Wolf Guenon
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This colorful monkey is found in Central Africa. They eat fruit, flowers, insects and live in rain forests and swamp forests. They are charming and sociable monkeys helping to pollinate trees through their love of nectar. Their status is critical due to the loss of their habitat and hunting for bushmeat.
This colorful monkey is found in Central Africa. They eat fruit, flowers, insects and live in rain forests and swamp forests. They are charming and sociable monkeys helping to pollinate trees through their love of nectar. Their status is critical due to the loss of their habitat and hunting for bushmeat.
Miss Waldron’s Red Colobus Monkey
The Miss Waldron's red colobus monkey was so sensitive to habitat alteration that scientists could not replicate its diet and had no success with attempts to breed the endangered animal in captivity. Although the scientists of the study blame hunting (for bushmeat) as the main reason for the species decline over the last 20 years of its existence, habitat loss may have pulled the initial trigger.
Quagga--London Regents Zoo cira 1870
The Quagga went extinct because it was ruthless hunted down for meat and leather by South African farmers, also were they seen by the settlers as competitors, like other wild grass eating animals, for of their livestock, mainly sheep and goats. The Quagga was a southern subspecies of the plain zebra with withers of 1.30 meter. It differed from other zebras mainly in having been striped on the head, neck, and front portion of its body only, and having been brownish, rather than white, in its upper parts. The name Quagga has been adopted from the Hottentot speaking indigenous people of the South African interior. 'Quagga' is an imitation of the animal's call, which it shared with the other plain zebras.
Chinese Giant Salamander
Chinese giant salamanders are a flattened salamander with a broad head and mottled brown body. They inhabit rivers and streams in the temperate and tropical mountains of China. Often growing to a length of 6 feet or more, they are among the largest amphibians in the world. Their numbers are currently in decline due to collection by humans, environmental pollution and loss of habitat.