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Galliformes and other animals for South America (продолжение)
JOrnitho: Hello! I'm back with ideas for some new species for South America. I found in my computer an archive with some ideas for fauna and flora that I had some time ago and decided to show there to ask your opinion about them. The first is about a descendant of the domestic chicken. [more]Copper jacumitan (Jacumita cuprinus) During the Holocene, the man introduced many species in other continents. The jacumitan is a descendant of domestic chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) that are introduced in South America. It replaced the birds in the family Cracidae, which are extinct in the Neocene, in some areas. In a matter of fact, the name jacumitan is the junction of the words jacu, the popular name in Brazil for guans of the Genus Penelope, and the tupi word mitã (mitan) that means new, this way the name means “new guan”. The copper jacumitan is the type species of this genus and lives in the savannas and woodlands of Central South America. The copper jacumitan is sexually dysmorphic. The male measure 190 cm, due to the long tail, it has a bright coppery brown upperbody plumage and reddish-brown feathers below. They also have metallic dark green feathers on the tail and wings. Only males have a bright red naked skin on the face, with two wattles that conceal the sides of its head. This characteristic is shared by all males of the genus Jacumita. The males of the genus also have crests formed by white feathers with black tips. During courtship and panic moments, they rise the crests. The females have 75 cm of length and are cryptic brown and adapted to camouflage, its naked skin on the face is pale pink and don’t have flesh wattles. The young males are similar to the females until they reach 9 weeks, at this time the wattle begin to develop. Both sexes have long orange colored legs and grey beak. The males have spurs that they use in fights for dominance. The neck is long and slim. Copper jacumitans can fly, but prefer to run from the predators flying only as last resort. These birds are omnivorous and feed on insects, seeds, and fruits. Its forage for food by scratching the ground, usually near herbivores this way there is other animals observing for the presence of predators. Often the male sits on a high perch, to serve as a lookout for his group. He sounds an alarm call if predators are nearby. At night it will sleep perched on branches. Copper jacumitans are polygamous; the male will have a harem with 5 to 12 females and will guards the area where his females are nesting, and attack other males that enter his territory. To initiate courting, the males will dance in a circle around or near a female, raising their crests and lowering the wing which is closest to the hen. Then, he will vocalize and when she responds to his call, the male will mount her and proceed with the mating. The females make their nest in the ground, laying 6 to 14 red eggs which are incubated for 22 days. Chicks are precocious, leaving the nest shortly they are born. They fledge in about 4 to 5 weeks, and at 13 weeks old are chased out of the group by their mother, at which point the young males start to form a harem and the females join an existing one. Sexual maturity is reached at 6 months and the lifespan of this species is of 13 years, however is common for males to die early due to predation. Other species in the genus Jacumita are: Golden jacumitan (Jacumita aurea) Living in the forests of the Atlantic coast of South America, the males of this species has 200 cm of length, from beak to tail, while the females have 83 cm. The plumage of the male have a bright golden-yellow plumage in the upperparts, being scarlet in the chest and belly. They have dark metallic green wing feathers and tail while the female is cryptic brown. Red jacumitan (Jacumita amazonica) Living in the "terra firme" forests of the Amazon , the males of this species has 185 cm of length, from beak to tail, while females have 70 cm. The plumage of male is bright orange-red in the upperparts, while their chest and belly is yellow. The males also have dark metallic blue wing feathers and tail while the female is cryptic brown. Andean jacumitan (Jacumita andina) Living in the highland forests in the slopes of the Andes, the males of this species has 170 cm of length, from beak to tail, while females have 68 cm. The plumage of the males is white in the upperparts and yellowish-red in the belly and chest. The males also have dark metallic blue wing feathers and tail while the female is cryptic brown. This other one is about a descendant of the californian quail: Common austral grouse (Tetraoinus australis) During the Holocene, the man introduced many exotic species different habitats, the ancestor of the austral grouse was one of these species. Their ancestor was not a true grouse, but the Californian quail, due to evolutionary convergence they acquired characteristics similar to the true grouses of North America. Living in the forests of Southern South America, the male austral grouse are 55 cm long and the female have 44 cm of length. The male have a dark grey body plumage, black-and-white bridled head pattern, black back and a greyish-blue belly. They have a curving crest or plume, made of six feathers that droops forward (long and black in males /short and brown in females) and long forked blackish tail with white undertail coverts. Females and immature birds are mainly greyish-brown with a light-brown belly. Both sexes have a black bill and relatively long grey legs. Their diet consists mainly of seeds and leaves, but they also eat some berries and insects. In some regions their main source of food are the seeds of trees of the Genus Araucaria. These birds are not elegant fliers, however they sleep perched in branches. Given a choice, they will normally escape on foot. During the courtship, the male austral grouse do displays on a lek, each male have a “personal space”. The males strut around their chose space, doing a display. The display consists of the male posturing himself with the head near the ground. Then, they start to move it from right to left showing their crests, simultaneously they raising the tail feathers, showing their withe undertail coverts. After that, they will raise their heads abruptly and whilst make a highly distinctive mating call. When another male invade the personal space of other, a fight happens, in this case the male will try to take of the crest of the rival, this way they will not be capable to display for the females. The female usually lays approximately 12 spotted eggs. The nest is a shallow scrape lined with vegetation on the ground. Incubation lasts from 21–25 days, usually performed by the female and rarely by the male. The chicks are precocial, leaving the nest with their parents within hours of hatching. The male stay with the female until the young leave, with 3 months. The young reach sexual maturity with 1 year, with this age the young males acquire the coloration of an adult male. Their lifespan is of 27 years. In the forests of Tierra del Fuego another species lives, the Black boreal grouse (Tetraoinus nigrus). Their main difference to the other species is that the males have an all-black plumage, with only a faint shade of blue in the chest and brown undertail coverts. The females are similar to that of the common austral grouse. The males have 52 cm and the females 41 cm.[/more] I also have in this archive some names for possible species that I never developed bayond some few facts. Maybe someone could help me make their descriptions.
wovoka: JOrnitho пишет: I think that is better to make another chapter. The São Francisco, for example, is in the transition between Caatinga and Mata Atlântica. Then it will be animal for the chapter about Parana river
wovoka: JOrnitho, I described the semi-aquatic armadillo from the river Parana basin https://sivatherium.borda.ru/?1-0-1686472214146-00000163-000-10001-0#035
JOrnitho: wovoka пишет: I described the semi-aquatic armadillo from the river Parana basin https://sivatherium.borda.ru/?1-0-1686472214146-00000163-000-10001-0#035 Cool! It's a very good description!
wovoka: JOrnitho пишет: Cool! It's a very good description! Thank you! Let it be the first animal of future chapter about Parana river
JOrnitho: wovoka пишет: You haven't explain what his names means... I'll add it! лягушка пишет: Оффтоп: please, stop making native names! they're hard to read and translate! if you want to add colorite, use spanish and portugese! It was wovoka's idea, but I think that it's a nice touch to the species. And to show some of the culture of my country and continent.
JOrnitho: I made the description of the litopternoagouti, but changed the name for something "simpler". Akutituicha, or forest litopternoagouti (Aepydasyprocta sylvatica) Order:Rodentia Family:Dasyproctidae Habitat: The seasonal dry and moist broad-leaf tropical forests of the Atlantic coast of South America, also reaching the montane forests. While the transition between the Neocene and the Holocene caused the extinction of many species, others remained alive and continued to evolve. Among the survivors are the agoutis (Dasyprocta), which gave rise to several new genus during the Neocene. The Aepydasyprocta, the litopternoagoutis, is one of them. They have a similar lifestyle to that of the extinct Victorlemoinea. This genus is a sister taxa to the deer agoutis, Jakarawa. The main representative is the akutituicha (akuti= agouti/tuicha=large, both words in the Guarani language). This species inhabits the seasonal dry and moist broad-leaf tropical forests of the Atlantic coast of South America, also reaching the montane forests. Akutituichas are large rodents, with a body length of 190 to 250 cm and a height of 150 to 170 cm. Males are usually larger than the females. They are brownish with darker spots on the upper body. The face is dark brown with some white stripes. The fur becomes more reddish orange as it goes past the middle area of the animal. The legs are dark gray with white stripes.The ears are somewhat square in shape and they are tailless. The front feet have four toes and the back have three each. The claws are modified in hooves, giving it the appearance of a primitive ungulate. The most distinctive characteristic of this genus as a whole is their inflated snout, which is used by the animals to produce sounds to communicate with each other in the dense forests. They also have long necks and can stand upright with their hindlimbs to reach food in high branches. Their diet consists mostly of seeds, pulp, leaves, roots and fruits. While they no longer are capable of holding nuts like their ancestors, the akutituichas can use their jaws and incisors to crush this type of food. They follow herds of mborevi through their trails for protection and to have access to food that is in higher places, since these large mammals can shake trees to make fruits fall. Akutituichas live in pairs or small groups of parents and their most recent babies. They have no distinct breeding season, but females come into season only once a year and generally have one to two young. The cubs are born well developed, with eyes open and white striped fur. For the first five months the cub feeds on milk, only starting to have an adult diet after six months. They leave the familiar group within ten months. Sexual maturity is reached within eighteen months and they have a lifespan of 15 years.
лягушка: JOrnitho Good rodent! About oncorhynchus mykiss at the Patagonian rivers: I think it can survive, but only as freshwater dwarf species.
JOrnitho: лягушка What do you think of a descendant of the Oncorhynchus mykiss living in the Macaé River in Southeastern South America. This species was introduced in this river of Rio de Janeiro and maybe it could survive in the Neocene.
медведь: Interesting rodent!
wovoka: JOrnitho пишет: Akutituicha Very good description! I like this animal
wovoka: So for the Marvelous forest you can also describe dwarf, nocturnal & arboreal armadillo the descendant of one of this species: 1. Dasypus septemcinctus; 2. Euphractus sexcinctus; 3. Dasypus novemcinctus. Who will be like Chlamyphorus truncatus & will be the prey for neocladosictis. The name mirimtatu ( mirim means small in tupinamba, tatu - armadillo in tupi) And we talk about these animals Tiriba - from Brotogeris tirica Karumboi (in tapiete - he eats snake) - from mongoose. But I think he would be not like real mongoose, he would be like Galidia elegans (also red, but not only with a striped tail, but with a completely striped body, only with ginger head). And we need to give a name to mouse-sized mongooses one smaller ticks and small spiders eating and one bigger eating little scorpions, centipedes and poison dart frogs. But it will be difficult to give them indians' names. I think the bigger will have colour like Fossa fossana and smaller has colour like Mungotictis decemlineata. JOrnitho пишет: There is the Araguari amazonica that was added recently to the Bestiary. Ok! JOrnitho пишет: Perhaps a species of porcupine could fill this niche, or an Echimyid. Echimyid is better. JOrnitho пишет: I think that its more sense if is a armadillo, or a mongoose Longnosed mongoose! It will be interesting! It will be like hybrid of Myrmecophaga tridactyla & Eupleres goudotii. Temnospondile пишет: Goatzin cubs have claws on their wings. What if his descendants will keep them even as adults? Neoarchaeopteryx? It is very interesting idea! But is it possible evolutionary? May be it will be something like neoteny? wovoka пишет: Inia geoffrensis - will extinct (algocetus is grass eating, we need fish eating dolphin like mammal, may be small). If we make an omnivourus dolphin for Orinoco and Amazon Rivers from Nasua nasua? They can swim, eat frogs and fishes & females live in large groups, consisting of 15 to 30 animals.
JOrnitho: wovoka пишет: So for the Marvelous forest you can also describe dwarf, nocturnal arboreal armadillo the descendant of one of this species: Dasypus septemcinctus Euphractus sexcinctus Dasypus novemcinctus Who will be the prey for neocladosictis The name mirimtatu ( mirim means small in tupinamba, tatu - armadillo in tupi) It's a cool idea! It could be a dwarf species related to the Jurumin. Also, tatumirim would be the correct way of writing it. wovoka пишет: And we talk about these animals Tiriba - from Brotogeris tirica Karumboi (in tapiete - he eats snake) - from mongoose. But I think he would be not like real mongoose, he would be like Galidia elegans (also red, but not only with a striped tail, but with a completely striped body, only with ginger head). I'll work on this description. Would it have a tiger-like fur? wovoka пишет: And we need to give a name to mouse-sized mongooses one smaller ticks and small spiders eating and one bigger eating little scorpions, centipedes and poison dart frogs. But it will be difficult to give them indians' names. We can use composite names with timbu, which means animal/mammal or opossum. It can be used for both. wovoka пишет: Longnosed mongoose! It will be interesting! It will be like hybrid of Myrmecophaga tridactyla & Eupleres goudotii. Yes! It's an interesting species. wovoka пишет: Neoarchaeopteryx? It is very interesting idea! But is it possible evolutionary? May be it will be something like neoteny? Neoteny is an interesting evolutive mechanism, but would the hoatzin still be able to fly?
wovoka: JOrnitho пишет: It could be a dwarf species related to the Jurumin. Also, tatumirim would be the correct way of writing it. It can be like Chlamyphorus truncatus. JOrnitho пишет: Would it have a tiger-like fur? Not completely. It will be like Galidia elegans with the same stripes not only on the tail but on the body too. Only head not red but ginger. JOrnitho пишет: We can use composite names with timbu, which means animal/mammal or opossum. It can be used for both. I propose such variants: Sanguya-aguara - (in tupi "sanguya" (correctly writing sanguja, but spelling Sanguya, in tapiete just anguya) means any myomorphs, aguara - means racoon) - so the name will translate mouse-racoon - this will be name of smaller mongoose Urare-aguara - (in tupi "urare" means animal from the family Echimyidae) - this will be name of bigger mongoose Maybe better use name from tapiete? Because in spanish sanguja means leech or bloodsucker. JOrnitho пишет: but would the hoatzin still be able to fly? I think yes! So what do you think to make omnivourus, but more piscivorous "dolphin" (who can also eat frogs, snakes, crustaceans, and may be molluscs if he had very powerful jaws) from Nasua nasua in Orinoco and Amazon River? Or only in Orinoco? But also he could eat fruits that are falling from the trees, for example, fruits of Euterpe oleracea, Mauritia flexuosa, Inga edulis.
JOrnitho: wovoka пишет: I propose such variants: Sanguya-aguara - (in tupi "sanguya" (correctly writing sanguja, but spelling Sanguya, in tapiete just anguya) means any myomorphs, aguara - means racoon) - so the name will translate mouse-racoon - this will be name of smaller mongoose Urare-aguara - (in tupi "urare" means animal from the family Echimyidae) - this will be name of bigger mongoose Maybe better use name from tapiete? Because in spanish sanguja means leech or bloodsucker. I like these name, but they could also be timbusaguya and timburare. Timbu is any mammal (mostly used to opossums) in Guarani. We could use urare in the name of the pholivorous Echimyidae that you mentioned some time ago. It could be part of a genus of very specialized herbivorous species, with all of its diet coming from leaves. There could ve a related species that eats bamboo. wovoka пишет: So what do you think to make omnivourus, but more piscivorous "dolphin" (who can also eat frogs, snakes, crustaceans, and may be molluscs if he had very powerful jaws) from Nasua nasua in Orinoco and Amazon River? Or only in Orinoco? But also he could eat fruits that are falling from the trees, for example, fruits of Euterpe oleracea, Mauritia flexuosa, Inga edulis. Would it be plausible? We already have the Tapiraiauara and the iara, which are still in transition to aquatic lifestyle. I don’t know if between the Holocene and the Neocene would have enough time for the Nasua nasua to become aquatic like a dolphin.
wovoka: JOrnitho пишет: We could use urare in the name of the pholivorous Echimyidae that you mentioned some time ago. In Orinoco delta I wanted to settle Mesomys hispidus in carib simurukure, it will be analogue of Bradypus variegatus (with the same strategy of making gardens of algae on the body). May be it will make new genus Bamboo eating Echimyidae with tupi name urare better make from Kannabateomys amblyonyx and may be in Atlantic forest too. JOrnitho пишет: Timbu is any mammal (mostly used to opossums) in Guarani. I don't really want to name mongooses with name of opossums south american raccoons are a little bit closely to mongooses then opossums. And small mongooses will eat scorpions and racoons - crabs so even diets a bit similar. So, as for me, better give tupi names aguare-sunguya & aguare-urare. JOrnitho пишет: Tapiraiauara He is now more like crocodile. JOrnitho пишет: Yara Yara is now more like seal. May be in early neocene a little group of Nasua nasua in Delta of Orinoco river became live in semiaquatic way of life. And they have become faster a dolphin-like animals, but may be real omnivourus (they will not have powerful jaws & will eat only soft food: fish, frogs, young snakes, young crustaceans with still weak armor, insect larvae, big worms and leeches, we will come up with large river slugs for them and their distribution will very much depend on the distribution of coastal fruit trees, the fruits of which they will feed on if they fall into the water. So they will be small but collective "dolphins" (at least the females), smaller than Cephalorhynchus eutropia or Cephalorhynchus hectori and only distributed in the Orinoco. So they will not be competitors not to eiba, not to yara, not to tapiruiara, not to algocetus. May be they will not be completely like dolphins but like Peregocetus or like protocetus Which variant is better? P.S. Could you please write that Akutituicha is some analogue of Victorlemoinea and make her the similar stripes on legs, neck and face like on the picture
JOrnitho: wovoka пишет: In Orinoco delta I wanted to settle Mesomys hispidus in carib simurukure, it will be analogue of Bradypus variegatus (with the same strategy of making gardens of algae on the body). May be it will make new genus Bamboo eating Echimyidae with tupi name urare better make from Kannabateomys amblyonyx and may be in Atlantic forest too. Ok! Kannabateomys are interesting rodents, with their monogamous and biparental lifestyle. They could have the size of an American porcupine. wovoka пишет: I don't really want to name mongooses with name of opossums south american raccoons are a little bit closely to mongooses then opossums. And small mongooses will eat scorpions and racoons - crabs so even diets a bit similar. So, as for me, better give tupi names aguare-sunguya & aguare-urare. Ok. wovoka пишет: Which variant is better? The second. It makes the animal different of the Tapiraiauara. Maybe there is a close related genus living in the Hippolyte and Amazon rivers, having dispersed there or when their common ancestor still walked or by swimming through the coast? They could have the size of a Sotalia dolphin. wovoka пишет: Could you please write that Akutituicha is some analogue of Victorlemoinea and make her the similar stripes on legs, neck and face like on the picture I'll edit it.
wovoka: JOrnitho пишет: Kannabateomys are interesting rodents, with their monogamous and biparental lifestyle. They could have the size of an American porcupine. Interesting! JOrnitho пишет: The second. It makes the animal different of the Tapiraiauara. Maybe there is a close related genus living in the Hippolyte and Amazon rivers, having dispersed there or when their common ancestor still walked or by swimming through the coast? They could have the size of a Sotalia dolphin. Ok! So from coati we are making in Peru forests an ant-eating "bear" and in Orinoko and rivers of Amazonia a fruit and fish eating "dolphin". JOrnitho пишет: I'll edit it. Thank you very much! I think such details are making animal much more interesting.
лягушка: wovoka May be in early neocene a little group of Nasua nasua in Delta of Orinoco river became live in semiaquatic way of life. And they have become faster a dolphin-like animals, but may be real omnivourus (they will not have powerful jaws & will eat only soft food: fish, frogs, young snakes, young crustaceans with still weak armor, insect larvae, big worms and leeches, we will come up with large river slugs for them and their distribution will very much depend on the distribution of coastal fruit trees, the fruits of which they will feed on if they fall into the water. So they will be small but collective "dolphins" (at least the females), smaller than Cephalorhynchus eutropia or Cephalorhynchus hectori and only distributed in the Orinoco. So they will not be competitors not to eiba, not to yara, not to tapiruiara, not to algocetus. Cetaceans are evoving again, but from anouher ancestor... But why we have too many "whales" and "seals" from different ancestors at one place?
wovoka: лягушка пишет: algocetus algocetus is "manatees", yara is "seal", tapiruiara is "ambulocetus" (so he is not yet a whale, he is still in niche of "crocodile"), eiba is "otter", and the water animal that i propose from coati is not a usual "dolphin" he is omnivourus. You'll see, when i describe it. лягушка пишет: Cetaceans are evolving again, but from anouther ancestor... whom do you mean?
wovoka: JOrnitho what do you think about such idea. In Madagascar lives Eulemur mongoz - mongoose lemur. If me make on the contrary: lemur mongoose, I mean mongoose looking like lemur, with lemur way if life and diet. May be make him absolutely herbivorous, eating fruits, berries, leaves, edible roots, may be nuts and mushrooms. By the way Urva javanica that was untroduced to Caribbean islands is omnivourus, so it can become herbivourus. But where we could settle this lemur mongoose in South America?
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