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wpeEF.jpg (4469 bytes)Picture of a Amur Lion
 WB01626_.gif (272 bytes) Claim to Fame: The Amur leopard's beautiful spotted coat can grow to be 3 inches long during the harsh, snowy winters where it lives.

 WB01626_.gif (272 bytes)Time to Eat: It hunts deer, foxes, and small mammals.

WB01626_.gif (272 bytes) Size: 3.5 feet long with 2.5 foot tail.

WB01626_.gif (272 bytes) What's Left?  Hunted for its fur, fewer than 30 survive in the mountainous forests of the Amur region of Russia.

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  button.gif (272 bytes) Claim to Fame: These eagles a are often called "monkey eating eagles".

button.gif (272 bytes)Time to Eat: They swoop through treetops catching monkeys,flying lemurs, squirrels, and birds. Each pair  needs  5-10 square miles of tropical forest in which to hunt.

button.gif (272 bytes)Size: 30-34 inches long.

button.gif (272 bytes) What's left?  The dense forests in the philippines where these eagles live are being cut down. fewer than 200 mokey- eating eagles are left.

                                                                                             

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Pictures courtsy of National Geographic World. Art work done by myself.