"astrological significance. Halle Zoo contributes to the EAZA breeding programme, in particular for the Angolan lion and the Malaysian tiger. Halle is also known for its thriving coypu (or nutria) population, which is native to South America. With writers such as Heine, Eichendorff, Schleiermacher, Tieck and Novalis the town was a vibrant scene of the German Romanticism. Also Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a regular guest at the house of his close friend Johann Friedrich Reichardt. German-American expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger worked in Halle on an invitation by the city from 1929 to 1931. As one of eleven views of"
"in Latin America and parts of Europe. In France, the coypu is known as a ""ragondin"". In Dutch, it is known as ""beverrat"" (beaver rat). In German, it is known as ""Nutria"", ""Biberratte"" (beaver rat), or ""Sumpfbiber"" (swamp beaver). In Italy, instead, the popular name is, as in North America and Asia, ""nutria"", but it is also called ""castorino"" (""little beaver""), by which its fur is known in Italy. In Swedish, the animal is known as ""sumpbäver"" (marsh/swamp beaver). In Brazil, the animal is known as ""ratão-do-banhado"", ""nútria"", or ""caxingui"" (the last from the Tupi language). The coypu was first"
"nutria, though this effort was not funded. By the early 2000s, the Coastwide Nutria Control Program was established, which began paying bounties for nutria killed in 2002. In the Chesapeake Bay region in Maryland, where they were introduced in the 1940s, coypus are believed to have destroyed of marshland in the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. In response, by 2003, a multimillion-dollar eradication program was underway. In the United Kingdom, coypus were introduced to East Anglia, for fur, in 1929; many escaped and damaged the drainage works, and a concerted programme by MAFF eradicated them by 1989. However, in 2012, a"
"such as the capybara and nutria (Vassallo and Antenucci, 2015). Habitats range from grasslands (maras), high mountains (chinchillas and chinchilla rats), forest edges (prehensile-tailed porcupines) and dense tropical forests (pacas and acouchis). Although many species of caviomorphs have migrated into Central America since the Great American Interchange, only a single living species, the North American porcupine, has naturally colonized North America north of Mexico (the extinct capybara ""Neochoerus pinckneyi"" also accomplished this feat). The nutria has been introduced into North America and has proven a highly successful invasive species there. Note that some changes to this taxonomy have been suggested"
"time the government instituted a control program, the coypu was destroying Louisiana marshes and wetlands, causing widespread erosion. In the 21st century, the coypu is one of the most common and despised pests in the Bayou State. The story of the nutria is not unique. Many species of birds, mammals, fish, and plants have been introduced into the Louisiana environment in the past two centuries. Exotic species, or species that have been introduced to areas outside their native range, take heavy tolls on the ecosystems they colonize. Some invaders, such as the leafy vine kudzu (""Pueria lobelia""), destroy the habitat"
"1940, some of the nutria escaped during a hurricane and quickly populated coastal marshes, inland swamps, and other wetland areas. From Louisiana, coypus have spread across the Southern United States, wreaking havoc on marshland. Following a decline in demand for coypu fur, coypu have since become pests in many areas, destroying aquatic vegetation, marshes, and irrigation systems, and chewing through man-made items such as tires and wooden house panelling in Louisiana, eroding river banks, and displacing native animals. Damage in Louisiana has been sufficiently severe since the 1950s to warrant legislative attention; in 1958, the first bounty was placed on"
"Gondwana straddling the South Pole. The equator had three continents (Avalonia, Baltica, and Laurentia) which slowly drifted together to form the second supercontinent of Laurussia (also known as Euramerica, not to be confused with Laurasia). The ancestors of ""Eurypterus"" were believed to have originated from Baltica (eastern Laurussia, modern western Eurasia) based on the earliest recorded fossils. During the Silurian, they spread to Laurentia (western Laurussia, modern North America) when the two continents began to collide. They rapidly colonized the continent as invasive species, becoming the most dominant eurypterid in the region. This accounts for why they are the most"
"this invasive species's endurance controversial to human occupants throughout most of its range. The genus name ""Myocastor"" derives from the two Ancient Greek words (), meaning ""rat, mouse"", and (), meaning ""beaver"". Literally, therefore, the name ""Myocastor"" means ""beaver rat"". Two names are commonly used in English for ""Myocastor coypus"". The name ""nutria"" (from Spanish ""nutria"") is generally used in North America, Asia, and throughout countries of the former Soviet Union; however, in most Spanish-speaking countries, the word ""nutria"" refers primarily to the otter. To avoid this ambiguity, the name ""coypu"" or ""coipo"" (derived from the Mapudungun language) is used"
"""giant rat"" was killed in County Durham, with authorities suspecting the animal was, in fact, a coypu. Marsh Dog, a US company based in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, received a grant from the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program to establish a company that uses nutria meat for dog food products. In 2012, the Louisiana Wildlife Federation recognized Marsh Dog with ""Business Conservationist of the Year"" award for finding a use for this ecosustainable protein. In Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, nutria (Russian and local languages Нутрия) are farmed on private plots and sold in local markets as a poor man's meat. As of 2016,"
"within ""Columba"" consists of the widespread Eurasian common wood pigeon, Bolle's pigeon, the trocaz pigeon, and the African Afep pigeon. The two Macaronesian endemic pigeons, Bolle's and trocaz, are thought to be derived from isolated island populations of ""C. palumbus"". The Atlantic archipelagos of the Canaries, Azores, and Madeira have a volcanic origin and they have never been part of a continent. The formation of Madeira started in the Miocene and the island was substantially complete by 700,000 years ago. At various times in the past, the major islands of these archipelagos were all colonised by ancestral wood pigeons, which"
"commersoni""). Riparian vegetation includes Coyote Willow (""Salix exigua""). Rio Nutria (Zuni River tributary) Rio Nutria is a southwestward-flowing stream originating on McKenzie Ridge just west of the Continental Divide in the Cibola National Forest, in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. Rio Nutria joins Rio Pescado to form the Zuni River in McKinley County on the Zuni Indian Reservation, in western New Mexico. Rio Nutria is archaic sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish (primarily rural Castilian) for ""beaver river"". In New Mexico there are at least two other Rio Nutrias rivers. One is the Rio Nutrias which is tributary to the"
"Cypraea leucodon Cypraea leucodon, common name the white-toothed cowry, is a rare cowry, a species of sea snail, or marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. This species can be found from the Philippines and New Guinea to the Indian Ocean. Until the late 1960s, this species was known from only two specimens: one in the National Museum of London, England, and one in the Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology. In the late 1960s and early 1970s the third and fourth specimens were found. By the 1980s, they were being found with regular frequency, and were available"
"killed by gun. Combined with cold winters in 1962 to 1963, almost 40,500 coypu were removed from the population. Although coypu populations were greatly reduced after the 1962-1965 campaign ended, the population increased until another eradication campaign began in 1981. This campaign succeeded in fully eradicating coypu in Great Britain. The trapping areas were broken into 8 sectors leaving no area uncontrolled. The 24 Trappers were offered an incentive for early completion of the 10-year campaign. In 1989 coypu were assumed eradicated as only 3 males were found between 1987 and 1989. Nutria herbivory ""is perhaps the least studied or"
"Africa, much of southern Eurasia, Madagascar, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands, so this is not accurate. However, they seem more abundant in evolutionarily isolated areas. South America was isolated until a few million years ago, with a fauna that included marsupials and other distinctive mammals. With the formation of the Panamanian land bridge to North America about three million years ago, boines have migrated north as colubrids (and various Nearctic mammals) have migrated south, as part of the Great American Interchange. The Old Tupi name for such snakes was ""mbói"", which figures in the etymology of names such as"
"The lineages subsequently diverged in that order. Studies have indicated the cougar and jaguarundi are next most closely related to the modern cheetah of Africa and western Asia, but the relationship is unresolved. Ancestors of the cheetah have been suggested to have diverged from the ""Puma"" lineage in the Americas and migrated back to Asia and Africa, while other research suggests the cheetah diverged in the Old World itself. The outline of small feline migration to the Americas is thus unclear . Jaguarundi The jaguarundi (""Herpailurus yagouaroundi"") ( ) or eyra is a small wild cat native to southern North"
"patches on the neck and breast. The neck feathers may be stiffened and aligned to form grooves. One of several subgroups within ""Columba"" consists of the widespread Eurasian common wood pigeon, Bolle's pigeon, the Trocaz pigeon, and the African Afep pigeon. The two Macaronesian endemic pigeons, Bolle's and Trocaz, are thought to be derived from isolated island populations of ""C. palumbus"". The Atlantic archipelagos of the Canaries, Azores, and Madeira have a volcanic origin and they have never been part of a continent. The formation of Madeira started in the Miocene and the island was substantially complete by 700,000 years"
"Chioninia coctei Chioninia coctei, also called the Cape Verde giant skink, Bibron's skink, lagarto, or Cocteau's skink, is a species of lizard, a reptile that was at one time known to inhabit the islets of Branco and Raso in the Cape Verde islands of the Atlantic Ocean, rendered deserts by human-caused habitat destruction. None have been observed since the early 20th century. The specific name, ""coctei"", is in honor of French physician and zoologist Jean Théodore Cocteau (1798-1838). It has been found through mitochrondrial DNA sequences that ""C. coctei"" was most closely related to the skink genus ""Mabuya"". It was"
"of Life, and in the Catalogue of Life. It is native to Europe. It is endemic species of the small islands in the bay of Porto Cesareo, near the city of Lecce, on the peninsula of Salento, part of the Apulia region, (known as Puglia in Italy), within Italy. It is also found on “Isola dei Conigli” (also known as Rabbit Island), the biggest island near Porto Cesareo. It is listed as an endemic of Salento with ""Centaurea japygica"" (Lacaita) Brullo, ""Centaurea leucadea"" Lacaita, ""Centaurea nobilis"" (Groves) Brullo, ""Dianthus japigicus"" White & Brullo, ""Limonium japygicum"" (Groves) Pign. ,""Ophrys tardans"" O."
"were not enough, the introduction of nutria from South America in the 1930s provided an entirely new species of grazing mammal. Although only a few escaped, there are now millions. Natural grazing by muskrat was now accelerated by grazing from nutria. By removing plants, nutria both cause loss of vegetation, and, perhaps more seriously, a loss of dead organic matter which would otherwise accumulate as peat and raise the level of the marsh One of the most important natural controls on nutria is large alligators, which may provide a useful tool for biological control of nutria, and therefore for reduced"
"bodies of water. Coquíes belong to the ""Eleutherodactylus"" genus which in Greek means free toes. ""Eleutherodactylus"" contains over 700 different species that naturally occur in the southern United States, Central America, South America, and the Caribbean. Coquíes additionally have become established in Hawaii, where they are considered an invasive species, and have recently been spotted in California after hitching rides among shipments of nursery plants. Seventeen described species of coquí inhabit Puerto Rico. In 2007, a new species, the ""coqui llanero"", was officially named ""Eleutherodactylus juanariveroi"". Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Leptodactylidae Genus: Eleutherodactylus Eleutherodactylus coquí"
"found on almost every continent populated by humans: America, Asia, Africa and Australia. The shell most widely used worldwide as currency was the shell of ""Cypraea moneta"", the money cowry. This species is most abundant in the Indian Ocean, and was collected in the Maldive Islands, in Sri Lanka, along the Malabar coast, in Borneo and on other East Indian islands, and in various parts of the African coast from Ras Hafun to Mozambique. Cowry shell money was an important part of the trade networks of Africa, South Asia, and East Asia. In western Africa, shell money was usual legal"
"They are native to tropical and subtropical South America, Central America, Mexico, the offshore East Pacific Cocos, Gorgona and Malpelo Islands, the West Indies and southeastern United States. A particularly high species richness exists in Cuba (more than 60 species), Hispaniola (more than 55), Mexico (more than 50), Central America, Colombia (more than 75), and Ecuador (at least 40). Fewer live in eastern and central South America (for example, less than 20 species are known from huge Brazil), Contiguous United States (1 native species), and the Lesser Antilles (about 25 species in total, with 1–2 species on each island). However,"
"and Africa, primarily by fur ranchers. The distribution of coypus outside South America tends to contract or expand with successive cold or mild winters. During cold winters, coypus often suffer frostbite on their tails, leading to infection or death. As a result, populations of coypus often contract and even become locally or regionally extinct as in the Scandinavian countries and such US states as Idaho, Montana, and Nebraska during the 1980s. During mild winters, their ranges tend to expand northward. For example, in recent years, range expansions have been noted in Washington and Oregon, as well as Delaware. According to"
"inner flesh is palid to green. Although naturalized in many parts of the New World, ""Cucumis anguria"" is indigenous only to Africa, in the following countries: Angola; Botswana; the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Malawi; Mozambique; Namibia; South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga); Swaziland; Tanzania; Zambia; and Zimbabwe. ""Cucumis anguria"" has become naturalized in: Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Australia (Queensland and Western Australia); Barbados; Brazil; Cayman Islands; Costa Rica; Cuba; the Dominican Republic; Ecuador; French Guiana; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Guatemala; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Madagascar; Martinique; Mexico; Netherlands Antilles; Nicaragua; Panama; Peru; Puerto Rico; Saint Lucia; Saint Vincent and Grenadines; Suriname; the United"
"Rio Nutria (Zuni River tributary) Rio Nutria is a southwestward-flowing stream originating on McKenzie Ridge just west of the Continental Divide in the Cibola National Forest, in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. Rio Nutria joins Rio Pescado to form the Zuni River in McKinley County on the Zuni Indian Reservation, in western New Mexico. Rio Nutria is archaic sixteenth and seventeenth century Spanish (primarily rural Castilian) for ""beaver river"". In New Mexico there are at least two other Rio Nutrias rivers. One is the Rio Nutrias which is tributary to the Rio Chama, described by Francisco Silvestre Vélez de"
"1938, E.A. McIlhenny established a nutria farm on Avery Island, Louisiana, within shouting distance of the factory where the company that bears his family name makes Tabasco sauce. According to company history, McIlhenny bought his stock of nutrias from a farm in New Orleans, so he was not the first to introduce the creature, a native of southern Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, to North America. That dubious honor belongs to another. What is certain, though, is that McIlhenny, for reasons unknown, released an unknown but probably large number of nutrias into the wild from the confines of Avery Island, and"
"(Europe and North America), or across Beringia (North America and Asia). The southern continents were much more isolated leading to the unique faunas of Australia, South America, and to a lesser degree Africa. Although the hystricognath rodents may have evolved from an early entodacryan ancestor in Asia, they migrated to Africa soon after. The Phiomorpha represents the clade that evolved as a result. Although once diverse, this infraorder is now restricted to the two species of cane rats, the dassie rat, and the blesmols. The makeup of this infraorder is controversial. At its core lie the extant families Thryonomyidae, Petromuridae,"
"over from Africa during both the Paleogene and Neogene. Skinks of the related genera ""Mabuya"" and ""Trachylepis"" apparently dispersed across the Atlantic from Africa to South America and Fernando de Noronha, respectively, during the last 9 Ma. Surprisingly, South America's burrowing amphisbaenians and blind snakes also appear to have rafted from Africa, as does the hoatzin, a weak-flying bird of South American rainforests. The earliest traditionally recognized mammalian arrival from North America was a procyonid that island-hopped from Central America before the isthmus of Panama land bridge formed, around 7.3 Ma ago. This was South America's first eutherian carnivore. South"
"described by Juan Ignacio Molina in 1782 as ""Mus coypus"", a member of the mouse genus. The genus ""Myocastor"" was assigned in 1792 by Robert Kerr. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, independently of Kerr, named the species ""Myopotamus coypus"", and it is occasionally referred to by this name. Four subspecies are generally recognized: ""M. c. bonariensis"", the subspecies present in the northernmost (subtropical) part of the coypu's range, is believed to be the type of coypu most commonly introduced to other continents. Comparison of DNA and protein sequences showed that the genus ""Myocastor"" is the sister group to the genus ""Callistomys"" (painted tree-rats)."
"beginning in the late afternoon, just before sunset. Locust coqui The locust coqui or coqui martillito (Eleutherodactylus locustus) is a species of frog in the Eleutherodactylidae family endemic to Puerto Rico. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. ""E. locustus"" has suffered a population decline of more than 80% due to introduced predators and amphibian chytrid disease. Scientists believe amphibian chytrid disease may be exacerbated by climate change - warmer temperatures in dry, moist habitats, causing stress that may lead to greater susceptibility to the disease. The locust coqui is"
"America is cited as the most likely continent (Wood, 1985) as connections between North America and Asia were common via Beringia, and North America appears to have been closer to South America than any other continent at this time. The ""Franimorpha"" were once proposed as a potential North American rodent group that may represent an ancestor to the Caviomorpha, but most modern researchers consider franimorphs to have been protrogomorphous instead of hystricomorphous. Fossil evidence suggests the Entodacrya may have originated in Asia (Marivaux et al., 2004) and this is cited as potential evidence for an Asian origin for Caviomorpha as"
"Leporicypraea mappa Leporicypraea mappa (previously known as Cypraea mappa), common name the map cowry, is a species of large sea snail, a cowry, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Cypraeidae, the cowries. This is considered an economically important species in the Indo-West Pacific, where it is usually collected both for food and for shell trading. The map cowry was named on the basis of its distinct color pattern, because of the longitudinal lines and the easily distinguishable and sinuous mantle groove, which creates a resemblance to ancient maps. ""Leporicypraea mappa"" was previously subordinated into the genus ""Cypraea"". In the"
"Capybara The capybara (""Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris"") is a mammal native to South America. It is the largest living rodent in the world. Also called chigüire, chigüiro (in Venezuela) and carpincho, it is a member of the genus ""Hydrochoerus"", of which the only other extant member is the lesser capybara (""Hydrochoerus isthmius""). Its close relatives include guinea pigs and rock cavies, and it is more distantly related to the agouti, the chinchilla, and the coypu. The capybara inhabits savannas and dense forests and lives near bodies of water. It is a highly social species and can be found in groups as large"