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

Homo heidelbergensis are<br />

Homo sapiens<br />

Proceedings <strong>of</strong><br />

Training Programme<br />

• 600-100k BC<br />

• Developed abstract thought<br />

– Homo sapiens<br />

<strong>Master</strong> <strong>Planning</strong><br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong><strong>Zoo</strong>s</strong><br />

• 100k BC- present<br />

• Near extinction<br />

• 70k BC- Prolonged drought followed by<br />

volcanic winter – Toba’s explosion<br />

• Troop to tribe transition<br />

• Man Evolves into a Killing Machine<br />

• Pleistocene overkill hypothesis<br />

• Keystone species<br />

Africa<br />

Man evolve with mega vertebrates- Extinction <strong>of</strong> Megafauna<br />

• Wooly Mammoth<br />

• 135-11k BC<br />

• 3m high at shoulder<br />

• Eurasia<br />

• Big means bad luck<br />

151

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