Bears are among the best and least known of animals. Everyone recognizes a giant panda, for instance, while few people can picture a sloth bear.

Native to the Indian sub-continent, sloth bears are fascinating, unusual bears that charm and delight those who visit them. Our new sloth bear exhibit on Asia Trail will introduce these animals to millions more people. The exhibit is the one closest to the Zoo’s Connecticut Avenue entrance.

At the Zoo

Asia Trail is home to four sloth bears. Balawat, a male cub, was born on January 9, 2006. He is now independent of his mother and can sometimes be seen together with Khali, an adult female who debuted at the Zoo in the spring of 2008. Balawat’s mother, Hana, and father, Merlin, are exhibited separately. The sloth bear yards are the ones closest to the Zoo’s Connecticut Avenue entrance.
February 2009 Update, continued

The pairing of our male bears seems to benefit both of them since they are playful and enjoy companionship. Merlin still needs some alone time, though, as Bala can wear him out pretty quickly so Bala spends his evenings with Khali, one of the Zoo’s two female sloth bears. Some days you may see Merlin on his own (without Bala). We try to keep a close eye on his mood and energy level, and he can get cranky if he doesn’t get enough rest.

We gave Khali the option of hanging out with the male bears during the day, but she likes her alone time, especially at this time of year when bears like to sleep a lot.

Hana, who has also been spending a lot of time sleeping this winter, has been more active recently and should be seen out in the yard more when the weather is nice.

Unfortunately, the bears may not be outside for public viewing when the weather is too cold or wet since sloth bears are used to a tropical habitat and don’t tolerate the cold weather too well. The yards can also get very icy making them too dangerous to traverse.
September 2008 Update

Things seem to be in constant flux up here with our sloth bears. Currently, Khali is in a yard with Balawat (shown at left), the male bear born here in early 2006. Hana, his mother, decided Bala was old enough to go off on his own this past spring; she was ready to be an empty-nester. He didn’t agree, unfortunately—one keeper thinks cubs never do—and as it is for all animals, in the wild or in zoos, it’s been a difficult time for him. Because he wasn’t adjusting well to being on his own, we began giving him visual access to Merlin, his father, and Khali, a female who arrived a few months ago, for companionship.

Khali and Bala became quick friends through the mesh door and we eventually decided to put them together since Bala seemed to benefit greatly from her companionship. Unfortunately, that means Merlin is on his own again, but he’s a big boy and he’s comfortable being on his own (which Bala wasn’t). Merlin now has visual access to Khali and Bala, so they interact at the mesh door in the evening when everyone is inside.

We’ve been doing intros between Merlin and Hana in the hopes of getting the two of them back together, but it hasn’t been as successful as we’d hoped. Hana seems pretty content being on her own again and isn’t that interested in being with Merlin. Merlin has been excited to see her again but the feelings aren’t being reciprocated. We have yet to make a decision about whether to continue pursuing their relationship or whether to look into the possibility of trying to put Merlin with Khali and Bala (not a typical grouping for sloth bears but one that may work well for ours).
Female Sloth Bear Debuts at the Zoo (April 2008)

KhaliVisitors exploring Asia Trail can now see Khali, a nine-year-old female sloth bear who is a non-breeding companion for 26-year-old male sloth bear Merlin.

She arrived from the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle late last year, but has only recently joined Merlin on exhibit following gradual introductions between the pair. In addition to Khali and Merlin, the Zoo is also home to two other sloth bears, 13-year-old Hana, and her two-year-old cub, Balawat. He is about the age when sloth bear cubs become independent of their mothers and is currently exhibited separately from his mother.
Sloth Bear Cub Weighs 200 Pounds (January 2008)

Balawat, our sloth bear cub, turned two on January 9! He’s currently weighing in at a little over 200 pounds, just slightly heavier than his mom, but looking much larger due to the thick, fluffy coat of hair he’s sporting.

Despite his size, Bala is still very much a cub. He still nurses occasionally, loves to run around and play with his enrichment toys (such as feeder balls), and is a star when it comes to training. He has been trained to have his teeth brushed, and gets on the scale like a pro.

It is normal for sloth bear cubs to stay with their mother for up to three years, so Bala still has a ways to go in terms of growing up, and Hana is still pretty protective of him.
Spring 2007 Update

He’s an absolute star at training. We’ve trained many behaviors with him—open mouth, show paws, show feet, stand up, lie down—and recently we started brushing his teeth.

Sloth bears have notoriously bad teeth because, when they suck up insects, some dirt or tree bark will get in too, and it wears away the bears’ teeth. We’re hoping to keep Bala’s teeth in better shape by starting young. He’s very good at holding the open-mouth position and seems to enjoy the brushing sensation against his teeth and gums. Only occasionally does he try to steal the toothbrush, but every time he gives it right back so we can continue brushing.

We have moved the time of our daily sloth bear feeding demos to 11:30 since the bears have been napping in the heat of the day and not getting up for the 2:30 demos. We have also started doing some of the training with Bala on exhibit (during the demo) so the public can see something that is usually done behind the scenes. We just ask him for the behaviors up at the glass and then reward him with mealworms through the termite mound.

The termite mound is in the exhibit and has a tube that goes to the other side, kept behind a locked door. During the demos, we unlock the door, place mealworms in our hands, and hold one end of the tube over the mealworms. The sloth bears go up to the termite mound and suck up the mealworms through the long tube.

Image Source:upload.wikimedia.orgOne of the utmost marsupials on earth. This giant can leap up to 12 metres in a single hop and can get in touch with speeds of 60km/h.

It crops up in the forest scrub of south Western Australia, south South Australia, western New South Wales, south Queensland and west Victoria.

These kangaroos prefer dense coat to open grassland. Even even though properties are that much rather common, there are 7 times supplementary Eastern Grey Kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) as opposed to Western Greys.

These kangaroos, as all the large kangaroos, are crepuscular, feeding from what i read in late Evening to the first part of afternoon and resting in the day.

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The world’s a good amount of social felines, lions traditionally get by provided a small amount of service on the pride mates.

Physical Description: Lions hold strong, tiny bodies and powerful forelegs, teeth, and jaws for pulling at a low level and killing prey. Their coats are yellow-gold, and adult males experience long, dark, shaggy manes. Young lions hold neutral spotting on such a coats the current serves to disappear as properties increase in value up.

Size: Male lions go up perfect as opposed to females, reaching up to ten feet extended (females get through to up to nine feet long), additonally a two- to three-foot-long tail. Male lions weigh based on data from 330 to 530 pounds; females weigh 270 to 300 pounds. Lions stand between 3 and a portion and one feet tall at the shoulder.

Geographic Distribution: Except for a compressed populace the present hangs on in the dry Gir Forest of northwest India, lions now reside alone in Africa. They are at last found on the Sahara’s south outside edge to northern South Africa, but are absent based on what i read in equatorial populations dominated by moist tropical forest.

Status: The lion is listed as vulnerable on the World Conservation Union’s (IUCN’s) Red List of Threatened Animals. The Gir Forest population, that consists of right about 300 lions, is listed as endangered.

Habitat: Lions inhabit a wide cycle of habitats, on open plains to thick brush and dry thorn forest.

Natural Diet: Lions eat more often than not extensive animals, this kind of as zebra and wildebeest, weighing based on 100 to 1,000 pounds. In times of shortage, properties furthermore catch and eat a variety of minor critters based on rodents to reptiles. Lions steal kills based on information from hyenas, leopards, and supplementary predators, but may in addition waste this catches to hyena groups. Lions may as well feed on domestic livestock, actually in spots close to villages.

National Zoo Diet: Keepers feed the Zoo’s lions beef. Once a week, properties put up them horse tails, that exercise the cats’ teeth and jaws.

Reproduction: Female lions mostly produce birth to a litter most every two years. Females are receptive to mates for a few days most times a year, unless properties are pregnant or nursing. Mating spurs ovulation. Females find birth to one to uni cubs ensuing a gestation of close to 3 and a part months. Cubs nurse for six months, but craft eating meat at 3 months. Due to varied dangers, in conjunction with starvation throughout times of food shortfall and episodes by male lions producing throughout prides, up to 80 per cent of lion cubs die within the duration of this above all two ages of life.

Life Span: Zoo lions may dwell up to 25 years, additonally demented lions dwell roughly 15 years.

Behavior: Lions dwell in groups of connected females labeled prides, that may enter based on what i read in a multitude of to 40 individuals, additonally one or supplementary adult males. Pride mates associate in sub-groups through the pride. Female pride mates are connected to every other. Although both males and females defend the pride’s territory, the perfect males take on several defense duties, marking territory in roars and scent marks (urine). Females do numerous of the hunting. Several females stalk prey of various angles to within the duration of 100 feet before attacking the targeted animal. Females carry on in such a mothers’ prides for life, unless food scarcity forces them out. Young males are driven according to the prides when properties substantiate enormous adequate to contend in on the dominant males. Young males join in coalitions, typically amidst brothers and cousins, and searching for a pride to take over. Males entering a new pride is planning to kill all cubs so cannot run based on information from them. In India, female and male lions dwell apart, joining sole to mate.

Past/Present/Future: More as opposed to 10,000 decades ago, lions thrived on North and South America to Europe, Africa, and Asia. Today, coming up climatic unrest and subsequent to centuries of hunting and habitat degradation by people, lions dwell in scattered habitats every where in Africa (with the omission of the Gir Forest lions, that reside in a park in northwest India). Within these kinds of areas, lions even have to deal with dangers, together with habitat reduction and hunting. Many experience died from what i read in diseases this as distemper, that is spread by domestic dogs for villages close to likely habitat.

To remain lions from what i read in looking as rare as tigers, considerable expanses of suitable habitat among a sufficient amount of prey have got to be in detail protected. In disease-ridden areas, free-ranging domestic dogs ought to be kept away based on information from lions or immunized. Meanwhile, the isolated Gir Forest lions own a limited length of habitat, and frequent conflicts surrounded by people. For that populace to grow, certain of its lions are required to be moved to a good amount reserves or the Gir Forest safe state ought to be expanded. At the same time, continuing conflicts between lions and shoppers who make a home pretty near them are required to be mitigated.

A Few Lion Neighbors:

* spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta): Africa’s moment highest carnivore (after lions) is additionally one of the lion’s most massive competitors for prey.
* wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus): Also identified a gnu, this moment strange-looking, migratory animal is the several abundant antelope on East and south African plains. It is an principle food for lions.
* plains zebra (Equus burchellii): Another major prey animals of lions, zebras wander widely around the East and south African plains.
* chital (Axis axis): Also labeled spotted deer, these kinds of Asian deer are drastic prey for India’s lions.

By saving lion habitat, we cover these types of and multi supplementary animals.

Fun Facts:

* Tigers are lions’ closest relatives. Without such a coats, lion and tiger bodies are so similar the present merely pros can notify them apart.
* A lion’s roar can be heard up to 5 miles away.
* A male coalition rarely holds onto a pride longer as opposed to two to 3 ages before making run off by fierce challengers.

The Great Cats exhibit on Lion/Tiger Hill aspects Sumatran tigers and African lions-living, breathing, roaring terrific cats. They are ambassadors for the demented relatives, and for the Zoo’s protection and science initiatives for tigers, lions, and a large number of a greater amount of cats, which, a great deal if not above the usual in size, are much great!Exam for Male Lion, Training for Everyone

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Shera, one of the Zoo’s lionsLuke, the Zoo’s young male African lion, got his moment full exam recently. He now weighs 425 and has not yet obtained his extensive adult size. Luke and the Zoo’s 3 female lions are now in the approach of learning to purchase injections on this indoor enclosures. As usual, Shera (shown at left) is progressing the fastest in her training.
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Lions on Exhibit

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Nababiep and Shera can be observed in this yard at Great Cats together. Lusaka and Luke are in separate yards. The lions are on exhibit at distinct times, and the schedules vary. The Zoo’s astronomical cats are on exhibit most any day between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Sumatran Tiger Cubs

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tiger cub in JuneThe Zoo’s 3 Sumatran tiger cubs are now two ages old. Gunter weighs 242 pounds, Maharani is 191 pounds, and Melati is 180 pounds. They may be complete developed according to the scale, but are not rather “grownups” yet.
Find out greater number of in the newly drafted Tiger Cub Diary entry.

See the cubs, such a mother, Soyono, and this father, Rokan, at the Great Cats exhibit or on the tiger cam. We pray all Zoo visitors get a odds to see the cubs, and inflate this knowing if the cats are inside within the duration of the visit.

There are lower as opposed to 500 Sumatran tigers in the wild. link toDonate to the Tiger Conservation Fund.
New Cheetah at the Zoo

Amani, female cheetah at the ZooAmani, a two-year-old female cheetah, just now headed on exhibit at the National Zoo’s Cheetah Conservation Station. She came to the Zoo out of an Oregon animal park in late December, but had been heard kept off exhibit until she became accustomed to her new surroundings. Visitors can now see Amani daily at the Cheetah Conservation Station.

Animal treatment real estate agents pray which she can breed through one of the Zoo’s 3 cheetah brothers in the future. It plans to be up to Amani to pick that of the cheetahs, if any, she wants to breed with-the same brand of breeding behavior who a female cheetah in the mad could screen

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Physical Description: Sloth bears suffer shaggy, dusty-black coats, pale, short-haired muzzles, and long, curved claws the properties use to excavate ants and termites. A cream-colored “V” or “Y” by and large marks this chests. Sloth bears’ nostrils can close, protecting the creatures based on what i read in dust or insects when raiding termite nests or bee hives. A gap in this teeth enables them to completely stink up ants, termites, and a great deal more insects.

Size: Sloth bears step up four to six feet long, stand two to 3 feet above average at the shoulder, and weigh based on what i read in 120 (in lighter females) to 310 pounds (in heavy males).

Geographic Distribution: Most sloth bears dwell in India and Sri Lanka; others reside in south Nepal, and properties undergo kept on reported in Bhutan and Bangladesh.

Status: The sloth bear is listed as vulnerable on the World Conservation Union’s Red List of Threatened Animals.

Habitat: Sloth bears reside in a variety of dry and wet forests, and in addition in a good deal of grasslands, at which boulders and scattered shrubs and trees find shelter.

Natural Diet: When trees are in fruit, for the most part for the duration of the monsoon season, sloth bears dine on mango, fig, ebony, and a greater amount of fruits, and furthermore on a couple of flowers. However, ants and termites, dug out of this cement-hard nest mounds, are a year-round staple. Also, sloth bears climb trees and knock decreased honeycombs, later on collecting the ass bounty on the forest floor. Beetles, grubs, ants, and larger number of insects sweet out such a diet. During food shortages, sloth bears may eat carrion. They sometimes raid farm crops.

Zoo Diet: The Zoo’s sloth bears eat insects, mealworms, and crickets, as agreeably as these types of fruits as pears, melons, oranges, and grapes.

Reproduction: Sloth bears mate over the hot season-May, June, and July-and females generally end up with birth to two cubs six to seven cycles later. Cubs are born in an underground den, and keep there for most months. After emerging of the den, cubs continue at such a mother’s part for two to 3 ages before going out off on this own.

Life Span: It is unknown how for a while now sloth bears make a home in the wild. But such bears experience lived up to 40 ages in zoos.

Behavior: Active normally at night, the sloth bear is a noisy, busy bear. It grunts and snorts as it pulls lower branches to get fruit, digs for termites, or snuffles underneath debris for grubs and beetles. A sloth bear uses its lips as if a vacuum, bringing about rapid, loud “kerfump” noises as it sucks insects out of the nests.

Sloth bears cause solitary lives, and many are nocturnal. (In safe areas, properties may be active in the day.) If threatened, these kinds of smallish bears may stand on two legs, brandishing this clawed forepaws as weapons.

A Few Sloth Bear Neighbors:

Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris): At the top of the forest food chain, right now mighty, endangered cat slinks throughout the shadows in searching of spotted deer and more and more prey, that sometimes includes sloth bears.

Gaur (Bos frontalis): A massive, forest-dwelling demented ox overly livlihoods in miniature herds and feeds in clearings at night.

Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus): An endangered, black-coated monkey in a distinctive gray mane and dangling tail. Troops of 12 to 20 inhabit tropical evergreen forests in India’s Western Ghats mountains.

Great pied hornbill (Buceros bicornis): A vulture-sized black, white, and cream-colored fruit-eating bird providing a massive, toucan-like bill.

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Red pandas exist in the shadow of giant pandas, but they were actually the first animals to be called “panda.” In the past, red pandas have been classified with the bear family (which includes giant pandas) and with procyonids (a family that includes raccoons). Today, they are classified as the sole species in family Ailuridae.

Red pandas are engaging, bamboo-eating animals that resemble raccoons and share parts of their Asian habitats with giant pandas. Although not “giant,” the red panda is an endangered species that also deserves scientific and conservation attention, as well as wider recognition among the public.

red pandaRed pandas have striking red coats and reddish-brown tear marks from the eyes to the corner of the mouth. They are especially vibrant during winter time: As their coats redden and thicken, they become easily visible on even the coldest January day.

At the Zoo

Two red pandas live on Asia Trail, near the giant pandas, giving us an opportunity to compare the original “panda” with giant pandas.

The list of extinct animals in Africa features the animals that have become extinct on the African continent and its islands, like Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Réunion, Seychelles, St. Helena, Cape Verde, etc.

Pleistocene Extinctions

* African Deinotherium, Deinotherium bozasi
* homo erectus
* homo habilis
* Paranthropus boisei
* Pelorovis

Global Holocene Extinctions

Mammals
Quagga from London (UK), Regent’s Park ZOO, 1870
Quagga from London (UK), Regent’s Park ZOO, 1870

* North African Elephant, Loxodonta africana pharaoensis (300, North Africa)
* Algerian Wild Ass, Asinus atlanticus (300, North Africa)
* Bluebuck or Blue Antelope, Hippotragus leucophaeus (1799, South Africa)
* Atlas Bear, Ursus arctos crowtheri (1844, North Africa)
* Lesser Mascarene Flying Fox, Pteropus subniger (1862, Réunion)
* Quagga, Equus quagga quagga (1883, South Africa)
* Cape Warthog, Phacochoerus aethiopicus aethiopicus (1900, South Africa)
* North African Aurochs, Bos primigenius mauretanicus (Unknown date, North Africa)
* Bubal Hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus (North Africa)
* Cape Serval, Leptailurus serval serval (South Africa)
* Madagascan Dwarf Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus lemerlei (Madagascar)
* Madagascan Pygmy Hippopotamus, Hippopotamus madagascariensis (Madagascar)
* North African Serval, Leptailurus serval constantina (North Africa)
* Red Gazelle, Gazella rufina (Algeria)
* Robert’s Lechwe, Kobus leche robertsi (Zambia)
* Canary Islands Giant Rat, Canariomys tamarani (Canary Islands)
* Lava Mouse, Malpaisomys insularis (Canary Islands)

Birds
Dodo (Jan Savery, 1651)
Dodo (Jan Savery, 1651)

* Aldabra Brush-Warbler, Nesillas aldabrana (Seychelles)
* Aepyornis or Great Elephant Bird, Aepyornis maximus (Madagascar)
* Ascension Flightless Crake, Atlantisia elpenor (St Helena)
* Broad-billed Parrot, Lophopsittacus mauritianus (Mauritius)
* Delalande’s Coua, Coua delalandei (Madagascar)
* Dodo, Raphus cucullatus (Mauritius)
* Large St Helena Petrel, Pterodroma rupinarum (St Helena)
* Mauritius Blue Pigeon, Alectroenas nitidissima (Mauritius)
* Mascarene Coot, Fulica newtoni (Réunion, Mauritius)
* Mascarene Parrot, Mascarinus mascarinus (Réunion)
* Mauritian Duck, Anas theodori (Mauritius)
* Mauritian Shelduck, Alopochen mauritianus (Mauritius)
* Mauritius Grey Parrot, Lophopsittacus bensoni (Mauritius)
* Mauritius Night-Heron, Nycticorax mauritianus (Mauritius)
* Mauritius Owl, Mascarenotus sauzieri (Mauritius)
* Newton’s Parakeet, Psittacula exsul (Mauritius)
* Red Rail, Aphanapteryx bonasia (Mauritius)
* Réunion Flightless Ibis, Threskiornis solitarius (Réunion)
* Réunion Gallinule, Porphyrio coerulescens (Réunion)
* Réunion Kestrel, Falco buboisi (Réunion)
* Réunion Night-Heron, Nycticorax duboisi (Réunion)
* Réunion Owl, Mascarenotus grucheti (Réunion)
* Réunion Pigeon, Columba duboisi (Réunion)
* Réunion Shelduck, Mascarenachen kervazoi (Réunion)
* Réunion Starling, Fregilupus varius (Réunion)
* Rodrigues Night-Heron, Nycticorax megacephalus (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues Owl, Mascarenotus murivorus (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues Parrot, Necropsittacus rodericanus (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues Pigeon, Alectroenas rodericana (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues Rail, Aphanapteryx leguati (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues Solitaire, Pezophaps solitaria (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues Starling, Necropsar rodericanus (Mauritius)
* Seychelles Parakeet, Psittacula wardi (Seychelles)
* Small St Helena Petrel, Bulweria bifax (St Helena)
* St Helena Crake, Atlantisia podarces (St Helena)
* St Helena Cuckoo, Nannococcyx psix (St Helena)
* St Helena Dove, Dysmoropelia dekarchiskos (St Helena)
* St Helena Hoopoe, Upupa antaois (St Helena)
* St Helena Rail, Porzana astrictocarpus (St Helena)
* Tristan Moorhen, Gallinula nesiotis (St Helena)
* Canarian Black Oystercatcher, Haematopus meadewaldoi 1981 (Tenerife)
* Canary Islands Quail, Coturnix gomerae (Canary Islands)
* Eastern Canary Islands Chiffchaff, Phylloscopus canariensis exsul 1986 (Lanzarote, Fuerteventura)
* Madeiran Wood Pigeon, Columba palumbus maderensis 1924 (Madeira)

Reptiles

* Cape Verde Giant Skink, Macroscincus coctei (Cape Verde)
* Eastwood’s Longtailed Seps, Tetradactylus eastwoodae (South Africa)
* Leiolopisma mauritiana (Mauritius)
* Saddle-backed Mauritius Giant Tortoise, Cylindraspis inepta (Mauritius)
* Domed Mauritius Giant Tortoise, Cylindraspis triserrata (Mauritius)
* Mozambique centipede-eater, Aparallactus nigriceps (Mozambique)
* Réunion Giant Tortoise, Cylindraspis indica (Réunion)
* Rodrigues Giant Gecko, Phelsuma gigas (Mauritius)
* Domed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise, Cylindraspis peltastes (Mauritius)
* Saddle-backed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise, Cylindraspis vosmaeri (Mauritius) 1795
* Round Island Burrowing Boa, Bolyeria multocarinata (Mauritius)
* Seychelles Black Terrapin, Pelusios seychellensis (Seychelles)
* Typhlops cariei (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues giant day gecko Phelsuma gigas (Mauritius)
* Rodrigues day gecko, Phelsuma edwardnewtoni 1917 (Mauritius)
* Roque Chico de Salmor Giant Lizard, Gallotia simonyi simonyi 1935 (Canary Islands)
* La Palma Giant Lizard, Gallotia auaritae (La Palma, Canary Islands)

Fish

* Pantanodon madagascariensis (Madagascar)
* Ptychochromis onilahy (Madagascar)
* Ptychochromoides itasy (Madagascar)

Insects

* St. Helena Earwig, Labidura herculeana (1967 St. Helena)

Molluscs

* Caldwellia philyrina
* Chilonopsis blofeldi
* Chilonopsis exulatus
* Chilonopsis helena
* Chilonopsis melanoides
* Chilonopsis nonpareil
* Chilonopsis subplicatus
* Chilonopsis subtruncatus
* Chilonopsis turtoni
* Colparion madgei
* Ctenoglypta newtoni
* Cyclophorus horridulum
* Cyclosurus mariei
* Dupontia proletaria
* Erepta nevilli
* Gibbus lyonetianus
* Gonidomus newtoni
* Gonospira nevilli
* Gulella mayottensis
* Harmogenanina linophora
* Harmogenanina subdetecta
* Helenoconcha leptalea
* Helenoconcha minutissima
* Helenoconcha polyodon
* Helenoconcha pseustes
* Helenoconcha sexdentata
* Helenodiscus bilamellata
* Helenodiscus vernoni
* Nesopupa turtoni
* Omphalotropis plicosa
* Pachnodus velutinus
* Pachystyla rufozonata
* Pseudohelenoconcha spurca
* Pupilla obliquicosta
* Rhachis comorensis
* Rhachis sanguineus
* Tropidophora desmazuresi
* Tropidophora semilineata
* Unio cariei
* Leiostyla lamellosa (Land Snail from Madeira)
* Pseudocampylaea loweii (Land Snail from Madeira)

Rediscovered

* Burchell’s Zebra, Equus quagga burchellii
* Coelacanth, Latimeria chalumnae
* Madagascar Pochard, Aythya innotata

Extinctions in the wild
Scimitar-Horned Oryx at the Wildlife Ranch in San Antonio, Texas, USA.
Scimitar-Horned Oryx at the Wildlife Ranch in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

* Barbary Lion, Panthera leo leo, (North Africa)
* Egyptian Barbary Sheep, Ammotragus lervia ornata (Egypt)
* Cape Lion, Panthera leo melanochaitus (Cape of Africa)
* Haplochromis lividus (Freshwater fish from Lake Victoria; Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
* Labrochromis ishmaeli (Freshwater fish from Lake Victoria; Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
* Scimitar Oryx, Oryx dammah (Algeria, Burkina Faso, Chad, Egypt, Israel, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, Tunisia, Western Sahara)
* Paretroplus menarambo (Freshwater fish from Madagascar)
* Platytaeniodus degeni (Freshwater fish from Lake Victoria; Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
* Prognathochromis perrieri (Freshwater fish from Lake Victoria; Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)
* Yssichromis argens (Freshwater fish from Lake Victoria; Tanzania)

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