Endangered Animals Quiz

If you're lucky, you may spot a threatened northern spotted owl on a hike in the old-growth forests of which state?

Spotted Owl (Image credit: Erwin and Peggy Bauer/Bruce Coleman, Inc.)

California

Oregon

Washington

All of the above

Where do endangered polar bears spend most of their time?

Polar Bear on an Ice Floe (Image credit: Konrad Wothe/Oxford Scientific Films)

On or near the edge of the pack ice

On land

At the zoo

In the water

When the West Virginia northern flying squirrel was declared an endangered species in 1985, how many were known to exist?

Flying Squirrel (Image credit: BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.)

100

The critically endangered Amur leopard is a subspecies of leopard found in a habitat very different from the African savannah. Where are they found?

Alaska and British Columbia

The Amazon rain forest

The Russian Far East and northern China

The islands of the South Pacific

Which near-threatened raptor is known by the name "ossifrage," or "bone crusher," in Germany, one of its native countries?

Bald eagle

Golden eagle

Turkey vulture

Bearded vulture

Which are the two biggest threats to the giant pandas of China?

Giant Panda (Image credit: Art Wolfe/ALLSTOCK, INC.)

Poaching and habitat loss

Pollution of streams and rivers

Disease and low birth rates

Tourists

The endangered eastern lowland gorilla is found only in the rain forests of which African country?

Namibia

Tanzania

Democratic Republic of Congo

Zambia

The saola is a recently discovered -- and already endangered -- mammal native to Laos and Vietnam. It is a member of the family that includes which other animals?

Antelope, buffalo, bison, cattle, goats and sheep

Dolphins, whales and porpoises

Deer, moose and elk

Old world fruit bats

Which of these tiger subspecies has not yet become officially extinct?

Tiger (Image credit: Zig Leszczysnki/Animals Animals)

Bali tiger

Caspian tiger

Javan tiger

South China tiger

Black rhino populations declined drastically during the 1970s and 1980s due to poaching. How great was the decline?

Black Rhinoceros and Calf (Image credit: Anup and Manoj Shah/Animals Animals)

6 percent

26 percent

56 percent

96 percent