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Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

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Technical Session III<br />

146<br />

North America megafauna extinction North American Mastodon<br />

Irish Elk in Europe<br />

Diprotodon in Australia<br />

Moa in New Zealand<br />

• 35m years to 12.5k BC<br />

• 2.4m at shoulder<br />

• 4.5m long • 5.5tonnes<br />

• 40m years to 11k BC<br />

• 2.1 meters at shoulder<br />

• 3.5m antler span<br />

• 1.6m -25k BC<br />

• Largest<br />

marsupial<br />

• Males 2500<br />

kgs<br />

• Related to<br />

wombat<br />

Ground Sloth In<br />

South America<br />

• 1.9m years to 8k BC<br />

• 6m long<br />

• 4 tonnes<br />

• Could walk erect<br />

• 2.5m-1600 AD<br />

• 200kg<br />

• 11 species<br />

made extinct

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