Extremely Rare Animals

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Kakapo
125 individuals

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The earless monitor lizard lives in Borneo and spends most of the time underground.

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Hawaiian crow.
100 or so left.
Less endangered Hawaiian Hawks always take out the captive releases.
https://youtu.be/ZOUyrtWeW4Q

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Velvet worms can shoot a sticky substance to pin down prey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8TgD6-7kg

>>2399116
And those guys who broke down a fence and killes them vommited in a drunken stupor then left their underwear there had nothing happen to them

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>>2399116
>>2399141
>As of 2017, the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility has successfully propagated Devils Hole population in a 100,000 gallon refuge population built within the refuge. This refuge mimics the natural Devil's Hole, including water chemistry, spawning shelf, and natural sunlight. At least 30 captive fish now populate the refuge, including 1st generation fish naturally breeding within the refuge.

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The most terrestrial of all bat species
Imagine if humans never arrived in NZ and brought a whole lot of carnivores to destroy native NZ wildlife
In millions more years the short tailed bat could have evolved into something like the night stalkers in After Man

>>2399128
The kakapo's existence is so fucking depressing.

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very rare mutation

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Hey guess what it's yet another fucked New Zealand species, the Canterbury knobbed weevil, 76 individuals in 2011

>The Amur leopard (Panthera pardus orientalis) is a leopard subspecies native to southeastern Russia and northeast China. It is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. In 2007, only 19–26 wild Amur leopards were estimated to survive. As of 2015, fewer than 60 individuals are estimated to survive in Russia and China.

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>>2399677
Oops. I'm a fool, so here's a bonus fact:
>The Amur leopard is habitually nocturnal and solitary. Nimble-footed and strong, it carries and hides unfinished kills so that they are not taken by other predators. However, it has been reported that some males stay with females after mating, and may even help with rearing the young. Several males sometimes follow and fight over a female.

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Scolopendra cataracta is an amphibious centipede that swims with eel-like motions. It's just been described in 2016 and only a handful of specimen have been found so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MUOw4TR0Qw

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Hog Island Boa((Boa constrictor imperator)


Less than 800 in the wild.
Were thought to be extirpated but they have rebound.

Here's my pure blood female that I hope to breed next year with a pure blood male to continue having this gorgeous species around.

Shame reptile exporters/importers almost removed the entire population.

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>>2399790
Another picture of her GORGEOUS colors and pattern.

I just recently got her from a local exotic keeper, she's a bit chunky from an inexperienced owner but on a proper diet she'll lean out into a perfect rectangle shape.

>>2399129
That's not a lizard that's a fucking dinosaur.

>>2399137
They live in herds!
Herds of 15, roaming wild and free.

>>2399738
Worthy of /aq/, I wonder how I can set me up an aquatic centipede biome.

Now can't even go for a dip without worrying about centipedes. What's next, flying centipedes?

>>2399682
Probably makes a good boner medicine.

I can't find the article, but a few years ago I remember seeing something about a tunicate, I think, that only lives in the back of one tiny cave on the Japanese coast.

>>2399134
That is the saddest looking bird I've ever seen.

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>>2399116
>Random fish in some water hole where literally nobody lives, in the middle of one of the most inhospitable areas for life on planet Earth
>Humans still manage to fuck it up for no logical reason whatsoever.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/may/13/pupfish-dead-death-valley-national-park-nevada-arrests-drunk

>>2399791
>>2399790
She's a pretty girl anon. I hope you take good care of her and propagate shitloads of babies.

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>>2400539
>It's just a fish!

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>>2399116
C. thamicola (aka caveangel fish)
blind; amelanistic; walking and climbing fish from some caves of Thailand

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Dryococelus australis, the Lord Howe Island stick insect, was an insect endemic to the small island between Australia and New Zealand that it has its name from. After rats were accidentally introduced to the island in 1918 it quickly became completely extinct.

However, in 2001 some scientists speculated that there could still be some of them living on a sheer pillar of rock, known as Ball's Pyramid, some miles from the island.
On that rock they found growing a single shrub, and on that shrub the entire worls population of D. australis. 24 individuals.

In 2003 scientists returned to Ball's Pyramid to retrieve two breeding pairs, one of which died shortly after. That other pair though was bred successfully.

As of 2012 the zoo that took care of them raised the population to about 1000, with ten of thousands of eggs being produced. Last year eggs were distributed to some zoos, and this year it is rumored that private breeders will finally get a hold of the once rarest insect in the world.

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>>2401083
pic related, it's Ball's Pyramid

efforts to eradicate the rats from Lord Howe Island and reintroducing the insect are currently being undertakem btw

The fukken Kraken. Only one exists.

>>2401085
that's a cool looking island

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Thyreophora cynophila, the bone skipper fly. Lays its eggs in the marrow of borken bones of large deceased animals, usually in late autumn and was once common everywhere in central europe. Last seen in 1850.

Rediscovered in Spain, on a deer carcass in the middle of winter in 2009

Here is the first ever video of one, taken a year later, in the winter of 2010.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW-tOF0WtXA

>>2401083
>>2401085
what the fuck i was just reading about this yesterday. all because someone on reddit posted about seeing a "giant ant" which nobody believed, then they read this article 20 years later and recognized the insect.

sometimes leddit is useful

>>2401118
>then they read this article 20 years later and recognized the insect
they were declared extinct in 1960. Reddit is a bunch of retards

>>2399137
>Caterpie used string shot!

black people with master's degrees

>>2401123
They should make a velvet worm pokemon with a good typing (NOT ANOTHER BUG/POISON USELESS IN METAGAME)

>>2401153
whats a pokemon

>>2401118
how incredibly unbelievable
that was some attention whore pretending to have seen that insect for leddit karma

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>>2400596
Thank you! She is gorgeous.

Can't wait to find a male for her and keep these beautiful boas around for as long as I live.

On top of my other snake projects as well lol.

>>2401153
but scolipede though and also megabeedrill though

>>2399137
I'm more interested in the nightlight beetle

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>>2401085
>ywn undertake a real life Level 1 D&D campaign by eradicating rats in order to reintroduce a rare insect species to its native habitat

>>2401429
Both are bad with niches more successfully filled by other Pokemon.
Scolipede is a shit setup sweeper even with Speed Boost. Beedrill is kind of viable but there are much better Mega evos like Mawile, Alakazam, and even Medicham which provide far more utility and wallbreaking potential.

VoltTurn is best done with Landorus.

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RIP Toughy, the endling of his species.

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>>2400539
>Those goddamn 62% faces
>they were leading a Boy Scout troop at the time

Fuck I hate my fellow Americans. They should've been sentenced to public execution.

In a new country like America, damaging our natural heritage should be punished equivalent to bombing a European cathedral.

>>2399134
It even looks sad about the futility of its own existence

>>2399116
My gf

>>2401083
>>2401085
>>2401118
I'll never not be amazed by this story.

>>2399171
>In millions more years the short tailed bat could have evolved into something like the night stalkers in After Man

Now, let's not exaggerate

>>2404454
im amazed too. considering i had never heard of this island or this ant in my life and was just digging through thousands of "stories nobody believes" in a reddit thread and happened to come across that one. and it's not a new article or anything.

>>2399828
YOU FOOL

YOU'VE JINXED IT

>>2404506
http://www.realmonstrosities.com/2015/03/feathertail-centipede.html

>>2399158
good news

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R A R E
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jewelled geckos