Rare Animals: The 30 Rarest Animals in the World!

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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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