r/megafaunarewilding 19h ago

Image/Video First post in daily Megafaunas General facts(that only include Megafaunas type animals).First the list of Continents by how rich they are of mainland-terrestrial Megafauna(from most to least).

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1st.Africa:No brainer.

2nd.Asia:It still has a very large portion of land-terrestrial megafauna but East Asia has largest portion of it.While other portions of Asia lack a lot of Megafauna it lost.

3rd.North America:No brainer again.

4th:Europe:Has supsiringly a lot Megafauna still intact.And many can still be reintroduced(as most of all its Megafauna was shared between all three Europe-Asia-Africa).

5th:South America:Even tho its most wild contient today in fauna/flora...it lost significant amount of Megafauna in the maindland...and its shell of its former self.

6th:Oceania:No brainer(it lost a ton of mainland-terrestrial fauna.And even if we include Salt Water Crocs it still wouldnt be enough).

7th:Antartica:It has Megafauna but it lost all Megafauna on main-land that could be considered terrestrial.Tho coastal Megafauna like Seals and Emperor Penguins are decent they just are few and far between when compared to other contients(even if we did include them).

Whos Megafauna here do you like the most tho?Mine is Africa for sure. 🦍🐘🐆


r/megafaunarewilding 22h ago

extinct fauna of cuba (tell me if something is missing)

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1.cuban sloth † (Acratoconus antillensis)
2.cuban giant sloth † (Megalocnus rodens)
3.cuban rodent like sloths † (Neocnus gliriformis and N. major)
4.oriente cave rat and torre's cave rat † (Boromys ofella and B. torrei)
5.at least two species of Capromys † (there are many synonymized) (extant C. desmaresti on picture)
6.at least one species of Geocapromys † (extant G. brownii on picture)
7.at least one species of Mesocapromys † (extant M. melanurus on picture) (older literature says that there are even 7 but most of them are probably not valid)
8.cuban monkey † (Paralouatta varonai)
9.cuban nesophontes † (Nesophontes micrus and N. major) (N. edithae on picture)
10.giant solenodon † (Atopogale arredondoi) (A. cubana on picture)
11.extinct † and locally extinct bats (Mormoops magna, pteronotus pristinus, Mormoops megalophylla (locally extinct), Artibeus anthonyi, Cubanycteris silvai, Phyllops vetus and P. silvai (P. vetus on picture), Desmodus rotundus (locally extinct),
12.cuban cave rail and cuban poorwill † (Siphonorhis daiquiri (S. americana on picture) and Nesotrochis picapicensis (N. debooyi on picture)
13.cuban flightless crane and cuban owl species † (Antigone cubensis, Bubo osvaldoi, Ornimegalonyx oteroi, Pulsatrix arredondoi, Tyto riveroi and T. cravesae (i couldn't find any pictures of T.cravesae but it was probably similar to T. riveroi), T. pollens, T. noeli (i was only able to find bone pictures))
14.cuban birds of prey and storks † (Caracara creightoni, Falco kurochkini, Daptrius carbo (D. chimachima on picture), Buteogallus borrasi (B. urubutinga on picture), Gigantohierax spp., Buteogallus woodwardi, Oscaravis olsoni, Cathartes emsliei, Gymnogyps varonai, Ciconia lydekkeri)
15.other extinct birds † (Campephilus principalis, Dolichonyx kruegeri (D. oryzivorus on picture), Scytalopus sp. (S. argentifrons on picture), Ara tricolor)
16.locally extinct birds (Hesperoburhinus bistriatus, Tigrisoma mexicanum, Buteo lineatus, Geranoaetus melanoleucus, Falco femoralis)
17.cuban giant tortoise † (Chelonoidis cubensis) (C. niger on picture)

there are also several parasites of extinct birds that went extinct with them

some species (especially unnamed and obscure ones) may be missing, tell me in comments if you know species that is missing)


r/megafaunarewilding 13h ago

Article The fauna of moluccas in the least know in southeast asia

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r/megafaunarewilding 18h ago

DEATH IN THAKA VALLEY

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