CRUNCH!!!

Here at seaotter-space, we did not think that the alligator snapping turtle would become the 6th most endangered animal in the world, but it happened. It has a spiked shell, razor- sharp mouth lining, and a strange worm-like tongue. This tongue lures fish closer and closer until-SNAP!!! the snapping turtle lives up to its name. Fish is not the only thing an alligator snapping turtle will eat. It will partake anything it can swallow. That includes any part of you that sticks out close enough. On a freshwater animal 1 to 10 danger scale, 1 being a clam, and 10 being a crocodilian, the alligator snapping turtle rates an 8.5. It is endangered because people eat its eggs and meat too much.

Living fossil

This is a coelacanth. Scientists believe that coelacanths were a big step to fish evolving into amphibians. the coelacanths brain is 1.5 cranial knowledge, and the rest is fat. There is the coelacanth, but swimming not to far away from it is an entirely different species of coelacanth, known as the Indonesian coelacanth. There are only about 1,000 left, so they are considered an endangered species.

This is a saker falcon. It do'snt make it's own nest. It steals others! It can dive at 200 miles per hour. It is endangered due to habitat loss.

A sheep in wolf's clothing

This is the alligator gar. While most gars are teeny tiny things, the biggest recorded gar caught was 10 feet long, a size they can maximize by 4. They hide in vegetation and wait for an unlucky animal to come by. They owe their being endangered to superstition that they hurt people. Since then, they have put very nasty zapping-machines on the docks of texas to zap the gars dead. Good thing they recently confirmed it is harmless.

This is a critically endangered black crested macaque. It lives in groups of 5 to 25, the males being outnumbered 4 to 1(Although the males sometimes form bachelor groups). 70% of a black crested macaque's diet is fruit, the other 30% being leaves, buds, seeds, fungus, birds, bird eggs, insects, and the occasional lizard or frog. One captive, named Natasha, began walking on her hind legs after a stroke.

This is the silky sifaka lemur. It is one of the rarest animals on earth, and on the top 25 list of most endangered primates. They are called sifakas, because western dry forest sifakas give a hiss-like "shee faak". They spend 25% of the day feeding, 44.4% resting, and 16.8% devoted to social behavior, traveling, and sleeping. They are endangered due to deforestation. To help gain a psychological bond between lemurs and children, groups of children were taken on a three day eco tour in Marojejy national park in madagascar, the only place the sifaka lives.

chim chim cheroo...

These are burrowing crayfish. Every species of burrowing crayfish makes chimneys out of mud, but we do not know why. They eat decaying organic matter in soil, or they will eat a grub here or a worm there. Many things make them endangered, like dam building and ploughing and ripping to name a few.