The Toolache wallaby or Grey’s wallaby (Macropus greyi) is an extinct species of wallaby from southeastern South Australia and southwestern Victoria. The Toolache wallaby was a slim, graceful, and elegant creature that had a pale ashy-brown pelt with a buff-yellow underbelly. The tail was pale grey and became almost white near the tip. The distinct black mark on its face reached from its … More TOOLACHE WALLABY
The South China tiger (Panthera tigris tigris, syn. Panthera tigris amoyensis) is a tiger population in southern China. This population occurred in Fujian, Guangdong, Hunan, Jiangxi provinces. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1996, and is possibly extinct in the wild since no wild individual has been recorded since the early 1970s. Already in the late 1990s, continued survival was considered unlikely due to low prey density, widespread habitat … More SOUTH CHINA TIGER
Stegodon (meaning “roofed tooth” from the Greek words στέγειν stegein ‘to cover’ and ὀδούς odous ‘tooth’, because of the distinctive ridges on the animal’s molars) is a genus of the extinct subfamily Stegodontinae of the order Proboscidea. It was assigned to the family Elephantidae (Abel, 1919), but has also been placed in Stegodontidae (R. L. Carroll, 1988). Stegodonts were present from 11.6 mya to the late Pleistocene, with unconfirmed records of localized survival until 4,100 years ago. Fossils are found … More STEGODON
Gigantopithecus is an extinct species of apes that lived around 9 million to 100,000 years ago and was considered as the largest ape ever existed. These apes could stand up to 3 m tall (9.8 ft.) and could weigh as much as 540-600kg (1190-1320 lb.). They were so large that if they survived now then … More GIGANTOPITHECUS
The Grévy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), also known as the imperial zebra, is the largest living wild equid and the largest and most threatened of the three species of zebra, the other two being the plains zebra and the mountain zebra. Named after Jules Grévy, it is the sole extant member of the subgenus Dolichohippus. Grévy’s zebra is found in Kenya and Ethiopia. Compared with other zebras, it is tall, … More GREVY’S ZEBRA
Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are quadrupedal, ruminant mammals typically kept as livestock. Like most ruminants, sheep are members of the order Artiodactyla, the even-toed ungulates. Although the name sheep applies to many species in the genus Ovis, in everyday usage it almost always refers to Ovis aries. Numbering a little over one billion, domestic sheep are also the most numerous species of sheep. An adult female … More SHEEP
The Malayan tapir (Tapirus indicus), also called the Asian tapir, is the largest of the five species of tapir and the only one native to Asia.The scientific name refers to the East Indies, the species’ natural habitat. In the Malay language, the tapir is commonly referred to as cipan, tenuk or badak tampung. The animal is easily identified by its markings, most notably the light-colored patch that … More MALAYAN TAPIR
The Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) is a leopard subspecies native to the Arabian Peninsula. It has been listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List since 1996 as fewer than 200 wild individuals were estimated to be alive in 2006. The population is severely fragmented. Subpopulations are isolated and not larger than 50 mature individuals. The population is thought to decline continuously. The … More ARABIAN LEOPARD
Deinotherium (“terrible beast” derived from the Ancient Greek δεινός, deinos meaning “terrible” and θηρίον, therion meaning “beast”) was a large prehistoric relative of modern-day elephants that appeared in the Middle Miocene and survived until the Early Pleistocene. During that time it changed very little. In life, it probably resembled modern elephants, except it had downward curving tusks attached to the lower jaw. Deinotherium is the type genus of the family Deinotheriidae, … More DEINOTHERIUM
The northern white rhinoceros, or northern square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum cottoni), is one of two subspecies of the white rhinoceros (the other being the southern white rhinoceros). Formerly found in several countries in East and Central Africa south of the Sahara, this subspecies is a grazer in grasslands and savanna woodlands. As of 19 March 2018 there were only two known rhinos of this subspecies left, … More NORTHERN WHITE RHINOCEROS
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