2006-11-12 06:24:16 · 10 answers · asked by pumpmar 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
Basically none of the animals on the endangered species list is the rarest because animals once thought to be extinct keep getting rediscovered. There is no way to know exactly how many of the rediscovered animals there actually are. i do know that the Stegodont was rediscovered in Asia. There was a television show about it and then I found this website http://web.ncf.ca/bz050/HomePage.gne.html
Since they are so large there are probably less of them than any other ex-extinct animal, but you never know.
2006-11-12 19:20:45 · answer #1 · answered by Krystal H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's really impossible to say with certainty how rare many animals are in their natural habitat, especially in the case of marine organisms. My specialty is marine molluscs. There are many species which are considered common today, that were considered very rare a hundred years ago, simply because they live at depths where they could not be captured with the technology of a hundred years ago. Today they are easily obtainable with deep sea dredging equipment.
Sometimes an organism is considered rare simply because we haven't found the geographic location of its major populations. There is a deep sea cowrie (a type of snail) which for several hundred years was known from only 3 specimens! That's pretty rare! But just a few years ago a Russian trawler working off the east coast of South Africa brought up over 1,000 specimens of this snail. Some people were outraged at the destruction of so many specimens of such a "rare" species. You would think someone had shot the last hundred mountain gorillas! These folks missed the point. The trawler didn't destroy specimens of a rare species. It simply demonstrated that this species is not rare at all, once you know where to look.
There are still a fair number of marine molluscs that are known from just a single specimen. You can't get much rarer than that! But tomorrow someone may stumble upon the habitat where one of these species is abundant. You never really know!
2006-11-12 14:17:06 · answer #2 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Michael Jackson, only 1 of a kind! Hehe!
The real answer-- an extinct animal, or maybe an california condor. Then there's the Siberian Tiger. There are some VERy rare types.. hard to say..
2006-11-12 06:25:54 · answer #3 · answered by SCSA 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
some rare species in my state are the black bear, bobcat, badger, snowshoe hare, swans, bald eagle, marsh/hawk northern harrier, peregrine falcon, osprey, and barn owl......
but im sure there is more or that thier not endangered anymore.... o ya my state is Ohio.
2006-11-12 10:57:03 · answer #4 · answered by snowyfox7 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The coelocanth might become more rare than it is already.
Then there's the Siberian Tiger.
Or a level-headed Republican.
2006-11-12 06:26:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
The "Bullshit", which is a cross between a Bulldog and a Shitzu...lol
2006-11-12 14:58:20 · answer #6 · answered by Wee W 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe something near africa, california, or miami...
Just random thinking. Forgive me!
2006-11-12 06:27:00 · answer #7 · answered by ☺DQ☻ 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
an extinct animal, or maybe an california condor
2006-11-12 06:25:39 · answer #8 · answered by mistert0312 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
an honest man
2006-11-12 06:25:12 · answer #9 · answered by Isis 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
human beings
2006-11-12 06:26:10 · answer #10 · answered by ravishr 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋