The iconic polar bear has fascinated people for millennia. This mother bear and her cubs prowl the snowy ground of Manitoba.
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This giant panda cub is on show at China's Chengdu Research Base Of Giant Panda Breeding. There are fewer than 2,000 giant pandas in the world. See the next picture for another endangered animal cub.
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A 26-day-old endangered Sumatran tiger cub cuddles up to a five-month-old female orangutan at the Taman Safari Indonesia Animal Hospital. The next animal isn't so cuddly but has a great sense of smell.
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This male Bonobo chimpanzee (Pan paniscus), from the ABC Sanctuary in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, looks deep in thought.
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A black male rhinoceros is seen at a game farm in Malelane, South Africa. Illegal poaching for the horn has almost caused its extinction. See what endangered animal can live to be 80 years old on the next page.
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Two scarlet macaws at the El Picacho Zoo in Honduras. Other endangered animals in Honduras include cougars, jaguars, green iguanas, manatees, gray foxes and the animal on the next page.
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Toucans primarily eat fruit and play an important role in dispersing seeds. Rain forest destruction is a major threat to the toucan. In the next picture, see an animal that sometimes fishes with its tail.
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A jaguar named Moncho rests at a zoo in Honduras. Jaguars, which are good enough swimmers to catch fish, are the largest cats in the Western Hemisphere and are endangered due to poaching. The next animal is the largest mammal in Europe.
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A bison shakes off dust at a pasture in a Slovakian forestry farm. Fewer than 20 bison survived in the 1920s. See one of the most endangered monkeys on the next page.
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A pygmy marmoset shares his lunch with a golden lion tamarin, one of the most endangered monkeys in the world. The two animals on the next page are the only females of their kind in captivity.
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Chalky and Milford, two very rare Fiordland crested penguins, are the only females of their kind in captivity anywhere in the world. Go to the ocean to see the next endangered animal.
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An adult humpback whale breaches in the shallows off of Morteton Island in Queensland. The humpback whale has been listed as endangered since the early 1970s. The next animal proves size doesn't matter when it comes to being endangered.
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A corroboree frog walks across the gloved palm of a reptile keeper in an Australian zoo. A deadly fungus is attacking the frogs' skin, which may cause them to become extinct in the wild within five years. The next colorful animal smiles when happy.
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A male mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) monkey attracts mates and leads the troop with his bright colors. Hunting and habitat destruction are threatening this animal. You'd never guess the next animal's closest relative is a whale.
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The hippopotamus inhabits rivers and lakes in Africa. The next picture shows a newborn endangered animal that also lives in freshwater like the hippo.
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A newly born Yangtze finless porpoise swims with his mother.
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An Australian sea lion and her pup.
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This is a rare and endangered mature California condor. Experts believe condors are being poisoned by lead bullets found in the dead animals that they scavenge. This next animal is threatened by war.
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An endangered silverback gorilla rests in the forest of the Virunga National Park.
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Green turtles are an endangered species that nest in several Taiwanese offshore islands. The twin endangered cubs on the next page are threatened by humans.
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Here are two-month-old, twin red panda cubs. Red pandas have a low birth rate and high death rate in the wild.
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The name "kangaroo" comes from the Aboriginal description of the animal. While kangaroos make their living in Australia, India is home to the next endangered animal.
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Although Indian law strictly prohibits the hunting of these endangered blackbucks, there are still occasional incidents of poaching.
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Leopards may drag their prey 50 feet (15 meters) up a tree to protect it from large scavengers like lions. The next animal has come back from the verge of extinction.
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Asiatic lions lounge in the shade of a tree on the edge of Gir National Park. India's efforts to save the rare Asiatic lion from extinction have proven successful.
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The endangered gray wolf can be gray, mostly black or even all-white.
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A red wolf at a captive breeding center in Tacoma, Washington.
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Environmental non-profit Earthwatch research focuses on African wildlife like these cheetahs.
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This red howler monkey (Alouatta seniculus), a juvenile, hails from the Amazon ecosystem in Peru.
Now that you've seen some of world's endangered animals, take our endangered species quiz and see what you've learned!
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