by Scott Leslie
Iranian Gorgan mountain salamander: Mehregan Ebrahimi/Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons attribution-shareAlike 2.5
Irrawaddy river shark: Bill Harrison/Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons attribution 2.0 generic
Kakapo: belgianchocolate/Creative Commons attribution 2.0 generic
Lord Howe Island giant stick insect: Peter Halasz/Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons attribution-shareAlike 2.5
Mangrove finch: Michael Dvorak/Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons attribution-generic 2.5
Milu (Père David’s Deer): Wouter de Bruijn/Creative Commons attribution generic 2.0
Miss Waldron’s red colobus monkey: Fanny Schertzer/Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons attribution ShareAlike3.0
Mountain bongo: Lazurite/Creative Commons attribution-no derivatives
Nene (Hawaiian goose): Jose Felipe Ortega/Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike2.0 generic
Northern hairy-nosed wombat: Jason Pratt/Flickr Creative Commons attribution 2.0 generic
Northern sportive lemur: Leonora Enking
Northern white rhinoceros: Sheep81/Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons public domain
Pink pigeon: Christopher Sheehan
Pinta Island Galapagos giant tortoise: Putneymark/Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 generic
Przewalski’s horse: Christopher Sheehan
Puerto Rican amazon: USFWS/public domain
Rabb’s fringe-limbed tree frog: Dr. Bradley Wilson
St. Helena ebony: Rebecca Cairns-Wicks
Seychelles magpie robin: Jon Hornbuckle
Seychelles sheath-tailed bat: Gaetan Hoareau/Nature Seychelles
Short-tailed albatross: USFWS/Wikimedia Commons public domain
South China tiger: ltansey/Creative Commons attribution 2.0
Sulu hornbill: Wikimedia Commons public domain
Vancouver Island marmot: Oli Gardener/courtesy of Marmot Recovery Foundation
Virginia round-leaf birch: Vicky Somma
Whooping crane: USFWS/Steve Hillebrand
Wisent (European bison): Michael Berlin/Creative Commons attribution-ShareAlike2.0 generic
Wollemi pine: W.L. Cutler/Creative Commons attribution 2.0 generic
Yunnan box turtle: courtesy of Turtle Survival Alliance
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