Endangered Species of the World Trivia Word Search

The largest living lemur, this Madagascar primate is known for its loud, haunting song.

Several species of this scavenging bird collapsed in numbers across South Asia after a veterinary drug poisoned their food.

This small South American monkey includes the golden lion species, famous for its fiery mane-like fur.

This reddish-brown forest antelope has white stripes and spiral horns; a mountain subspecies is critically endangered in Kenya.

Covered in tough keratin scales, this ant-eating mammal is the world's most trafficked wild animal.

A spotted, cat-sized marsupial predator of Australia and New Guinea, several species of this animal are declining fast.

This giant, wing-like ray filter-feeds on plankton and can have a wingspan of over 20 feet.

This desert antelope with long, straight horns went extinct in the wild before being reintroduced from zoo populations.

The world's largest living lizard is named for the Indonesian island where it is found.

A hammer-headed species of this cartilaginous fish is heavily overfished for its fins.

The world's largest primate, this African great ape includes several critically endangered species and subspecies.

This ancient, bony-plated fish produces the eggs used for caviar and is critically endangered across the Caspian Sea basin.

This intelligent great ape, humanity's closest living relative, is endangered across equatorial Africa.

One of the world's smallest monkeys, a pygmy species of this primate can fit in a human hand.

Sometimes called a 'bearcat,' this shaggy Southeast Asian mammal smells oddly like buttered popcorn.

This fish swims upright and is one of the few animals in which males, not females, carry the developing young.

This Mexican salamander never loses its larval gills and can regrow entire lost limbs.

This flightless, nocturnal bird with nostrils at the tip of its beak is a national symbol of New Zealand.

A number of freshwater species of this small, lobster-like crustacean are endangered due to pollution and invasive competitors.

Freshwater species of this filter-feeding, hinge-shelled mollusk are among the most endangered animals in North America.

This tree-dwelling Australian marsupial feeds almost exclusively on eucalyptus leaves.

A wild population of this fish, once abundant in California's rivers, has crashed due to dams and habitat loss.

Covered in spines like a hedgehog, this egg-laying Australian mammal uses a long sticky tongue to eat ants.

A red-coated species of this canine predator is critically endangered and found only in a small part of the southeastern U.S.

Giant species of this slow-moving reptile on the Galapagos Islands can live well over 100 years.

This colorful-billed seabird nests in burrows along cold northern coastlines and is declining due to warming seas.

A carnivorous Tasmanian marsupial, notorious for its shrieking calls, has been devastated by a contagious facial tumor disease.

Light pollution and habitat loss threaten many species of this glowing, bioluminescent beetle.

A Chinese '_ _ _ _ _ _'-fish, a long-snouted river giant related to the sturgeon, was declared extinct in 2019.

A slender, fast-running species of this antelope from the Arabian Peninsula is critically endangered due to habitat loss.

North America's only native species of this weasel relative nearly went extinct before a captive breeding program saved it.

A European species of this snake-like fish migrates thousands of miles to spawn in the Sargasso Sea.

The world's smallest and most endangered porpoise survives only in Mexico's Gulf of California.

Hunted to the brink of extinction in the 1800s, this shaggy plains mammal has since made a slow comeback.

This large wild goat, known for its corkscrew-shaped horns, lives in the mountains of Central and South Asia.

Madagascar's largest predator, this cat-like carnivore hunts lemurs in the island's forests.

This ancient reptile, found only in New Zealand, is the last survivor of an order that predates the dinosaurs.

Rusty-patched populations of this fuzzy, black-and-yellow pollinating insect have declined sharply in North America.

This small, striped Australian marsupial feeds almost entirely on termites and now survives in only a few tiny pockets.

The largest cat in the Americas, this powerful rosette-patterned predator ranges from Mexico to Argentina.

A bright orange species of this amphibian, once found only in Costa Rica's cloud forests, hasn't been seen since 1989.

One of the world's largest and most powerful eagles, this raptor is named for a mythical winged monster.

This long-eared, burrowing Australian marsupial has become a native Easter mascot in its home country.

A crocodile-tailed species of this small amphibian lives in mountain pools of southern China and is threatened by collecting.

A tree-dwelling, brightly colored species of this shelled mollusk from Hawaii has nearly vanished due to an invasive predator.

A '_ _ _ _ _' sea turtle, named for the color of its body fat rather than its shell, nests on tropical beaches worldwide.

This huge seabird, famed for its long wingspan, is threatened by longline fishing and plastic pollution.

This Arctic whale is famous for the long, spiraled tusk that grows from its upper jaw.

This small, tailless ape swings through Southeast Asian forests using its long arms.

Also called the Asiatic wild dog, this reddish, pack-hunting canine is endangered across South and Southeast Asia.

A pink-colored species of this large lizard is found only on one volcano on the Galapagos island of Isabela.

Rising ocean temperatures cause this colonial marine organism to expel its algae and turn white, a process called bleaching.

A golden species of this small amphibian from Panama is believed extinct in the wild due to a deadly fungal disease.

The largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family, this fierce carnivore roams northern forests and tundra.

This slow-moving South American mammal spends most of its life hanging upside down in trees.

A wild species of this shaggy, high-altitude bovine roams the Tibetan Plateau and is threatened.

The fastest land animal, this spotted cat has an isolated, critically endangered Asian population in Iran.

A migratory species of this orange-and-black insect faces population collapse from habitat loss along its migration route.

This tufted-eared wild cat has an Iberian species that was once the world's most endangered feline.

Nicknamed the 'Asian unicorn,' this rarely seen forest bovine was only discovered by scientists in 1992.

This black-and-white bear from China survives almost entirely on bamboo.

Poached heavily for its horn, this thick-skinned African and Asian mammal comes in white and black varieties.

This slow-moving, plant-eating marine mammal is sometimes called a 'sea cow.'

Once thought extinct, this flightless New Zealand bird was rediscovered alive in 1948.

Covered in bony plates, this burrowing mammal includes a vulnerable giant species from South America.

A diamondback species of this brackish-water turtle lives along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.

This ray relative has a long, tooth-lined snout and is among the most threatened groups of ocean fish.

This orange-haired great ape, found only on Borneo and Sumatra, is losing habitat to palm oil plantations.

This critically endangered sea turtle is prized, tragically, for the beautiful patterning of its shell.

A day-active, brightly colored species of this small lizard is endemic to and endangered on Madagascar.

The world's largest monkey, this colorful African primate has a vividly striped blue and red face.

Related to the giraffe, this striped-legged forest mammal is native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

This flightless, nocturnal New Zealand parrot is one of the rarest birds on Earth.

A burrowing Australian marsupial, one critically endangered species of this animal is known as the northern hairy-nosed kind.

This long, thin-snouted crocodile relative from South Asia is critically endangered in the wild.

This prehistoric-looking Amazonian bird has clawed wings as a chick and a digestive system like a cow's.

This big cat, the largest of all cats, has orange fur with black stripes and is endangered across its Asian range.

This nocturnal Madagascar primate uses a long, thin middle finger to fish grubs out of tree bark.

A relative of the manatee, this marine mammal grazes on seagrass in the warm waters of the Indo-Pacific.

This pale, twisted-horned antelope is adapted to life in the Sahara Desert and is critically endangered in the wild.

A vividly blue species of this large parrot, the inspiration for the animated film Rio, vanished from the wild around 2000.

A pygmy, blue-tongued species of this burrowing lizard was thought extinct for over 30 years before its 1992 rediscovery in Australia.

This tiny nocturnal primate has enormous eyes and is found on islands in Southeast Asia.

A tall, white North American species of this wading bird was down to about 20 birds in the 1940s.

This spotted big cat has a critically endangered subspecies found only on the Indonesian island of Java.

This small, tree-climbing wild cat of Central and South America can rotate its ankles nearly 180 degrees to climb down headfirst.

This ancient, spiral-shelled relative of squid and octopus survives largely unchanged after millions of years.

A bald-headed species of this large wading bird is endangered across parts of South and Southeast Asia.

This egg-laying Australian mammal has a duck-like bill and venomous spurs on its hind legs.

North America's largest flying bird, a Californian species of this scavenger was once reduced to just 27 individuals.