A few nice endangered animals images I found:
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Image by BethanyWeeks
Lion (Panthera leo)
The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with an endangered remnant population in Gir Forest National Park in India, having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a possibly irreversible population decline of thirty to fifty percent over the past two decades in its African range. Lion populations are untenable outside designated reserves and national parks. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are currently the greatest causes of concern. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion
Henry Vilas Free Zoo
Madison, Wisconsin
June 15, 2011
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Image by BethanyWeeks
"Leo pold"
Lion (Panthera leo)
The lion is one of the four big cats in the genus Panthera, and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg (550 lb) in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia with an endangered remnant population in Gir Forest National Park in India, having disappeared from North Africa and Southwest Asia in historic times. Until the late Pleistocene, about 10,000 years ago, the lion was the most widespread large land mammal after humans. They were found in most of Africa, across Eurasia from western Europe to India, and in the Americas from the Yukon to Peru. The lion is a vulnerable species, having seen a possibly irreversible population decline of thirty to fifty percent over the past two decades in its African range. Lion populations are untenable outside designated reserves and national parks. Although the cause of the decline is not fully understood, habitat loss and conflicts with humans are currently the greatest causes of concern. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion
Henry Vilas Free Zoo
Madison, Wisconsin
June 15, 2011
teaching oppression: false categories
Image by arimoore
the labels read farm animals, wild animals, animal series (with different modes, collect them all!). these categories allow us to treat the same animal differently, depending on what role we humans have assigned to him or her. is she's a farm animal we can do anything we want to her, including lifelong torture followed by slaughter. if he's a wild animal we can hunt him, but if there are too few of him, we call him endangered and may even force breeding (perhaps in a zoo) to get his population back up to where we can hunt him again. if she's a pet she's still property but you can love her and if you're too cruel to her your neighbors might call the authorities on you. if she's an experimental subject the sky's the limit, as long as you get approvals first. toys like these allow us to teach these arbitrary categories to children, using animals we've agreed symbolically represent each category. (dogs might be problematic, since some cultures call them farmable food products and some cultures call them "man's best friend" while simultaneously cutting them up in laboratories and forcing them to perform tricks and pull sleds and.... well, you get the idea.)
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