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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 Barbary sheep, aka aoudad, mouflon, waddan, or arwi (in the Berber languages), hails from Africa but has been introduced to North America and Europe. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of farming, ranching, logging, and wood collection. Poaching for meat and leather is […]

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The Olympic marmot is a species of rodent from the squirrel family, Sciuridae. They only dwell in the state of Washington, in the United States. These rodents face the threats of recreational activities that can often result in humans not only interrupting their daily life but also feeding them. When […]

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The cockatiel, aka quarrion, weero, or weiro, is actually a parrot that is also a member of its own branch of the cockatoo family, and hails from Australia. These energetic and intelligent birds face the threats of habitat loss and destruction in the form of large-scale clearing of forests and […]

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The brown bullhead, aka mud pout, horned pout, hornpout, or mud cat, can be found throughout most of North America. These catfish are regularly stocked in lakes meant for fishing all over Canada and the United States. They face the threats of habitat destruction, water pollution, overfishing, and habitat alteration, […]

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The green frog hails from eastern Canada and the eastern half of the United States. These frogs are known for their territoriality towards other frogs. They face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, as well as wetlands conversion for various uses. […]

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The Sudan plated lizard, aka western plated lizard, great plated lizard, or Broadley’s rough-scaled plated lizard, hails from eastern and central Africa. These lizards face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential developments, farming, and ranching. They are also collected for the pet trade, which […]

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The Eurasian harvest mouse, aka harvest mouse, hails from Europe and Asia. They are the smallest known mouse in Europe. These rodents face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments, farming, and ranching. Pesticides and herbicides that kill their food source of […]

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The Fiordland penguin, aka Fiordland crested penguin, tawaki, pokotiwha, or New Zealand crested penguin, hails from New Zealand. They are also sometimes found in southern Australia. They are threatened by invasive species, in the form of stoats, habitat division, at the hands of roads and railroads, that can divide their […]

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The bharal, aka blue sheep, dwell among the Himalayan alpine meadows and rocky slopes across Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, and Pakistan. These ungulates are threatened by habitat loss due to farming and ranching; competition for food from domestic livestock; hunting, for their meat and horns; trapping for trade. However, […]

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