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Both species of chinchilla are currently listed as Endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species due to a severe population loss approximated at a 90% global population loss since 2001. [1] The severe population decline has been caused by chinchilla hunting by humans.
Despite the species' rediscovery in the wild in 1953, the population of short-tailed chinchillas has continued to decline and has been categorized as endangered. Numerous threats to short-tailed chinchillas exist, including illegal hunting, habitat loss , firewood harvesting, and mining. [ 4 ]
A young wild Chilean chinchilla (2006) A domesticated chinchilla Chinchilla lanigera is smaller—wild animals have body lengths up to 260 mm (10 in)—has more rounded ears—45 mm (1.8 in) in length)—and a longer tail than C. chinchilla; its tail is usually about a third the size of its body—up to 130 mm (5.1 in) compared to 100 mm (3.9 in) in C. chinchilla.
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Long-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla lanigera) the 1930s the Andes: fur, research, pets 1d Rodentia: Short-tailed chinchilla (Chinchilla chinchilla) the 1930s the Andes: fur Raised in captivity Critically endangered in the wild 1d Rodentia: Water flea (Daphnia magna) the 1930s North America, Eurasia, Africa: research, animal feed 6e Other arthropods
More than 99 percent of all species, amounting to over five billion species, [7] that ever lived on Earth are estimated to be extinct. [8] [9] Estimates on the number of Earth's current species range from 10 million to 14 million, [10] of which about 1.2 million have been documented and over 86 percent have not yet been described. [11]
This is a collection of lists of mammal species by the estimated global population, divided by orders. Lists only exist for some orders; for example, the most diverse order - rodents - is missing. Much of the data in these lists were created by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Global Mammal Assessment Team, which ...
An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate “super pigs” in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps ...