Rizz Carlton
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Aren't all the three main parks technically and literally speaking focusing on wild animals?
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I meant wild mammals sorry, because Farm House's collection was mostly farm animals
Rizz Carlton
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Despite claims by Jagat Satwa Nusantara and initially by me and some others, the pitohuis there are unlikely to be the hooded pitohui (Pitohui dichrous). A friend of mine has propose that it could be the southern variable pitohui (Pitohui uropygialis). This was due to the presence of what appears to be a fully-orange plumaged bird, showing clear sexual dimorphism which lacks slightly in P. dichrous. The male having a much darker tone of brown and orange than what I usually saw in pictures of P. dichrous.
The megapode in Jagat Satwa, despite them claiming to have the more colorful Moluccan megapode (Eulipoa wallacei), might potentialy be megapodius reinwardt, or the orange-footed scrubfowl!
Identified based on the subtle, yet present brown plumage on the wings and back, as well as the legs that shows a very faint bit of pale orange. This differs from other species in the genus that was also proposed, M. freycinet, which are very dark in coloration.
In another, probably less interesting news, it appears the crocodile lizard at Museum Komodo has a rather high chance to be a rare subspecies, the Vietnamese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis)! Only found in the Yên Tử Mountain range of northeastern Vietnam.
Why is that? It was partly due to the longer snout seen in the pair, which is unlike the nominate subspecies from southern China which have a short snout. If true, you have to wonder how Jagat Satwa were able to get a hand of this elusive subspecies.
Visual comparison between S. c. vietnamensis (A.) and S. c. crocodilurus (B.)
"Crocodile lizards from Vietnam (A) and China (B). Vietnam's subspecies is differentiated by a relatively longer and more pointed snout with lower cheeks and smaller orbits compared to those from China (Nguyen et al., 2022)."
(PDF) Molecular phylogenetic analyses and ecological niche modeling provide new insights into threats to the endangered Crocodile Lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)
The megapode in Jagat Satwa, despite them claiming to have the more colorful Moluccan megapode (Eulipoa wallacei), might potentialy be megapodius reinwardt, or the orange-footed scrubfowl!
Identified based on the subtle, yet present brown plumage on the wings and back, as well as the legs that shows a very faint bit of pale orange. This differs from other species in the genus that was also proposed, M. freycinet, which are very dark in coloration.
In another, probably less interesting news, it appears the crocodile lizard at Museum Komodo has a rather high chance to be a rare subspecies, the Vietnamese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus vietnamensis)! Only found in the Yên Tử Mountain range of northeastern Vietnam.
Why is that? It was partly due to the longer snout seen in the pair, which is unlike the nominate subspecies from southern China which have a short snout. If true, you have to wonder how Jagat Satwa were able to get a hand of this elusive subspecies.
Visual comparison between S. c. vietnamensis (A.) and S. c. crocodilurus (B.)
"Crocodile lizards from Vietnam (A) and China (B). Vietnam's subspecies is differentiated by a relatively longer and more pointed snout with lower cheeks and smaller orbits compared to those from China (Nguyen et al., 2022)."
(PDF) Molecular phylogenetic analyses and ecological niche modeling provide new insights into threats to the endangered Crocodile Lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus)
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Caribbean Flamingo
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Some updates from Dunia Air Tawar:
- The electric eel had been phased-out, a group of mahseers are now occupying it's exhibit.
- A pair of juvenile pirarucus that were housed together with ripsaw catfish and redtail catfish had been phased-out from it's tank. Some banded leporinus and filament barb was added to the tank.