NIGER 2019
Hornbills
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Hornbills (Buceros bicornis; Tockus ruahae; Rhyticeros cassidix; Ocyceros gingalensis)
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NIGER 2019
Hornbills
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Hornbills (Buceros rhinoceros) Background info: Rhyticeros undulatus
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NIGER 2019
Flying dinosaurs
Theme: Fauna – Dinosaurs
Description:
Flying dinosaurs (Pterodaustro guinazui; Peteinosaurus zambelli; Pteranodon longiceps; Pterodactylus antiquus)
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NIGER 2019
Flying dinosaurs
Theme: Fauna – Dinosaurs
Description:
Flying dinosaurs (Sinopterus dongi) Background info: Peteinosaurus zambelli, Pterodaustro guinazui
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NIGER 2019
Climate change
Theme:
Description:
Climate change (Air pollution; Desertification; Deforestation; Ice melting, Ursus maritimus)
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NIGER 2019
Climate change
Theme:
Description:
Climate change (Greenhouse effect) Background info: Global warming is a long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system, an aspect of climate change shown by temperature measurements and by multiple effects of the warming.
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NIGER 2019
Shells and fossils
Theme: Fauna – Shells
Description:
Shells and fossils (Stegosaurus stenops, Scaphella junonia, Tonna perdix; Ceratops horridus, Triplofusus papillosus, Vasula deltoidea; Tyrannosaurus rex, Stramonita floridana, Fasciolaria tulipa; Futalognkosaurus dukei, Nautilus pompilius, Spirula spirula)
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NIGER 2019
Shells and fossils
Theme: Fauna – Shells
Description:
Shells and fossils (Kainops invius, Pseudovertagus aluco, Cymatium aquatile) Background info: Archaeopteryx lithographica, Argopecten gibbus, Mizuhopecten yessoensis, Costoanachis sertularium
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NIGER 2019
Orchids
Theme: Flora – Orchids
Description:
Orchids (Catasetum tigrinum; Paphiopedilum callosum; Cymbidium “Golden Sunrise”; Paphiopedilum exul)
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NIGER 2019
Orchids
Theme: Flora – Orchids
Description:
Orchids (Cattleya “Golden peacock”) Background info: Oncidium flexuosum
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NIGER 2019
Extinct species
Theme: Fauna – All others
Description:
Extinct species (Elasmotherium sibiricum; Equus quagga quagga; Carcharodon megalodon; Icaronycteris index)
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NIGER 2019
Extinct species
Theme: Fauna – All others
Description:
Extinct species (Mammuthus primigenius) Background info: Gastornis parisiensis
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NIGER 2019
Dugongs
Theme: Fauna – All others
Description:
Dugongs (Dugong dugon)
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NIGER 2019
Dugongs
Theme: Fauna – All others
Description:
Dugongs (Dugong dugon)
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NIGER 2019
Colibri
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Colibri (Selasphorus rufus; Florisuga mellivora; Selasphorus platycercus; Cynanthus latirostris)
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NIGER 2019
Colibri
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Colibri (Thalurania colombica fannyi) Background info: Boissonneaua jardini
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NIGER 2019
Rare birds
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Rare birds (Grus japonensis; Crax rubra; Rupicola peruvianus; Fregata andrewsi)
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NIGER 2019
Rare birds
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Rare birds (Eumomota superciliosa) Background info: Grus japonensis, Euplectes progne
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NIGER 2019
Seabirds
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Seabirds (Pygoscelis antarcticus; Fregata magnificens; Larus delawarensis; Aethia cristatella
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NIGER 2019
Seabirds
Theme: Fauna – Birds
Description:
Seabirds (Sula nebouxii) Background info: Rynchops niger
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NIGER 2019
Mahatma Gandhi moments
Theme: Celebrities – Gandhi
Description:
Mahatma Gandhi moments (Gandhi was arrested and imprisoned at the Aga Khan Palace) Background info: In 1942, Gandhi was arrested and imprisoned at the Aga Khan Palace in Pune, because of worst instances of civil uprising under his direction, through his ‘Quit India’ movement.
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NIGER 2019
Mahatma Gandhi moments
Theme: Celebrities – Gandhi
Description:
Mahatma Gandhi moments (Kasturba Gandhi (1869–1944), Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)) Background info: Gandhi’s wife Kasturba died after 18 months' imprisonment on 22 February 1944.
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NIGER 2019
Theodore Roosevelt
Theme: Celebrities – All others / Celebrities – All others / Peace
Description:
World-famous Nobel Prize winners (Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), Nobel Peace Prize, 1906)
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NIGER 2019
Alexander Fleming
Theme: Celebrities – All others / Celebrities – All others / Science
Description:
World-famous Nobel Prize winners (Alexander Fleming (1881–1955), Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1945)
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NIGER 2019
Wole Soyinka
Theme: Celebrities – All others / Celebrities – All others
Description:
World-famous Nobel Prize winners (Wole Soyinka, Nobel Prize in Literature, 1986)
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NIGER 2019
Ahmed Zewaii
Theme: Celebrities – All others / Celebrities – All others / Science
Description:
World-famous Nobel Prize winners (Ahmed Zewaii (1946–2016), Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1999)
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