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There are also freshwater sculpins in northern Scandinavian waters.
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It would fit Semnopithecus schistaceus, a very large monkey (up to 23 kg) that occurs in Nepal. Here is a skull replica of the closely related Hanuman langur. boneclones.com/product/hanu...
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Yes, but you can often get a certain idea about the size by its proportions which have a certain size relation. It's likely a Nepalese gray langur.
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The bone proportions indicate that this primate skull was rather small, about the size of a normal monkey.
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I sadly missed the opportunity to see it when it was on display in Tübingen many years ago.
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Ja, das finde ich wirklich sehr schade, letztes Jahr kamen sie auch erst sehr spät auf die Weide.
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Apes have also not really für, just more body hair than humans, and bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas have also large more or less bald areas of skin.
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Ich bin gerade vorher dort gewesen. Zwar sind sie Wasserbüffel, Koniks und Esel noch nicht auf der Weide, abeyes ist jetzt schon unglaublich schön.
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Wonderful illustration!
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Yes, those are bantengs, absolutely beautiful cattle, one of my favorite species. By chance I have seen some just a few hours ago in Munich Zoo. Btw, there are also white water buffalos.
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The last one is also interesting because it is likely the result of crossbreeding between taurine and zebuine cattle.
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The second one is really a water buffalo, there are piebald breeds around.
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It's not even a fossil one, as the remains are subfossil.
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That's not even a skull but part of a pelvic bone.
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Very close, it was a Pommernente.
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I think only those young sprouts are eaten.
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I've seen they are eaten at least locally in Greece.
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It's based on an actual historical depiction, but that was certainly exaggerated.
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That's also just myth.
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Kalugas are predators which actively hunt other fish. I had also once a smaller (non-piscivorous) sturgeon which used to suck on my hand when I was feeding it with pellets. It can happen that they take something in their mouth even if it belongs obviously to something bigger.
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Kalugas have only sucker mouths, they can only swallow whole prey items. But they can be quite voracious and try to eat animals which are too big.
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I've seen the video, the fish is a kaluga sturgeon.
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There´s also this grotesque helmet, however it was nearly certainly never worn in actual battlefields.
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There is a very bizarre and unique depiction of a sallet with a beak-like visor which would fit here within the lines of bizarre "real" helmets.
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It makes you wonder if the artists were even aware of cave art depictions of cave lions.
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Admittedly, they are very badly drawn and very far away from reality.
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Here is also a detail view of the gryphon vulture above. You can take photos like this of living animals, as taxidermy specimens never show the full extent of the original colourations and full structures. The mix or blue and violet skin ares on the mainly featherless eyelids is just beautiful.
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It looks really awesome. I took recently some interesting detail photos of reptile scales during my last zoo visit, which would possibly fit rather well here. If you want I can send you the pics.
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Archaeoindris was of course very large, but we have to be extremely careful with such weights. It's only a calculation and based on very fragmentary remains. Si it's well possible that it was considerably lower.
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Graureiher ;)