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unusual facts about Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw



Austin Hobart Clark

Several animal species and genera were first scientifically described by Clark, including the Lesser Antillean Macaw (1905), the Martinique Parrot (1905), the Dominican Green-and-yellow Macaw (1908), the Mulga Parrot (1910), the crustacean genus Laomenes (1919) or the starfish species Copidaster lymani (1948).

Palm Beach Zoo

Capybara, Blue and Gold macaw, Bush dog, Jaguar, Giant Anteater, Baird's tapir, Capuchin monkey, and Mexican spider monkey are among the species exhibited in this complex.

Tambopata Macaw Project

In 1991 and 1992 the researchers accelerated the formation of natural dead palm cavities by cutting off the crowns of 23 live Mauritia flexuosa palms in a natural monoculture of thousands of these palms in a 0.5 km2 swamp near the Tambopata Research Center (TRC), as blue-and-yellow macaws almost exclusively nest in dead Mauritia palms.


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