{"id":1245,"date":"2019-02-09T03:32:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zeus.bitvalve.org\/blogs\/headingsouth\/wp\/?p=135"},"modified":"2019-02-09T03:32:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T02:32:46","slug":"patagonian-wildlife-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/?p=1245","title":{"rendered":"Patagonian Wildlife Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we got up early-ish (for vacationers) and first headed to the world-renowned palaeontological museum in Trelew, where one of the largest dinosaur fossil findings in the world was discovered in 2014. Among other things, the scientists unearthed the almost entirely preserved skeleton of a Titanosaurus, the largest known creature ever having walked our planet, weighing an astounding 77 metric tons (about 15 elephants). Its heart alone weighed around 250 kg \ud83d\ude33 Impressively, the skeleton was rebuild in life-size in an forsaken warehouse but unfortunately it could not be visited… However there is a BBC documentary featuring David Attenborough<\/a> about the discovery and the rebuilding.<\/p>\n

The museum presented an impressive selection of various prehistoric animals, among them a 12m long Gigantosaurus, sable tooth tigers and fossilized dinosaur eggs.<\/p>\n

After the museum, we took our rental Nissan Micra (yep, it drives differently than my car…) some 140km south towards Punta Lombo where small nature reserve was waiting for us. The road was pretty rough with more than 40km on gravel. After arriving at the park, we got quite excited when we spotted the first Magellan penguin squatted just a meter next to the path and I took my time to portrait the little one from each angle. Little did we know that there were thousands of penguins around the corner (apparently more than 200.000 breed in the park). Then suddenly Kata spotted some Guanacos (the wild version of the Lama) in the distance, which soon started fighting with each other right next to us, amazing… As if this wasn’t enough, some Nandus (big flightless birds distantly related to ostriches and emus) calmly strolled across the Pampa. It was amazing to see so many different animals from such close distance and hardly managed to leave this paradise on Earth.<\/p>\n

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\nHeute standen wir fr\u00fch auf (f\u00fcr Urlauber) und machen uns auf den Weg zum weltber\u00fchmten pal\u00e4ontologischen Museum in Trelew, wo 2014 einer der gr\u00f6\u00dften fossilen Dinosaurierfunde der Welt entdeckt wurde. Unter anderem entdeckten die Wissenschaftler das fast vollst\u00e4ndig erhaltene Skelett eines Titanosaurus, der gr\u00f6\u00dften bekannten Kreatur, die jemals unseren Planeten betreten hatte, mit einem Gewicht von erstaunlichen 77 Tonnen (etwa 15 Elefanten). Allein das Herz wog rund 250 kg \ud83d\ude33 Beeindruckend, dass das Skelett in einem verlassenen Lager in Originalgr\u00f6\u00dfe wieder aufgebaut wurde, aber leider nicht besucht werden konnte….. Es gibt jedoch eine BBC-Dokumentation mit David Attenborough \u00fcber die Entdeckung und den Wiederaufbau.<\/span><\/p>\n

Das Museum pr\u00e4sentierte eine beeindruckende Auswahl verschiedener pr\u00e4historischer Tiere, darunter ein 12 m langer S\u00e4belzahntiger und versteinerte Dinosauriereier.<\/p>\n

Nach dem Museum nahmen wir unseren Mietwagen Nissan Micra (ja, er f\u00e4hrt sich anders als mein Auto….) etwa 140km s\u00fcdlich in Richtung Punta Lombo, wo uns ein kleines Naturschutzgebiet erwartete. Die Stra\u00dfe war ziemlich anstrengend mit mehr als 40 km auf Schotter. Als wir im Park ankamen, waren wir ziemlich aufgeregt, als wir den ersten Magellanpinguin sahen, der nur einen Meter neben dem Weg hockte, und ich nahm mir die Zeit, den Kleinen aus jedem Winkel zu portr\u00e4tieren. Wir wussten nicht, dass es um die Ecke Tausende von Pinguinen gab (anscheinend mehr als 200.000 Tiere im Park). Dann entdeckte Kata pl\u00f6tzlich einige Guanacos (die wilde Version des Lama) in der Ferne, die bald anfingen, direkt neben uns miteinander zu k\u00e4mpfen, erstaunlich… Als ob das noch nicht genug w\u00e4re, schlenderten einige Nandus (gro\u00dfe flugunf\u00e4hige V\u00f6gel, die entfernt mit Strau\u00dfen und Emus verwandt sind) ruhig \u00fcber die Pampa. Es war erstaunlich, so viele verschiedene Tiere aus so kurzer Entfernung zu sehen und es kaum zu schaffen, dieses Paradies auf der Erde zu verlassen.<\/p>\n

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Today we got up early-ish (for vacationers) and first headed to the world-renowned palaeontological museum in Trelew, where one of the largest dinosaur fossil findings in the world was discovered in 2014. Among other things, the scientists unearthed the almost entirely preserved skeleton of a Titanosaurus, the largest known creature ever having walked our planet, … Continue reading Patagonian Wildlife Madness<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/headingsouth.bitvalve.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}