rarest animals of the world does not have to be strange and confusing, often all familiar with them, just do not know that these animals are on the verge of extinction.Although there are among them, and quite extraordinary creation.
Such a section of the Red Book as the rarest animals is a big panda, of which there are individuals around the world no more than 700. Most of the representatives of this species lives in the Chinese reserves, and practically does not occur in the wild.These black-and-white animals are already recognized national treasure of China, so no one was surprised when the farmer who shot a panda and try to sell the hide, was sentenced to life imprisonment.
It is sad, but to date, rare animals in Africa - are representatives of the family of big cats - cheetahs and lions.The threat of large cats does human activity, because of what the historical population of these animals was reduced several times.African African bush elephant is also experiencing difficult times, the representatives of this type have about 700 thousand, but he is still listed in the Red Book as in need of protection.
most rare animals found in Indonesia and the island of New Guinea.They include varieties of spiny anteaters - strange beast, which, like the platypus has both beak and thick fur.Other interesting animals - Komodo dragon or a dragon, which is home to the Indonesian island of Komodo.This giant poisonous lizards, which on average weigh 70 kg, but according to some reports some individuals reached 166 kg and had a length of more than 3 meters.
rarest animals of Madagascar - a nocturnal lemurs aye-aye, in nature there are only 20 species of this unique species.It is worth noting that all species of lemurs (about 20) are threatened with extinction.
the sad fate of the last male representative of Galapagos tortoises, George.This species can already be considered extinct, as in the world there is only one 100-year-old specimen, and, despite a reward of $ 10,000, females of this species could not be found.
most rare animals Sumatra - a Sumatran rhinoceros, the least numerous members of the family, even when compared with white and black rhinos.This kind of numbers about 300 individuals and continues to ruthlessly exterminated because of the valuable horn, which cost up to 30 000 dollars per kilo.
Another rare and rather unusual beast - pangolin, which in appearance, many are taking a representative of the world of reptiles.But it is a mammal, simply clad in scales.This animal is well-known fact that in case of danger, rolled into a ball, which is virtually impossible to deploy because of an incredibly strong muscles.In addition, it is quite dangerous to do - pangolin scales are so sharp that you can easily cut yourself.
This is a very small list of rare animals.In fact there are many more: Chinese river dolphin, northern wombat, mountain couscous, Ethiopian Wolf, the eastern mountain gorilla and many other species in need of protection rights.
