National Geographic Animal Encyclopedia: 2,500 Animals with Photos, Maps, and More! (National Geographic Kids)

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The only survivors, alone on a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean, are Pi and the zoo's Bengal tiger, whose name is Richard Parker. The Big Five are not Africa’s largest species (although the elephant is): They are the most difficult to find and, when legal, to hunt. Species that are not threatened by extinction are placed within the first two categories—least concern and near-threatened. Fuji Safari Park offers night tours, so visitors can see nocturnal animals, or animals that are active at night.

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Urbanzoos are common in Europe, while many zoos in the United States developed as sprawling parks in suburbs outside cities. Biologists, anthropologists, meteorologists, and other scientists have developed complex ways to determine a species’ probability of extinction. The reptiles are considered to be the descendants of people who were miraculously turned into turtles by a saint during the 13th century. Those species that are extinct in some form are placed within the last two categories—extinct in the wild and extinct. A species is also classified as vulnerable if its “ area of occupancy” is estimated to be less than 2,000 square kilometers (772 square miles).

A species is vulnerable if its “ extent of occurrence” is estimated to be less than 20,000 square kilometers (7,722 square miles). These rare species are threatened by loss of habitat and the growing population of Papua New Guinea: Villagers hunt the tree kangaroo for meat. A generation is the period of time between the birth of an animal and the time it is able to reproduce. A species may be listed as extinct in the wild only after years of surveys have failed to record an individual in its native or expected habitat.

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Special features in each section include ANIMAL PROFILES spreads that focus in-depth on a particular animal and ANIMAL RECORDS spreads that highlight superlatives such as fastest, tallest, smallest, etc. An endangered species’ extent of occurrence is less than 5,000 square kilometers (1,930 square miles). Like many large game reserves, Gondwana has diverse ecosystems that occur naturally and has no need for landscape immersion. Featuring 2,500 species and packed with stunning color photographs, amazing animal facts, maps, and more, the new National Geographic Kids Animal Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive on the market today, amazing and entertaining readers, while providing them with authoritative information about the animal kingdom. Habitat loss from development in the 20th century is the main reason the tree went extinct in the wild.Many species of violets, native to tropical jungles in South America and Africa, are near threatened, for instance. The black soft-shell turtle ( Nilssonia nigricans) is a freshwater turtle that exists only in one man-made pond, at the Baizid Bostami Shrine near Chittagong, Bangladesh. During the 1970s and 1980s, governments and conservation groups worked to help the brown pelican recover. The book tells the story of three elephants of the Uneo Zoo in Tokyo, Japan, in the time leading up to World War II.

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The gray whale, for instance, has a healthy population in the eastern Pacific Ocean, along the coast of North and South America.The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the international organization for zoos, is concerned with the health of animals in zoos.

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Larger than urban and open-range zoos, safari parks are areas where tourists can drive their own cars to see non-native wildlife living in large, enclosed areas.Looking at samples of soil or water through a microscope reveals a whole world of bacteria and other tiny organisms. Scientists are interested in how much biodiversity there is on a global scale, given that there is still so much biodiversity to discover. The tropical weed Miconia is a non-native species that has taken over much of Tahiti’s native vegetation.