Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

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Technical Session III 150 Large Carnivore Tyrannosaurus • Late Cretaceous • 5m high • 14m long • 5 tonnes • North America & Asia Medium Carnivore Andrewsarchus • 60-32mya • Largest land mammal carnivore ever • 1.8m high • 5m long • Asia Giant Ape Gigantopithecus • 6.3m-200k BC • Largest ape • 3m high • South East Asia Australopithecus • 4.5 -1.5mya • Walked upright • Southern & Eastern Africa

Homo heidelbergensis are Homo sapiens Proceedings of Training Programme • 600-100k BC • Developed abstract thought – Homo sapiens Master Planning of Zoos • 100k BC- present • Near extinction • 70k BC- Prolonged drought followed by volcanic winter – Toba’s explosion • Troop to tribe transition • Man Evolves into a Killing Machine • Pleistocene overkill hypothesis • Keystone species Africa Man evolve with mega vertebrates- Extinction of Megafauna • Wooly Mammoth • 135-11k BC • 3m high at shoulder • Eurasia • Big means bad luck 151

Technical Session III<br />

150<br />

Large Carnivore<br />

Tyrannosaurus<br />

• Late Cretaceous<br />

• 5m high<br />

• 14m long<br />

• 5 tonnes<br />

• North America & Asia<br />

Medium Carnivore<br />

Andrewsarchus<br />

• 60-32mya<br />

• Largest land mammal<br />

carnivore ever<br />

• 1.8m high<br />

• 5m long<br />

• Asia<br />

Giant Ape<br />

Gigantopithecus<br />

• 6.3m-200k BC<br />

• Largest ape<br />

• 3m high<br />

• South East Asia<br />

Australopithecus<br />

• 4.5 -1.5mya<br />

• Walked upright<br />

• Southern & Eastern Africa

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