse Heuvelrug gesignaleerd, alsmede aan de grens met Duitsland van aldaar toegelopen dieren. In het wild levende edelherten zijn in België relatief zeldzaam. In Vlaanderen komen ze voor in de regio Voeren, op het Kempens Plateau en in het Belgisch-Nederlandse grenspark Kempen-Broek. In Wallonië is hun verspreiding beperkt tot het zuidelijke en westelijke deel van de Ardennen. In de zomer zijn de dieren roodbruin van kleur, in de winter grijsachtig bruin. De buikzijde is wit en het staartstuk is roomkleurig. De rui begint eerst bij de kop, de poten en het voorlijf. In september begint de zomervacht plaats te maken voor de wintervacht, en in december is deze volledig vervangen. De zomervacht komt weer terug in mei, en is in juli of augustus comp... |
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| Pliocene Mammals, including: Ardipithecus, Aurochs, Kenyanthropus, Paranthropus, Australopithecus, Machairodus, Dinofelis, Homotherium, Deinotherium, ... Afarensis, Thylacoleo, Megaloceros |
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Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on Pliocene mammals. |
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By Michael P. Goecke
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Introduces the physical characteristics, habitat, and behavior of this prehistoric relative of modern-day deer. |
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By Wolfgang Baur & George Strayton
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A complete guide to playing D&D in the ice and snow.
This 4-color supplement begins a new series of releases that focus on how the environment can affect D&D gameplay in every capacity. Frostburn contains rules on how to adapt to hazardous cold-weather conditions, such as navigating terrain with snow and ice and surviving in bitter cold or harsh weather. There are expanded rules for environmental hazards and manipulation of cold weather elements, as well as new spells, feats, magic items, and prestige classes. New monsters associated with icy realms are included, as well as variants on current monsters. There is enough adventure material included for months of gameplay.
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With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order. |
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By Clayton Eshleman
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For over thirty years, Clayton Eshleman has studied the Ice Age cave art of southwestern France--Juniper Fuse is the culmination of this work. Named after the primitive hand lamp wicks used to light cave walls, the book, in Ronald Gottesman's words, is "a fabulous three-dimensional tapestry of scholarship. Original and intense, it poses serious questions about human nature and its relation to the animal and natural worlds."
Juniper Fuse is also a profound examination, in poetry and in prose, of the nature of poetic imagination and personal myth-making. Drawing upon art history and archaeology as well as poetics and personal experience, Eshleman delivers a potent distillation of the "paleoecology" of our minds, a provocative, and wholly passionate, exploration into the nature of consciousness. |
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By Stephen Jay. Gould
1974)
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By Rupert Oliver
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Follows a prehistoric deer through his day as he searches for fresh grass to eat, seeks to avoid hungry predators, and flees from a fire. |
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By Gerard Klein Hofmeijer
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Corbeddu cave on the island of Sardinia contains Late Pleistocene sediments containing numerous fossils of a common species of deer. Evidence of human activities was also found which is unusual as a Late Pleistocene island fauna is not supposed to be asscoaited with humans, as they were supposed, until recently to have colonized islands not earlier than the Holocene. Analysis of the assemblages, presented in this study, provided detailed information about the microstratigraphy of the site, which has been reconstructed by using a newly developed computer program. The combination of all taphonomic information makes it possible to reconstruct the nature of the site formation processes and Hofmeijer argues that the assemblages cannot have been formed by natural processes alone. Indeed the Corbeddu cave differs from mainland assemblages to such an extent that the study suggests that the bones were a by product of feeding but were also used as tools. |
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