Endangered Animals Done by: Charles Yan WenQing 3D

Content Page 1. Red Deer 2. Elephant 3. Great White Shark 4. Panda 5. Snow Leopard 6.White Tiger

Red Deer Red Deer is one of the largest species of deer in the world. The species discussed here is the European Red Deer that inhabits most of Europe and the Caucasus Mountains region and Asia Minor west of the Caspian Sea. It also inhabits the Atlas Mountains region between Algeria and Tunisia in northwestern Africa, being the only species of deer to inhabit Africa . Red Deer have been introduced to other areas including New Zealand and Argentina. In many parts of the world the meat from Red Deer is widely used as a food source.

Elephants Twenty-five years ago, there were approximately 1.3 million elephants in Africa, but now it is estimated that there are about 500,000. In Asia, the numbers are even less. Elephants might be the most well-known and well-loved animal in the line-up of African wildlife. The overall elephant population is half of what it was 40 years ago, some regions of Africa have more elephants than populated areas can support. Years ago, overhunting and the ivory trade were the biggest threats to elephants’ survival. Fortunately, ivory bans, hunting regulations, and protected areas safeguard elephants from these pressures today.

Great White Shark Reaching lengths of about 6 metres (20 ft) and weighing almost 2,000 kilograms (4,400 lb), the great white shark is the world's largest known predatory fish. Great white sharks live in almost all coastal and offshore waters which have a water temperature of between 12 and 30° C (54° to 75° F), with greater concentrations off the southern coasts of Australia, off South Africa, California, Mexico's Isla Guadalupe and to a degree in the Central Mediterranean and Adriatic Seas. They can be also found in tropical waters like those of the Caribbean and has been recorded off Mauritius.

Panda The Giant Panda is an endangered animal; an estimated 3,000 pandas live in the wild and over 180 were reported to live in captivity by August 2006 in mainland China . Like most subtropical mammals, but unlike most bears, the giant panda does not hibernate . Until recently, scientists thought giant pandas spent most of their lives alone, with males and females meeting only during the breeding season. Recent studies paint a different picture, in which small groups of pandas share a large territory and sometimes meet outside the breeding season . Despite its taxonomic classification as a carnivore, the panda has a diet that is primarily herbivorous, which consists almost exclusively of bamboo.

Snow Leopard The snow leopard is a large cat native to the mountain ranges of central and south Asia. Despite its name, the snow leopard is not related to the leopard  

White Tigers White tigers are individual specimens of the ordinary orange tiger with a genetic condition that causes paler colouration. The modern strain of snow white tigers came from repeated brother-sister matings of Bhim and Sumita at Cincinnati zoo. The gene involved possibly came from the Siberian tiger via their part-Siberian ancestor Tony. Continued inbreeding appears to have caused a recessive gene for stripelessness to show up.

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