https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/ 2026-04-16T14:33:32+00:00 https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/ https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/lib/exe/fetch.php?media=wiki:logo.png text/html 2023-09-26T20:19:55+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=acknowledgements&rev=1695759595&do=diff ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The Wenden Animal Encyclopaedia would like to thank the following places and/or people for their time and animals: Beale Wildlife Park, Lower Basildon, Pangbourne, Reading RG8 9NW Berlin Zoological Gardens, Berlin, Hardenbergplatz 9-11, Berlin 10623 text/html 2023-10-14T12:53:23+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=african_spoonbill&rev=1697288003&do=diff AFRICAN SPOONBILL Class: AVES Order: PELECANIFORMES Family: THRESKIORNITHIDAE Genus: PLATALEA Species: ALBA This species of medium-sized waterbird is one of six species of spoonbill contained in the genus Platalea. The six species of spoonbill are most closely related to the ibises; with which they share the family as a sister-genus to Threskiornis; which contains most of the old-world ibises. The African Spoonbill, the only of the six species to live primarily in Africa, inhabits a wide … text/html 2023-09-27T23:34:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=african_wild_ass&rev=1695857679&do=diff AFRICAN WILD ASS Class: MAMMALIA Order: PERISSODACTYLA Family: EQUIDAE Genus: EQUUS Species: AFRICANUS [or possibly ASINUS] This species of wild equid is one of about nine species within the genus Equus, to which it is believed to be most closely related to the wild-asses of Asia. It is sometimes considered to belong to the same species as the domestic donkey – which is classified as text/html 2023-10-02T17:22:57+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=arabian_oryx&rev=1696267377&do=diff ARABIAN ORYX Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: BOVIDAE Genus: ORYX Species: LEUCORYX This species of medium-sized hooved mammal is one of four living species of oryx - largely African antelopes characterised by muscular bodies with triangular heads and long, pointed horns. The scimitar-horned oryx and Arabian oryx are likely the two closest relatives within the genus - found in much the same area, though the Arabian Oryx is the only species to be found outside the African contin… text/html 2022-10-08T19:24:20+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=babirusa&rev=1665257060&do=diff BABIRUSA Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: SUIDAE Genus: BABYROUSA This genus of pig was traditionally believed to be of a single species, Babyrousa babyrussa, and a few sub-species. In 2002, analysis taken out on skulls of babirusa indicated that the species can be split into four species in all – the Moluccan babirusa [ text/html 2023-10-15T00:22:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=bald_eagle&rev=1697329344&do=diff BALD EAGLE Class: AVES Order: ACCIPITRIFORMES Family: ACCIPITRIDAE Genus: HALIAEETUS Species: LEUCOCEPHALUS This species of bird of prey belongs to the family Accipitridae, in which it belongs to the genus Haliaeetus, containing birds known commonly as ‘sea-eagles’. It is unique for its genus in that, however, where all other species of sea-eagle are to be found in Europe, Asia and Africa, the Bald Eagle is the only member of the genus to be found in the Americas. The Bald Eagle, the nati… text/html 2022-01-15T22:44:59+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=cassowary&rev=1642286699&do=diff CASSOWARY Class: AVES Order: CASUARIIFORMES Family: CASUARIIDAE Genus: CASUARIUS The cassowary is often called ‘the most dangerous bird on Earth’. Whilst the large foot-claws of the cassowary are definitely capable of killing, cassowary-induced fatalities are very rare, mainly because human-cassowary interactions are rare, let alone attacks which number just 200 a year. text/html 2023-10-13T22:50:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=collared_hill-partridge&rev=1697237448&do=diff COLLARED HILL-PARTRIDGE Class: AVES Order: GALLIFORMES Family: PHASIANIDAE Genus: ARBOROPHILA Species: GINGICA This species of small ground-dwelling bird belongs to the genus Arborophila, which it shares with some 20 other species known as ‘hill-partridges’; all found in areas of South-East Asia. This species is found in areas of South-eastern China – as north as the Jiangsu province; and as south as Guizhou. Its closest relative; of which it seems to have diverged from some 5 million yea… text/html 2022-08-08T16:44:35+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=elephants&rev=1659977075&do=diff ELEPHANTS Class: MAMMALIA Order: PROBOSCIDEA Family: ELEPHANTIDAE For years, it was believed that only two elephant species existed, until the Forest Elephant was described as its own species in 2000. African and Asian Elephants are not typically capable of hybridisation - the only known hybrid, an elephant named 'Motty', lived only for 10 or so days after birth. text/html 2023-09-27T20:22:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=giant_anteater&rev=1695846152&do=diff GIANT ANTEATER Class: MAMMALIA Order: PILOSA Family: MYRMECOPHAGIDAE Genus: MYRMECOPHAGA Species: TRIDACTYLA This species of medium-sized mammal is the only living species in its genus. Its genus in turn is one of only two in the family Myrmecophagidae text/html 2022-01-16T11:57:14+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=giant_panda&rev=1642334234&do=diff GIANT PANDA Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: URSIDAE Genus: AILURPODA Species: MELANOLEUCA About 600 or so Giant Pandas live in captivity worldwide. This is a male, part of a pair that lives, at time of writing, in Edinburgh, Scotland. In 2023, after an extended loan, he, and his mate, will have to return to their Chinese homeland text/html 2022-10-27T22:30:40+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=giraffe&rev=1666909840&do=diff GIRAFFE Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: GIRAFFIDAE Genus: GIRAFFA The tallest living mammal, and animal, on Earth. Long classified as a species, G. Cameleopardalis, with nine or so subspecies, it appears that there have risen a number of different classification systems, to classify giraffes, with as many as eight or so possible species. All giraffes are found in areas of Central and South Africa, with a similar body plan, but differences in patterning and and build. text/html 2023-10-01T20:17:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=goldenliontamarin&rev=1696191436&do=diff SPECIES PROFILE GOLDEN LION-TAMARIN Class: MAMMALIA Order: PRIMATA Family: CEBIDAE Genus: LEONTOPITHECUS Species: ROSALIA This small tamarin is one of four species in its genus. Perhaps it is also the best known species of tamarin – as it is covered in coat of uniform reddish-yellow fur, giving its name. Debate has arisen as to the true sister species of the Golden Lion-Tamarin – as to whether this is represented by the Black Lion-Tamarin, with jet-black fur [but a golden rump], or the … text/html 2022-05-26T07:50:32+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=hippopotamus&rev=1653551432&do=diff HIPPOPOTAMUS Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: HIPPOPOTAMIDAE Genus: HIPPOPOTAMUS Species: AMPHIBIUS The laid-back look is somewhat deceiving - the hippo is perhaps the most vicious mammal in Africa, killing 500 or so people a year, as well as a number of other animals as well. They are, however, largely herbivorous. text/html 2023-10-19T22:14:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=index&rev=1697753656&do=diff INDEX [note: several of these pages are works in progress.] A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z To reach chapters in a quicker manner, click one of the letters. A African Spoonbill African Wild Ass Arabian Oryx B Babirusa Bald Eagle Banded Mongoose text/html 2023-10-14T12:55:19+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=jaguar&rev=1697288119&do=diff JAGUAR Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: FELIDAE Genus: PANTHERA Species: ONCA The third big cat in order of size, just smaller than the lion and tiger, at some 70 centimetres at the shoulder. It is also the only member of the five species of big-cat to inhabit the New World [Americas], whereas the other four species [lion, tiger, snow leopard, and leopard] all inhabit the Old World. Although some eight or so sub-species of jaguar were recognised as valid in former years, modern re… text/html 2023-07-12T10:28:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=king_vulture&rev=1689157688&do=diff King Vulture SPECIES PROFILE KING VULTURE Class: AVES Order: ACCIPITRIFORMES Family: CATHARTIDAE Genus: SARCORAMPHUS Species: PAPA The only extant species in its genus, it is a new world vulture, sharing a common ancestor with the California Condor of genus text/html 2022-08-31T19:43:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=lion&rev=1661975016&do=diff LION Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: FELIDAE Genus: PANTHERA Species: LEO The second-largest, behind the tiger, of the cats, and the largest predatory mammal of the African continent. In addition, the lion is the most sexually-dimorphic of any cat - where male lions sport a large mane which females do not possess*. Historically, the lion has been found throughout much of Africa, the middle East, as well as Asia Minor, as well as perhaps more north Europe. Today, lion populations … text/html 2023-07-12T23:21:29+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=little_penguin&rev=1689204089&do=diff LITTLE PENGUIN Class: AVES Order: SPHENISCIFORMES Family: SPHENISCIDAE Genus: EUDYPTULA Species: MINOR, NOVAEHOLLANDIAE? As implied by its name, the smallest of all penguins. The species, reaching only some 40 centimetres in height, is native to costal regions of South Australia, as well as New Zealand. As well as 'Little Penguin', the bird has received other names, such as 'fairy penguin' or 'blue penguin', which reference its tiny size and bluish colour. Peculiarly, although the other s… text/html 2023-10-17T22:42:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=mammal_browser&rev=1697582533&do=diff Note: This is not an exhaustive list. MONOTREMES Short-beaked Echidna [Tachyglossus aculeatus] Platypus [Ornithorhynchus anatinus] EVEN-HOOVED ANIMALS BOVIDS Arabian Oryx [Oryx leucoryx] Scimitar-horned Oryx [Oryx dammah] Gemsbok [Oryx gazella] Beisa Oryx [Oryx beisa] text/html 2023-10-03T09:21:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=mammals&rev=1696324873&do=diff MAMMALS By classical Linnaean classification, Mammals belong to class 'Mammalia'. Modern, phylogenetic classification too seems to put mammals in their own place in the tree of life, with the earliest mammals appearing some 250 million years ago. Mammal diversity increased much after the extinction of dinosaurs, some 66 million years ago, allowing mammals to become larger in size, and take a variety of forms. Mammals share several characteristics, in that they have a kind of layer of hair, are … text/html 2023-04-16T11:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=mediterranean_beeeater&rev=1681646291&do=diff MEDITERRANEAN BEE-EATER Class: AVES Order: CORACIFORMES Family: MEROPIDAE Genus: MEROPS Species: APIASTER This species of bee-eater is considered to be one of the most colourful birds of the European continent. It is also known as the European Bee-Eater, though it winters also in Africa. Its range is mainly based around the Mediterranean, though it extends further into Asia, as far north as southern Russia. A resident population also exists in South Africa. It is the only bee-eater which … text/html 2023-10-02T12:09:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=narwhal&rev=1696248566&do=diff NARWHAL Class: MAMMALIA Order: CETACEA Family: MONODONTIDAE Genus: MONODON Species: MONOCEROS This species of large aquatic mammal is the only living member of its genus; but shares its family with the Beluga. Narwhals and belugas are both found in waters surrounding areas of the Arctic circle – with the Narwhal’s range extending east of Greenland and about as far east as the Laptev sea. The range is one that borders Canada, Greenland, Svalbard, and several islands north of the Barents an… text/html 2024-02-04T15:31:37+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=okapi&rev=1707060697&do=diff OKAPI Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: GIRAFFIDAE Genus: OKAPIA Species: JOHNSTONI This species of medium-sized artiodactyl is the closest living relative to the giraffes; of which it shares its family. It is also the only member of its genus. Its native range is contained entirely within the Democratic Republic of Congo; formerly Zaire. This native range is divided in two – a larger population which encompasses Ituri, Orientale, Virunga and Maiko National Park, and another sma… text/html 2023-08-06T14:10:08+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=pacific_sea_nettle&rev=1691331008&do=diff PACIFIC SEA-NETTLE Phylum: CNIDARIA Class: SCYPHOZOA Order: SEMAEOSTOMAE Family: PELAGIIDAE Genus: CHRYSAORA Species: FUSCESCENS This species of cnidarian belongs to the class of Scyphozoans, which are the true jellies. Scientists thus far have identified about 200 species to date, found mostly in warm, or tropical waters. It belongs to the genus text/html 2022-03-22T18:46:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=peccary&rev=1647974773&do=diff PECCARY Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: TAYASSUIDAE In its native range, the collared peccary goes by a variety of names, such as javelina, musk-hog, and quenk. This family of swine contains three genera in all, each of which contain a single species. [With the disputed exception of text/html 2022-07-27T15:24:24+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=penguin&rev=1658935464&do=diff PENGUIN Class: AVES Order: SPHENISCIFORMES Family: SPHENISCIDAE At this bird garden in Burford, King and Humboldt Penguins co-exist. Whilst they would never meet in the wild, the cohabitation is successful in captivity, and the penguins are perhaps the most popular birds in the park. The King Penguin is the second-largest Penguin species, some hundred centimetres shorter than the Emperor Penguin text/html 2022-11-21T17:13:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=polar_bear&rev=1669050828&do=diff POLAR BEAR Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: URSIDAE Genus: URSUS Species: MARITIMUS The largest of the eight species of bear; as well as the largest predatorial land-animal - a male polar bear may grow up to 1.5 metres at the shoulder, a size apparently doubled when the bear stands upon its hind-legs, and 3 metres in length, weighing up to 770 kilograms. Polar bears are rivaled in size only by the Kodiak bears of Alaska - which may grow to a similar [or larger] size, though weigh … text/html 2023-08-16T18:45:10+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=pygmy_hippopotamus&rev=1692211510&do=diff PYGMY HIPPOPOTAMUS Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: HIPPOPOTAMIDAE Genus: CHOEROPSIS Species: LIBERIENISIS The smaller of the two living hippopotanoids, both of which are commonly referred to simply as 'hippos'. This species has a smaller and more specialised range than its larger counterpart, in small areas of Central Africa. It is thought that the Pygmy Hippopotamus diverged from the text/html 2024-01-20T16:29:53+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=reindeer&rev=1705768193&do=diff REINDEER Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: CERVIDAE Genus: RANGIFER Species: TARANDUS, +5? The terms “reindeer” and “caribou” refer to the same genus – though “reindeer” originates in Europe, from Old Norse “hreinn”, referring to the animal. The term “caribou” originates in North America, and is thought to be a Canada-French derivative of the Mi’kmaq “ğalipu”, “snow-shoveler”, referring to the animal’s behavioural trait of removing snow to find grass to eat underneath. Reindeer … text/html 2023-04-07T17:46:44+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=ringtailvontsira&rev=1680889604&do=diff SPECIES PROFILE RING-TAILED VONTSIRA Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: EUPLERIDAE Genus: GALIDA Species: ELEGANS Known also as the ring-tailed mongoose, this name is something of a misnomer – the species, singular in its genus, is not itself of the mongoose family, Herpestidae, but rather belongs to the family of Malagasy carnivores, which is Eupleridae. It is not either the only ‘honorary mongoose’ in its sub-family either – as its entire sub-family, Galidiinae, is comprised of a… text/html 2024-01-24T17:37:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=sand_cat&rev=1706117821&do=diff SAND CAT Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: FELIDAE Genus: FELIS Species: MARGARITA This species of small cat belongs to the genus Felis, shared with several other species of cat of comparable size. It is found in scattered areas of North Africa, from the western coast of Morrocco to Niger [though absent from a considerable area between], a small area of Mali, another small area in Chad, as well as areas of Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Iran and Uzbekistan. Its scattered range r… text/html 2022-09-17T20:14:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=serval&rev=1663445656&do=diff SERVAL Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: FELIDAE Genus: LEPTAILURUS Species: SERVAL This small-cat is of a lineage of three slender cat species - itself, the Caracal, and the elusive African Golden Cat. However, modern research into the genomes of various cats puts it as the least diverged of its lineage - where it diverged from its lineage's common ancestor some 6 million years ago, the two other cats would diverge from the ancestor some 1.5 million years ago. It is a relatively l… text/html 2023-02-25T19:45:39+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=sixbandedarmadillo&rev=1677354339&do=diff SIX-BANDED ARMADILLO Class: MAMMALIA Order: CINGULATA Family: CHLAMYPHORIDAE Genus: EUPHRACTUS Species: SEXCINCTUS This species of armadillo is the only member of its genus. As its name implies, the animal typically has six movable bands on its body, though sometimes seven. Its ruddy colouration also sometimes gives it the name of the ‘Yellow Armadillo’. It is the third-largest species of armadillo at or exceeding 40 centimetres – smaller only than the Greater Long-nosed or Kappler’s Arma… text/html 2023-10-26T23:40:07+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=start&rev=1698363607&do=diff We are moving ! waencyclopaedia.com/new Check out the new Wenden Animal Encyclopaedia! You have found a place like no others on the internet of things; where you are truly free to explore the wonders of nature, where man and wild meet eye-to-eye. text/html 2023-10-03T08:52:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=takin&rev=1696323165&do=diff TAKIN Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: BOVIDAE Genus: BUDORCAS Species: TAXICOLOR This large, herbivorous mammal is classified as just one species in its monotypic genus, and is native to relatively small areas of South East Asia. Four subspecies of takin are currently recognised – the Mishmi and Bhutan Takins both have a similar hide of varied brown, though the Sichuan and Golden Takins are more yellow. Where the Sichuan Takin’s yellowish hide has areas of brown and black fur,… text/html 2023-08-18T23:31:45+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=tapir&rev=1692401505&do=diff TAPIR Class: MAMMALIA Order: PERISSODACTYLA Family: TAPIRIDAE This family of versatile-snouted mammals related to the rhinoceros contains only one genus – Tapirus - which is typically considered to contain about four species in all. All but one of these live in South America, these three being the Baird’s Tapir [ text/html 2023-10-15T19:28:36+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=tiger&rev=1697398116&do=diff TIGER Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: FELIDAE Genus: PANTHERA Species: TIGRIS This species of large carnivore is the largest of any species of cat, and also one of the largest land predators of the Asiatic continent. Historically, the tiger has been recorded over an especially large range – as west as the Caucaus Mountains and areas of eastern Turkey, stretching further west of the Altay Mountains, and into India south of the Himalayas, a significant portion of China [aside from … text/html 2021-11-26T18:06:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=toucans&rev=1637950009&do=diff TOUCANS Class: AVES Order: PICIFORMES Family: RAMPHASTIDAE This White-breasted Toucan is typically considered a 'major' toucan, as it is relatively large in size. This family of perching birds with relatively large bills is closely related to the woodpecker, and have diverged into 5 major genera. In these five genera exist some 40 or more recognised species in all, this number including the tiny aracaris and toucanets, which are the smallest toucans. The smallest of these, the Tawny-tufted To… text/html 2022-03-22T18:35:58+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=warthog&rev=1647974158&do=diff WARTHOG Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: SUIDAE Genus: PHACOCHOERUS The most glamorous member of the animal kingdom? perhaps not, but don't let that distract from the fact that warthogs are not picky eaters, and serve an important role in their ecosystem text/html 2023-04-08T16:30:28+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=waterbuffalo&rev=1680971428&do=diff WATER BUFFALO Class: MAMMALIA Order: ARTIODACTYLA Family: BOVIDAE Genus: BUBALIS Species: BUBALIS, ARNEE This large mammal species-group is typically divided into two species in all – the wild water buffalo [Bubalus arnee] and its domesticated counterpart [ text/html 2023-10-23T14:47:03+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=wolverine&rev=1698072423&do=diff WOLVERINE Class: MAMMALIA Order: CARNIVORA Family: MUSTELIDAE Genus: GULO Species: GULO This species of medium-sized carnivore is the largest mustelid that lives primarily on land. It is the only species within its genus; but is believed to be of close relation to the martens; which are tree-dwelling carnivores found both in Eurasia and North America. The wolverine may have diverged from the martens some 8 million years ago. The wolverine’s distribution surrounds the Arctic circle – they … text/html 2023-07-12T08:41:16+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=yellow_billed_kite&rev=1689151276&do=diff YELLOW-BILLED KITE Class: AVES Order: ACCIPITRIFORMES Family: ACCIPITRIDAE Genus: MILVUS Species: AEGYPTIUS [formerly MIGRANS] This bird of prey was long considered to be of the same species as the Black Kite, Milvus migrans. It was classified as two sub-species - text/html 2023-08-02T16:10:01+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=zoobristol&rev=1690992601&do=diff Bristol Zoological Gardens FORMER ZOO BRISTOL ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS Size: 12 acres County: Bristol Animal species: About 300 as of 2022 Opened: 1835 Located in the suburb of Clifton, Bristol Zoological Gardens was one of the UK's earliest major zoos - opening in July of 1835. As was the case for several other zoos of the time, Bristol's zoo was a small one - only 12 acres in size. Unlike some of its zoological surroundings, Bristol Zoo would survive into the 21st century, before its closur… text/html 2022-12-26T14:38:48+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=zoogardens&rev=1672065528&do=diff ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS INDEX This index of zoological gardens is listed by country. EUROPE AUSTRIA BELGIUM BULGARIA CZECHIA DENMARK ENGLAND [UK] Africa Alive! / Suffolk Wildlife Park Arundel Wetland Centre WWT Banham Zoo Beale Park Birdland Park & Gardens text/html 2025-03-29T11:59:13+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://www.waencyclopaedia.vonwenden.co.uk/doku.php?id=zoomarwell&rev=1743249553&do=diff MARWELL ZOOLOGICAL PARK / MARWELL WILDLIFE Size: 140 acres County: Hampshire Animal species: About 140 [as of 2022] Opened: 1972 Built on land surrounding the Marwell Hall, which was first mentioned by name in the tenth century, Marwell Zoo is built on a site rich in both zoological and historical heritage. Marwell Zoo is fairly large - at 140 acres of parkland in size. With such size, a nuimber of the animal enclosures at Marwell are large in themselves, with a number of the enclosures be…