Wombat Fact Sheet | Blog | Nature - PBS The wombat is the world’s largest burrowing animal and the second-largest marsupial after some species of kangaroo while the two other species tend to be more social and live together in
Deer - Wikipedia A deer (pl : deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family) Cervidae is divided into subfamilies Cervinae (which includes, among others, muntjac, elk (wapiti), red deer, and fallow deer) and Capreolinae (which includes, among others reindeer (caribou), white-tailed deer, roe deer, and moose)
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21 U. S. Animals, Plants Declared Extinct - Center for . . . They join the list of 650 U S species that have likely been lost to extinction “My heart breaks over the loss of these 21 species,” said Noah Greenwald, endangered species director at the Center for Biological Diversity “These plants and animals can never be brought back
Giant Tortoise Restoration in the Galápagos Islands Iniciativa Galápagos (formerly known as the Giant Tortoise Restoration Initiative) is a collaborative effort led by Galápagos Conservancy and the Galápagos National Park Directorate (GNPD) The long-term goal of the initiative is to restore tortoise populations to their historical distribution and numbers across Galápagos, including on islands where tortoises went extinct This historic
10 of the worlds most endangered animals - WWF While there have been amazing and inspirational wildlife successes and stories in the past, many animals are still endangered mostly due to unsustainable human-led activities Currently, on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list, more than 41,000 species have been assessed to be under threat of extinction
All The 26 Different Types of Apes: Pictures, Classification . . . 3 2 Bonobo Once considered to be a subspecies of chimpanzee, the bonobo (Pan paniscus) is the second of the two ape species in the genus Pan In fact, it’s believed that the bonobo and the chimp diverged from the same species about 1 5 million to 2 million years ago after the formation of the Congo River