Rarest Species You Probably Haven't Heard Of

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In this video, we're looking at ten lesser-known rare species.
1. Northern Hairy-Nosed Wombat
2. White-Winged Guan
3. Sumatran Striped Rabbit
4. Cyanea heluensis
5. Ornate Sleeper Ray
6. Popa Langur
7. Hirola
8. Red Handfish
9. Malabar Large-Spotted Civet
10. Adam’s Horseshoe Bat
Music:
An Abyss of Sadness
Jon Björk
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[@Fede_99]

Please keep making more of these I love learning about oscure species, and I also love the fact that you often put plants other than animals.

[@katiekane5247]

Habitat preservation is so important. Endangered plants are sometimes found in roadsides and power cuts.

[@Heavilymoderated]

I feel like they nailed the name with wombat. Definitely looks like a wombat.

[@emiwoo9355]

You know, I wumbat, you wumbat, he she me wumbat.

[@zyxw2000]

@@emiwoo9355 She wombatted.

[@WILD__THINGS]

I was thinking it kind of looks like a French Bulldog. Or maybe French Bulldogs kind of look like wombats. Either way, I decided if I ever get a Frenchie, I'll name it Wombat.

[@Heavilymoderated]

@@WILD__THINGS I think that’s an excellent decision.

[@DDDDdJagr]

Wow! Good call!!!! For sure they for sure do

[@Lenlon703]

Could confirm for the rabbit, Im Sumatran and I’ve only just discovered them from your video 😅

[@2degucitas]

Clicked for the handfish. Was not disappointed and got to squee at the adorable babies.

[@chadgorosaurus4898]

We need a way to get more people to be aware of these species. It might help them.

[@fortunewrangler8524]

I bet if these dudes weren't collecting these species to extinction that would help!! Amazing plants and animals!!! Nice video!

[@hinenik]

I have another one: the Gallotia intermedia of Tenerife. The giant lizards on this island were believed to be extinct but it was found one day in 1996 by a group of explorers. They found the lizard in an inaccessible cliff of the north and it lives there thanks to the seagull poops and the fact that there are no cats in such grounds.

[@synivy4576]

As a conservationist myself we’re fighting for species across the globe…we need to save the wildlife we have left it’s now or never.

[@Cillana]

@AfriBats can you provide more insight on Adam's horseshoe bat? 24:22

[@rhodrage]

That music reminds me of Professor Layton

[@acidbyt.30]

Hey Please make one on channa barcas too.

[@Ax_I]

W vid as always

[@thequackyest3604]

o7 hirola hartebeest

[@will-i-am-not]

Its impossible to say only 50 left, as its impossible to search entire reefs where this species lives

[@BeardedRealm]

I have one in my tank

[@luciferrises4656]

One what?

[@ChampagneKanyon]

Lmao what

[@BeardedRealm]

Arrdvarkgoatmoccasinbeetle

[@BeardedRealm]

Buckttothmantalizaradpidgeon

[@ChampagneKanyon]

@@BeardedRealm nice

[@princessaja2557]

For the algorithm 👊

[@ЯрикС-е1о]

21:22

[@ZVVWVVZ]

FTA

[@insectilluminatigetshrekt5574]

You forgot palpigrades

[@emonsalt]

in the philippines, youll find rare komodo dragons that uses yahoo messenger to look for American husbands

[@RCSVirginia]

To @emonsalt Yes, and those dragons of the subspecies Varanus komodoensis hall-and-oates.bring a whole new meaning to the term "man-eater."

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

lol

[@KyoushaPumpItUp]

Thanos was and always right.

[@albatross4920]

What's so insane to me is that a lot of these stories of rare/recently extinct animals have such small home ranges. Their ENTIRE WORLD is concentrated on one tiny Cliffside, or a little patch of rainforest, or just one little island in the ocean. It just makes learning about these animals feel all the more desperate 😔

[@jen_sen8508]

There is a species of shrimp called Procaris ascensionis where the entire population is found in only 2 tiny rock pools on the remote island of ascension in the middle of the altantic

[@jordyb57]

Or some pupfish who’s entire native habitat is size of a hot tub

[@prasetyodwikuncorojati2434]

@@jordyb57 probably the water hole ever connected to bigger water body like river at some point in the past, but due to drying climate the river is disappear and the hole is the final refugium for the pupfish

[@Engifarting456]

​@@jordyb57 and even inside a hot Environment, even without humans they would die out

[@JirapatRayon]

What about the Betta channoides is very endangered

[@greenghoul157]

I didn't know that any wombats were critically endangered since they're such an iconic Australian marsupial

[@robrice7246]

8:39 I know there's also the Annamite striped rabbit (from the same genus), that was described the same year the Sumatran Striped Rabbit was rediscovered. There's camera trap footage from the World Land Trust that was uploaded back in 2016.

[@MuertaRara]

Thank you so so so much mentioning the Northern Hairy Nosed Wombats. Wombats get often overlooked and they face many threats. They are beautiful, smart and just amazing animals ♡

[@onii-san3851]

this video is very nice. I've been watching videos about cryptids just for fun but it's always nice to see how actual animals are found describe and presented to the world even if not a lot of people know about them

[@thehoundofthegamingvilles2012]

Yes! Finally someone made a video about Malabar Giant Civet. Thanks!

[@kasiaragan6210]

I love how much I learn without even trying by watching your videos. Keep ‘em coming!

[@aDaewooLanos]

I've been doing a page on Facebook for some years now to make unknown animals known by posting a daily random animal. Can't save what isn't known about.

[@daffers2345]

That's a cool idea! Have you posted the red wolf? Hardly anyone knows about them and they're super rare.

[@aDaewooLanos]

@@daffers2345 Weirdly enough I did like a week ago. I've been doing ones that are critically endangered recently.

[@safron2442]

What's your Facebook page?

[@aDaewooLanos]

@@safron2442 It's called Animalies.

[@daffers2345]

@@aDaewooLanos Thanks! I think the red wolf needs MUCH more attention than it gets. Gray/timber wolves are important too, but everyone knows about them and their numbers are so much better.

[@ryanjulius9037]

Long live the wombats

[@jen_sen8508]

Do u know about the pink iguana there are only 200-300 left and the only live on the slopes of a single volcano in the galapagos

[@all.about.nature1987]

Ooo. I LOVE the pink iguana. Especially because they were discovered relatively recently on a set of islands that are heavily studied. I'll add them to my list for a future video.

[@ToughieTheRabbsFringeLimbedTre]

At 25:43 for clarification the poster did not actually claim it as Adam’s horseshoe bat but instead a expert who is a expert on African bats and even examined the voucher specimen

[@levinicusrex1006]

At the University of Auckand, there is a specimen of Metrosideros called Bartlett's rata that currently only has 50 wild individuals remaining in the very north of North Island

[@otnamyebot1620]

Partula could have gone on here! Still waiting for the actual video about them though. Hopefully it comes soon!

[@kubakielbasa5987]

I don't want to give a spoiler but basically they introduced a worm into the islands and a lot of them went extinct.

[@otnamyebot1620]

@@kubakielbasa5987 Predatory snail intentionally, predatory worm unintentionally. The first killed most species and the second prevented the remaining species from recovering.

[@otnamyebot1620]

In addition many partulas have tiny ranges. Partula cytherea is (was) found on a single mountainside. Partula labrusca was endemic to the Tehemani plateau in Raiatea.

[@johnreybucad6159]

Very informative!

[@ronaldanitak6736]

I never thought that there are three species of wombats 😅😅❤❤ Btw people who know what is 👇Mariana crow is

[@PelicanMobBoss]

How did you think that? Australia is a big open land and animals can split into different regional populations across it. Unless you thought wombat was a unique species of burrowing koala

[@Tamaresque]

I clicked for the Red Handfish (I live in Tasmania) and stayed for the rest.

[@popoumu]

Just a sugestion, a video specificly about endagered bird species from South America, like the Araripe Manakin, Brazilian Merganser, Kaempfer's Woodpecker and the Blue Eyed Ground Dove, etc., could be interesting. In special, Brazil is full of amazing bird species and unfortunatly a bunch of them are in a delicade situation.

[@EmpressOfExile206]

Hirola might be 1st large mammal _to go extinct on African mainland..._ Uhhh did we forget about the northern white rhino⁉️ 🤔

[@all.about.nature1987]

"genus of African mammal"

[@jordyb57]

⁠@@all.about.nature1987”first extinction of a mammalian genus….” Meaning the Beatragus genus?

[@all.about.nature1987]

@@jordyb57 Yes. There is only one other known species from the genus, but it is already extinct.

[@jordyb57]

@@all.about.nature1987thank you!

[@charliekezza]

Imagine how many other creatures and plants only lived on the side of one volcano until it exploded

[@brandondean2530]

Wombats are the most amazing Australian creatures.

[@MrNinjakid2]

Possibly the wombat population may consist of mostly males due to the mothers protecting their newborn young opposed to fleeing a predator?subsequently ending them

[@hanniaedithmartinezadame794]

Yes, usually mammal mothers have it harder compared to males. They are smaller, they need to eat more to be able to produce milk for their children and they have to protect them.

[@fettuccinealfredo6499]

I would love to hear about the Blakiston’s Fish Owl sometime! Your videos are amazing and informative! I learned all about the Devils Hole Pupfish from this channel!

[@Nmethyltransferase]

8:13 "Wewease the wabbit!" -Indonesian authorities, probably, 2000 C.E.

[@davidlogsdon7767]

As a frequent user of iNaturalist in the USA I believe that you have mischaracterized the platform's reliability. While there are frequently users unfamiliar with taxa that ascribe an ID to their observation the role of the highly trained users in vetting observations results in a net positive in terms of accuracy. As pointed out in a comment below, the observer did not claim to have photographed an Adam's Horseshoe Bat, they uploaded the observation and a highly educated bat researcher suggested the ID. I love your videos immensely, I just felt compelled to weigh in on the reliability of iNaturalist.

[@justincrazycrafter3581]

Hello, I once caught, well rather picked up what seemed to be a really small version of the hand fish. It was black in colour and measured only milimeters. Anyone perhaps knows about this species? My dad thinks it might have been a baby stonefish.

[@codynorton5402]

I live in the heartland of America and I was shocked to hear there was an endemic beetle species that only lives in Kansas. The only known location for the Scott Riffle Beetle is in a spring area within Scott State Park in Scott County.

[@thequackyest3604]

:O

[@natural8677]

someone has filmed a sumatran striped rabbit in the wild last week and uploaded it to instagram! it’s incredible footage

[@thatonepossum5766]

Why can’t we establish a captive population of hirola? They eat grass, shouldn’t it be easy? Then maybe we could start releasing them again once things are stable. Wasn’t there another antelope species we already did that with?

[@RCSVirginia]

To @thatonepossum5766 It probably never has caught the attention of an individual or organization that wants to do that or has the resources to do it. It would definitely be a great idea to take some individuals into captivity and create a captive herd.

[@EmpressOfExile206]

If the population is small enough and the animals are sensative enough, it might not be feasible... An example that comes to mind is the vaquita. We've known how critical their population is for a while now (since there was around 100 + or - a dozen left in the *one small place* they live in northern most corner Sea of Cortez) and we knew the mexican gov can't stop the cartel gillnetting totoaba which is _same_ size, in _same_ water as vaquita; so they'd continue to be rapidly wiped out from net drownings... Unfortunately all 2 or 3 attempts to capture a few vaquita to move to different suitable water for a lifeline population failed because they would die from stress at every capture attempt (really *not good* to lose even 1 or 2 with a population that only had _less than 30 breeding females_ left) so all we could do was try our best to stop the gillnetting and protect whats left! Now there's between 0-10 left and they are functionally extinct 💯

[@bevdavis4148]

how many animals have been wiped out by museums?

[@robrice7246]

13:30 There have been recent KZbin videos of divers recording footage of the Ornate Sleep Ray in the past three years.

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

Handfish are also cousins of anglerfish, and they are also very lazyass fish

[@TurboJesus]

Your videos are always so interesting!

[@YochevedDesigns]

@20:37 this fish wants to fight you. "Come at me bro!"

[@peterashby-saracen3681]

I'd only heard of the hand fish and I didn't know that there were three species of wombat. The manner in which the scarcity of a species - and thereby potentially the protection given to it - is shockingly deficient. How can a species with only 200 individuals in existence be downgraded from critically endangered to merely endangered?

[@all.about.nature1987]

I wondered the same. But the justification was in the fact that the population had doubled, had a growing range, and seemed stable. There are a lot of political reasons that species have their status changed as well, though I'm not sure if any of that was happening in this case.

[@EmpressOfExile206]

Its relative... If a species *only* ever existed on a single 🏔 that _literally couldn't support more_ than a population of 50? Those 50 animals are *definitely* endangered! But not "critical" if the species has stable population that's as big as its ever been/will be and there's no immediate risk of losing the habitat👍 Lmao I hope I explained it well enough

[@EmpressOfExile206]

Also there are very specific check lists for how each species is classified lol you can look up "IUCN red list"

[@househeadanimsyt6134]

Please make ambient information about recently extinct animals

[@jannebrija9879]

Please include the Tamaraw in your next video

[@edwinbrown855]

I am consistently shocked that dog clubs forbid outcrossing every other animal species is allowed to outbreed this weird purity obsession is terrible for the dogs and you can keep the same aesthetic standards without requiring inbreeding.

[@PariahQuail]

Not all purebred dogs are inbred. Working type dogs tend not to be as it impacts health and longevity and don’t care about dog show looks.

[@katiekane5247]

Some breeds can't reproduce naturally anymore due to extreme body types. The dog show industry isn't always good for dog or cat breeds IMO

[@jordyb57]

This has literally nothing to do with wild animals

[@edwinbrown855]

@@jordyb57 sorry I accidentally commented on the wrong video

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

​@@edwinbrown855This happens a lot

[@Arphd]

Awesome video as always!

[@BMW7series251]

Thanks for a most interesting video. Regards, John. UK.

[@Plbbbb]

Frogfish are fun too, they're fish with feet

[@billygraham5589]

Channel Island Foxes are more endangered and rare.

[@axiomaticidioms3857]

I saw a video that said the red handfish was a new discovery... I think the other video was lying because how would we know their number counts if they're a new discovery?

[@all.about.nature1987]

The red handfish was described in 1844. But, there were a couple of new populations discovered a few years ago.

[@axiomaticidioms3857]

@@all.about.nature1987 oh, ok. Thanks for clarifying. :)

[@zyxw2000]

Is the red handfish related to the frogfish, Antennarius ?

[@EmpressOfExile206]

Convergent evolution lmao they're closer to batfish or sea robins I believe

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

​@@EmpressOfExile206Wait they are not cousins

[@Human_person.]

Nah, Vaquitas are still rarer

[@LukeMcGuireoides]

Brilliant content. Subbed

[@Weirdoeevee]

My dog perked right up, tilting her head when the audio of the second animal came on.

[@jordyb57]

Please don’t let your dog kill endangered species 🙏🏿

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

Popa Langur is too sad

[@joshjacob1530]

rubber plantation validated

[@langustajableczna]

I don't think you've ever talked about the european hamster which is critically endangered. I see them often but most people outside of my village haven't heard of them, not to mention the whole country or continent. Very cute animal and they're unique compared to other hamsters. Love your videos and the effort you put into them

[@all.about.nature1987]

Yeah, I've never heard of the European hamster before. Thanks for mentioning it. Glad you enjoy the videos. :)

[@cevatkokbudak6414]

Hmm interesting

[@skysthelimitvideos]

INaturalist catching strays at the end there smh

[@robrice7246]

I checked the webpage myself, and I'm very skeptical about his findings and validity.

[@Ali-ii8il]

Gotta save them all

[@katiekane5247]

Joey Santoro from Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't is trying to establish a Thorne scrub habitat in Texas. What looks like weeds to some is actually important habitat for plants and animals. We can't save what we don't know about.

[@akirsyakir]

That Popa Langur looks very similar to our Dusky Leaf Monkeys we have here in Malaysia. Are they not the same species just in different location?

[@jaktosilk5206]

AAN I think you should add the Mariana Crow it's rare and less people are known about it, it is endemic in the Mariana Islands and Guam they are listed as(CR) critically endangered do to the loss habitat and the introduced brown tree snake

[@isizi357sig]

20:40 he looks really tired.

[@viifaz]

There are some Stripped Rabbits at Mount Kerinci, my friend saw 2 of them during "summit attack"

[@Foxeye_on_pawzies]

My dumbahh thought a wombat would be a fluffy bat

[@khrellian3327]

I’d love to see a video just covering species that have been discovered in museum collections.

[@laneysatm]

Love the background music

[@archnemefish]

HANDFISH MENTION!!! LETS GOO

[@NuhuhhUmeannie]

20:34 the voice Crack 😭

[@easterbunny9153]

i have a video recommendation! i saw another video on extinct animals ancient egyptians saw and was hoping u can do a similar video as i love your vid styles! ❤❤

[@liampowers8570]

Do you know the channel toldinstone? It’s a fantastic channel about Roman history. He did a video on extinct animals the Roman’s saw, very fascinating

[@easterbunny9153]

@@liampowers8570i’ve not heard of that channel be4 but thanks for the recommendation! i saw the extinct animals ancient egyptians saw video from a channel extint zoo

[@DarkAngel-wj6om]

This channel is astounding it should be part of school curriculum, it would endear nature to children.