Swimming Hourglass Dolphins

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Bamboo Rat

Bamboo rats vary in size, from the lesser bamboo rat, which is typically 15 to 25 cm long (head and body: tail length is 6–8 cm), and weighs from 500 to 750 g, to the Sumatra bamboo rat, which can reach lengths of nearly 50 cm with a 20 cm tail, and weighs up to 4 kg. However, they are all bulky, slow-moving rodents that live and forage in extensive burrow systems and rarely spend much time above ground. They feed on the underground parts of plants. They live at altitudes of 1200 to 4000 m and, except for the lesser bamboo rat, feed principally on bamboo and live in dense bamboo thickets. The lesser bamboo rat is more variable in its habitat, living in grassy areas, forests, and sometimes gardens, and eats a wider variety of vegetation.

All the bamboo rats are regarded as agricultural pests, since they eat the roots of a range of crop plants such as tapioca, sugar cane, and tea bushes, but they are also recognised as valuable food animals. Chinese bamboo rats are sold in food markets in China

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Rodentia
Superfamily:	Muroidea
Family:	Spalacidae
Subfamily:	Rhizomyinae
Tribe:	Rhizomyini

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Hourglass Dolphin

Hourglass Dolphins are very rare.  They are most comely seen in the south pacific ocean.  They are black and white. Some people call them "sea cows".  Only about a dozen have been examined, so most of what we know is from rare observations. Their only about 6 ft. long and weigh only 250 lbs.

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Zebra Range

Fast Facts

Type:

Mammal

Diet:

Herbivore

Average life span in the wild:

25 years

Size:

Height at the shoulder, 3.5 to 5 ft (1.1 to 1.5 m)

Weight:

440 to 990 lbs (200 to 450 kg)

Group name:

Herd

Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man:

No animal has a more distinctive coat than the zebra. Each animal's stripes are as unique as fingerprints—no two are exactly alike—although each of the three species has its own general pattern.

Why do zebras have stripes at all? Scientists aren't sure, but many theories center on their utility as some form of camouflage. The patterns may make it difficult for predators to identify a single animal from a running herd and distort distance at dawn and dusk. Or they may dissuade insects that recognize only large areas of single-colored fur or act as a kind of natural sunscreen. Because of their uniqueness, stripes may also help zebras recognize one another.

Zebras are social animals that spend time in herds. They graze together, primarily on grass, and even groom one another.

Plains (Burchell's) zebras are the most common species. They live in small family groups consisting of a male (stallion), several females, and their young. These units may combine with others to form awe-inspiring herds thousands of head strong, but family members will remain close within the herd.

Zebras must be constantly wary of lions and hyenas. A herd has many eyes alert to danger. If an animal is attacked, its family will come to its defense, circling the wounded zebra and attempting to drive off predators.

Hawaiian Monk Seal

The Hawaiian Mock Seal is can be found Hawaii.The Hawaiian Mock Seal is found on small uninhabited islands(sadly).
Their skin is a silver gray.The adults can grow 7 feet length (taller than most full grown humans) and can weigh up to 600 pounds. The females are bigger than males.
This species mates between December throw August. The females can only have 1 pup a year. When the pups are born they are black.
The threats to this species are humans,and tiger sharks.
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Near Extinction

Decline to near-extinction

Male Laysan Duck

The decline of the Laysan Duck began 1000-1600 years ago, with the colonization of the Hawaiian Islands by Polynesians and associated non-native mammalian predators.^[3] By 1860, the ducks disappeared from all but Laysan Island (the duck’s namesake), most likely due to predation by introduced rats. Like many isolated island species, the Laysan Duck evolved in an environment lacking mammalian predators, and is ill-suited to defend itself against non-native ground hunters, such as humans, rats, pigs, and Small Asian Mongooses. For example, Laysan Ducks are more likely to freeze their movement rather than flush or fly when startled— a strategy well suited for cryptic defense against Hawaiʻi’s native flying predators, but ineffective against ground predators. Although the non-migratory Laysan Duck can fly, it does not disperse between islands.^[5]

The Laysan Duck found refuge through most of the nineteenth century on rat-free Laysan Island, surviving within the smallest geographic range of any duck species worldwide (415 hectares / 1.60 square miles). Laysan Island gained federal protection in 1909, with the establishment of the Hawaiian Islands National Wildlife Refuge. However, devastation of the island’s vegetation by introduced domestic rabbits brought the duck to the brink of extinction in 1912, with an all-time low population of 7 adults and five juveniles.^[6]

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