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10 hours ago · World’s smallest living elephants listed as Endangered on Red List. A newly confirmed elephant subspecies is already at risk of extinction. Bornean elephants have wider faces and smaller bodies than other Asian elephants. Standing just 2.5 meters tall, they narrowly beat the African forest elephant to the title of the smallest living elephant.
10 hours ago · The species has also been found creating sharpened sticks to spear small mammals. Its gestation period is eight months. The infant is weaned at about three years old but usually maintains a close relationship with its mother for several years more. The chimpanzee is listed on the IUCN Red List as an endangered species.
10 hours ago · Ecosystems in the Northwest were heavily shaped by wolves before they were nearly wiped out of the region, a new study finds. By the 1930s, gray wolves were nearly gone in Oregon and the rest of ...
10 hours ago · Three Asiatic lion cubs have been born at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork, helping the survival of the endangered species. The trio’s mother, Arya, was one of the very first lion cubs born in Fota and recently returned to Rebel County after a brief stay at Helsinki Zoo in Finland. The cubs’ father ...
10 hours ago · Dr Wilson said with the number of breeding size adult quolls now estimated to live at Mulligans Flat between 50 and 60, the sanctuary could afford to relocate quolls to other such safe places. “It’s the value of having a place like Mulligans Flat where these animals are protected from predators. The species is still endangered in some parts ...
5 hours ago · Ten of them are Long-Billed, and the remaining are White-Rumped vultures — all part of the Gyps species fighting extinction worldwide with only a few thousands surviving. “This is the first such release of the captive-bred, critically endangered vultures from Maharashtra,” said Kishor Rithe, Director, Bombay Natural History Society (BNHS).
10 hours ago · In a bid to save the endangered spotted owl from extinction, U.S. wildlife officials announced a controversial plan to deploy trained shooters in West Coast forests to eliminate nearly half a million barred owls, a competing species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released details of this strategy on Wednesday.
