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Artic foxes

The Arctic Fox (Vulpes lagopus), also known as the White Fox or Snow Fox, is a fox of the order Carnivora. It is a small fox native to cold Arctic regions of the Northern Hemisphere. It is common in all three tundra biomes. Although it is often assigned to its own genus Alopex, the definitive mammal taxonomy list places it in Vulpes with the majority of the other foxes.

Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) is a species of lizard that inhabits the islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, Gili Motang, and Gili Dasami, in central Indonesia.[2] A member of the monitor lizard family (Varanidae), it is the largest living species of lizard, growing to an average length of 2–3 meters (approximately 6.5–10 ft) and weighing around 70 kilograms (154 lb). Their unusual size is attributed to island gigantism, since there are no other carnivorous mammals to fill the niche on the islands where they live, and also to the Komodo dragon's low metabolic rate.[3][4] As a result of their size, these lizards are apex predators, dominating the ecosystems in which they live.[5] Although Komodo dragons eat mostly carrion, they will also hunt and ambush prey including invertebrates, birds, and mammals.
Mating begins between May and August, and the eggs are laid in September. About twenty eggs are deposited in abandoned megapode nests and incubated for seven to eight months, hatching in April, when insects are most plentiful. Young Komodo dragons are vulnerable and therefore dwell in trees, safe from predators and cannibalistic adults. They take around three to five years to mature, and may live as long as fifty years. They are capable of parthenogenesis, in which viable eggs are laid without fertilization by a male.
Komodo dragons were only discovered by Western scientists in 1910. Their large size and fearsome reputation makes them popular zoo exhibits. In the wild their range has contracted due to human activities and they are listed as vulnerable by the IUCN. They are protected under Indonesian law, and a national park, Komodo National Park, was founded to aid protection efforts.
The Komodo dragon is also known as the Komodo Monitor or the Komodo Island Monitor in scientific literature, although this is not very common.[1] To the natives of Komodo Island, it is referred to as ora, buaja durat (land crocodile) or biawak raksasa (giant monitor).[

Orangutan

The orangutans are two species of great apes known for their intelligence, long arms and reddish-brown hair. Native to Indonesia and Malaysia, they are currently found only in rainforests on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra, though fossils have been found in Java, Vietnam and China. They are the only surviving species in the genus Pongo and the subfamily Ponginae (which also includes the extinct genera Gigantopithecus and Sivapithecus). Their name derives from the Malay and Indonesian phrase orang hutan, meaning "man of the forest".[2][3] The orangutan is an official state animal of Sabah in Malaysia.

Tapir

Tapirs (pronounced /ˈteɪpɚ/, as in "taper", or /təˈpɪər/, as "ta-pier") are large browsing mammals, roughly pig-like in shape, with short, prehensile snouts. They inhabit jungle and forest regions of South America, Central America, and Southeast Asia. All four species of tapir are classified as endangered or vulnerable. Their closest relatives are the other odd-toed ungulates, including horses and rhinoceroses.

Seladang or Gaur

The Gaur (pronounced /ˈɡaʊɚ/) (Bos gaurus, previously Bibos gauris) is a large, dark-coated bovine animal of South Asia and Southeast Asia. The biggest populations are found today in India. It is also called seladang or in context with safari tourism Indian bison, although this is technically incorrect. The gaur is the largest species of wild cattle, bigger even than the Cape Buffalo, water buffalo and Bison. The domesticated form of the gaur is called gayal or mithun.

White Rhinos

The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exist and is one of the few megafauna species left. Behind the elephants, it is probably the most massive remaining land animal in the world, along with the Hippopotamus, which are of comparable size. It is well known for its wide mouth used for grazing and for being the most social of all rhino species. The White Rhino is the most common of all rhinos and consists of two subspecies, with the northern subspecies being rarer than the southern. The northern subspecies may have as few as 13 remaining world wide.

Dolphins

Dolphins are mostly captured for their meat.This comes after another highly debated issue concerning the fact that Taiji,in Japan,is hoping to expand its school lunch programmes to include dolphin and whale meat.
The largest amount of dolpins are hunted in Japan.Plastic bags and hunting nets kill about 100,000 dolphins per year.
Bottle nose,Striped,Spotted,Risso's dolphins are mostly endangered.In 2004 according to the Japanese government, 544 Striped dolphins,475 Bottle nose dolphins,437 Risso's dolphins and 63 southern short finned pilot whales were captured in drive hunts,for a total of 1537 animals.
After capturing the dolphins,on the following day,the dolphins are caught one by one and killed. The killing of the animals used to be done by slitting their throats,but the Japanese goverment band this method and now dolphins may officialy only be killed by driving a metal pin into the neck of the dolphin which causes them to die within seconds.

Snowy owls

The Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. The Snowy Owl was first classified in 1758 by Carolus Linnaeus, the Swedish naturalist who developed binomial nomenclature to classify and organize plants and animals. The bird is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl or the Great White Owl. Until recently, it was regarded as the sole member of a distinct genus, as Nyctea scandiaca, but mtDNA cytochrome b sequence data (Olsen et al. 2002) shows that it is very closely related to the horned owls in the genus Bubo.

HOW TO SAVE ENDANGERED ANIMALS??

How to save endangered animals??

• Don't spoil /burn their habitats.
• Don't make pollution.
• Don't take them as fashion victims.
• Don't hunt them.
• Don't kill them for their horns/tusks/fur.
• Don't leave any dangerous objects around their habitats.
• Stop using electricity -to stop global warming so the ice caps don't melt and so the animals don't loose their habitats.

LIST OF ENDANGERED ANIMALS

LIST OF ENDANGERED ANIMALS:

• Dolphins
• White rhinos
• Elephants
• Seladangs or Gaurs
• Artic foxes
• Red pandas
• Gorillas
• Urangutans
• Seals
• Walrus
• Turtles
• Mandarin ducks
• Tapirs
• Bengal tigers
• Adeile penguins
• White owls
• Koalas
• Sumatra tigers
• White tigers
• Polar bears
• Pandas
• Whales
• Jackass penguins
• Grizzly bears
• Komodo dragon
• Leopard

What are ENDANGERED ANIMALS??

WHAT ARE ENDANGERED ANIMALS??

Endangered animals are those species that are in danger of going extinct. Their reproductive rates are lower than their mortality rates over long periods of time, so their numbers are diminishing. The reasons for this are varied, but lately, very often involves a loss of habitat as people encroach on their living areas.
When a species is listed as endangered or threatened, it is not a death sentence. Many animals, like the bald eagle and the American alligator, were on the brink of extinction and are now recovering. Many species, however, will not recover, and could be lost forever.
Throughout time, animal species have been going extinct (long before people evolved); paleontologists estimate that well over 90 percent of all plant and animal species that ever existed have gone extinct.