6 of the most endangered animals

• These are six of the most endangered

animals.
Main Facts about the Giant Panda
The giant panda has an insatiable appetite for bamboo,
each day every panda needs to eat at least eat 28
pounds of bamboo, to satisfy a giant pandas daily
dietary needs. These high bamboo forests are cool
and wet—just as pandas like it, in central china. They
may climb as high as 13,000 feet (3,962 meters) to
feed on higher slopes in the summer season. China
has 239 Giant Pandas in captivity and another 27
living outside the country. It also estimated that
around 1,590 pandas are currently living in the wild.
However, a 2006 study, via DNA analysis, estimated
that there might be as many as 2,000
to 3,000
Giant Pandas in the
wild.
 Polar bears are a potentially endangered species living in the
circumpolar north.
They pad across the ice from Russia to Alaska, from Canada to Greenland and
onto Norway's Svalbard archipelago. Biologists estimate that there are 20,000 to
25,000 bears with about sixty percent of those living in Canada.
The main threat to polar bears today is the loss of their icy habitat
due to climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice for
hunting, breeding, and in some cases to den. The summer ice loss
in the Arctic is now equal to an area the size of Alaska, Texas, and
the state of Washington combined.
 Gorillas
• The gorilla is the largest primate, weighing as much as
275 kg (600 lb). Gorillas are forest-associated animals.
Most gorillas inhabit lowland tropical rainforests and
montane rainforests between 1500 - 3500 m (4900 -
11,500 ft). Different populations have exhibited
preferences for forest margins, secondary forest, swamp
forests, bamboo forests, riverine forests and primary
forest. Eastern animals are predominantly folivorous, but
those in the west eat great quantities of fruit. Gorillas
spend most of their time foraging on the ground,
although young animals and females, particularly
lowland gorillas, frequently feed and sleep in trees
 Tigers
• Tigers are extremely endangered as there are
only 5000 to 7400 o f them in the wild. They are
a member of the Felidae family. There are two
types of tiger the Bengal tiger and the Siberian
tiger. Reaching up to 4 metres (13 ft) in total
length and weighing up to 300 kilograms
(660 pounds), they are brilliant hunters.
Siberian tiger Bengal tiger
 Rhinos
• Both black and white rhinoceroses are actually grey.
They are different not in colour but in lip shape. The
black rhino has a pointed upper lip, while its white
relative has a squared lip. The difference in lip shape is
related to the animals' diets. Black rhinos are browsers
that get most of their sustenance from eating trees and
bushes. They use their lips to pluck leaves and fruit from
the branches. White rhinos graze on grasses, walking
with their enormous heads and squared lips lowered to
the ground.
Black rhinos
White rhinos
 Orangutan
• Orangutans are large apes that live in Southeast
Asia (on the islands Of Borneo and Sumatra).
These Apes mostly live in trees and swing from
branch to branch using there elegant arms. The
word Orangutan means “man of the forest” in the
Malay language. As its habitats are being
usurped by man, the Orangutans population is
decreasing and it is ii great danger of extinct

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 Last minute facts
Black rhino
Type: Mammal
Diet: Herbivore
Size: Height at shoulder,4.5 to 6 feet (1.4 to 1.8 m)
Weight: 1,760 to 3,080 lbs (800 to 1400 kg)
Protection status: Endangered
Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man:
Siberian tiger
Type: Mammal
Diet: Carnivore
Size: 10.75 ft (3.3 m)
Weight: 660 lbs (300 kg)
Protection status: Endangered
Size relative to a 6-ft (2-m) man: