EndangeredAnimals Anatomy

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Snow Leopard Anatomy

fur
body is covered
with gray and black
spots called
rosettes

chest
broad and
tail muscular chest,
long, furry, and the effective at
biggest tail of all taking in large
big cats which can amounts of air
act like a scarf to because the
keep them warm oxygen level in the
air is very low in
high altitudes

paw
large paws act
like snowshoes to
help them walk on
snow instead of
sinking in

Snow leopards live in the mountains of central Asia and live in solitary. Unlike other big
cats, they can’t really roar but can growl, meow and puff. Snow leopards are listed
as ‘Vulnerable’ due to poaching or illegal hunting.
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Chimpanzee Anatomy

fur
body is covered
with black fur

hairless
face

hand
five-fingered
hands

toe
five-fingered
grasping toes

Chimpanzees like to groom each other and it helps them to be clean. They also sleep
and have babies in nests made of leaves. Chimpanzees are listed as ‘Endangered’ due
to deforestation, poaching, and capture for illegal animal trade.
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Bluefin Tuna Anatomy

first pectoral
dorsal fin fin
second
dorsal fin

gill

ventral
fin caudal
fin
anal fin

The bluefin tuna is big and strong, with an average length of 458 cm and can weigh up
to 684 kg. They are fast swimmers and migrate across all oceans. The populations
have been declined and listed as ‘Endangered’ due to overfishing and illegal fishing.
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Asian Elephant Anatomy
body
tallest at ear forehead
arch of back small and rounded has two
ears that do not humps
cover the shoulders

tail
long tail
with tuft
at the end
trunk
foot single lobe of
flesh on tip
large flat feet
with 4 or 5 toes

Asian elephants are smaller than African elephants and they live in the tropical
grasslands and forests in Southeast Asia. The Asian elephants are listed as
‘Endangered’ due to habitat loss from deforestation and agricultural development.
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Leatherback Sea Turtle Anatomy

carapace
or the shell is
leathery in texture
with bony plates

hind
fore flipper flipper
strong and no claws on
powerful fore fore and hind
flippers flippers

Leatherback sea turtles are the biggest turtles on Earth. They are listed as
‘Vulnerable’ but some subpopulations are listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ due to
human activity such as poaching of eggs and also plastic marine litter.
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Orangutan Anatomy

fur
body is covered
with long and
shaggy orange
fur, expect face,
fingers and toes
arm
long arms to
travel through
trees

hand toe
hands have 5 toes for
5 fingers graps like
hands

Orangutans live in the tropical rainforests of Sumatra and Borneo in Southeast Asia.
Both species of orangutans are listed as ‘Endangered’ and ‘Critically Endangered’ due
to destruction and degradation of the tropical rainforest and illegal animal trade.
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Red Panda Anatomy

eye body
black eyes with
white “eyebrows” covered with
red-brown fur

white fur
around nose
and cheeks toe
toes with partly
retractible tail
claws long and bushy
ringed tail

Red pandas lick themselves clean and are arboreal, meaning they spend most of their
time in trees. Red pandas are listed as ‘Endangered’ due to habitat loss and
fragmentation, poaching, and inbreeding depression.
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Dugong Anatomy
eye
small, wideset
eyes

skin
wrinkled skin

snout
flat snout
with bristly
hairs

flipper
paddle-shaped
flippers

tail
flat tail with a
central notch

Dugongs are sometimes called “sea cows” and are more related to elephants and also
manatees. Dugongs are listed as ‘Vulnerable’ due to sea grass habitat loss because of
coastal development and industrial activities that cause water pollution.
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Fin Whale Anatomy

skin
silver-gray,
dorsal fin dark-gray or lip
shickle-shaped brown-black skin underlip is dark
on the left, light
colored on the
chevron right
gray-white
chevrons on both
sides of the head

fluke
wide flukes

throat
underside pelvic fin groove
ranges from
is white 56-100

The fin whale is a baleen whale and is the second largest animal on Earth. They are
fast swimmers and often called as “greyhound of the sea”. Fin whales are listed as
‘Endangered’ due to habitat loss, toxics, climate change and commercial whaling.
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Vaquita Anatomy

dorsal fin
unusually tall
triangle shaped
dorsal fin
head
rounded head
with no beak

mouth fluke
narrow mouth with body
spade-shaped darker gray on the
teeth back and lighter
gray on the belly

pelvic fin

Vaquita is the only porpoise that live in warm waters. They are the smallest cetacean.
Vaquita is the most endangered cetacean in the world and listed as ‘Critically
Endangered’ due to entanglement in fishing gears and illegal fishing.
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Sumatran Tiger Anatomy
fur
darker fur color to
blend in with the
tropical rainforest stripe
habitat stripes are much
closer together and
a lot more than
other subspecies

ruff
a prominent
ruff on males

tail
toes
partial webbing
between toes
makes them very
fast swimmers

Sumatran tigers are the smallest of all tigers. There are fewer than 400 Sumatran
tigers estimated in the wild today and are listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ due to illegal
poaching and habitat loss due to expansion of oil palm, coffee and acacia plantations.
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Javan Rhinoceros Anatomy
horn skin
one horn for armor pleated
males, no or leather-like skin
little bump for with uneven texture
females and mottled

tail

eye
very poor
eye vision

mouth
is like a parrot
beak for eating
young shoots foot
stumply legs
with hoofed
feet

With only an estimated of 67 left, the Javan rhinoceros is now the most rarest
animal in the world and listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ due to trophy hunters during
colonial times, illegal poaching, habitat loss and fragmentation.
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LEVELS OF CONSERVATION
according to The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

LEAST Has a wide and abundant


CONCERN spread of population

NEAR Likely to qualify for a


THREATENED threatened category in the
near future

VULNERABLE 30% - 50% population


decline

ENDANGERED 50% - 70% population


decline

CRITICALLY More than 80% - 90%


ENDANGERED population decline

EXTINCT Only survives in captivation


IN THE WILD or captivity

EXTINCT No remaining individuals

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