Saiga Antelope Otherwise known as saiga tatarica originally lived in the Eurasian steppe. They also lived in North America. Today they are only found in Russia and Kazakhstan. Normally their height is 0.6 - 0.8 meters at the shoulder and weighs 36 - 63 kilograms (79- 139 Pounds). Their lifespan is 6 to 10 years. They are in Phylum: Chordata, Class: Mammalia, Family: Bovidae. They form large herds in grasslands, steppes, and semidesserts. They eat several plants that are poisonous to other animals. They can cover great distances and swim long distances. However they avoid steep and rugged areas. Their mating season starts in November when the stags fight for their woman. The winner gets 5 to 50 females. In springtime the mother gives birth to at least two antelopes. During the ice age they lived in the British Isles through central Asia. By the Classical age they were considered a characteristic animal of Scythia, they are believed to drink from their noses but that sounds a little far-fetched. By the 18th century they were distributed by the Black Sea, the foot hills of the Carpathian Mountains and the northern edge of the caucuses. They were almost eliminated by the 1920’s by the 1950’s almost 2 million were found in the steppes of the USRR. Their population fell when the USRR fell for wanting Chinese horns for medicine. At one point World Wildlife Foundation wanted to hunt these animals because its horn is an alternative for a rhinoceros horn. Their population today is decreasing as dramatically as 95% as of 1995 (wow!). 50,000 remain to this day in Kalmykia, areas in Kazakhstan and Mongolia. The number of Saiga was found to be increasing to 21,000 at the beginning of this millennium to 81,000 in 2010. Their appearance is very... ... middle of paper ... ...ld blood by China. But yet no one in Chinas Government punishes the poachers for killing an endangered species to make enhanced water. While poaching may have killed off a bunch of antelopes they also have faced massive die offs. In 2010 there was 12,000 saigas was found mysteriously dead, in 2011 450 saigas were found at that same site. Some scientists have tried to find the cause of these die offs none of them were successful. Some scientists have predicted pasteurellosis a bacterial infection that is the cause of this animal’s death. Other people suggested poisoning or contamination of the grass in that area. But to top it all off the poachers cash in the Saigas horn for a quick buck or two. Keeping these animals alive in zoos is challenging since they are very hard to keep in captivity. Some have fatally injured themselves to get out of their cage.
The Smilodon, the most recent type of saber tooth cats, went extinct about 10,000 years ago, around the time when Pangea began separating and breaking up. Sabertooth Cats did not go extinct due to lack of prey. However, around 12,000 years ago (end of the late Pleistocene) sabertooth cats, american lions, wooly mammoths and other gigantic creatures considered the “megafauna” went extinct. A die-off called the Quaternary extinction. A popular theory for the extinction is that the changing in climate during the end of the last ice age, human activity, or a combination of both killed off most large
...ress it causes for the animal not only the captivity, but also in the capture process. There are many health risks for the animal and it rips them away from their family. These animals are so amazing, but as you can see, it is better for them to stay in their environment with family and not be put on display.
The sole purpose of Wildlife Services predator control is to prevent commercial livestock losses from predation by wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, and other wild carnivores (NRDC, 2011). They work with state and local governments and use a combination of lethal control methods like trapping, poisoning, and gunning. There are many different types of trapping, poisoning, and gunning.
It allows them to live long because they have two different genes in them and it also allows them to survive anywhere in the world because their fur is mixed. They have brown fur that allows them to be on land for a long amount of time and they have white fur which allows them to live in the snow and let them stay in freezing water for a long amount of time.
The animal is portrayed as bipedal, seven feet (2.2 meters) tall, with silver hair and yellow eyes. It is joined by a sickening odor. Impressions as far as anyone know left by the animal have four toes. The principal guaranteed locating was in 1963 by Harlan Ford, a resigned Air activity controller who took up natural life photography. After his passing in 1980, a reel of Super 8 film demonstrating
Although most horses today are domesticated, in certain countries there are endangered populations of wild horses, including the Przewalski’s horse, found in Central Asia (The Foundation for the Preservation and Protection of the Przewalski Horse, 2008).
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Zoos introduces captive-bred projects to take care of some animals for years and reintroduce them back to the wild. However, captive animals usually lose their survival skills in wild after under an absolute protection for a long time, especially those who are used to learning from their parents. They no longer able to escape from predators or track preys. Reintroduction often needs to be abandoned permanently.
The phenomenal recent discovery of the species saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), was found in the Annamite Mountains along the Laos/Vietnam border in 1992. The saola was the first latest large mammal to be discovered in over 50 years, making it one of the biggest zoological discoveries of the 20th century. Also known as the “Asian unicorn,” the rare saola species prefer living in moist, dense evergreen forests with little or no dry season. The saolas have been attempting to survive in the condensed regions of the subtropical evergreen or mixed evergreen and deciduous forests, only found within the Annamite Mountain Range along the northwest-southeast Vietnam-Laos border (Holcomb). The area of the narrow range of the forests that the saola used to inhabit was is 5,000 to 15,000 sq. km, although they don’t inhabit in this area anymore. The saolas’ extremely scarce numbers make their dispersal difficult to determine; currently, they are known to be densely populated into the decreasing area of the evergreen forests and travel mainly individually and occasionally in clumped dispersion. They have been mainly sighted nearby streams, most likely to survive off of the water and possible supplies nearby. Saolas also tend to live on the borderlines of the forests; they currently inhabit the mountain forests during the wetter seasons and live in the lowlands during the winter. Saola are currently known to be herbivores, eating leafy plants, fig leaves, and stems along the rivers, observed from locals that have sighted them. And their shelters that they specifically reside in are unknown.
Families strolling, children squealing , and adults gazing with interest; People go to zoos seeking entertainment; a way to see animals they never imagined being so up close and personal with. At least as personal as a someone can get with a two inch glass pane and fields of grass in the way. The zoo provides a fun and educational time for families, but the joy of seeing adorable creatures blinds people from realizing the pain zoo animals live with. Yes, from human perspective it seems very enthralling. But what about the animals actually inside these enclosures?
States and southern Canada. In the west, the species was found from Mexico to California.
LIFESTYLE: The Siberian tiger at one time ranged through Korea, China, parts of Russia, and Siberia. Today, they are near extinction in all areas, except Russia.
One thing these organizations have failed to do is completely stop it and capture the people doing it. The World Wildlife Foundation (WWF) was founded in 1961 to focus on Africa’s unique conservation needs. In the year 1967 a woman named Dian Fossey set up an expedition to study mountain gorillas. While doing the research she noticed the population declining and in the 1970’s officially made the species protected (WWF, 2016). In the late 1980’s and early 90’s the demand for elephant tusk went up tremendously. The population declined so much that the species was named most endangered. To help protect the elephants, since the numbers were declining, the WWF opened up another conservation. This allowed the elephants to get their population numbers back to where they were originally. Even though the conservations allowed the elephants to rebuild their population, it still didn’t prevent
Sabah wildlife is in trouble. Many of the animals found in Sabah, Malaysia Borneo exits no where else on earth. It is mostly because of the local hunting culture and illegal wildlife activities. Indigenous people have been hunting for generations. Only 100 years ago, Bornean Headhunters were still in action. Already this year we lost two species of rhinoceros in the world. The West African Black Rhino, and Javan Rhino of Vietnam (source: The Atlantic Wire). There are no Sumatran rhinos left in the wild in the Malaysian state of Sabah, confirmed Masidi Manjun, the Tourism Culture and Environment Minister. In 2008, conservationists estimated there were around 50 rhinos in the stare. Five years later, it dropped that estimate to just ten. Now,
The West african black rhinoceros are an example of endangerment and extinction. These animals were declared extinct in 2011. This has happened because of poaching and major demand for rhino horns. The Pyrenean ibex is another example. This wild goat became extinct in 2000. This population was thinned by hunting. In 2009, scientists were able to clone a female using DNA they had earlier gathered from its skin, but due to lung defects, the pyrenean ibex died shortly after