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According to a systematic list of the Romanian vertebrate fauna, there are 732 species of vertebrates living in Romania. When grouped into classes, the largest number of these species are birds, with 382 species, followed by fish with 184. 110 of these species are mammals, 31 are reptiles, 20 are amphibians, while only four belong to the ...
Terminology. The word kangaroo derives from the Guugu Yimithirr word gangurru, referring to eastern grey kangaroos. The name was first recorded as "kanguru" on 12 July 1770 in an entry in the diary of Sir Joseph Banks; this occurred at the site of modern Cooktown, on the banks of the Endeavour River, where HMS Endeavour under the command of Lieutenant James Cook was beached for almost seven ...
Extant (resident) Extant & Introduced. The nutria or coypu ( Myocastor coypus) [1] [2] is a large, herbivorous, [3] semiaquatic rodent from South America . Classified for a long time as the only member of the family Myocastoridae, [4] Myocastor is now included within Echimyidae, the family of the spiny rats.
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The University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest ( Romanian: Universitatea de Științe Agronomice și Medicină Veterinară din Bucuresți) is the oldest and largest institution of higher agricultural sciences and veterinary education in Romania. With around 12,000 students, the university offers 32 undergraduate ...
4,000. Website. www .la-spa .fr. The Société Protectrice des Animaux, SPA by its acronym in French [ English: Society for the Protection of Animals] is France 's oldest animal protection association. Founded on 2 December 1845 and recognized as a charitable organization in 1860, it takes in animals in distress, abandoned, lost or mistreated ...
Official symbols of Romania. ( Romanian: Drapelul României) is a tricolour with vertical stripes: beginning from the flagpole, blue, yellow and red. During the Wallachian uprising of 1821 these colours composed the revolutionaries' flag and for the first time a recorded meaning was attributed to them: "Liberty (sky-blue), Justice (field yellow ...
Romania has a long history of hunting and remains a remarkable hunting destination, drawing many hunters because of its large numbers of brown bears, wolves, wild boars, red deer, and chamois. The concentration of brown bears ( Ursus arctos) in the Carpathian Mountains of central Romania is largest in the world and contains half of all Europe's ...