Mowery, Juliet (2012) Megafauna (animal diversity). White Word Publications, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132341857
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In terrestrial zoology, megafauna are "giant", "very large" or "large" animals. Their original and most common definition is 100 lb, often rounded in the metric system to 40 or 45 kg. This thus includes many species not popularly thought of as overly large, such as white-tailed deer and red kangaroo, as well as humans. In practice the most common usage encountered in academic and popular writing describes land animals roughly larger than a human which are not (solely) domesticated. The term is especially associated with the Pleistocene megafauna- the giant and very large land animals considered archetypical of the last ice age such as mammoths. It is also commonly used for the largest extant wild land animals, especially elephants, giraffes, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, elk, condors, etc. Megafauna may be subcategorized by their trophic position into megaherbivores (eg elk), megacarnivores (e.g. lions), and more rarely, megaomnivores (e.g. bears). Other common uses are for giant aquatic species, especially whales, any larger wild or domesticated land animals such as larger antelope and cattle, and dinosaurs and other extinct giant reptilians. The term is also sometimes applied to animals (usually extinct) of great size relative to a the more common or surviving type of the animal, for example the 1 m ( 3 ft) dragonflies of Carboniferous period.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QL Zoology |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jan 2023 02:02 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2023 02:02 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3858 |
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