Andean Condor Kyra Florea
Found in the alpine tundra of South America. It’s feathers are mostly black with white feathers on its wings. Their heads and necks are bare similarly to vultures. Male condors weigh 24 to 33 pounds while female condors weigh 18 to 24 pounds. Andean Condors live long lives, but take 6 to 8 years to mature, making mating hard to do. Interference from humans prevents disturbs their breeding patterns. Humans kill condors for sport, and farmers in particular shoot them because they think the condors kill their animals. While their populations are going down, they are not yet on the endangered species list. Attempts to bring their populations back up have only been moderately successful.
Yellow Bellied Marmot Anah Anees
The yellow bellied marmots are known to typically live at elevations of about 2,000 feet, throughout most of the western United States and southern Canada. They have a dark brown coat, a small white patch of fur between the eyes, a reddish tail, and a yellowbelly, this is what they are named after. The reside in colonies of about 10-20 Marmots, and begin to gain wait in the autumn shortly before hibernation. Yellow bellied marmots hibernate fro 8 months a year. When they are not in hibernation, they spend most days sunbathing on rocky surfaces. The rest of the time they spend their time socializing and foraging or grasses, flowers, and other substances. At the end of the day, they retire back to their burrows.
Snow Leopard Michael Rhodenbaugh
The snow leopard is from the cat family and closely resembles the tiger. It has the thickest coat out of all the cats though it doesn’t usually get much bigger than 3-4 feet in length. It uses its tail for balance and holds enough power in its hind legs to jump up to 20 feet. It is a limiting factor in an ecosystem as a predator and it will eat any animal up to 3 times its own size. It’s coat allows it to camouflage in with the surroundings which helps with both hunting and hiding but even so it has become an endangered species in the world with only 4,000 to 7,000 left.
The Vicnua is part of the camel family and is the smallest of the 6 species in the family. The Vicnua is also thought to be a cousin of the alpaca family. Although the Vicnua looks fragile, this animal is specially adept to the high attitude with a thick soft coat and continuously growing bottom teeth to eat tougher grasses. The Vicnua weighs between 75-140 lbs, is about 4-6 feet long, stands about 2-31/2 feet at the shoulders, with a rust color for most of their coat. They have about 45 acres that they protect, but are very skittish from humans. They were almost hunted to extinction for their soft fur but there is still a small population of them.
Vicnua Jared Myers
