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Endangered Animals

By Emily Pettitt



Contents:

Intro

Polar Bears

Black Rhinos Red Wolves

Black f ooted Ferrets

How can I help?



Intro

An endangered animal is an animal that isthreatened of extinction.( their whole kinddying out)

Some of the reasons that animals arebecoming extinct include loss of habitat if their habitat is getting destroyed, loss of f ood

if their pray is getting hu

nted,o

ver hu

nting(one of the biggest reasons) people are killingto many animals.



Polar bears

Polar bears are endangered because they feed on all kindsof seals but they have to swim to get the seals but they live onIce burgs global warming (the earth heating up because of pollution) has been melting the ice burgs. Though they are reallygood swimmers they cant do it f orever so they wind up

drowningPolar bears feed on seals their favorite kind is the Ringed

seal. Polar bears usually hunt young Ringed seals because theycant defend themselves. Polar bears rarely harm humans and if they do weve harmed millions of them. The polar bearsscientific classification is Ursus maritimus



Black Rhinos

Black Rhinos have two horns on a bulky snout and bulky body. Because of that

description the black rhino stands out from many other animals in the African

homeland. There are f our other species of rhino : white, Indian, Sumatran, and

Javan can you tell them a part?(they are not in the picture above those are black

rhinos) and to make things more conf using black rhinos are not black and white

rhinos are not white. Black rhinos are actually slate gray if the black rhino gets

dirty it will look reddish. Black Rhinosweigh 800- 1,350kg and can be as tall as

143- 160cm high they also can be as long as 286- 305cm long. Black Rhinos need

a good supply of f ood and water. Black rhinos are endangered because we hunt

them to much f or their horns . Look on how you can help f or more inf o.



Red Wolves

Redwolves live about f our years in the wild and about f ourteen in

captivity (zoo). Red Wolves were officially declared extinct in 1980

how

ever now

thanks to

co

nservatio

n pro

grams there are 50-80 left in thewild. Red wolves can be red, black, brown, gray, or yellow. They are

endangered because they live in f orests and trees are getting cut down.

Also they are getting over hunted. Red wolves are not as tall and more

slender than their gray wolf cousins. Adult male red wolves weigh about

60-80 pounds and femalesweigh about 40-60 pounds red wolves are

larger than coyotes. Red wolves live in f orests, swamps, and coasts and

prairies. Their dens are mostly located in hollow trees. The scientific

name f or Red wolf is Canis Ruf us.



Black f ooted Ferrets

Black f ooted ferrets are a member of the weasel family. It is the only breed of ferret native to

north America. The domesticated ferret (the kind you buy in pet stores) actually came from

Europe and is a lot calmer than the Black f ooted ferret. Yes it is only about six inches tall but

they have razo

r sharp claw

s made f o

r digging and its stro

ng teeth and jaw

are made f o

r chew

ingmeat since they are carnivores. A black f ooted ferret can eat up to 100 prairie dogs a year. A

black f ooted ferrets life span is 3-4 years in the wild and8-9 years in captivity. They are 18-24

inches long and they weigh as little as 1.5-2.5 pounds. Mating season f or a black f ooted ferret

is march through April. Black f ooted ferrets have a average litter of 3-5 kits. Black f ooted ferrets

live in prairie dog dens those dens are getting dug up so they wind up dying beacause of habittat

loss and getting crushed by dozers.



How we can help

Plan A

You can do these at home

Polar bear: use a energy afishintlight bulb, reuse and recycle, and

dont litter. Black rhinos : dont buy any rhino

products(it should tell you if it is.

Redwolves: Use both sides of thepaper bef ore you throw it out,use paper less

Black f ooted ferrets: buy usedhouses instead of brand new developepent houses

Plan B Adopt

Adopt animals that you learned aboutand more! (On the adoption sites)

Po

lar bear:bear:https://secure.defenders.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=wagc_polarbear

Redwolf:https://secure.defenders.org/site/SPageServer?pagename=wagc_redwolf

Black rhino:

http://shop.aspinallf oundation.org/product/Adoption_Box_-_Black_Rhino _-

_Solio _ADOPT-RHIN

Black f ooted ferret:http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/sp

ecies_SKU.cfm?gid=4

http://www.worldwildlife.org/ogc/sp

ecies_SKU.cfm?gid=4



Great sites

http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disc

o/do/frontpage

http://w

eb.ebsco

ho

st.co

m/srck5/search?vid=1&hid=105&sid=ceb77f49-cb55-4e86-b6d0-

5f38208a618d%4gr1140sessionm

http://nature.ca/notebooks/english/mammpg

.htm



Credits

an ice bearUploaded on January 26,

2008by Just Being

Myself ,http://www.flickr.

com/photos/20406121@

N04/2222146866/in/set-

72157603802385491/ Att

ribution-No Derivative

Works 2.0 Generic

Uploaded on January 26,

2008by Just Being Myself

http://www.flickr.com/photos/20406121@N04/2222146906/in/photostream/Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic Black rhino

A polar Bear And her baby

Uploaded on January 26,

2008by Just Being Myself

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s/20406121@N04/2222146

762/in/photostream/

Just us cute little polar bears freezing our littlebuns off!



Black-footed Ferrets Uploaded on May 19, 2007 by Reeding

http://www.flickr.com/photos/vlogdan/50415

0156/

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Generic.

Red Wolf (Canis rufus)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/stvincentvolunteers/261390231

3 / Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike

2.0 GenericUploaded on June 26, 2008

by St.VincentVolunteers

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teers/261390231

3 / Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike

2.0 Generic 4 week old male

red wolf puppy

Uploaded on January 2, 2010by ucumari



red wolf

J anuary2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/royal65/3167603522/

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Black Rhino

Uploaded on May 22, 2009by Chester Zoo

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No Derivative Works 2.0

Generic

Black rhino

Uploaded on July 12, 2009by ianduffy

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Black Footed Ferret

Uploaded on June 3, 2009by flickkerphotoshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/38504374@N02/3592265090/

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