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Endangered Animals
Jessica Suh
Megan Heath
Gyuhyun Lee
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Chinese river dolphin
• The chinese river dolphin is only found in one river called the Yangtze River in China
• There are only five left, and one is in captivity
csiwhalesalive.org
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• The Addax lives in the desert and it never drinks
• It gets all the water it needs from the plants it eats
• There are around 200 Addaxes left in the wild
Addax
www.ltxgamebreedingcentre.co.za
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Black Rhinoceros
• The Black Rhinoceros is actually gray
• It sometimes likes to take a mud bath
• There are fewer than 2,000 left in the wild
www.hedweb.com
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California Condor• The California condor
has a bald head, so it doesn’t get germs when it eats
• The condor eats dead animals—it is a scavenger
• In 1982, there were less than 25 left, but today, thanks to captive breeding programs there are about 200 of them
www.npca.org
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Chinchilla• There are two kinds of
Chinchillas—the longhaired and short haired
• The Chinchilla lives in South America
• In the 1940s, fur hunters hunted them almost to extinction
• The short haired chinchilla is almost extinct
• The long haired one is making a comeback thanks to legal protection
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African Elephant• The African Elephant
is the largest land mammal
• It used to be hunted for its ivory tusks
• There are between 400 and 600 thousand left
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Peregrine Falcon• The Peregrine falcon
is the fastest flying bird in the world
• The birds were being affected by pesticides used widely over the past few years
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Giant Panda• The Giant Panda lives
in the Chinese mountains where it eats bamboo and fruit from the trees
• There are only about 1000 left
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Hawksbill Turtle
• The Hawksbill Turtles were hunted for their shells• Wild animals ate their eggs• They can be found on coral reefs
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Hyacinth macaw
The Hyacinth Macaw is the largest macaw in the world
It’s the most endangered of all the Macaws
There are only an estimated 2500 left
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Iberian Lynx
•The Iberian Lynx can be found in Spain and Portugal•It was widely hunted for its fur
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Grand Cayman Blue Iguana
• The Grand Cayman Blue Iguana is the most endangered reptile on earth
• It lives in a tiny part of a Caribbean Island
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Northern Right Whale
• The Northern right whale is the most endangered of all of the whales
• There are only 300 left in the wild
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Key Deer• The Key Deer are
named after the Florida Keys where they can be found
• Hunting and development in the area in the early 20th century left a population of only 50 deer
• There are about 300 now
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Ocelot
• The Ocelot’s fur has both spots and stripes and was highly prized by hunters and fur merchants
• The Ocelot is now protected, but the numbers are still declining due to habitat destruction
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The Arabian Oryx
• There are only 100 Arabian Oryxes left in the wild with more being protected through captive breeding and herding
• They live in desert areas in the Middle East
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Przewalski’s Horse
• The Przewalski Horses are smaller than the horses we are used to seeing
• They have not been seen in the wild since 1968
• They are only found in zoos and private preserves in Mongolia.
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Quagga
• The Quagga is only found in zoos
• It is related to the zebras
• A Quagga-like creature is being bred in South Africa that will be reintroduced into the wild
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Queen Alexandra’s birdwing butterfly
• The Queen Alexandra is the largest butterfly on the planet with a massive wingspan of 1 foot and 1 inch
• Captive breeding programs have helped increase the numbers and have allowed the species to be released into the wild
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Snow leopard• The Snow Leopard
lives in cold places• Fur hunters prized
its fur and killed it to near extinction
• Even with captive breeding programs, the numbers are declining
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