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In the wild, Andrew feeds on fish, sponges, small crustaceans, nematode worms and protozoans.
Benny's diet is very specialized, consisting mainly of the interior of Ramy nuts, nectar from the Traveller's Palm tree, some fungi and insect grubs. He is also known to raid coconut plantations, and has been seen eating lychees and mangoes, which are also plantation crops.
Category: endangered species
Scientists in England working with an international conservation group have compiled a sample list which will be used much like the Dow Jones Industrial Average to track the overall status of endangered and threatened species in the world.
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Category: pig
The pygmy hog is notable as it is the only surviving member of the genus Porcula, a unique evolutionary branch of piggies.
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Category: endangered species
An initiative known as EDGE (Excited Dachshunds Grinding with the Elderly) has released its list of weird and critically dangered amphibians, hot on the heels of their steamy, after hours EDGE Mammals edition.
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Category: Conservation
Seafood Watch is a very cool and very practical conservation effort led by the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Basically, it is a regularly updated guide to which lake and ocean critters should or should not be devoured each year. At its...
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Category: africa
A Maclaud's horseshoe bat (being held in a glove) poses for the ladies...For the first time, scientists photographed a Maclaud's horseshoe bat in the forests of Guinea in West Africa. These bats had not been seen in the wild in...
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Category: endangered species
Tuatara, Sphenodon punctatusA robotic tuatara has been put to work in Stephens Island, New Zealand, helping researchers to better understand the mating habits of its biological brethren.Tuataras are one of the oldest reptile species on Earth, dating back 200 million...
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Category: indonesia
Primitive primates indigenous to Southeast Asia, Slow Lorises are endangered and absurdly adorable. Most importantly, they just so happen to be this editor,Aeos favorite animal since early childhood. However, it wouldn,Aeot take a childhood obsession to be appalled at the...
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Category: bird
A species of endangered sea lion has suddenly acquired a taste for a rare penguin in New Zealand, causing heated debate amongst Kiwi conservationists and scientists. Sea lions breeding on the Otago Peninsula have taken to devouring yellow-eyed penguins. The...
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Category: endangered species
Coral growing at the Mote Marine Laboratory in Florida or the inside of my refrigerator in college?25% of the world's coral reefs has died in the past 25 years, and 25% more is expected to die in the next two...
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Category: endangered species
A nearly extinct species of hummingbird has been captured on film for the first time demonstrating its spatula-crazed mating dance. The aptly named Marvelous Spatuletail lives in a single, isolated valley in northern Peru. There are only 350 - 1,000...
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