Para mis amigos de Canarias :)

Canary islands still keep a lot of endemic life, which is threatened by urban development and invasive species such as cats. If people protect them, they won't meet the same fate as these two.

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South-eastern Australian leaf litter is full of undescribed biodiversity &, given are a BIG chunk of biodiversity, there's lots of weevils. Most of these species are undescribed & short-range endemic, species changing rapidly across the landscape.
Here: "Mandalotina".

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Thanks to human activities we lost roughly 10% of our bird diversity, most of which was endemic to islands. That's why many of these posts are filled with avifauna
In this case the club winged Xenicibis, Aptornis, Pachyornis and Dinornis.

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Dodo

The dodo is a large, extinct, flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Mauritius in the Indian Sea. The island was discovered in the early 15th century and the first recorded mention of the dodo was by Dutch sailors in 1568.

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"Red-crowned Garrulax, Garrulax ruficeps"

White-throated/Rufous-crowned Laughingthrush, proposed endemic. Published in "The Birds of Asia" by English ornithologist John Gould (1804–1881) with notes provided by naturalist Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877) https://t.co/HUkTqDeah4

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Bonin wood pigeon (Columba versicolor), an endemic pigeon on Nakodo-jima and Chichi-jima in the Ogasawara Islands, south of Japan.


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Luis Elizondo gave up running the covert Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program out of frustration with the endemic secrecy. He has become a prominent advocate for UFO acknowledgement & governmental transparency.

And his metaphoric explanations are👌

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Japanese Wolf

The Japanese wolf is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. It is also known as the Honshū wolf.

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A pink fairy armadillo for arid prompt These tiny, 90 - 115 mm, pink, armoured, subterranean armadillos are endemic to xeric environments in central Argentina. Desert adapted & extremely sensitive to environmental conditions, they don’t fare well in captivity.

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An (ONLY lives here 特有種); a winter visitor; and a resident of several countries.

County: Taiwan Barbet (the ‘five-color bird)
County: Brown Shrike
City: Swinhoe’s White-eye

縣市象徵的鳥 ©️ G美叮 👉 https://t.co/ZXfGlB1mr2

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day 3 - insect-like

“sabre beetle” a rare beetle endemic to rainforests, who were traditionally utilized as sword-like weapons by tribes

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Collared Bush Robin (Tarsiger johnstoniae) is endemic to montane forests of Taiwan. Only 6 Tarsiger species; most have Himalayan affinities. During ice ages, there was a land-bridge to Taiwan, but deglaciation isolated a relict population that moved up into the mtns of Taiwan

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“Broken humans are walking endemics to the impressionable and I would have lost my daylight and sunken into the abyss of their thick darkness if I had not painted these images and given myself salvation and grown teeth..”

TEETH - 09.03.21 Assemblage Art London

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This bug, Fulgora lanternaria, is endemic to Central and South America. Locals call it the machaca and so the saying goes, if you are bitten by one then you must find and marry the nearest woman or else you will surely die.

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It's for DTIYS challenge on IG and i draw a few endemic animals that can be found in Indonesia such as Sumatran Tiger, Sumatran Rhino, Bali Myna also known as Jalak Bali, Pygmy Tarsier and also Komodo Dragon. Drawing animals is really fun!

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Little tweak for today's and did my local yellow-billed magpie! A California endemic.

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