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Zoological Society of London lists 10 on the edge of extinction.
1 Yangtze River dolphin
2 Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, an egg-laying mammal
3 Hispaniolan solenodon, a venomous shrew-like creature
4 Bactrian camel
5 Pygmy hippopotamus
6 Slender Loris, a shy, nocturnal primate with gigantic eyes
7 Hirola antelope, known as the “four-eye antelope” as their preorbital glands look like a second set of eyes
8 Golden-rumped elephant shrew, which is the size of a small rabbit
9 Bumblebee bat, possibly the world’s smallest mammal
10 Long-eared jerboa, a mouse-like animal with the largest ear-to-body ratio of any mammal.
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 6:59 p.m. ET Jan 15, 2007
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1 Yangtze River dolphin
2 Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, an egg-laying mammal
3 Hispaniolan solenodon, a venomous shrew-like creature
4 Bactrian camel
5 Pygmy hippopotamus
6 Slender Loris, a shy, nocturnal primate with gigantic eyes
7 Hirola antelope, known as the “four-eye antelope” as their preorbital glands look like a second set of eyes
8 Golden-rumped elephant shrew, which is the size of a small rabbit
9 Bumblebee bat, possibly the world’s smallest mammal
10 Long-eared jerboa, a mouse-like animal with the largest ear-to-body ratio of any mammal.
MSNBC staff and news service reports
Updated: 6:59 p.m. ET Jan 15, 2007
PC