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After an animated introduction about the history of extinct species (e.g. the quagga, the great auk and the dodo) it has gone to 60 countries and territories (including Turkey, Spain, Germany, Poland, Australia, Borneo, Chile, Spitzbergen, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, India, Java, United States, and Peru) on all continents and to the most famous national parks.
A number of endangered animals live in the forests of the Dooars (a montane forest of Northern West Bengal), like Bengal tiger and Indian rhinoceros.Other animals are Indian elephant, chital (spotted or axis deer), sambar, Indian muntjac, White-bellied musk deer, Indian hog deer, Indian pangolin, Chinese pangolin, masked palm civet, Malabar giant squirrel, Himalayan porcupine, clouded leopard ...
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Human settlement and large livestock population have forced the animal to occupy heath forests at an altitude of above 3,400 m (11,200 ft). Mountain nyala are endemic to the Ethiopian highlands east of the Rift Valley , between 6°N and 10°N.
The first animal to be photographed for the project was the naked mole-rat living at the Lincoln Children's Zoo. [8] In September 2017, the 7,000th animal photographed for the project was announced: the Leadbeater's possum, a critically endangered marsupial which is native to the acacia forests of central Victoria in Australia. [12]
Possible animals for reintroduction The Bolson tortoise, the first proposed candidate for Pleistocene rewilding. The Chacoan peccary The Mustang The Burro The Dromedary The mountain tapir The capybara Asian elephant, the closest relative of the extinct mammoth .
Felis grampia was the scientific name proposed in 1907 by Gerrit Smith Miller Jr. who first described the skin and the skull of a wildcat specimen from Scotland. He argued that this male specimen from Invermoriston was the same size as the European wildcat (Felis silvestris), but differed by a darker fur with more pronounced black markings and black soles of the paws. [2]
Maha rath mala (Rhododendron arboreum ssp. zeylanicum) is a rare subspecies of Rhododendron arboreum found in Central Highlands of Sri Lanka. Diversity and endemism of plants in Sri Lanka are quite high. [20] There are 3,210 flowering plants belonging to 1,052 genera. 916 species and 18 genera are endemic to the island.