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Hunted almost out of existence, it is critically endangered, with a few hundred at most left wild in Chad, Niger and Mauritania.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:addax_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:addax_hide"}],"sources":["adw:addax_nasomaculatus","wikipedia:addax","wikipedia:fr_addax"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"african_buffalo","name":"African Buffalo","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/african-buffalo","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/african_buffalo","names":"African Buffalo","scientific":"Syncerus caffer","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["savanna","tropical_dry_forest","tropical_rainforest","river"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"high","activity":"cathemeral","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"African buffalo never stray far from water, grazing savanna, woodland, riverbanks and lowland and mountain forest in herds that range from a dozen beasts to more than a thousand, while old bulls keep to small bachelor groups. 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They are hunted for meat and hides, and raid crops and pass diseases to cattle.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:african_buffalo_hide"},{"ref":"ingredient:african_buffalo_meat"}],"sources":["adw:syncerus_caffer"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"african_bush_elephant","name":"African Bush Elephant","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/african-bush-elephant","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/african_bush_elephant","names":"African Bush Elephant","scientific":"Loxodonta africana","domestic":false,"size":"huge","places":[{"biome":["savanna","tropical_dry_forest","hot_desert","sandy_shore"]}],"danger":"high","activity":"cathemeral","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"Herds of related cows and calves, from a handful to about seventy, roam the savannas, woodlands and scrub of central and southern Africa, while grown bulls wander alone or in small bachelor groups. They feed day and night and sleep only a few hours; farmers who try to drive them out of their crops can be chased down and killed. People hunted them for their tusks, their meat, and their ears and feet, worked into leather goods and furniture.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:elephant_ivory_powder"},{"ref":"ingredient:african_bush_elephant_hide"}],"srd":"Elephant","sources":["adw:loxodonta_africana"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"alpine_ibex","name":"Alpine Ibex","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/alpine-ibex","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/alpine_ibex","names":"Alpine Ibex","scientific":"Capra ibex","domestic":false,"size":"medium","places":[{"biome":["alpine_meadow","temperate_conifer_forest","barrens"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"low","activity":"diurnal","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"Males keep to the cliffs by day while females and young graze gentler slopes, and in deep snow the herds move down to sunny south-facing slopes. It is shy rather than dangerous. 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It basks in the morning and hunts on land on warm nights, and when the water freezes it lies still with only its snout through the ice. Attacks are rare but real: at least 28 people killed in the United States since 1970. It is farmed by the thousands for its hide and meat.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:american_alligator_hide"},{"ref":"ingredient:american_alligator_meat"}],"srd":"Crocodile","sources":["wikipedia:american_alligator","wikipedia:fr_alligator_d_amerique","adw:alligator_mississippiensis"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"american_bison","name":"American Bison","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/american-bison","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/american_bison","names":"American Bison","scientific":"Bison bison","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["grassland","temperate_forest","taiga"]}],"danger":"moderate","activity":"diurnal","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"The great grazer of the North American prairie, a bull sometimes topping a tonne, living in cow herds and bachelor bands on plains, river valleys, sagebrush, open woods and the boreal north. Once some sixty million, it was slaughtered to a few hundred by the late 1880s, partly to ruin the Plains peoples who drew food, clothing, tools and shelter from it. It looks slow but runs at over 60 km/h, and at Yellowstone it has injured three times as many visitors as the bears.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:american_bison_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:american_bison_hide"}],"sources":["adw:bison_bison","wikipedia:american_bison","wikipedia:fr_bison_d_amerique"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"american_black_bear","name":"American Black Bear","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/american-black-bear","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/american_black_bear","names":"American Black Bear","scientific":"Ursus americanus","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["temperate_conifer_forest","temperate_forest","taiga","mediterranean_scrub","swamp","alpine_meadow"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"moderate","activity":"crepuscular","group":"solitary","winter":"hibernates","notes":"The smallest and most widespread bear of North America, from Alaska and Canada to central Mexico, in thick-understoried forest, chaparral, swamps and subalpine meadows. A shy, clever climber that lives mostly on grasses, berries, nuts and insects, it sleeps three to eight months through winter. 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All summer each one cuts grasses and flowers and stacks them as hay under the rocks, then lives on its haypiles through the winter instead of hibernating. Each guards its own patch of rock and whistles a sharp alarm at hawks, weasels and coyotes. It dies in a few hours above about 25 °C without shade, and gives people nothing to hunt.","yields":[],"sources":["adw:ochotona_princeps","wikipedia:american_pika","wikipedia:fr_pika_d_amerique"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"arctic_fox","name":"Arctic Fox","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/arctic-fox","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/arctic_fox","names":"Arctic Fox","scientific":"Vulpes lagopus","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":["tundra","ice_sheet","rocky_shore","sandy_shore"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"low","activity":"cathemeral","group":"family","winter":"active","notes":"A small fox of the treeless tundra, often near the coast, active all year and living in family groups in dens with many entrances. It scavenges what wolves and polar bears leave behind and in Iceland takes the odd lamb. 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Arctic peoples eat its lean, full-flavoured white meat and make gloves, hats and bandages of its soft, absorbent fur, using every part but the guts.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:arctic_hare_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:arctic_hare_fur"}],"sources":["adw:lepus_arcticus","wikipedia:arctic_hare","wikipedia:fr_lievre_arctique"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"argali","name":"Argali","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/argali","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/argali","names":"Argali","scientific":"Ovis ammon","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["alpine_meadow","cold_desert","grassland"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"low","activity":"diurnal","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"The argali, the largest wild sheep, grazes the grassy slopes and arid valleys of the mountains of Central Asia, from Kazakhstan and the Altai to the Himalaya and Tibet, anywhere from a few hundred metres to nearly 6,000. Rams and ewes keep to separate herds of a few to over a hundred head and stay in the same country all their lives, climbing higher in summer. The rams' spiral horns can reach 190 cm and 23 kg; people hunt it for meat, horns and trophies, and the horn goes into Chinese medicine.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:argali_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:argali_horn"}],"srd":"Goat","sources":["adw:ovis_ammon","wikipedia:argali","wikipedia:fr_argali"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"asian_elephant","name":"Asian Elephant","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/asian-elephant","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/asian_elephant","names":"Asian Elephant","scientific":"Elephas maximus","domestic":false,"size":"huge","places":[{"biome":["tropical_rainforest","tropical_dry_forest","grassland"]},{"biome":"tropical_rainforest","landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"high","activity":"cathemeral","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"Bulls weigh 3.5 to 6 tonnes; cows and calves live in family herds while grown bulls wander alone, in evergreen and deciduous forest, scrub and grassland from sea level to 3,000 m, eating 12 to 18 hours a day. Elephants kill some 400 people a year in India and raid crops. Only some bulls carry tusks (cows have none or small \"tushes\", and in Sri Lanka most bulls are tuskless), so ivory is never a sure prize. Tamed for 4,500 years, they still haul timber; they are poached for ivory, meat and skin.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:asian_elephant_ivory"},{"ref":"ingredient:asian_elephant_meat"}],"srd":"Elephant","sources":["adw:elephas_maximus","wikipedia:asian_elephant","wikipedia:fr_elephant_d_asie"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"atlantic_puffin","name":"Atlantic Puffin","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/atlantic-puffin","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/atlantic_puffin","names":"Atlantic Puffin","scientific":"Fratercula arctica","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":["rocky_shore","open_ocean"]},{"landform":["cliff","island"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"colony","winter":"migrates","notes":"Puffins nest in burrows dug into cliff tops of the North Atlantic, most of them in Iceland, and spend the rest of the year alone on the open sea. They fly out by day to fish, sometimes tens of kilometres from the nest. Islanders netted them in great numbers to eat fresh, salted or smoked, and took their feathers and some eggs.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:atlantic_puffin_whole"},{"ref":"ingredient:atlantic_puffin_feather"},{"ref":"ingredient:atlantic_puffin_egg"}],"sources":["adw:fratercula_arctica","wikipedia:atlantic_puffin"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"bactrian_camel","name":"Bactrian Camel","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/bactrian-camel","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/bactrian_camel","names":"Bactrian Camel","scientific":"Camelus bactrianus","domestic":true,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["cold_desert","grassland"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"low","activity":"diurnal","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"The two-humped camel is herded across the cold deserts and steppes of Central Asia, from Iran and Afghanistan to Mongolia, the Gobi and Xinjiang, and up into the mountains; it bears frosts of -30 °C and summers of 50 °C, and eats snow for water. It was the beast of the Silk Road, carrying 170 to 250 kg some 47 km a day. In the autumn rut a male turns violent and can be dangerous to people. Herders live off its milk (fermented into kumis), meat, wool, hide and dung for fuel.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:bactrian_camel_milk"},{"ref":"ingredient:bactrian_camel_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:bactrian_camel_wool"}],"srd":"Camel","sources":["adw:camelus_bactrianus","wikipedia:bactrian_camel","wikipedia:fr_chameau_de_bactriane"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"bearded_seal","name":"Bearded Seal","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/bearded-seal","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/bearded_seal","names":"Bearded Seal","scientific":"Erignathus barbatus","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["ice_sheet","coastal_shelf"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"solitary","winter":"migrates","notes":"The bearded seal lives in shallow Arctic seas, rarely more than one to an ice floe, and drifts with the pack ice south in winter and north in summer. In spring the males sing under water to claim their ground. Inuit hunt it for meat and blubber, and its tough hide covered their umiak boats and made their boots and harnesses.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:bearded_seal_hide"},{"ref":"ingredient:bearded_seal_blubber"},{"ref":"ingredient:bearded_seal_meat"}],"sources":["adw:erignathus_barbatus","wikipedia:bearded_seal"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"bearded_vulture","name":"Bearded Vulture","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/bearded-vulture","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/bearded_vulture","names":"Bearded Vulture","scientific":"Gypaetus barbatus","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["alpine_meadow","barrens"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"solitary","winter":"active","notes":"A huge scavenger of the high mountains, usually seen alone above two thousand metres, that drops bones onto rocks from a great height to crack them. It is harmless to people. Shepherds long shot and poisoned it in the false belief that it carried off lambs.","yields":[],"srd":"Vulture","sources":["adw:gypaetus_barbatus","wikipedia:bearded_vulture"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"bighorn_sheep","name":"Bighorn Sheep","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/bighorn-sheep","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/bighorn_sheep","names":"Bighorn Sheep","scientific":"Ovis canadensis","domestic":false,"size":"medium","places":[{"biome":["alpine_meadow","grassland","hot_desert"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"low","activity":"diurnal","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"Bighorn sheep live on alpine meadows, grassy slopes and foothills close to cliffs, from the Rocky Mountains of Canada down to the hot deserts of the American Southwest and Mexico; most herds summer high and winter in sheltered valleys, as they cannot cope with deep snow. They go in groups of 8 to 10, sometimes over 100, and escape onto the cliffs. A ram's horns can weigh 14 kg. Native peoples and early settlers prized the meat, and Native Americans made the horns into large ceremonial spoons and handles.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:bighorn_sheep_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:bighorn_sheep_horn"}],"srd":"Goat","sources":["adw:ovis_canadensis","wikipedia:bighorn_sheep","wikipedia:fr_mouflon_canadien"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"black_grouse","name":"Black grouse","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/black-grouse","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/black_grouse","names":"Black grouse","scientific":"Lyrurus tetrix","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["bog","taiga","temperate_conifer_forest","grassland"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"flock","winter":"active","notes":"A big grouse of the forest edges, moors and wet heaths of northern Eurasia, the glossy black cock weighing over a kilo with a lyre-shaped tail. In spring the males gather at dawn on open ground or bogs, the lek, puffing their necks and fanning their tails, rarely more than forty birds in the west and up to two hundred in Russia. In winter it flocks in dense forest, eats conifer needles and birch buds, and sleeps in snow burrows. It is game, under a hunting quota in France.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:black_grouse_meat"}],"sources":["wikipedia:black_grouse","wikipedia:fr_tetras_lyre"]},{"kind":"reptile","id":"black_mamba","name":"Black Mamba","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/black-mamba","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/black_mamba","names":"Black Mamba","scientific":"Dendroaspis polylepis","domestic":false,"size":"medium","places":[{"biome":["savanna","tropical_dry_forest","tropical_rainforest"]}],"danger":"high","activity":"diurnal","group":"solitary","winter":"active","notes":"The black mamba is the most feared snake in Africa, living in savanna, light woodland, scrub, rocky slopes and riverine and lowland forest from Eritrea to South Africa and Namibia, hiding in hollow trees, termite mounds and rock piles. It hunts by day and basks at the same spot morning and afternoon. Cornered, it rears high, spreads a narrow hood and gapes, then strikes again and again; symptoms of its venom show within ten minutes, and before a working antivenom 15 of 35 people bitten in one South African survey died.","srd":"Venomous Snake","sources":["adw:dendroaspis_polylepis","wikipedia:black_mamba","wikipedia:fr_mamba_noir"],"yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:black_mamba_venom"}]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"black_rhinoceros","name":"Black Rhinoceros","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/black-rhinoceros","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/black_rhinoceros","names":"Black Rhinoceros","scientific":"Diceros bicornis","domestic":false,"size":"huge","places":[{"biome":["savanna","tropical_dry_forest","hot_desert"]}],"danger":"moderate","activity":"diurnal","group":"solitary","winter":"active","notes":"Black rhinos browse the savanna, scrub and desert edges of eastern and southern Africa, never more than a day's walk from water, and mostly alone or as a mother with her calf. Startled, they charge, often from curiosity more than intent, but a charge can still injure or kill. Their horn was carved into the handles of Yemeni daggers and ground for Chinese medicine, which has driven them close to extinction.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:rhinoceros_horn_powder"},{"ref":"ingredient:black_rhinoceros_horn"}],"srd":"Rhinoceros","sources":["adw:diceros_bicornis","wikipedia:black_rhinoceros"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"black_tailed_prairie_dog","name":"Black-tailed Prairie Dog","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/black-tailed-prairie-dog","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/black_tailed_prairie_dog","names":"Black-tailed Prairie Dog","scientific":"Cynomys ludovicianus","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["grassland","cold_desert"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"colony","winter":"active","notes":"A plump ground squirrel of under two kilos, living in 'towns' of burrows on the short-grass plains and sagebrush steppe from Saskatchewan to Mexico; one Texas town was said to hold four hundred million animals. Each crater-rimmed mound is a lookout, and a sharp alarm call sends the whole family underground. It stays active all winter, keeps the grass short where bison like to graze, and its fleas carry plague.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:prairie_dog_meat"}],"sources":["adw:cynomys_ludovicianus","wikipedia:black_tailed_prairie_dog","wikipedia:fr_chien_de_prairie_a_queue_noire"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"blue_wildebeest","name":"Blue Wildebeest","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/blue-wildebeest","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/blue_wildebeest","names":"Blue Wildebeest","scientific":"Connochaetes taurinus","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["savanna","grassland"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"herd","winter":"migrates","notes":"Blue wildebeest graze the short-grass plains at the edge of acacia savanna in eastern and southern Africa, grazing in the morning and late afternoon and resting through the hottest hours. When the grass runs out they travel hundreds of kilometres in herds of several thousand, following the rains; the species numbers about 1.5 million. They are hunted for meat and for their hides, which make good leather, and farmers count them a nuisance because they compete with cattle and pass on disease.","sources":["adw:connochaetes_taurinus","wikipedia:blue_wildebeest","wikipedia:fr_connochaetes_taurinus"],"yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:blue_wildebeest_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:blue_wildebeest_hide"}]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"bottlenose_dolphin","name":"Bottlenose Dolphin","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/bottlenose-dolphin","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/bottlenose_dolphin","names":"Bottlenose Dolphin","scientific":"Tursiops truncatus","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["coastal_shelf","estuary","open_ocean"]}],"danger":"low","activity":"cathemeral","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"Bottlenose dolphins live in warm and temperate seas, some in harbours, bays, lagoons and estuaries, others offshore in deeper water. Pods usually number about fifteen and can briefly swell past a thousand. 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Coastal peoples ate it for almost 12,000 years, and its orange flesh is baked, boiled or fried. 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A herd has a firm pecking order, and its bulls hold their place by fighting younger rivals. People take milk and meat, leather, soap, glue and medicines from them, yoke the oxen to plough and cart, and burn or spread the dung.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:cattle_hide"},{"ref":"ingredient:cattle_fat"},{"ref":"ingredient:cattle_milk"}],"sources":["adw:bos_taurus"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"chamois","name":"Chamois","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/chamois","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/chamois","names":"Chamois","scientific":"Rupicapra rupicapra","domestic":false,"size":"medium","places":[{"biome":["alpine_meadow","barrens","temperate_conifer_forest","temperate_forest"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"herd","winter":"active","notes":"The chamois lives on steep, rocky ground in the mountains of Europe and the Caucasus, from the Pyrenees and the Alps to Turkey; it summers on alpine meadows above the trees and winters lower down in the forest, living on lichens, mosses and young pine shoots and fasting when the snow is deep. Females and young keep in herds of 15 to 30 while adult males go alone. It runs at 50 km/h over rough ground and leaps 2 m high or 6 m long. It is prized game for its meat, its hide gave the soft chamois leather, and the tuft of winter hair from its neck and back (gamsbart) decorates alpine hats.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:chamois_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:chamois_hide"},{"ref":"ingredient:chamois_gamsbart"}],"srd":"Goat","sources":["adw:rupicapra_rupicapra","wikipedia:chamois","wikipedia:fr_chamois"]},{"kind":"reptile","id":"chuckwalla","name":"Chuckwalla","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/chuckwalla","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/chuckwalla","names":"Chuckwalla","scientific":"Sauromalus ater","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":"hot_desert"}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"solitary","winter":"hibernates","notes":"A plant-eating lizard up to half a metre of the Mojave and Sonoran deserts, on old lava flows, rocky hillsides and outcrops, feeding on desert plants such as the flowers and leaves of creosote bush. It is about from spring to late summer and lies dormant through the cool months. When threatened it slips into a crevice and puffs up its lungs to wedge itself in; the native peoples of Death Valley ate it, hooking it out with a barbed bone point that pierced and deflated it.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:chuckwalla_meat"}],"sources":["adw:sauromalus_ater","wikipedia:common_chuckwalla","wikipedia:fr_sauromalus_ater"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"chukar_partridge","name":"Chukar Partridge","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/chukar-partridge","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/chukar_partridge","names":"Chukar Partridge","scientific":"Alectoris chukar","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["cold_desert","grassland","mediterranean_scrub"]},{"landform":["mountain","hill"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"flock","winter":"active","notes":"The chukar runs over rocky, dry, open hillsides with grass and scattered scrub from Greece and Turkey across Asia to Manchuria, up to 4,000 metres in the Himalaya, and has been loosed as a game bird in North America, New Zealand and elsewhere. Outside the breeding season it goes in coveys of 10 to 50, and in winter it comes down into the valleys and fields. It lays 7 to 21 eggs, which people gather in the Himalaya. 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It lives in burrows in sand or rock crevices, sometimes kilometres inland, and comes out mostly at night; it eats fruit, nuts and seeds and can crack a coconut. Its claws hold on hard and hurt. A delicacy and supposed aphrodisiac on many islands, it can poison those who eat it after it has fed on sea mango kernels.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:coconut_crab_meat"}],"sources":["adw:birgus_latro","wikipedia:coconut_crab","wikipedia:fr_crabe_de_cocotier"]},{"kind":"reptile","id":"common_adder","name":"Common Adder","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-adder","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_adder","names":"Common Adder","scientific":"Vipera berus","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":["temperate_forest","marsh","bog"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"moderate","activity":"crepuscular","group":"solitary","winter":"dormant","notes":"The adder basks on sunny heath, moor, woodland edge and wet ground, close to thick cover, and climbs high into the Alps. From autumn it sleeps underground, sometimes a hundred together in one den. 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In autumn they fly south in great V-shaped flocks, gathering by thousands on lakes and fields (over 260,000 at once on one French lake), to winter in Spain, North Africa and India. It eats roots, grain, insects and small animals, and was once a prized dish at the tables of French kings and lords.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_crane_meat"}],"sources":["wikipedia:common_crane","wikipedia:fr_grue_cendree"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"common_eider","name":"Common Eider","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-eider","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_eider","names":"Common Eider","scientific":"Somateria mollissima","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":["tundra","rocky_shore"]},{"landform":"island"}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"flock","winter":"migrates","notes":"The common eider is a sea duck of Arctic and northern coasts that nests among the rocks of small offshore islands and on the tundra. It travels in flocks of tens to thousands, and the females pool their ducklings into crèches against predators. 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It feeds in the morning and evening and rests in the shade at midday, in herds of up to 25. It gives a lot of tender meat and fine hides, and is farmed and even milked in southern Africa and Russia: a cow can give 7 kg of milk a day, far richer than cow's milk.","sources":["adw:taurotragus_oryx","wikipedia:common_eland","wikipedia:fr_eland_du_cap"],"yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_eland_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:common_eland_hide"},{"ref":"ingredient:common_eland_milk"}]},{"kind":"mollusc","id":"common_limpet","name":"Common Limpet","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-limpet","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_limpet","names":"Common Limpet","scientific":"Patella vulgata","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":"rocky_shore"}],"danger":"none","activity":"cathemeral","group":"colony","winter":"active","notes":"A cone-shelled sea snail up to 6 cm long, clamped firmly to rocks from high on the shore to the low-tide line on the wave-beaten coasts of western Europe; it grazes algae with a tongue of nearly two thousand teeth and comes home to the same spot each tide. Also called bernique or chapeau chinois in French. From clean water it can be eaten raw all year, the small ones from low on the shore being the most tender; it was famine food in Ireland, tough enough to need long boiling or roasting, and it is still eaten in Asturias and Portugal.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_limpet_meat"}],"sources":["wikipedia:patella_vulgata","wikipedia:fr_patella_vulgata"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"common_ostrich","name":"Common Ostrich","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-ostrich","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_ostrich","names":"Common Ostrich","scientific":"Struthio camelus","domestic":false,"size":"large","places":[{"biome":["savanna","tropical_dry_forest"]}],"danger":"moderate","activity":"diurnal","group":"flock","winter":"active","notes":"Ostriches wander the dry, sandy savannas and scrub of Africa south of the Sahara in flocks of up to fifty in the breeding season, and once ranged into Arabia and southwest Asia. They outrun most threats, but a cornered bird kicks hard enough to wound a person. They were hunted almost to extinction for their plumes, as well as for leather and eggs whose shells African peoples used to carry water, and farming began by the mid 1800s.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_ostrich_feather"},{"ref":"ingredient:common_ostrich_egg"},{"ref":"ingredient:common_ostrich_hide"}],"sources":["adw:struthio_camelus"]},{"kind":"mollusc","id":"common_periwinkle","name":"Common Periwinkle","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-periwinkle","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_periwinkle","names":"Common Periwinkle","scientific":"Littorina littorea","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":["rocky_shore","estuary","coastal_shelf"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"cathemeral","group":"colony","winter":"active","notes":"A small sea snail, about 2.5 cm, grazing algae, green seaweeds above all, on rocks and in tide pools of the middle and upper shore, and on the mud of estuaries, on the Northeast Atlantic coasts down to 55 m; it reached North America in the 19th century, possibly in ship ballast. In Ireland and Scotland it is boiled in seawater and sold in paper bags by the beach, with a pin to pick out the flesh. Scotland lands over 2,000 tonnes a year, mostly for export, and it is probably the richest everyday food in magnesium.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_periwinkle_meat"}],"sources":["wikipedia:common_periwinkle","wikipedia:fr_littorina_littorea"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"common_pheasant","name":"Common Pheasant","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-pheasant","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_pheasant","names":"Common Pheasant","scientific":"Phasianus colchicus","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["temperate_forest","grassland","marsh"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"flock","winter":"active","notes":"A long-tailed game bird native to Asia and the Caucasus; the cock is copper, chestnut and gold with a green head and a red wattle, the hen a mottled brown. Brought into Europe in Roman times and naturalised in Britain around 1059, it lives in woodland, farmland, scrub and wetland, nests on the ground and roosts in trees at night. It would rather run, but bursts up with a loud whirr of wings when flushed; the cock keeps a harem of hens.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_pheasant_meat"}],"sources":["adw:phasianus_colchicus","wikipedia:common_pheasant","wikipedia:fr_faisan_de_colchide"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"common_quail","name":"Common Quail","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-quail","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_quail","names":"Common Quail","scientific":"Coturnix coturnix","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":"grassland"}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"pair","winter":"migrates","notes":"A small brown game bird of seventy to one hundred and forty grams, far more often heard than seen: the male's call of three quick notes rings from tall grass, grain fields and clover. It breeds from Europe to Central Asia and flies by night to winter in Africa and southern India, crossing the Mediterranean where it is netted by the million. 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Farmers hunted them for raiding grain and fruit, and Finland paid a bounty on them until 1923.","yields":[],"srd":"Raven","sources":["adw:corvus_corax","wikipedia:common_raven"]},{"kind":"reptile","id":"common_snapping_turtle","name":"Common Snapping Turtle","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-snapping-turtle","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_snapping_turtle","names":"Common Snapping Turtle","scientific":"Chelydra serpentina","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["pond","lake","river","stream","estuary"]}],"danger":"low","activity":"diurnal","group":"solitary","winter":"hibernates","notes":"A big freshwater turtle of North America, usually 4.5 to 16 kilos, living alone in almost any permanent water with a muddy bottom, even brackish estuaries. In the water it flees and hides in the mud, but pulled out it turns vicious and its jaws can badly wound a hand. Northern turtles sleep out the winter, some staying active under the ice. It is the traditional turtle of turtle soup.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_snapping_turtle_meat"}],"sources":["wikipedia:common_snapping_turtle","wikipedia:fr_tortue_serpentine","adw:chelydra_serpentina"]},{"kind":"bird","id":"common_snipe","name":"Common snipe","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-snipe","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_snipe","names":"Common snipe","scientific":"Gallinago gallinago","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":["bog","marsh","tundra","grassland","stream"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"solitary","winter":"migrates","notes":"A small brown wader with a very long straight bill, probing the mud of bogs, marshes, tundra and wet meadows for earthworms and fly larvae. In spring the male dives from high circles so that his tail feathers make a bleating hum, the \"drumming\". Northern birds winter south to Africa. Its erratic flight is so hard to hit that the hunter's word \"sniper\" most likely comes from it; about a million and a half are still shot each year in Europe for the table and for sport.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_snipe_meat"}],"sources":["adw:gallinago_gallinago","wikipedia:common_snipe","wikipedia:fr_becassine_des_marais","wikipedia:snipe"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"common_warthog","name":"Common Warthog","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-warthog","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_warthog","names":"Common Warthog","scientific":"Phacochoerus africanus","domestic":false,"size":"medium","places":[{"biome":["savanna","grassland","tropical_dry_forest"]}],"danger":"low","activity":"diurnal","group":"family","winter":"active","notes":"The warthog is the one wild pig that grazes, living in the open and wooded savannas, grasslands and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa, up to 3,000 m. It feeds by day and spends the night in a burrow, which it backs into tusks first; females and young live in sounders of up to 18, while grown boars mostly go alone. It is hunted for meat for the pot and the market, and its ever-growing tusks are carved like ivory for the tourist trade. It raids crops and carries African swine fever.","srd":"Boar","sources":["adw:phacochoerus_africanus","wikipedia:common_warthog","wikipedia:fr_phacochoerus_africanus"],"yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_warthog_meat"},{"ref":"ingredient:common_warthog_tusk"}]},{"kind":"bird","id":"common_wood_pigeon","name":"Common Wood Pigeon","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/common-wood-pigeon","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/common_wood_pigeon","names":"Common Wood Pigeon","scientific":"Columba palumbus","domestic":false,"size":"tiny","places":[{"biome":["temperate_forest","grassland"]}],"danger":"none","activity":"diurnal","group":"flock","winter":"active","notes":"Europe's largest common pigeon, grey with a pinkish breast and white on the neck and wings, living in woods near clearings and fields, in parks and more and more in towns. It eats leaves, shoots, grain, berries and, in autumn, acorns, gathers in huge flocks outside the breeding season, and is a pest of cereal crops. Western birds stay put, while those of the north and east migrate, crossing the Pyrenees to winter on the acorns of the Iberian dehesas.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:common_wood_pigeon_meat"}],"sources":["wikipedia:common_wood_pigeon","wikipedia:fr_pigeon_ramier"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"cougar","name":"Cougar","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/cougar","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/cougar","names":"Cougar","scientific":"Puma concolor","domestic":false,"size":"medium","places":[{"biome":["temperate_conifer_forest","tropical_rainforest","grassland","mediterranean_scrub","hot_desert","swamp"]},{"landform":"mountain"}],"danger":"high","activity":"nocturnal","group":"solitary","winter":"active","notes":"A large tawny cat of 29 to 120 kg ranging from Yukon to Patagonia, in montane conifer forest, rainforest, grassland, brush and swamp, wherever there is cover and deer. It hunts alone at night, stalking ungulates, leaping on their back and biting the neck, then burying the kill to return to it. It mostly avoids people, but attacks happen, usually on children or lone walkers at dawn, dusk or night.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:cougar_pelt"}],"srd":"Panther","sources":["adw:puma_concolor","wikipedia:cougar","wikipedia:fr_puma"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"coypu","name":"Coypu","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/coypu","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/coypu","names":"Coypu","scientific":"Myocastor coypus","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["marsh","lake","stream"]}],"danger":"low","activity":"nocturnal","group":"colony","winter":"active","notes":"A big South American water rodent of 4 to 9 kilos, farmed for its fur and now loose in the marshes, lake edges and slow streams of North America, Europe and Asia. It feeds mostly at night in groups of a male with several females and their young, and bites people and dogs when cornered. Its fur (nutria) went into clothes and hats, its lean meat is eaten (pâté de ragondin in western France), and it strips whole marshes bare.","yields":[{"ref":"ingredient:coypu_pelt"},{"ref":"ingredient:coypu_meat"}],"sources":["wikipedia:coypu","wikipedia:fr_ragondin","adw:myocastor_coypus"]},{"kind":"mammal","id":"crab_eating_macaque","name":"Crab-eating Macaque","url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/biomes/crab-eating-macaque","embed_url":"https://michaelghelfistudios.com/apps/embed/animal/crab_eating_macaque","names":"Crab-eating Macaque","scientific":"Macaca fascicularis","domestic":false,"size":"small","places":[{"biome":["mangrove","tropical_rainforest"]}],"danger":"low","activity":"diurnal","group":"family","winter":"active","notes":"A long-tailed monkey of Southeast Asian mangroves, nipa palm swamps, riverbanks and forests, living in groups of 10 to 85 and eating mostly fruit, plus crabs. 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