does anyone know when snow leopards became endangered???
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i think it was 2003 when it was noticed their numbers were declining (http://www.worldwildlife.org/snowleopards/index.cfm) but according to wikipedia, it was in the '60s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Leopard)
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According to my sources:\n\n"Today only about 5,000 wild tigers live in Asia."
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On the island of Gigli in Tuscany there are wild goats called mufloni. This kind of goat is very endangered. \n\nThere is a large rare butterfly called the Parnassus Apollo. Its wings are almost transparent, with spots edged in black and red. It is a protected insect because it is endangered.\n\nIn the Pollino National Park in Calabria, there are  the rare Royal eagle and the Capriol deer.
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Some times people kill them for the "sport" and even more for the MONEY!  Yes, like the tusks of elephants for the ivory.  It is really sad but it is true.  Minks get killed for their fur....but that has slowed down but it still is happening.  I think more people are aware of the crualty to all animals espically endangered and many have woken up to the wrong doings.  However, there are still some boneheads that don't quite get it.(But that is true in life)  PITA ia a great program trying to protect animals.
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They have been affected in many ways... First and foremost, they were called "Humongous Pandas" about 200 years ago before pollution sadly shrunk them to their current Giant size.\n\nGlad I could help you on this topic.\n\nJohn Z
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I am afraid that is all is left of Old Saint Nick. Him and his rain deer were shot down the Xmas after 911. He should have filed a flight plan.
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No, they aren't endangered as there are tons of them.  I'm not sure where you live, but where I am there are tons of them.  I've personally owned 3 and I am about to buy another.
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I think it was over before it even got started.  There were a few caught a few weeks ago, as of late, nothing.  I have heard that they are running late down state (port huron), so don't give up hope yet.
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I believe the last sighting was in the late 70's.\n\nSo it's possible. But lack of sightings is not proof that they are yet extinct.
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Oh My Dear Aunt Lizzie! I have got to tell you we need to shelve this thing with this damn woodchuck!  The woodchuck is extinct, we killed all the chucking chuckers! The official government notification was sent out to all of the world last week!\nDid you not get an e-mail about this? The rest of the whole entire world knows that there are no more woodchucks except you?\n\nWe will give this subject the proper investigation it is due when we all get together and elect the committee to investigate what happened to Frosty the Snowman! Death by natural causes due to global warming or could it be something else, perhaps homeland security had a hand in this disappearance. there have been reports of trace DNA found in the drinking water of the North Pole. \nYes indeed let us let the poor woodchucks rest in chucking peace for now. We have more important matters to discuss at this time. Such as how many peppers did perter really pick? A government cover up, perhaps the CIA and the FBI and the 4H, and the Girl Scouts, and the Boys Wonders are involved in some global plan to bring down all the pepper pickers putting pickled peppers partway past people's pathways.\nThis subject is closed until such time as new information can be gathered!
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Virtually all white tigers are in captivity where they recieve excellent care. I have traveled over the range of several species and have never seen one in the wild. All of the species of tigers are in endangered, and the Sumatran is perhaps the most critical. In China, the Siberian Tiger population may have grown a little and the Vietnamese species (Corbrett's) is holding on. The Bengal is protected pretty well in India. In Burma (Myanmar) we saw only a few as we also saw few in Northern Thailand. The only way to protect them is either to put them on a well controled sanctuary or in captivity.
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you should check the official site of WWF for a list of endangered species...
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I believe that we should stop and preserve more for wildlife. I LOVE animals with everything I own. They are so kool!!! So maybe someone should start a petition or start something to stop the killing of wildlife and habitats!!!!
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This link contains extinct/endangered species..\n\n\n\nhttp://www.nature.ca/notebooks/english/enexpg.htm
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A leopon is the result of breeding a male leopard with a female lion, or lioness. The head of the animal is similar to that of a lion while the rest of the body carries similarities to leopards.\n\nThe first documented Leopon appears to be that bred at Kolhapur, India in 1910. Its skin was sent to R I Pocock by Mr W S Millard, the Hon Secretary of the Bombay Natural History Society. It was a cross between a large leopard and a lioness. Two cubs were born, one of which died aged 2.5 months and the other was still living when Pocock described it in 1912. Pocock wrote that it was spotted like a leopard, but that the spots on its sides were smaller and closer set than those of an Indian leopard and were brown and indistinct like the fading spots of a juvenile lion. The spots on the head, spine, belly and legs were black and distinct. The tail was spotted on the topside and striped underneath and had a blackish tip with longer hairs. The underside was dirty white, the ears were fawn and had a broad black bar but did not have the white spot found in leopards. Pocock wrote that the closest he had previously seen to this type of hybrid was the lijagulep (Congolese Spotted Lion) bred in Chicago.\n\nThey have been bred in zoos in Japan, Germany and Italy (the latter was a "reverse leopon" i.e. from a male lion and female leopardess). Karl Hagenbeck, who produced many different hybrids, recorded the birth of leopons at the Hamburg Tierpark in Germany, but none survived to maturity. A leopon skin and skull at the British Museum comes from the animal bred at Kolhapur Zoo in India and was donated by Lt. Col. F.W. Wodehouse of the Junior United Services sometime between 1920 and 1940.\n\nThe most successful leopon programme was at Koshien Hanshin Park in Nishinomiya City, Japan. A lioness called Sonoko was mated by a leopard called Kaneo. The lioness voluntarily assumed a position on her side to allow the much smaller leopard to mount her. A litter of 2 hybrids was born in 1959 and 3 more were born in 1962. In captivity, the normally solitary male leopard remained with the family (social behaviour is sometimes seen in captive specimens of normally solitary big cats). The hybrids proved to be sterile and the last one died in 1985. The programme of cross-breeding was popular with the public, but it was criticised in zoological and animal welfare circles.\n\nBased on the data from the Japanese cats, leopons are larger than leopards and combine features from the leopard and lion. They have brown, rather than black, spots and tufted tails. They will climb like leopards and seem to enjoy water, also like the leopard (oddly enough, the Japanese leopons were born of a water-loving lioness and a male leopard that did not seem to like water!). Male leopons may have sparse manes about 20cm long . Females may be torn between the solitary nature of the leopard and the social nature of a lioness.\n\nP L Florio published a report "Birth of a Lion x Leopard Hybrid in Italy" in 1983 (this refers to the "reverse leopon" also known as a lipard or liard)\n\n-----------------------------------------------------\nThe Pumapard is a hybrid of male puma and female leopard. Three sets of these hybrids were bred in the late 1890s and early 1900s by Karl Hagenbeck at his animal park in Hamburg, Germany. Most did not reach adulthood. One of these was purchased in 1898 by Berlin Zoo. A similar hybrid has been reported by Helmut Hemmer. These hybrids had puma-like long tails and sandy or tawny coats with chestnut leopard-like markings and puma-like cheek markings. Another was described as resembling a little grey puma with large brown rosettes.\n\nPumapards inherit a form of dwarfism and grow to only half the size of the parents. They have a puma-like long body, but short legs.\n\nOne is preserved in the Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring and clearly shows the tendency to dwarfism. There are colour images of the preserved pumapard at Hybri
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California Condors. ENDANGERED.
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Definitely crossing the Bering land bridge was the only possible way for them to move to another place; there was no any technology that time to make it there by any way.\n\nAnyway have these information which may help to answer your wondering: \n\n>>The cheetah is considered the most primitive of all cats, and until recently was thought to have evolved approximately 18 million years ago, although new research puts the last common ancestor of all 37 existing species of feline more recently, at 11 million years.\n>>The cheetahs probably evolved in Africa during the Miocene epoch (26 million to 7.5 million years ago), before migrating to Asia.\n>>The extinct genus Miracinonyx was extremely cheetah-like, but recent DNA analysis has shown that Miracinonyx inexpectatus, Miracinonyx studeri, and Miracinonyx trumani (early to late Pleistocene epoch), found in North America and called the "North American Cheetah" are not true cheetahs, instead being close relatives to the puma.\n>>The Puma is an inhabitant of Americas found in "equator" and "poles". As the  "North American Cheetah" are close relatives to the puma, that would give an explanation how they survive in  Ice Age Beringia.\n\nHope it made some sense.♥