Funny Animals

Archive for the ‘Endangered Species’ Category

The largest insect in world in terms of weight Could you imagine an insect that wieghs 2.5 ounces? That is heavier than a sparrow and is 3 times heavier than a mouse. That is amazing. This amazing insect, the giant Weta was found in New Zealand by a former park ranger. The giant weta is bigger ...

Giant Powelliphanta Hochstetteri The giant Powelliphanta hochstetteri is a member of the amber snails. They are a subspecies of the giant, meat eating ground snail which is a terrestrial pulmonate gastropod mollusk of the snail family Rhytididae. The snail is found in New Zealand. They are listed by the New Zealand Department of Conservation as a ...

The harvest mouse living in Britain, is a very small rodent. It is so tiny that it can climb two stalks and use them as stilts to survey the area for any thing dangerous such as the farmers cat. The rodent is evasive but also an endangered species. This tiny guy as he stands holding ...

A baby white rhino was heard bleating loudly as it had gotten it's head trapped in the v section of a thorn tree. The baby's mother had been shot twice, once in the heart and once in the head. All for the horn that sticks out of her head. They had hit the baby on ...

In the area of Cambodia and Laos, the Irrawaddy dolphin is shrinking in numbers. The dolphin is considered to be sacred by many living in there and at this time, there are found to be only 85 living in Southeast Asia's, Mekong River. There is much concern that the dolphin will completely die out. The number ...

This cave spider is very interesting as well as smart when it is needed. When he gets hungry and is hunting for food, he is doing that flawlessly. This cave spider inhabits the west coast of North America. This species is the red list of IUCN threatened species. The legs are biggest parts of this spider. ...

There is a lot of stories and things being published about apes lately with the soon arrival of the new movie, "The Planet of the Apes." Maybe this ape was wanting to apply for a position on the video. A black Macaque, a very extremely endangered type of ape, stole camera man, David Slater's camera when he ...

This is such an unusual turtle. It has a nose like a pig. The pig nosed turtle is found in New Guinea and the northern parts of Australia. The numbers of the Pig nosed turtle have dropped drastically over the last 30 years. It has been estimated that the population has declined over 50% just since ...

The population of the Stalker Shoebill stork is declining. It likes to live in marshes that are flooded and full of thick vegetation. They live in the freshwater areas and also like spots where vegetation is floating around. Some of the reasons for it's declining is the areas it lives in being destroyed. They are also ...

After a freight ship hit ground and broke apart on a distant British South Atlantic territory, there have been thousands of the endangered penguins covered with oil. The oil is also a threat to the fishermen out to catch lobster that they catch and sell for a living in the distant territory. The ship was going from ...