NAME: Scarlet macaw
Latin name: Ara macao
HOME: Tropical rain forests from
southern Mexico to northern
Brazil and eastern Peru
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Seeds, fruit,
nuts, berries
NAME: Sumatran rhinoceros
Latin name: Dicerorhinus
sumatrensis
HOME: From sea level swamps to
the mountains of Borneo, Sumatra,
Malaysia, and the Asiatic
mainland
STATUS: Endangered
FAVORITE FOODS: Leaves, twigs,
bark and fruit; especially likes
wild mangoes, figs, and bamboo
NAME: Malayan tapir
Latin name: (Tapirus indicus)
HOME: Humid, swampy, dense
jungles where there are shrub
plants and grassy openings or
meadows bordering streams; Burma,
Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
STATUS: Endangered
FAVORITE FOODS: Underwater
plants, leaves, buds, twigs and
the fruit of low-growing plants
NAME: Green and black poison
arrow frog
Latin name: Dendrobates auratus
HOME: Drier areas of forest in
Central America
STATUS: Not listed
FAVORITE FOODS: Fruit flies,
ants, small insects
NAME: Emu
Latin name: Dromaius
novaehollandiae
HOME: Australia in coastal scrub,
eucalyptus groves and saltbush
plains
STATUS: Secure in its range
FAVORITE FOODS: Plants, insects,
larvae, small animals
NAME: American alligator
Latin name: Alligator
mississippiensis
HOME: Rivers and bayous in
southeastern United States
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Turtles, birds,
mammals, fish, and reptiles that
approach the water
NAME: Common boa constrictor
Latin name: Constrictor
constrictor
HOME: Mountain tropical forests
in Mexico and Central and South
America. Also found in semi-arid
scrub in parts of its range.
STATUS: Not listed
FAVORITE FOODS: Small mammals,
birds, iguanas
NAME: Chimpanzee
Latin name: Pan troglodytes
HOME: Tropical rain forests,
deciduous woodlands, or mixed
savannas north and east of the
Zaire River in Africa
STATUS: Endangered
FAVORITE FOODS: Fruit, leaves,
seeds, bark, resin, honey,
insects, eggs, baboons, bush pigs
NAME: Green iguana
Latin name: Iguana iguana
HOME: Along lakes and rivers in
lowland tropical forests from
southern Mexico to South America
STATUS: Endangered; being
captive-bred and released in
Belize
FAVORITE FOODS: Older green
iguanas eat mostly plants;
younger ones eat small animals
and insects
NAME: Jaguar
Latin name: Panthera onca
HOME: Tropical and sub-tropical
forests and savannas from
southwestern United States
through northern Argentina and
southern Brazil
STATUS: Endangered
FAVORITE FOODS: Tapirs, turtles
and tortoises, birds, monkeys,
deer, rodents, and fish
NAME: Toco toucan
Latin name: Ramphastos toco
HOME: Mexico to N. Columbia.
Lowland forests and forest
borders
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Fruits, insects,
reptiles, bird eggs.
NAME: Queensland koala
Latin name: Phascolarctos
cinereus
HOME: Eucalyptus forests of
coastal northeastern Australia
STATUS: Threatened
FAVORITE FOODS: Eucalyptus
leaves; of the approximately 600
species of eucalyptus, koalas at
the San Diego Zoo will eat only
18.
NAME: Eastern gray kangaroo
Latin name: Macropus giganteus
HOME: Open woodlands of eastern
and central Queensland, New South
Wales, Victoria; extreme
southeastern Australia and
Tasmania
STATUS: Secure in its range
FAVORITE FOODS: Grasses
NAME: Tasmanian devil
Latin name: Sarcophilus
HOME: Thickets and underbrush on
the island of Tasmania; lived in
southern Australia until the
introduction of wild dogs
STATUS: Secure in its range
FAVORITE FOODS: Prefers carrion,
some vegetation, and any animal
it can catch (including
wallabies, wombats, lambs,
chickens, rabbits, and poisonous
snakes) although it is not adept
at catching living prey
NAME: True two-toed sloth
Latin name: Choloepus didactylus
HOME: Tropical rain forests in
Central and South America
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Young leaves,
tender twigs, fruit
NAME: Common wombat or coarsehaired wombat
Latin name: Vombatus ursinus
HOME: Mountains, temperate
forests, and rocky areas in
southeastern Australia and
Tasmania
STATUS: Secure in range
FAVORITE FOODS: Grass, roots and
fungi
NAME: Milky stork
Latin name: Mycteria cinera
HOME: Southeast Asia
STATUS: Vulnerable
FAVORITE FOODS: Fish,
invertebrates
NAME: Pygmy hippopotamus
Latin name: Choeropsis
liberiensis
HOME: Streams and swamps in
lowland forests from Sierra Leone
to Nigeria
STATUS: Vulnerable
FAVORITE FOODS: Tender shoots,
leaves, fallen fruit
NAME: Single-wattled cassowary
Latin name: Casuarius
unappendiculatus
HOME: Tropical rain forests in
New Guinea, northeastern
Australia and nearby islands
STATUS: Secure in range
FAVORITE FOODS: Fruit, seeds,
berries, fish, insects
NAME: Slow loris
Latin name: Nycticebus coucang
HOME: Tropical rain forests in
southeastern Asia, Malay
Peninsula, western Indonesia
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Insects, birds,
eggs, and fruit
NAME: Pallid Bat
Latin name: Antrozous pallidus
HOME: Found from Mexico and the
extreme southwestern U.S. and
north through Oregon, Washington
and western Canada. A few
isolated colonies live in
southern Kansas and northern
Oklahoma. Lives in deep crevices
in rock faces, buildings or
bridges, caves, mine tunnels, and
trees.
STATUS: Common
FAVORITE FOODS: Prey on crickets,
grasshoppers, centipedes, June
and ground beetles and even
scorpions.
NAME: Tarantula
Latin name: Aphonopelma chalcodes
HOME: Tarantulas found in North
America occur in the southern and
southwestern states, including
the dry and warmer parts of the
southern California
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: grasshoppers,
beetles, sow bugs and other small
spiders
NAME: Zebra swallowtail butterfly
Latin Name: Iphiclides marcellus,
Graphium marcellus, or Papilio
arcellus
HOME:
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NAME: Domestic honeybee
Latin name: Apis mellifera
HOME: Europe
STATUS:
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NAME: Dragonfly
Latin name: Libellula forensis
HOME:
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NAME: Rhinoceros beetle
Latin name: Oryctes
HOME:
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NAME: PRAYING MANTIS
Latin Name: Mantis religiosa
HOME:
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NAME: Short-horned grasshopper
Latin Name: Acrididae
HOME:
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NAME: Fruit fly
Latin name: Trypetidae
HOME:
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: fruit or other
vegetative matterfruit or other
vegetative matter
NAME: Sevenspotted Lady beetle
Latin name: Coccinella
septempunctata
HOME: The aggregation site may be
located at the base of a tree,
along a fence row, under a fallen
tree or under a rock.
STATUS :
FAVORITE FOODS: feed on many
different soft-bodied insects
with aphids being their main food
source; they prey also on many
other pests such as soft scale
insects, mealybugs, spider mites
and eggs of the Colorado Potato
Beetle and European Corn Borer. A
few feed on mildews
NAME: Giant Pacific Octopus
Latin name: Octopus Dofleini
HOME: North East and North West
Pacific Ocean
STATUS:
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NAME: Sunflower Star
Latin name: Pycnopodia
helianthoides
HOME: Lives in the Cold Water
Tank
STATUS:
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NAME: Bottlenose dolphin
Latin name: Tursiops truncatus
HOME: Dolphins don't have to live
in salt water, but this is where
they developed and have adapted
to living.
STATUS: Bottlenose dolphins are
protected in U.S. waters by the
Marine Mammal Protection Act of
1972.
FAVORITE FOODS: Dolphins are
active predators and eat a wide
variety of fishes, squids, and
crustaceans such as shrimps . The
foods available to a dolphin vary
with its geographical location.
NAME: Killer whale
Latin name:
Orcinus orca
HOME: Killer whales live in all
the oceans of the world. They're
most abundant in the Arctic and
Antarctic, and areas of coldwater upwelling, where the
nutrient-rich water is full of
marine life.
STATUS: Not endangered.
FAVORITE FOODS: fishes, squids,
and marine mammals, and seabirds;
killer whales prey on both
mysticete and odontocete whales,
seals, sea lions, walruses, and
occasionally sea otters and
penguins.
NAME: Green sea turtle
Latin name: Chelonia mydas
HOME: Tropical and subtropical
areas near continental coasts and
around island.
STATUS: Endangered (Florida
Breading Population); Threatened
(all other population)
FAVORITE FOODS:
NAME: Loggerhead sea turtle
Latin name: Caretta caretta
HOME: Coastal tropical and
subtropical waters; will venture
into temperate waters, to
baundaries of warm currents;
prefer coastal bays, but have
been found in streams creeks and
in the open ocean.
STATUS: Threathed
FAVORITE FOODS:
NAME: European shrimp
Latin Name: Crangon vulgaris
HOME: Occurs in coastal waters on
both sides of the North Atlantic
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Food consists of
small plants and animals
NAME: PINK PIGEON
Latin name: Nesoenas mayeri
HOME: The pink pigeon is endemic
to the island of Maruritius in
the Indian Ocean. Thought once to
be widely distributed on
Mauritius, this species is now
limited to the Black River Gorges
area located in the southwest
region of the island.
STATUS: The pink pigeon is listed
as endangered.
FAVORITE FOODS: The pink pigeon
feeds upon the buds, leaves,
flowers, fruits and seeds of both
native and exotic vegetation.
NAME: Seahorses
Latin name: Hippocampus
HOME: Seahorses are found in
temperate and tropical waters.
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Sucks up tiny
plankton and fish larvae.
NAME: Sawfish
Latin Name: Pristis
HOME:
STATUS:
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NAME:American lobster
Latin Name: Homarus americanus
HOME: American lobster found in
waters from Labrador to North
Carolina, sometimes dwells in
shallow water but is more
abundant in deeper water down to
200 fathoms (1,200 feet [366 m]).
STATUS:
FAVORITE FOODS: Lobsters scavenge
for dead animals but also eat
live fish, small mollusks and
other bottom-dwelling
invertebrates,and seaweed.
NAME: eel
Latin Name: Anguilliformes
HOME: Eels are found in all seas,
from coastal regions to the middepths
STATUS IN WILD:
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