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Ara (genus)
''Ara'' is a Neotropical genus of macaws with eight extant species and at least two extinct species. The genus name was coined by French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799. It gives its name to and is part of the Arini, or tribe of Neotropical parrots. The genus name ''Ara'' is derived from the Tupi word ''ará'', an onomatopoeia of the sound a macaw makes. The ''Ara'' macaws are large striking parrots with long tails, long narrow wings and vividly coloured plumage. They all have a characteristic bare face patch around the eyes. Males and females have similar plumage. Many of its members are popular in the pet trade, and bird smuggling is a threat to several species. Taxonomy The genus ''Ara'' was erected by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède in 1799. The type species was designated as the scarlet macaw (''Ara macao'') by Robert Ridgway in 1916. The genus name is from ''ará'' meaning "macaw" in the Tupi language of Brazil. The word is an onomat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
The blue-and-yellow macaw (''Ara ararauna''), also known as the blue-and-gold macaw, is a large Neotropical parrot with a mostly blue dorsum, light yellow/orange venter, and gradient hues of green on top of its head. It is a member of the large group of neotropical parrots known as macaws. It inhabits forest (especially Várzea forest, varzea, but also in open sections of ''terra firme'' or unflooded forest), woodland and savannah of tropical Central America, Central and South America, as well as the island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. They are popular in aviculture because of their striking color, ability to talk, ready availability in the marketplace, and close bonding to humans. It is the most commonly kept macaw species in captivity worldwide as a pet or companion parrot and is also the cheapest among the large macaws. As of 2025, there are 1 million blue and gold macaws living in captivity worldwide, one of the highest population of any large parrot in captivity, such is the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orthopsittaca
The red-bellied macaw (''Orthopsittaca manilatus''), also known as ''Guacamaya manilata'', is a medium-sized, mostly green parrot, a member of a group of large Neotropical parrots known as macaws. It is the largest of what are commonly called "mini-macaws". The belly has a large maroon patch which gives the species its name. It is endemic to tropical Amazon Basin, Amazonian South America (as well as the Caribbean island of Trinidad), from Colombia south to Amazonian Peru and Bolivia, and central Brazil as far as the northwestern cerrado. Its habitat is Moriche palm, moriche (or buriti) palm (''Mauritia flexuosa'') swamp forests and sandy savannahs with palm groves. They are critically dependent on the Moriche palm for roosting, feeding and nesting. Although the bird is locally common, in places it has been adversely affected by clearing of the palms for use as posts, or to allow cattle ranching; also by capture for the cagebird trade, pet trade. Not to be confused with the Africa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ara Chloropterus -Peru -four Flying-8
Ara may refer to: Biology * ''Ara'' (bird), a genus of parrots * Ara (fish) (''Niphon spinosus''), a species of fish *L-arabinose operon, also known as ara Places * Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia *Ara, Bihar, a city in India * Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India *Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India * Ara, Iran, a village in Iran *'Ara, a village in Israel * Ara (lake), a lake in Norway * Arakawa River (other), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan * River Ara, Ireland People Given name *Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero * Ara Ball, Canadian film director * Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge * Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer *Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model *Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach *Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus *Ara Guler (1928-2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sexual Dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different Morphology (biology), morphological characteristics, including characteristics not directly involved in reproduction. The condition occurs in most dioecy, dioecious species, which consist of most animals and some plants. Differences may include secondary sex characteristics, size, weight, color, markings, or behavioral or cognitive traits. Male-male reproductive competition has evolved a diverse array of sexually dimorphic traits. Aggressive utility traits such as "battle" teeth and blunt heads reinforced as battering rams are used as weapons in aggressive interactions between rivals. Passive displays such as ornamental feathering or song-calling have also evolved mainly through sexual selection. These differences may be subtle or exaggerated and may be subjected to sexual selection and natural selection. The opposite of dimorphism is ''monomorphism'', when both biological sexes are phenotype, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beak
The beak, bill, or rostrum is an external anatomical structure found mostly in birds, but also in turtles, non-avian dinosaurs and a few mammals. A beak is used for pecking, grasping, and holding (in probing for food, eating, manipulating and carrying objects, killing prey, or fighting), preening, courtship, and feeding young. The terms ''beak'' and '' rostrum'' are also used to refer to a similar mouth part in some ornithischians, pterosaurs, cetaceans, dicynodonts, rhynchosaurs, anuran tadpoles, monotremes (i.e. echidnas and platypuses, which have a bill-like structure), sirens, pufferfish, billfishes, and cephalopods. Although beaks vary significantly in size, shape, color and texture, they share a similar underlying structure. Two bony projections–the upper and lower mandibles–are covered with a thin keratinized layer of epidermis known as the rhamphotheca. In most species, two holes called ''nares'' lead to the respiratory system. Etymology Although the wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chestnut-fronted Macaw
The chestnut-fronted macaw or severe macaw (''Ara severus'') is one of the largest of the mini-macaws. It reaches a size of around of which around half is the length of the tail. They can be found over a large part of Northern South America from Panama south into Amazonian Brazil and central Bolivia. A feral population is found in Florida. Their lifespan is listed as anything from 30 to 80 years of age. Taxonomy The chestnut-fronted macaw was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his ''Systema Naturae''. He placed it with all the other parrots in the genus ''Psittacus'' and coined the binomial name ''Psittacus severus''. This macaw is now one of the eight extant species placed the genus '' Ara'' that was erected in 1799 by the French naturalist Bernard Germain de Lacépède. The genus name is from ''ará'' meaning "macaw" in the Tupi language of Brazil. The word is an onomatopoeia based on the sound of their call. The spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ounce
The ounce () is any of several different units of mass, weight, or volume and is derived almost unchanged from the , an Ancient Roman unit of measurement. The avoirdupois ounce (exactly ) is avoirdupois pound; this is the United States customary and British imperial ounce. It is primarily used in the United States. Although the avoirdupois ounce is the mass measure used for most purposes, the ' troy ounce' of exactly is used instead for the mass of precious metals such as gold, silver, platinum, palladium, rhodium, etc. The term 'ounce' is also used in other contexts: * The ounce-force is a measure of force (see below). * The fluid ounce is a measure of volume. Historically, a variety of different ounces measuring mass or volume were used in different jurisdictions by different trades and at different times in history. Etymology ''Ounce'' derives from the Ancient Roman (meaning: a twelfth), a unit in the Ancient Roman units of measurement weighing about 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gram
The gram (originally gramme; SI unit symbol g) is a Physical unit, unit of mass in the International System of Units (SI) equal to one thousandth of a kilogram. Originally defined in 1795 as "the absolute Mass versus weight, weight of a volume of pure water equal to Cube (algebra), the cube of the hundredth part of a metre [1 Cubic centimetre, cm3], and at Melting point of water, the temperature of Melting point, melting ice", the defining temperature (0 °C) was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water (approximately 4 °C). Subsequent redefinitions agree with this original definition to within 30 Parts-per notation, parts per million (0.003%), with the maximum density of water remaining very close to 1 g/cm3, as shown by modern measurements. By the late 19th century, there was an effort to make the Base unit (measurement), base unit the kilogram and the gram a derived unit. In 1960, the new International System of Units defined a '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ara Ararauna Luc Viatour Filtered
Ara may refer to: Biology * ''Ara'' (bird), a genus of parrots * Ara (fish) (''Niphon spinosus''), a species of fish *L-arabinose operon, also known as ara Places * Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia *Ara, Bihar, a city in India * Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India *Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India * Ara, Iran, a village in Iran *'Ara, a village in Israel * Ara (lake), a lake in Norway * Arakawa River (other), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan * River Ara, Ireland People Given name *Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero * Ara Ball, Canadian film director * Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge * Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer *Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model *Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach *Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus *Ara Guler (1928-2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hypothetical Extinct Species
Several species have been assumed to exist, but due to a lack of physical evidence they can only be regarded as potential species. Hypothetical species are usually believed to be extinct. They have caused confusion, as they may have been a separate species, a subspecies, an introduced species or a misidentification. List of hypothetical species Birds * Albin's Macaw * Arkansaw siskin, ''Fringilla spaltria''https://www.audubon.org/news/john-james-audubon-crazy-wrong-or-neither * Barraband's mystery black-breasted twelve-wired bird-of-paradise * Bird of Washington, ''Haliaetus washingtoni'' * Blue-browed fig parrot * Blue Mountain warbler, ''Sylvia montana'' * Blue-thighed lory, ''Lorius tibialis'' *Dominican green-and-yellow macaw, ''Ara atwoodi'' * Carbonated warbler, ''Sylvia carbonata'' * Cuvier's kinglet, ''Regulus cuvieri'' *'' Geoffroyus aureus'' * Guadeloupe amazon, ''Amazona violacea'' *Guadeloupe parakeet, ''Psittacara labati'' * Hypothetical relatives of the Rodrigues pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Subfossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin , ) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age. Examples include bones, shells, exoskeletons, stone imprints of animals or microbes, objects preserved in amber, hair, petrified wood and DNA remnants. The totality of fossils is known as the ''fossil record''. Though the fossil record is incomplete, numerous studies have demonstrated that there is enough information available to give a good understanding of the pattern of diversification of life on Earth. In addition, the record can predict and fill gaps such as the discovery of ''Tiktaalik'' in the arctic of Canada. Paleontology includes the study of fossils: their age, method of formation, and evolutionary significance. Specimens are sometimes considered to be fossils if they are over 10,000 years old. The oldest fossils are around 3.48 billion years to 4.1 billion years old. Early edition, published online before print. The o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ara Chloroptera -Brookfield Zoo-8
Ara may refer to: Biology * ''Ara'' (bird), a genus of parrots * Ara (fish) (''Niphon spinosus''), a species of fish *L-arabinose operon, also known as ara Places * Ara (mountain), a mountain in Armenia * Ara, Armenia, a village in Armenia *Ara, Bihar, a city in India * Ara, Ramgarh, a town in Jharkhand, India *Ara, Ranchi, a town in Jharkhand, India * Ara, Iran, a village in Iran *'Ara, a village in Israel * Ara (lake), a lake in Norway * Arakawa River (other), also known as Ara, several rivers in Japan * River Ara, Ireland People Given name *Ara the Beautiful, a legendary Armenian hero * Ara Ball, Canadian film director * Ara Bartlett (fl. 1825–1880), American lawyer and judge * Ara Dinkjian (born 1958), Armenian oud player and composer *Go Ara (born 1990), South Korean actress and model *Ara Parseghian (1923–2017), American football player and coach *Yoo Ara (born 1992), South Korean singer and dancer; leader of the girl group Hello Venus *Ara Guler (1928-2018 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
