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The Great Nut Hunt Looks For Endangered Furry Nutters!
Can you name that creature? (Hint: It's not a hamster.) Even though Dennis is a captive-bred mammal, learn all about The Great Nut Hunt to bring his other endangered pals out of hiding in this slideshow.
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Red Listed: New List of Animals Close To Extinction
In an annual "health check for the planet", the International Union for Conservation of Nature has released its list of the most threatened animals on earth. The scary news? Twenty-five percent of all mammals are on the verge of extinction.
Super-Cute Video: Baby Belugas Blowing Bubbles
Sing it with me: Baaaa-by Be-luuuuga. Am the only one getting flashbacks to childhood whenever I see pictures of Beluga Whales? Anyway, the endangered mammals are best recognized by their distinctive white color and large foreheads (forget "fivehead" .The Scoop: Meet Florence the Zebra Foal!
Look at those ears all big and absolutely adoro! Turns out Grevy's Zebras are not only the largest species, they're also known for their narrow stripes and round lobes. Meet lil Florence, the new foal born in Scotland's Edinburgh Zoo.
The Scoop: Endangered Chinese Box Turtle Born in Bristol
Even though the lil guy (or girl?) is just a half-ounce and one-and-a-half-inches long, it'll eventually grow to be closer to seven inches and two pounds. This Chinese box turtle was born at the Bristol Zoo on August 12, and can live to be over 50 years old!
As happy as I am to see this newborn, unfortunately these turtles are endangered in the wild because they've been hunted for their meat or for medicinal purposes for too many years – good thing this one's safe!
In the Wild: Jerboa
Even though this animal is scarcely the size of a mouse, it can leap up to 10 feet in a single bound! In addition to its mad hops, the nocturnal mammal has adorable, ginormous ears and a very long tail to balance them out. Jerboas eat plants, seeds, and insects and are found mostly in desert climates .
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Four Cute Tasmanian Devil Babies Born at the Taronga Zoo!
These lil babes don't look much like Taz twinsies, but they are the real Tasmanian Devil deals! As the world's largest meat-eating marsupials, the famed cartoon character was inspired by the actual animals' ravenous appetites.
The babes are getting health checks, paternity tests and microchipped at Sydney's Taronga Zoo in hopes of protecting and checking up on this endangered species in the wild.
What Sound Do Red Panda Babies Make?
I'll get straight to the cute scoop: Meet Denver's new quadruplet Red Panda cubs, only the fifth recorded quad birth at a US zoo! The yet unnamed three boys and one girl entered the world on July 9 but the tiny creatures made a whole lotta racket at their big media debut.
With a love connection set up, under the Species Survival Plan (SSP), mom, Sophia was paired with dad, He-Ping since they were an excellent genetic match to help preserve the endangered species — there's less than 2,500 left in the wild!
London Zoo Welcomes First Lion Cubs in 10 Years!
Let's call these cubs Cute One and Cute Two — the 10-week-old babes were the first of their species born at the London Zoo in 10 years!
The girl and boy lions were born to Abi, a 10-year-old lioness, and Lucifer, a 6-year-old male, and are critically endangered Asian lions. Even though nearly all non-captive lions live in sub-Saharan Africa, there's one small population — probably between 200 and 300 — in India's Gir Forest.
A Zebra's Born in Scotland
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