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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 14:19:59 GMT
Four weeks left until the publishing of Errol Fuller's new book Lost Animals, maybe the most comprehensive photographic work about extinct species. In this thread you can post photographs about living individuals of extinct (or possible extinct) species Here we go: Toolache wallaby Macropus greyi   The last known female lived in captivity at Robe until 1939. Still photograph taken from film footage of the South Australian Toolache Wallaby in 1936 by Bernard Charles Cotton (1905-1966) |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 14:29:50 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 14:37:16 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 14:47:44 GMT
Laughing Owl Sceloglaux albifacies albifacies  "Whekau or Laughing Owl" courtesy of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand. Reference No. 1/1-020529; G Photographed (in the Wellington Region?) between 1889 and 1910 by Henry Charles Clarke Wright (1844-1936) . Identified by Kennedy Warne, NZ Geographic, 1996  cropped from the above photo  A young bird photographed at its nest in a cavity under a limestone boulder by Cuthbert and Oliver Parr. This photograph was taken about the year 1909 at Raincliff Station, Opihi River, South Canterbury. |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 15:04:46 GMT
Baiji or Yangtze River Dolphin Lipotes vexillifer  |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 15:42:37 GMT
Wake Island Rail Gallirallus wakensis  Taken by William Stephen Grooch in 1936 (from the book Skyway to Asia published in 1937)  Taken by Torrey Lyons in 1939  Taken by Torrey Lyons in 1939 |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 16:19:59 GMT
Laysan Rail Porzana palmeri  Taken by Alfred M. Bailey during the Tanager Expedition to Laysan in 1923 Video footage |
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Post by Peter on Nov 3, 2013 18:39:58 GMT
Thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger Thylacinus cynocephalus    |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 21:15:42 GMT
Laysan Honeycreeper or Laysan Apapane Himatione sanguinea freethi or Himatione freethi  Taken by Donald Dickey during the Tanager Expedition to Laysan in 1923 Video footage |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 21:38:42 GMT
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 21:54:24 GMT
Paradise Parrot Psephotus pulcherrimus   Paradise parrot (Psephotus pulcherrimus) photographed in the wild, Burnett River, Queensland, 1922. Jerrard, C. H. H. (Cyril Henry H.), 1889-1943. National Library of Australia.  Paradise parrot (Psephotus pulcherrimus) photographed in the wild, Burnett River, Queensland, 1922. Jerrard, C. H. H. (Cyril Henry H.), 1889-1943. National Library of Australia.  |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 3, 2013 23:52:37 GMT
Po'ouoli or Black-faced Honeycreeper Melamprosops phaeosoma    Taken by Paul E. Baker, Cornell Lab of Ornithology |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 4, 2013 6:16:07 GMT
Aldabra brush-warbler Nesillas aldabrana   Taken by Robert Prys-Jones (NHM London) in 1975 |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 4, 2013 9:33:37 GMT
Golden Toad Bufo periglenes or Incilius periglenes  |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 4, 2013 15:10:03 GMT
Bush Wren Xenicus longipes  Bush Wren taken by Don Merton (1964)  Taken by Herbert Guthrie-Smith in 1913. From the Book Birdlife on Island and Shore, Publication details: William Blackwood and Sons Limited, 1925, Edinburgh. Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection  Taken by Herbert Guthrie-Smith in 1913. From the Book Birdlife on Island and Shore, Publication details: William Blackwood and Sons Limited, 1925, Edinburgh. Part of: New Zealand Texts Collection  Taken bei Edgar Stead in 1931 |
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Post by Peter on Nov 4, 2013 19:25:33 GMT
Quagga Equus quagga quagga  The only Quagga to ever have been photographed alive was the Regent's Park Zoo mare in London. Five photographs are known, taken by Frederick York and Frank Haes in 1870. This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, Canada, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years. |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 5, 2013 10:07:40 GMT
Western Black Rhinoceros Diceros bicornis longipes  Female Western black rhino, “Sopen”, shot in August 1996, was one of the last representatives of the Western African black rhinos in the world. Courtesy by Hubert Planton. All rights reserved.  Courtesy by Richard Emslie, IUCN. All rights reserved |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 5, 2013 19:08:00 GMT
Laysan Millerbird Acrocephalus familiaris familiaris  |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 7, 2013 20:57:30 GMT
Pyrenean Ibex Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica |
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Post by Melanie on Nov 9, 2013 18:29:22 GMT
Pinta Island Tortoise Geochelone abingdoni
 Photo of Lonesome George who died on 24 June 2012.  A Pinta Island Tortoise photographed in the London Zoo in 1914. |
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