What Are 15 Endangered Species?

by | Last updated on January 24, 2024

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  • Ivory-Billed Woodpecker.
  • The Amur Leopard.
  • The Javan Rhinoceros.
  • Lemur.
  • Northern Right Whale.
  • Vaquita.
  • Black Rhinoceros.
  • Mountain Gorilla.

Can you name any endangered species?

  • giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) …
  • tiger (Panthera tigris) …
  • whooping crane (Grus americana) …
  • blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) …
  • Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) …
  • sea otter (Enhydra lutris) …
  • snow leopard (Panthera uncia) …
  • gorilla (Gorilla beringei andGorilla gorilla)

Can you name some endangered species?

  • giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca) …
  • tiger (Panthera tigris) …
  • whooping crane (Grus americana) …
  • blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) …
  • Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) …
  • sea otter (Enhydra lutris) …
  • snow leopard (Panthera uncia) …
  • gorilla (Gorilla beringei andGorilla gorilla)

Which animal is most endangered?

  • Saola. …
  • Javan rhino. …
  • Hawksbill turtle. …
  • Eastern lowland gorilla. Getty Images. …
  • Cross River gorilla. WCS Nigeria via Facebook. …
  • Bornean orangutan. Ulet Ifansasti/Getty Images. …
  • Black rhino. Klaus-Dietmar Gabbert/Picture Alliance/Getty Images. …
  • Amur leopard. Sebastian Bozon/AFP/Getty Images.

What are 100 endangered species?

  • Plougshare tortoise. Population size: …
  • Rio Pescado stubfoot toad. Population size: …
  • Pygmy three-toed sloth. Population size: …
  • Tarzan’s chameleon. …
  • Seychelles sheath-tailed bat. …
  • Jamaican iguana, Jamaican rock iguana. …
  • Cayman Islands ghost orchid. …
  • Wild yam.

What is the most endangered plant?

  • Western Underground Orchid. This is truly a weird one: a plant that spends its entire life living underground. …
  • Pitcher plant. If you’ve never seen a pitcher plant before, you might be a little shocked by its appearance. …
  • Jellyfish tree. …
  • Corpse flower. …
  • Wood’s cycad.

What is the most endangered animal in 2021?

  • There are now 41,415 species on the IUCN Red List, and 16,306 of them are endangered species threatened with extinction. This is up from 16,118 last year. …
  • Javan Rhinocerous.
  • Vaquita.
  • Mountain Gorilla.
  • Tiger.
  • Asian Elephant.
  • Orangutans.
  • Leatherback turtles.

What animal has 32 brains?

2.

Leeches

have 32 brains. A leech’s internal structure is divided into 32 separate segments, and each of these segments has its own brain. In addition to that, every leech has nine pairs of testes — but that’s another post for another day.

What animals will go extinct by 2050?


Koalas

Will Become Extinct By 2050 Without ‘Urgent’ Government Intervention- Study. Koalas may become extinct by 2050 without urgent government intervention, according to a report published by the Parliament of New South Wales (NSW).

Did any animals go extinct in 2020?

The International Union for Conservation of Nature declared

15 species extinct in 2020

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What is the #1 most endangered animal in the world?

1.

Javan rhinoceros

. Once the most widespread of Asian rhinos, Javan rhinos are now listed as critically endangered. With only one known population in the wild, it is one of the world’s rarest large mammals.

Which animal is closest to extinction?


The Javan rhino

is the closest to extinction with only between 46 to 66 individuals left, all of which are in Ujung Kulon National Park in Indonesia.

How many animals are extinct?

Extinctions have been a natural part of our planet’s evolutionary history. More than 99% of the four billion species that have evolved on Earth are now gone.

At least 900 species have

gone extinct in the last five centuries. Only a small percentage of species have been evaluated for their extinction risk.

What is the rarest tree on earth?

The tree species known only as

Pennantia baylisiana

could be the rarest plant on Earth. In fact, the Guinness Book of World Records once called it that. Just a single tree exists in the wild, on one of the Three Kings Islands off the coast of New Zealand, where it has sat, alone, since 1945.

What is the rarest plant ever?

  1. Rafflesia Arnoldii. Known to be the world’s largest flower, this plant is one of the rarest one in the world. …
  2. Encephalartos Woodii. …
  3. Nepenthes Tenax. …
  4. Welwitschia. …
  5. Pennantia Baylisiana. …
  6. Amorphophallus Titanum (Titan Arum) …
  7. Ghost Orchid. …
  8. Dragon’s Blood Tree.

What is the rarest flower?

The rarest flower in the world is

the Middlemist Red

. The scientific name of this flower is the Unspecified Camellia, and currently, there are only two known examples of this flower in the entire world.

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