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The garden slender salamander, aka Southern California slender salamander, is a diminutive salamander that hails from northern Baja California in Mexico and Southern California in the United States. These salamanders face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments. However, they can tolerate […]

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The ringed caecilian has the largest known distribution of any terrestrial species of caecilian. They hail from South America. These caecilians face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, farming, ranching, and deforestation (due to logging), land pollution, that causes mortality due […]

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The coast mole, aka Pacific mole, hails from the Pacific northwest. More specifically British Columbia, Canada; Washington state, Oregon, northern California, and western Idaho, United States. With no real threats, sans some habitat loss and poisoning by farmers, these moles are abundant throughout their ranges and listed as Least Concern […]

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The brahminy blind snake, aka flowerpot snake, common blind snake, Hawaiian blind snake, or island blind snake, is widely distributed to nearly every continent. They can be found in the United States, Mexico, Central America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. There are currently no real natural threats to these […]

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The Australian desert scorpion, aka desert robust scorpion, desert scorpion, or inland scorpion, hails from southwestern Queensland, across South Australia, the southern Northern Territory, northwestern New South Wales, to Broome, and Laverton in Western Australia. They prefer sand dune habitats with little moisture. Due to their stable and abundant populations, […]

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The volcano rabbit, aka Zacatuche or Teporingo, hails from the mountainous regions of Mexico and is the 2nd smallest known rabbit. With the Colombia Basin pygmy rabbit being the smallest known. Due to a decreasing population of only 7,000 wild individuals, these rabbits are listed as Endangered by the IUCN. […]

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