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Endangered Species
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Monkeys
Western Lowland Gorilla
There are two lowland gorillas native to West Africa: the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla), which is the most numerous of the four gorilla subspecies, with over 90,000 individuals in…
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Birds
Kakapo Parrot
The Kakapo parrot of New Zealand is a unique creature in several ways. Not only is it the world’s heaviest parrot, weighing up to 9 pounds (4 kilograms) but it…
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Extinct Wildlife
Extinct Species Rediscovered
The Greenback Cutthroat Trout Reappears Species are often divided into a number of subspecies, each of which is designed by nature to inhabit and enrich a subtly—or even vastly—different environmental…
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Endangered Species
The Chinese Alligator Saved From Extinction
After nearly going extinct, the Chinese alligator—one of only two true alligator species in the world—is once again reproducing in the wild. The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) reports that, in…
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Endangered Species
Panda Saved From Extinction
China in the middle of the twentieth century was a turbulent country in just about every way. One main problem was that the nation was struggling beneath the handicap of…
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Endangered Species
Animals Saved by The U.S Endangered Species Act
The 1960s brought the first truly widespread emergence of consciousness and regret concerning the fact that many the world’s species were plunging toward extinction at an alarming rate. In the…
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