Rare Animals! In this article, you will learn a list of common rare animals in English with ESL picture and example sentences to help you enhance your vocabulary words.
Rare Animals
List of Rare Animals
- Pangolin
- Seneca white deer
- Elephant shrew
- Ti-liger
- Saola
- Vaquita
- Yangtze finless porpoise
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat
- Amur leopard
- Hector’s dolphin
- Borneo pygmy elephant
- Black-spotted Cuscus
- Purple frog
- Hispaniolan solenodon
- Hooded Grebe
- Philippine eagle
- Northern darwin’s frog
- Pygmy three-toed sloth
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat
- Rondo dwarf galago
- Colombian dwarf gecko
- White-winged flufftail
- Hirola
- El Rincon stream frog
- Cebu flowerpecker
- Mediterranean monk seal
- Banded ground-cuckoo
- Largetooth sawfish
- Chinese giant salamander
- Chacoan peccary
Rare Animals with Examples
Learn the names of rare animals in English with example sentences.
- Pangolin
As dusk descends on the mountains, a pangolin emerges from its burrow.
- Seneca white deer
The Seneca white deer are a rare herd of deer living within the confines of the former Seneca Army Depot in Seneca County, New York.
- Elephant shrew
The black-and-rufous giant elephant shrew hid in his habitat and refused to come out for afternoon feeding.
- Ti-liger
Radar is a Ti-Liger (An Offspring of a female liger crossed with a male Tiger).
- Saola
Laos Found the World’s Rare Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis)At the end of August, a Saola was found in a remote area of Laos, which was the first sighting proven during the last ten years.
- Vaquita
An unknown number of the vaquita, probably in the hundreds, had already been lost.
- Yangtze finless porpoise
The critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise population is threatened by overfishing, pollution and ship movement.
- Northern hairy-nosed wombat
The northern hairy-nosed wombat or yaminon is one of three extant species of wombats.
- Amur leopard
The Amur leopard is a leopard subspecies native to the Primorye region of southeastern Russia and northern China.
- Hector’s dolphin
Hector’s dolphins are the smallest and rarest marine dolphins in the world.
- Borneo pygmy elephant
The Borneo elephant, also called the Borneo pygmy elephant, is a subspecies of Asian elephant that inhabits northeastern Borneo, in Indonesia and Malaysia.
- Black-spotted cuscus
The black-spotted cuscus is a species of marsupial in the family Phalangeridae.
- Purple frog
The purple frog is a frog species belonging to the family Sooglossidae.
- Hispaniolan solenodon
The two living solenodon species are the Cuban solenodon and the Hispaniolan solenodon.
- Hooded Grebe
The hooded grebe is a medium-sized grebe found in the southern region of Argentina.
- Philippine eagle
The Philippine eagle, also known as the monkey-eating eagle or great Philippine eagle, is an endangered species of eagle of the family Accipitridae which is endemic to forests in the Philippines.
- Northern darwin’s frog
The Chile Darwin’s frog (Rhinoderma rufum), also called the northern Darwin’s frog, is one of only two members of the family Rhinotermitidae.
- Pygmy three-toed sloth
The pygmy three-toed sloth is the smallest of the three-toed sloths and was only recognised as a distinct species in 2001.
- Seychelles sheath-tailed bat
The Seychelles sheath-tailed bat (Coleura seychellensis) is a sac-winged bat found in the central granitic islands of Seychelles.
- Rondo dwarf galago
The Rondo dwarf galago (Paragalago rondoensis) or Rondo bushbaby is a species of primate in the family Galagidae.
- Colombian dwarf gecko
The Colombian dwarf gecko was first discovered in 1964, however, it wasn’t seen again until recently when a new population was discovered more than 100km from its original location.
- White-winged flufftail
The white-winged flufftail is a very rare African bird in the family Sarothruridae.
- Hirola
The hirola, Hunter’s hartebeest or Hunter’s antelope, is a critically endangered antelope species found on the border between Kenya and Somalia.
- El Rincon stream frog
The Critically Endangered El Rincon stream frog exists on a single plateau in Argentinian Patagonia.
- Cebu flowerpecker
The Cebu flowerpecker (Dicaeum quadricolor) is a small passerine bird.
- Mediterranean monk seal
The Mediterranean monk seal is a monk seal belonging to the family Phocidae.
- Banded ground-cuckoo
The banded ground cuckoo is a species of cuckoo in the family Cuculidae.
- Largetooth sawfish
The largetooth sawfish is a species of sawfish, family Pristidae.
- Chinese giant salamander
The Chinese giant salamander is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world.
- Chacoan peccary
The Chacoan peccary or tagua is the last extant species of the genus Catagonus; it is a peccary found in the Gran Chaco of Paraguay, Bolivia, and Argentina.
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