Exotic animals I never knew

IJL was well worth the visit, but I was wiped out! Piotr and I brainstormed after we estimated what jewellery was of the moment so watch this space.




Courtesy of Wikipedia, I have found from the International Union for Conservation of Nature, ICUN a few exotically named, and indeed exotic, examples from the following categories of extinction.

Extinct: gone

Blackfin cisco, fish; dusky seaside sparrow; Schomburgk's deer, native of Thailand

Extinct in the wild: captive individuals survive, but there is no free living, natural population.

Wyoming toad; Hawaiian crow; Père David's deer

Wyoming Toad

Critically endangered: faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the immediate future

Axolotl, Mexican walking fish; merganser, water fowl; gharial, crocodile

Axolotl

Endangered: faces a very high risk of extinction in the near future. Bonobo; pygmy chimpanzee dhole, Indian wild dog; Goliath frog, the largest known specimens can grow up to 33 cm (13 in) in length from snout to vent, and weighs up to 3 kg (7 lb)

Goliath Frog

Vulnerable: faces a high risk of extinction in the medium-term. Dugong, the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae, similar to a sea-cow; gaur, Indian bull; fossa, cat-like, carnivorous mammal endemic to Madagascar.

Dugong

Near threatened: may be considered threatened in the near future. Asian golden cat; blue-billed duck; white-eared pheasant

Least concern: no immediate threat to the survival of the species: brown rat, brown-throated sloth, common frog.  

Brown Throated Sloth

At least we can rest easy that this sloth, this rat and this frog will outlive us all.