Cynomys ludovicianus (black-tailed prairie dog) (Little Missouri Badlands, North Dakota, USA) 2 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Cynomys ludovicianus (black-tailed prairie dog) (Little Missouri Badlands, North Dakota, USA) 2 / James St. John
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Cynomys ludovicianus (Ord, 1815) - black-tailed prairie dog in North Dakota, USA (August 2008).Mammals are the dominant group of terrestrial vertebrates on Earth today. The group is defined based on a combination of features: endothermic (= warm-blooded), air-breathing, body hair, mother's milk, four-chambered heart, large brain-to-body mass ratio, two teeth generations, differentiated dentition, and a single lower jawbone. Almost all modern mammals have live birth - exceptions are the duck-billed platypus and the echidna, both of which lay eggs.Mammals first appear in the Triassic fossil record - they evolved from the therapsids (mammal-like reptiles). Mammals were mostly small and a minor component of terrestrial ecosystems during the Mesozoic. After the Cretaceous-Tertiary mass extinction at 65 million years ago, the mammals underwent a significant adaptive radiation - most modern mammal groups first appeared during this radiation in the early Cenozoic (Paleocene and Eocene).Three groups of mammals exist in the Holocene - placentals, marsupials, and monotremes. Other groups, now extinct, were present during the Mesozoic.The black-tailed prairie dog is native to America's Great Plains and small portions of adjacent Canada and Mexico.Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Rodentia, SciuridaeLocality: Roosevelt National Park, Little Missouri Badlands, western North Dakota, USA-------------------Info. at:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-tailed_prairie_dog |
| 撮影日 | 2008-08-28 11:14:02 |
| 撮影者 | James St. John |
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