Zoo Tycoon - Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species Animals

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Zoo Tycoon 2: Endangered Species Animals

	African Wild Dog Lycaon pictus The African wild dog (also known as the Cape hunting dog) is a small, carnivorous dog found in Africa. It has black skin, long legs, and is covered with short, sparse fur in a range of colors and patterns. Its large ears are rounded, and each paw has only four toes. African wild dogs live in packs. They travel extensively in their search for food, and a pack can bring down large animals, such as lions.
	American Bison Bison bison The American bison is the largest terrestrial animal in North America, where it is commonly called a buffalo. It has a hump over its front shoulders, short horns, and a massive head. Until the 19th century, as many as 60 million bison lived on the Great Plains from Mexico into Canada. From 1830 to 1889, methodical destruction by settlers, for sport and for hides, reduced this number to less than 1000. Today more than 200,000 bison live in protected areas and on private ranches.
	Baird's Tapir Tapirus bairdii The Baird’s tapir is an ungulate with a bulky body, short legs, and a head with a short, flexible proboscis. It lives in dense forests and grassy areas of Central and South America and Asia. When tapirs are threatened, they flee to the water or into dense underbrush for safety. Their squeal seems to be a means of communication with other members of the family group in the thick foliage of the rain forest. They feed on leaves, fruit, and other vegetation. The only enemies of tapirs, in addition to humans, are members of the cat family. Habitat loss, due to clear-cutting has brought Baird’s tapirs to the edge of extinction.
	Caribou Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus The caribou is a North American deer of the same species as the reindeer of Eurasia. Both males and females have antlers. Caribou usually live in small herds of cows and calves and a few bulls. The staple diet of caribou is lichens, but they also eat grasses, shrubs, tree shoots, and mushrooms. Plans for oil- and gas-pipeline construction in Alaska and Canada were altered, through environmentalist efforts, so as not to interfere with caribou migration.
	Crested Gibbon Hylobates concolor The crested gibbon is a small anthropoid ape found in the subequatorial forests of India, Indochina, and the Malay Archipelago. It uses its long arms to swing from tree to tree with great agility, using its hands as hooks rather than grasping the limbs. The gibbon is the only anthropoid ape to walk on its hind limbs only, usually raising its arms for balance. Gibbons eat leaves, fruit, flower parts, insects, spiders, birds, and bird eggs. They are usually quiet during the day but commonly howl at sunrise and in late afternoon. Populations of wild gibbons have been severely reduced due to hunting and deforestation.
	Fennec Fox Vulpes zerda The fennec fox is a small canid that lives in the deserts of northern Africa. It resembles its relative, the fox, except for its erect ears, each of which is as large as its face. The fennec can dig with great speed, and when pursued it seems almost to dive into the sand. Its burrow is lined with soft material, such as bits of fur and feathers. Fennecs usually sleep during the day, coming out at night to seek prey. It feeds mainly on mice, small birds, lizards, insects, and sometimes fruit, and it can go without water for indefinite periods of time, which is an adaptation to its desert habitat.
	Florida Panther Puma concolor coryi The Florida panther is the only cougar found east of the Mississippi in North America. The Everglades and cypress swamps of southern Florida provide one of the last refuges in the eastern United States for this animal. It is classified as a critically endangered species and is protected by state and federal law. The Florida panther has also received extraordinary public support in Florida and was championed by a campaign of schoolchildren and named the official state animal in 1982.
	Giant Sable Antelope Hippotragus niger variani The giant sable antelope is a critically endangered African species that has been overhunted for its impressive, hollow horns. Unlike deer, antelope keep their horns throughout their life, and their horns can grow up to 5 ft long. They look formidable, but their value as weapons is limited. To survive, antelopes rely on their ability to spot danger and to make a rapid escape. This defense system enables them to evade most wildlife predators, but it offers only partial protection from human hunters interested in antelope hide, horn, or meat, and offers no protection at all from changes to their habitat.
	Gray Wolf Canis lupus The gray wolf is the largest member of the wild dog family. It is a powerful, social animal that lives in a pack with a strict hierarchy. Gray wolves usually mate for life. Wolves howl to promote unity within the pack and to signal the pack's presence to other wolves. The pack works cooperatively to hunt deer, caribou, and moose. Although wolves rarely interfere with humans, humans have a long history of intentionally destroying gray wolf populations. Gray wolves were once the most widespread of all large mammals other than humans, with a range that extended over much of the Northern Hemisphere.
	Galapagos Giant Tortoise Geochelone nigra porteri The Galapagos giant tortoise is among the world's most critically endangered tortoises. Huge numbers of these tortoises were killed by the crews of whaling ships during the early 19th century. Today, these giant tortoises are threatened by many of the animals that humans have introduced to the Galapagos Islands, including pigs that eat tortoise eggs, rats that eat hatchlings, and goats that eat vegetation that tortoises rely on for food. The Galapagos giant tortoises are now legally protected under the laws of Ecuador.
	Javan Rhinoceros Rhinoceros sondaicus The Javan rhinoceros lives in dense tropical forests on the island of Java in southern Indonesia and in some parts of Vietnam. It is heavily hunted for its single horn, which is used in traditional medicines. It is critically endangered, with fewer than 60 animals left in the wild.
	Koala Phascolarctos cinereus The koala is a tree-dwelling marsupial with a specialized diet consisting almost exclusively of the leaves of eucalyptus trees, which are poisonous to most other animals. Koalas are native to Australia, where they are sometimes called koala bears, although koalas are not related to bears. Koala young complete their development inside a pouch on the mother's abdomen. Few wild animals rival the koala bear in popularity and recognition. Its teddy-bear appearance inspires human affection and intense concern for its survival, as more and more eucalyptus forests are cleared to make room for farmland, housing, and industry.
	Komodo Dragon Varanus komodoensis The Komodo dragon is the largest monitor lizard. It lives on tropical islands, including Komodo, in Indonesia. The Komodo dragon is a fierce predator and scavenger. Its mouth carries a virulent bacteria, making its bite potentially fatal. It also has a long, forked, snakelike tongue and is able to engulf and swallow large prey whole. The Komodo dragon is a fast runner with a tapered head, long neck, strong legs, and a long, powerful tail. It feeds on insects, birds, reptiles and their eggs, small mammals, and carrion. The Komodo dragon is listed as a threatened species.
	Markhor Capra falconeri The markhor is the largest wild goat. It is native to mountainous regions of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and northern India. Markhors are noted for their massive, spirally twisted horns. The markhor has a long, silky coat, which is pale reddish brown in summer and rusty iron gray in winter. Males inhabiting the northern regions of the markhor's range grow long flowing manes and long beards, which reach almost to their knees. Sportsmen once regarded the markhor as an excellent game animal. However, competition from domestic livestock, loss of habitat to human populations, and excessive hunting have seriously depleted markhor populations, and the species is endangered.
	Orangutan Pongo pygmaeus The orangutan is the great ape of Southeast Asia. Its name means "man of the jungle" in Malay, an Austronesian language. Orangutans live only on the island of Borneo and in the northern corner of the island of Sumatra. The orangutan spends most of its time in trees, using its long arms and hook-shaped hands and feet for grasping branches and vines. Although it is illegal to kill, own, or export orangutans, poaching continues. Also, the orangutan habitat is rapidly diminishing as a result of large-scale logging and burning of forests. The massive forest fires on Sumatra and Borneo in 1997 and 1998 killed thousands of orangutans and destroyed the habitat of thousands more, endangering the survival of the species.
	Przewalski’s Wild Horse Caballus przewalski The Przewalski’s wild horse is a subspecies of the domestic horse. It is small and stocky, with a large head and a long tail. In the late 19th century, the range of the Przewalski’s horse consisted of the steppes and deserts of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, and parts of China. Loss of habitat and hunting of the Przewalski's horse by humans caused such a drastic decline in the population that the Przewalski's horse disappeared from the wild. It now exists only in captivity in zoos and wildlife parks.
	Scimitar Horned Oryx Oryx dammah The scimitar horned oryx is a critically endangered species that lives in Africa and the Middle East. They live in dry places and deserts devoid of large vegetation, where hunters in motor vehicles find them easy to chase. After several decades of motorized hunting, the scimitar horned oryx is listed as extinct in the wild. Small populations now survive only in protected parks and in some zoos.
	Spanish Lynx Lynx pardinus The Spanish lynx is a wild carnivore of the cat family. It has a stout body, disproportionately long legs, large paws, and thick, soft fur. Spanish lynx are agile climbers and sometimes wait among the limbs of trees to prey upon weaker mammals and terrestrial birds that pass beneath them. It is also common for lynx to stalk their prey. In inclement weather, lynx take shelter in caves or in hollow trees or logs. Spanish lynx are hunted for their fur and considered a critically endangered species.
	Spectacled Bear Tremarctos ornatus The spectacled bear is a small South American bear with distinctive facial coloring that resembles a ring encircling each eye. Its present range extends from Bolivia to Colombia, where it is restricted to high, steep, rugged areas unsuitable for agriculture. Spectacled bears feed mostly on wild fruits (especially figs) and on leaves, small animals, insects, and succulent herbs and grasses. They often stay in the tops of trees for extended periods. They are rather vocal, trilling as they travel, and the young hum when relaxed. Spectacled bears are not a significant threat to humans, but they can do serious damage to agricultural crops. Killing for meat or to reduce crop damage takes a serious toll on spectacled bear populations.
	Wolverine Gulo gulo The wolverine is a carnivorous mammal native to the northern regions of North America, Europe, and Asia. The wolverine's body is heavyset, the legs are short and thick, and the claws are long and curved. It has thick fur composed of long glossy hairs. The wolverine is nocturnal and does not hibernate. In spite of its seemingly clumsy movements, it can move swiftly. Wolverines will eat bird eggs, berries, and any animal they can kill. Lacking live prey, they will eat carrion. They are adept at robbing the traps that hunters set for other animals. Although once abundant, the wolverine is now rare due to overhunting, both for its fur and because it is viewed as a pest by some people.