10 of the RAREST Animals on Earth - Part 2

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In this video we're looking at 10 extremely rare animals:
1. Māui dolphin (Cephalorhynchus hectori maui)
2. Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei)
3. Ganges Shark (Glyphis gangeticus)
4. Lange's Metalmark Butterfly (Apodemia mormo langei)
5. Vancouver Island Marmot (Marmota vancouverensis)
6. Ethiopian Wolf (Canis simensis)
7. Sulu Hornbill (Anthracoceros montani)
8. Sakhalin Sturgeon (Acipenser mikadoi)
9. Vangunu Giant Rat (Uromys vika)
10. Belalanda Chameleon (Furcifer belalandaensis)

Music:
Tranquility Coast
Rebecca Mardal

[peterashby-saracen]

Almost as devastating as the scarcity of these almost vanished species are the destruction of their habitats, the frequent lack of effort to protect them, and the dreadful lack of awareness among a global public that is only accustomed to giant pandas and tigers being "endangered species". That's one reason why your channel needs to be shared as much as possible!

[dodoxasaurus]

The Giant Yangtze soft-shell turtle is genuinely the saddest rare animal, being functionally extinct as of now, I really hope a female is found soon

[albatross]

I remember learning about the Yangtze Soft shell turtle from a pbs documentary "the loneliest animals". My favorite episode but also one of the most heartbreaking 😢

[chadgorosaurus]

The Giant Softshell needs a comeback. They are such a cool species.

[shubhankardev]

The Asiatic Cheetah, Northwest African Cheetah, South China Tiger, Asiatic Lion, Congo Lion, West African Lion, Otter Civet, Bay Cat, Pygmy Hog, Gobi Bear, Sumatran Rhinoceros and Javan Rhinoceros come to mind - it would be great to see them featured in your videos. I wish IUCN, WWF and Conservation International did more for them, especially the Asiatic Cheetah which is reportedly down to about a dozen individuals.

[Jacemannn]

Your slowly becoming my favorite YT channel

[ryzn]

Stumbled upon your channel and I love it. Never knew how many animals we are close to losing

[dodoxasaurus]

Ohhhh come on the the Sulu Hornbill, they need to be saved!!!

[Jeh]

I feel immensely lucky to have stumbled upon this channel. I love it so much.

[SavoxYT]

It really seems like nothing can survive in the Yangtze River at this point.

[fluffies]

I lived in the range of that metal mark species my entire childhood and never even knew it existed, let alone might have encountered one of the rarest butterflies in the world. Absolutely wild.

[Dan]

I've seen a Vancover marmot, on a ski hill during the summer when I did a zipline thing

[reyyanyt]

you need atleast 50k views, your content are GREAT, keep it going

[DarkAngel-wjom]

I love this channel...it brings me wonderous new species....then breaks my heart at their plight.

[QuickManSimp]

Another great video from the most underrated and best YouTube channel, once again covering my favorite topic of critically endangered species, amazing research and great content as always!

[SublimeSynth]

we exist at one of the most simultaneously beautiful and tragic times in human history, a time where science and technological advancement connects us in ways most of human history couldn't dream of, both to each other and to a jarring understanding of the ways we've decimated the biosphere in the process.

[machocatrandy]

A couple of corrections on the part about Lange’s Metalmark. The banks that host the dunes are those of the San Joaquin river, not the Sacramento. These two rivers do join together a few miles west of the aforementioned dunes into the San Francisco Bay but at this location the rivers are still separate and the San Joaquin is both geographically and culturally very separate from the Sacramento. Secondly, this is not the San Francisco Bay region as you mentioned but the Great Central Valley’s delta region: we here colloquially call it “the delta.”

Sorry to be “that guy” but I am an environmental field biologist here in the San Joaquin Valley and these distinctions do matter as much of this area gets overlooked and overshadowed by LA, the Bay Area, and even to a degree Sacramento as your diction kind of shows in the video. California is as biologically diverse as the many other famous biological hotspots in the world, one of if not the most geomorphologically diverse places in the world, and absurdly culturally diverse and so I feel as though these small and seemingly trivial distinctions matter.

This being said, I absolutely love your videos and binged them all when I first found your channel. You do a fantastic job at relying important information to those who otherwise might go through their entire life without knowing this vital information. Keep up the great work.

[julescaru]

Sad stories, but thank you for telling them 😢💕

[thatonepossum]

Oh my gosh, cats don’t just decimate birds and lizards, they’re killing DOLPHINS too?! I don’t know whether to laugh, or sit in stunned silence…

[kelvinchua]

This is the rare fish the ladder gudgeon, or Bostrychus scalaris. This species is from Singapore and is located at Pasir Ris Park. Just rediscovered on 14 Feb 2024. But is a rare and little-known fish named for the stepladder-like banded pattern on its body. First documented the fish was a watercolor painting in a notebook compiled in Singapore between 1858 and 1862.