Endangered
Facing severe population threats from habitat loss and climate shifts, requiring focused global conservation.
Asian Elephant
A boneless trunk with about 150,000 muscle units, a pregnancy of nearly two years, and rumbles humans can barely hear.
Bonobo
The Congo forest ape where the females rule the roost.
Dhole
A whistling, clucking wild dog that hunts in packs and can catch prey more than ten times its own weight.
European Eel
A river fish thought to spawn only in the Sargasso Sea, after a 5,000 to 10,000 km migration, though its spawning has never been observed.
Geoffroy's Spider Monkey
The monkey whose tail works as a fifth limb.
Goliath Frog
The largest frog in the world, where males haul rocks to build nests for their eggs.
Grey Parrot
A grey parrot named Griffin outperformed 5-year-old children on a cup logic test.
Lar Gibbon
A rainforest singer whose pair duets average 11 minutes and carry up to a kilometre.
Long-Tailed Chinchilla
An Andean rodent with up to 60 hairs growing from one follicle.
Malayan Tapir
Born striped, grown two-tone, and armed with a prehensile snout for plucking leaves.
Przewalski's Horse
The wild horse with 66 chromosomes, gone from the wild and then put back.
Vaquita
A shy porpoise with the smallest range of any whale, dolphin or porpoise