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Armored ambushers of the backwaters
Conservation Threats
Hunting
Legal and illegal hunting, poaching, and direct persecution by humans
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Hunting Animals
Snail
One class, a thousand ways to snail.
Common Buzzard
The countryside's master of thermals
African Wild Dog
Painted packs, perfect teamwork.
Dodo
Mauritius' lost pigeon giant
Emperor Tamarin
The rainforest monkey with a moustache
Cotton-top Tamarin
Colombia's crested forest acrobat
Geoffroys Tamarin
Panama's cooperative twin-raiser
Pied Tamarin
Manaus' black-and-white forest neighbor
Red-handed Tamarin
Tiny monkey, blazing red hands.
Pygmy Hippopotamus
Small hippo, big rainforest story
Sumatran Rhinoceros
Shaggy forest rhino-save the last two-horned Asian
Javan Rhinoceros
One park. One species. Protect it.
Indian Rhinoceros
One horn, river-grass royalty
Black Rhinoceros
Hook-lipped browser, hard to beat
Sri Lankan Elephant
Sri Lanka's great gentle engineer
Borneo Elephant
Borneo's gentle forest giant
Sumatran Elephant
Sumatra's gentle forest giant
Indian Elephant
One trunk-many forests sustained
African Bush Elephant
Big ears, big impact.
Sparrow
Small birds, big social networks
Sperm Whale
Square head, deep dives, giant squid.
Marsh Frog
The laughing giant of the marsh
Woolly Mammoth
Built for the Ice Age grasslands