Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the Wallace Line that divides the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts, one in which animals closely related to those of Australia are common, and one in which the species are largely of Asian origin.

British Columbian introduced species include: common dandelion, ring-necked pheasant, Pacific oyster, brown trout, black slug, European Starling, cowbird, knapweed, bullfrog, purple loosestrife, Scotch broom, Himalayan blackberry, European earwig, tent caterpillar, sowbug, gray squirrel, Asian longhorn beetle, English ivy, Fallow Deer, thistle, gorse, Norway rat, crested mynah, and Asian or European gypsy moth.

It is an important refuge for many endemic forest species, including the Asian Elephant, the Sumatran Rhinoceros, the Bornean Clouded Leopard, the Hose's Civet and the Dayak Fruit Bat.

While most species of North American red oak are unsuitable for construction of bokken, there are some Asian species of red oak that have a significantly tighter grain and will be able to withstand repeated impacts.

), tigers ( Panthera tigris subspecies ), Asiatic lion ( Panthera leo persica ), leopards ( Panthera pardus ), Jaguar ( Panthera onca ), Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ), Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ), some populations of African Elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the dugong and manatees ( Sirenia ), and all Rhinoceros species ( except some Southern African subspecies populations ).

Three living species of elephant are recognized: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant and the Indian or Asian elephant ; although some group the two African species into one and some researchers also postulate the existence of a fourth species in West Africa.

The African elephant genus contains two living species ; whereas the Asian elephant species is the only surviving member of the Asian elephant genus, but can be divided into four subspecies.

Minor amounts of fruit and wine come from American and Asian species such as:

* Vitis amurensis is the most important Asian species.

Further climate changes caused the extinction of the Asian giraffes, while the African ones survived and radiated into several new species.

The Rock Kestrel may be a distinct species F. rupicolus, more distantly related to the Common Kestrel proper than the Nankeen Kestrel ; its relationship to the other African and South Asian kestrel taxa remains insufficiently studied.

Dixit is a Goodwill Ambassador and a patron for " Emeralds for Elephants " — a charity project for the conservation of Asian Elephants and other endangered species.

However, most species of mammoth were only about as large as a modern Asian elephant.

The orangutans are the two exclusively Asian species of extant great apes.

While the relationship of the African species is comparatively straightforward, a large number of Asian species of Ostrich have been described from fragmentary remains, and their interrelationships and how they relate to the African Ostriches is confusing.

Larger specimens usually eat animals about the size of a house cat, but larger food items are known: some large Asian species have been known to take down adult deer, and the African rock python, Python sebae, has been known to eat antelope.

Asian species with medium to large edible fruit include P. pyrifolia, P. ussuriensis, P. × bretschneideri, P. × sinkiangensis, and P. pashia.

It was previously known as Organisation of Asian News Agencies.

In doing so, Japan became the first Asian country to join the previously exclusively western ranks of colonial powers.

According to plate reconstructions, the island is believed to have been formed by the collision of terranes from the Asian Plate ( forming the west and southwest ), from the Australian Plate ( forming the southeast and Banggai ), and from island arcs previously in the Pacific ( forming the north and east peninsulas ).

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

The many previously designated Oriental ethnic groups are now classified as the Asian racial group for the census.

Recent research suggests that the two frogmouth groups may not be as closely related as previously thought, and that the Asian species may be separable as a new family, the Batrachostomidae.

The plan started off well but with the Asian economic downturn 1998, air traffic decreased and Canadian was suffering on what was previously its most profitable route.

The DNA tests, however, indicated that the two populations were much more different than previously appreciated — indeed, in its genetic makeup, the African forest elephant is almost two-thirds as distinct from the African bush elephant as the Asian elephant is.

" The Kushan Empire spread from the Kabul River Valley to defeat other Central Asian tribes that had previously conquered parts of the northern central Iranian Plateau once ruled by the Parthians.

Another Asian species, beaked hickory, previously listed as Carya sinensis, is now treated in a separate genus, Annamocarya, as Annamocarya sinensis.

Robert Justman, co-producer of the original Star Trek series, noted that Takei had previously played bad guys, but through Star Trek had become one of the first Asian actors to portray a character in a positive light.

People from South Asia became particularly prominent and transformed the town ’ s shopping facilities, rejuvenating the corner shops ( as was common in small English towns ) and providing access to South Asian produce which would have previously required a trip to Bletchley ’ s Duncombe Street.

Hansa, an Asian elephant born at the zoo in 2000, died in her sleep from a previously unidentified herpesvirus on June 8, 2007.

There are some sounds in these words which were not previously found in South Asian languages before the influence of Arabic and Persian, and these are therefore represented by introducing dots beneath specific Gurumukhi characters.

The internal management structure of the station changed with Bob Shennan, then Controller of BBC Radio 5Live, taking over as controller, with a new Head of News, Husain Husaini ( a senior editor in BBC Five Live ), a Head of Music Mark Strippel Markie Mark – a music DJ and former member of Punjabi Hit Squad – and a Network Manager, Mike Curtis ( previously Asian Network's News and Sports Editor ).

In 1987, he again won the IBSF event, as well as the ACBS Asian Billiards Championship He won another World Amateur Billiards title 2001, despite having previously played as a pro by that date.

The South Asian edition was previously broadcast once a week, and was known as South Asian Newsweek.

Supporters of Thaksinomics argue that these policies, implemented in the aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis, have driven a stable, demand-driven recovery of Thailand's economy, which was previously dependent on exports, making it vulnerable to external shocks.

Despite the difficulties of observing the sun directly, they noted the existence of sunspots, the first confirmed instance of their observation ( though unclear statements in East Asian annals suggest that Chinese astronomers may have discovered them with the naked eye previously, and Fabricius may have noticed them himself without a telescope a few years before ).

Experts on Asian birds, Nigel Collar and John Pilgrim, in 2008 analysed Rasmussen and Anderton's proposed changes, indicating which had previously been proposed by other authors, and which were novel, and required further justification.

Chan attributes some of his early success to the fact that many players had not previously played against Asian players.

MBC was previously carried ( along with two other Korean TV networks ) on WKTB-LD 47. 3, another LPTV station in the same area, which has the highest concentration of Asian immigrants in metro Atlanta.

The Asian fossil Diatomys was previously included, but is now classified in the family Diatomyidae with the Laotian rock rat.

Traditionally, Anatolia is considered to extend in the east to a line between the Gulf of Iskenderun and the Black Sea, approximately corresponding to the western two-thirds of the Asian part of Turkey.

However, since Anatolia is now often considered to be synonymous with Asian Turkey, its eastern and southeastern borders are widely taken to be the Turkish borders with the neighboring countries, which are Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq and Syria, in clockwise direction.

Because the markets were already nervous due to the Asian financial crisis, investors began selling non-U. S. treasury debt and buying U. S. treasuries, which were considered a safe investment.

In 1400, the Central Asian warlord Timur had succeeded in rousing the local Turkic beyliks that had been vassals of the Ottomans to join him in his attack on Bayezid, who was considered one of the most powerful rulers in the Muslim world during that period.

* Anagama kiln-the Asian anagama kiln has been used since medieval times and is considered the oldest style of production kiln, brought to Japan from China via Korea in the 5th century.

In this way it is considered an ecological counterpart of the North Pacific / North Asian Steller's Eider.

Uyghurs are thus one of the many populations of Central Eurasia that can be considered to be genetically related to European and East Asian populations.

The Bangkok Declaration is considered to be a landmark expression of the Asian Values perspective, which offers an extended critique of human rights universalism.

This defeat in the Travancore-Dutch War is considered the earliest example of an organized Asian power overcoming European military technology and tactics ; and it signaled the decline of Dutch power in India.

Their physical appearance is closer to what is generally associated with Asian peoples than to other Native Americans, but racial categorisation is no longer considered very productive among anthropologists, in part because of the highly contested nature of racial categories.

It is a perennial, tropical plant primarily grown as a root vegetable for its edible starchy corm, and as a leaf vegetable and is considered a staple in African, Oceanic and Asian cultures.

The outcome of these two incidents was the passage by Congress of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted President Lyndon B. Johnson the authority to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by " communist aggression ".

Since most East Asian nations at one point or another were considered Chinese tributaries, they were only allowed four-clawed dragons.

Uzbek is a language which can be considered the direct descendant or a latter form of Chagatay, the language of great Turkic Central Asian literary development in the realm of Chagatai Khan, Timur ( Tamerlane ), and the Timurids.

The movie is considered a seminal work of Asian American Cinema.

The following, including four Asian Tigers and new euro countries, were considered developing countries until recently, and are now listed as advanced economies by the International Monetary Fund:

Otago graduates are among the most dispersed university alumni in the world, due in part to New Zealand being considered a relatively affordable and safe destination by many Asian students to improve their English and achieve a high quality western education.

The city is also home to the University City Olive Link, known for its high concentration of East Asian businesses and considered as a replacement for Chinatown, St. Louis.

The racial makeup of the city was 83. 61 % White ( including Latinos that were born before the 60s considered whites by law ), 0. 21 % African American, 0. 43 % Native American, 0. 09 % Asian, 13. 73 % from other races, and 1. 94 % from two or more races.

Eating together from a shared pot is considered as an important feature of nabemono ; East Asian people believe that eating from one pot makes for closer relationships.

This concept appears to elevate Asian Americans by portraying them as an elite group of successful, highly educated, intelligent, and wealthy individuals, but it can also be considered an overly narrow and overly one-dimensional portrayal of Asian Americans, leaving out other human qualities such as vocal leadership, negative emotions, risk taking, ability to learn from mistakes, and desire for creative expression.

In the eyes of the PRC government, overseas Chinese were considered capitalist agents ; in addition, the PRC government also thought that maintaining good relations with southeast Asian governments was more important than maintaining the support of overseas Chinese.

Although some Western and East Asian investors also showed their interest in RAF, all of them considered this investment too risky as the local market was too small to support large production and the Russian market was virtually closed due to the complicated political relationship of Russia and Latvia.

It has a number of subspecies across its large range ; a few of the Asian subspecies are sometimes considered to be full species.