Okay, I admit it - I have OCD. I love spotting wildlife, and I love tracking it. Does anyone know of a comprehensive list of all (or close to all) worldwide animal species that I can check off all the ones that I have seen in the wild? I'd love to be able to put an "X" in the box next to cheetah, Nene, or Sea Otter. There are plenty of tools for this for birding, but not for all animals. Anyone know?
2007-03-02 15:54:16 · 5 answers · asked by Paul S 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
There are more wildlife than science has discovered. There are books with all the owls in the world. Good luck to you on your vast venture. I wish I had the ambition you do.
2007-03-02 16:12:57 · answer #1 · answered by boxersgirlbunny 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that if you Goggle it or look it up on Yahoo, than you'll be sure to find something. It will probably NOT have every single one because some species of animals are still not discovered. I looked up hammerhead sharks on Yahoo.
It gave me a lot of cool and important info, but also something VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY HORRIFYING. It showed me a PICTURE of a cruel human cutting of the dorsal fin of a beautiful hammerhead. It died for NO ABSOLUTE REASON!! \=(
It was sitting on shore, and people were so cruel to it. Its side fins were already cut off and a knife was more than half way into its dorsal fin.
The people around the guy were taking PICTURES OF IT!!
It makes me so made that people have the nerve to stand there, talk pictures of something that I would consider very much animal cruelty and offending to me because I'll love ANY animal. No matter what sized or shape.
Just get ready to also find some horrible when you're trying to find something fore fun.
2007-03-03 00:18:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The IUCN red list is a very good resource, it pays particular attention to rare species, but it has most of the common ones too, and you can split them into groups by country, region and habitat, here is the link:
http://www.iucnredlist.org/
2007-03-03 02:02:44 · answer #3 · answered by Ombry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a list of all mammals on the Smithsonian website. Maybe it has lists of other animals as well.
2007-03-03 04:09:14 · answer #4 · answered by smartprimate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That'd be one huge list...
2007-03-02 23:56:48 · answer #5 · answered by HONORARIUS 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋