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Margaropus Wileyi
''Margaropus'' is a genus of ticks, characterized as inornate, having eyes, lacking festoons, and with the legs of the male increasing in size from pair I to IV with the segments enlarged, giving them a beaded appearance, from which the genus name was taken, ''margaritopus'' signifying beady-legged;Don R. Arthur. 1960. ''Ticks, Part V, The Genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma, Boophilus, Margaropus'', Cambridge University Press, pp. 226-247; https://books.google.com/books?id=k688AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=margaropus+ticks&source=bl&ots=c4TelGTqdi&sig=hsjNlfIVkrRXpofXqpXruH8USuM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA17SCh_zbAhXjp1kKHS24B_k4ChDoAQhDMAE#v=onepage&q=margaropus%20ticks&f=false, accessed June 30, 2018. the species name memorialized naturalist and entomologist Wilhelm von Winthem. The genus currently includes three species:Animal Diversity Web: ''Margaropus'', https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Margaropus/classification/#Margaropus, accessed June 30, 2018. *'' Margaropus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animal
Animals are multicellular, eukaryotic organisms in the Kingdom (biology), biological kingdom Animalia. With few exceptions, animals Heterotroph, consume organic material, Cellular respiration#Aerobic respiration, breathe oxygen, are Motility, able to move, can Sexual reproduction, reproduce sexually, and go through an ontogenetic stage in which their body consists of a hollow sphere of Cell (biology), cells, the blastula, during Embryogenesis, embryonic development. Over 1.5 million Extant taxon, living animal species have been Species description, described—of which around 1 million are Insecta, insects—but it has been estimated there are over 7 million animal species in total. Animals range in length from to . They have Ecology, complex interactions with each other and their environments, forming intricate food webs. The scientific study of animals is known as zoology. Most living animal species are in Bilateria, a clade whose members have a Symmetry in biology#Bilate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaropus Reidi
''Margaropus reidi'', the Sudanese beady-legged tick, is an ixodid tick that is parasitic on the Northern giraffe (''Giraffa camelopardalis'')Don R. Arthur: ''Ticks, A Monograph of the Ixodoidea'', Part V, On the Genera ''Dermacentor'', ''Anocentor'', ''Cosmiomma'', ''Boophilus'' & ''Margaropus'', Cambridge: University Press, 1960, pp. 231-236; https://books.google.com/books?id=YvQ8AAAAIAAJ, last accessed 16 Jun 2019.Animal Diversity Web: ''Margaropus'', https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Margaropus/classification/#Margaropus, accessed June 30, 2018. It is one of only three species in the genus ''Margaropus''. The type specimens were collected in Liednhom (or Lietnhom) on the south bank of the Jur River, and at Guar, in the Gual-Nyang Forest, Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan. First described by entomologist and parasitologist Harry Hoogstraal,Harry Hoogstraal: ''African Ixodoidea. I. Ticks of The Sudan (with Special Reference to Equatoria Province and with Prellminary Reviews of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Taurotragus Oryx
The common eland (''Taurotragus oryx''), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus ''Taurotragus''. An adult male is around tall at the shoulder (females are shorter) and can weigh up to with a typical range of , for females). It is the second-largest antelope in the world, being slightly smaller on average than the giant eland. It was scientifically described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. Mainly a herbivore, its diet is primarily grasses and leaves. Common elands form herds of up to 500 animals, but are not territorial. The common eland prefers habitats with a wide variety of flowering plants such as savannah, woodlands, and open and montane grasslands; it avoids dense forests. It uses loud barks, visual and postural movements, and the flehmen response to communicate and warn others of danger. The common eland is used by humans for leather, meat, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Common Eland
The common eland (''Taurotragus oryx''), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa. It is a species of the family Bovidae and genus ''Taurotragus''. An adult male is around tall at the shoulder (females are shorter) and can weigh up to with a typical range of , for females). It is the second-largest antelope in the world, being slightly smaller on average than the giant eland. It was scientifically described by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766. Mainly a herbivore, its diet is primarily grasses and leaves. Common elands form herds of up to 500 animals, but are not territorial. The common eland prefers habitats with a wide variety of flowering plants such as savannah, woodlands, and open and montane grasslands; it avoids dense forests. It uses loud barks, visual and postural movements, and the flehmen response to communicate and warn others of danger. The common eland is used by humans for leather, meat, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giraffa Camelopardalis
The northern giraffe (''Giraffa camelopardalis''), also known as three-horned giraffe,Linnaeus, C. (1758)The Nubian or Three-horned giraffe (''Giraffa camelopardalis'').Existing Forms of Giraffe (February 16, 1897): 14. is the type species of giraffe, ''G. camelopardalis'', and is native to North Africa, although alternative taxonomic hypotheses have proposed the northern giraffe as a separate species. Once abundant throughout Africa since the 19th century, Northern giraffes ranged from Senegal, Mali and Nigeria from West Africa to up north in Egypt. The similar West African giraffes lived in Algeria and Morocco in ancient periods until their extinctions due to the Saharan dry climate. Giraffes collectively are considered Vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), with around 97,000 wild individuals alive in 2016, of which 5,195 are Northern giraffes. Taxonomy and evolution The current IUCN taxonomic scheme lists one species of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giraffes
The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus ''Giraffa''. It is the tallest living terrestrial animal and the largest ruminant on Earth. Traditionally, giraffes were thought to be one species, ''Giraffa camelopardalis'', with nine subspecies. Most recently, researchers proposed dividing them into up to eight extant species due to new research into their mitochondrial and nuclear DNA, as well as morphological measurements. Seven other extinct species of ''Giraffa'' are known from the fossil record. The giraffe's chief distinguishing characteristics are its extremely long neck and legs, its horn-like ossicones, and its spotted coat patterns. It is classified under the family Giraffidae, along with its closest extant relative, the okapi. Its scattered range extends from Chad in the north to South Africa in the south, and from Niger in the west to Somalia in the east. Giraffes usually inhabit savannahs and woodlands. Their food source is leaves, fruits, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruminant
Ruminants (suborder Ruminantia) are ungulate, hoofed herbivorous grazing or browsing mammals that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by Enteric fermentation, fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions. The process, which takes place in the front part of the digestive system and therefore is called foregut fermentation, typically requires the fermented ingesta (known as cud) to be regurgitated and chewed again. The process of rechewing the cud to further break down plant matter and stimulate digestion is called rumination. The word "ruminant" comes from the Latin ''ruminare'', which means "to chew over again". The roughly 200 species of ruminants include both domestic and wild species. Ruminating mammals include cattle, all domesticated and wild bovines, goats, sheep, giraffes, deer, gazelles, and antelopes.Fowler, M.E. (2010).Medicine and Surgery of Camelids, Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell. Chapter 1 General Biolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parasite
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. The entomologist E. O. Wilson has characterised parasites as "predators that eat prey in units of less than one". Parasites include single-celled protozoans such as the agents of malaria, sleeping sickness, and amoebic dysentery; animals such as hookworms, lice, mosquitoes, and vampire bats; fungi such as Armillaria mellea, honey fungus and the agents of ringworm; and plants such as mistletoe, dodder, and the Orobanchaceae, broomrapes. There are six major parasitic Behavioral ecology#Evolutionarily stable strategy, strategies of exploitation of animal hosts, namely parasitic castration, directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), wikt:trophic, trophicallytransmitted parasitism (by being eaten), Disease vector, vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropreda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Brotherton Walker
Jane Brotherton Walker (31 January 1925 – 3 April 2009) was a leading 20th century expert in the field of tick taxonomy, particularly in Africa.Ivan G. Horak. 2009. Obituary, Jane B. Walker. ''International Conference on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases Newsletter on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases of Livestock in the Tropics'', No. 39: 2-5.Death of Jane B. Walker. ''International Journal of Acarology'' 35(4): 361. Born on 31 January 1925 in Nairobi, Kenya, Walker grew up on a farm and was home-schooled by her mother during her primary school years. She completed her secondary education in England where she graduated from the Retford High School for Girls in 1944. During her time in England, she contracted poliomyelitis, the sequelae of which would progressively affect her ability to walk, particularly during her senior years. She earned her Bachelor of Science (with Honours) degree in 1948 and her Master of Science degree in 1959, both at Liverpool University. In 1983, she was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaropus Wileyi
''Margaropus'' is a genus of ticks, characterized as inornate, having eyes, lacking festoons, and with the legs of the male increasing in size from pair I to IV with the segments enlarged, giving them a beaded appearance, from which the genus name was taken, ''margaritopus'' signifying beady-legged;Don R. Arthur. 1960. ''Ticks, Part V, The Genera Dermacentor, Anocentor, Cosmiomma, Boophilus, Margaropus'', Cambridge University Press, pp. 226-247; https://books.google.com/books?id=k688AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA226&lpg=PA226&dq=margaropus+ticks&source=bl&ots=c4TelGTqdi&sig=hsjNlfIVkrRXpofXqpXruH8USuM&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiA17SCh_zbAhXjp1kKHS24B_k4ChDoAQhDMAE#v=onepage&q=margaropus%20ticks&f=false, accessed June 30, 2018. the species name memorialized naturalist and entomologist Wilhelm von Winthem. The genus currently includes three species:Animal Diversity Web: ''Margaropus'', https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Margaropus/classification/#Margaropus, accessed June 30, 2018. *'' Margaropus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harry Hoogstraal
Harry Hoogstraal (born in Chicago, Illinois, February 24, 1917, died in Cairo, Egypt, on his 69th birthday, February 24, 1986) was an American entomologist and parasitologist. He was described as "the greatest authority on ticks and tickborne diseases who ever lived." The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's ''Harry Hoogstraal Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Entomology'' honors his contributions to science. Life and work Hoogstraal earned B.A. and M.S. degrees (1938 and 1942) from the University of Illinois at Chicago, before his training was interrupted by World War II to serve as an officer entomologist (1943–1946) in the United States Army. He later received Ph.D. (1959) and D.Sc. (1971) degrees from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. As a master's degree candidate at the University of Illinois, he organized and led (1938–1941) four multi-disciplinary biological expeditions into the mountain and desert portions of western and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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