Región Internacional. Los tres primeros puestos en la lista de las 100 Especies más amenazadas al peligro de extinción en el planeta, son ocupadas por el camaleón de Tarzán, el correlimos cuchareta y el perezoso pigmeo, de acuerdo con la extensión publicada hoy por la la Zoological Society of London (ZSL) y la UICN, Unión
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Researchers have measured the swimming speed of the ocean’s slowest shark. Data-logging tags revealed that Greenland sharks “cruise” at 0.34m per second – less than 1mph. The study showed that, even when the languid fish embarks on a burst of speed in order to hunt, it is far too slow to catch a swimming seal.
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The king cobra is the largest but certainly not the only threatened East Asian snake East Asia’s status as the world’s main “extinction hotspot” is confirmed in the new Red List of Threatened Species. Snakes such as the king cobra, the world’s largest venomous serpent, are increasingly threatened by hunting for meat, skin and the
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Aug. 3, 2009: A gharial eats a fish at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India. The gharial, also known as the Indian crocodile, was on the verge of extinction in the 1970s, but a government breeding program that has released several hundred into the wild has raised their numbers. (AP Photo/ Anupam Nath) The
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