MINI PROJECT # 3: The Endangered Animals of Colombia

1. Scarlet Macaw: Beautiful bird with a great ability to mimick sounds made by the human voice as well as perform entertaining and amazing tricks.This bird became endangered due to a high demand for its colorful feathers in earlier centuries, and remains so due to individuals removing the young from their nests in order to keep them as pets.
2. Bespectacled Bear: This bear is not a threat to human life yet it is killed because it is believed to do damage to agriculture and also killed for its meat.
3. Gorga's Rice Rat: This rat is critically engangered and endemic to Colombia.
4. Handley's slemder mouse opossum also critically endandgered and endemic to Colombia.
5. Colombian Weasel: Five different speciesw of this animal found in colombia within areas where great deforestation has occured. Deforrestaiton may have had an impact on this animal's current endangered status.
6. Cottontop Tamarin: Endemic to Colombia; a small monkey the size of a squirrel that has become endangered due to 3/4 of its original habitat being deforrested. They are also collected and captures as pets in the illegal pet trade of Colombia and the Cottontip mandarin is a species that is victim to illegal exportation.
6. Dryland Mouse Opossum
7. Giant Armadillo
8. Giant Otter
9. Mountain Tapir: Declined due to clearing and burning of habitat for purposes of agriculture and livestock. This animal ahs also been hunted for meat as well as for sport. Many mountain Tapira died during the 1960's when in the midst of being captured for zoos many were killed.
10. Pacarana: A large rodent that is said to resemble a very large guinea pig. Species threatened due to habitat loss and hunting by man for food.
Info. found on: http://www.animalinfo.org/country/colombia.htm