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MEGAFAUNA - In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (from Greek megas "large" and New Latin fauna "animal life") are large or giant animals. The most common threshold...
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Large animals of a region |
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Jan 24 2009 The Times - Concise |
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Large or relatively large animals, as of a particular region or period, considered as a group. |
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In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (from Greek megas "large" and New Latin fauna "animal life") are large or giant animals. The most common thresholds used are weight over 40 kilograms (90 lb) or 44 kilograms (100 lb) (i.e., comparable or larger in mass than a human) or over a tonne, 1,000 kilograms (2,205 lb) (i.e., comparable or larger in mass than an ox). The first of these include many species not popularly thought of as overly large, such as white-tailed deer and red kangaroo. * In practice, the most common usage encountered in academic and popular writing describes land mammals roughly larger than a human that are not (solely) domesticated. The term is especially associated with the Pleistocene megafauna the land animals often larger than modern counterparts considered archetypical of the last ice age, such as mammoths, the majority of which in northern Eurasia, the Americas and Australia became extinct within the last forty thousand years. It is also commonly used for the larges |