As I've said, i love animals. and to help me learn more about them, I would like to know if any one knows of an animal that not many people have heard of, or that their are not many of them left. i hope so. thank you.
2006-07-22 22:06:10 · 9 answers · asked by nathan 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Heres are some rarest animals, that are not many left in the world...
Baiji (Yangtze River Dolphin)
Vancouver Island Marmot...
Seychelles Sheath-tailed Bat...
Javan Rhino
Hispid Hare (Assam Rabbit)
Northern Hairy-nosed Wombat
Tamaraw (Dwarf Water Buffalo)
Iberian Lynx
Red Wolf
Dwarf Blue Sheep
Yellow-tailed Woolly Monkey
Kouprey (Cambodian Forest Ox)
Riverine Rabbit
Malabar Large Spotted Civet
Saola (Vu Quang Ox)
Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey
Sumatran Rhino
Northern Muriqui
Visayan Spotted Deer
Hirola (Hunter's Hartebeest)
Addax (antelopes)
North Atlantic Right Whale
Black-faced Lion Tamarin
Ethiopian Wolf
Black-footed Ferret
African Wild ***
Vaquita (porpoise)
Arabian Oryx
Mediterranean Monk Seal
Bactrian Camel
Hairy-eared Dwarf Lemur
Southern Muriqui (Woolly Spider Monkey)
Golden Bamboo Lemur
Golden-rumped Lion Tamarin
Greater Bamboo Lemur
Indus River Dolphin
2006-07-22 22:55:11 · answer #1 · answered by Handsome 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are potentially millions of terrestrial invertebrates in the world that haven't been classified and no one knows of because the resources aren't there!! For example, when was the last time you met a Taxonomist or Entomologist!?
Only about 2 million species have been classified ie are named, with millions more unknown or that were never known because of habitat clearing....sad.
As for a known species that not many people know about or have seen.....how about the Marsupial Mole.....2 species that live in the central deserts of Australia. Until recently very little was known about there biology but with the help of aborigines to track their signs in the sand a couple were captured and aspects of their biology recorded. Check out www.marsupialsociety.org/mole_patrol.html
The marsupial mole is an example of parallel evolution, for example, even though they share similar characteristics to other moles they evolved these characteristics through an entirely different lineage. Its more a case of the environment dictating the form of the animal.
Cheers
2006-07-22 22:29:15 · answer #2 · answered by gnypetoscincus 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This shark is pretty unknown, the goblin shark, Mitsukurina owstoni, it got his name due to its appearance. It's quite widespread, although it in habits deeper waters from 40m to 1200m deep. It is distributed in the East Atlantic from France South Africa, the West Atlantic (Guyana, Suriname, and French Guyana), the west part of the Indic Ocean in South Africa, and the west Pacific (Japan, Australia and New Zeland). I has been officially recorded 45 time in history, from some fish landings, but so it is rarely seen.
Here is a picture of it.
http://sombrasoc.blogspot.com/2005/03/ti...
2006-07-23 02:52:37 · answer #3 · answered by starfish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well the giant squid still remains quite unknown despite its large size, it has still been able to avoid scientific study. They sometimes turn up on beaches or in the stomach contents of sperm whales, which are their larges natural predator, but this is all we know about them in a nutshell....
2006-07-23 14:51:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Panda
2006-07-23 01:48:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not many people know about deep sea creatures. We know more about the moon than deep sea.
2006-07-23 14:54:00 · answer #6 · answered by GideonSmith08 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My husband is one.... hahahaha! Actually, he's the missing link.
2006-07-22 22:09:13 · answer #7 · answered by Equinox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
gorilla
2006-07-23 01:50:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
sasquatch/yehti
2006-07-26 12:52:56 · answer #9 · answered by obryan214 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋