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I thought I'd try something a little different with these EDGE species polls considering that mammals and birds have now been covered and focus on a series of polls of the stranger EDGE reptiles before calling it a day with these threads. First up are two curious and critically endangered...

Seventh poll on EDGE bird species: This time a contest between little and large: The Somali ostrich vs the straw headed bulbul. Despite the size difference both species share the IUCN conservation status of "vulnerable" due to overexploitation by humans (for the songbird pet trade in the case...

Fifth poll on EDGE bird species: This time a competition between the "unlovely" : The white headed vulture or the adjutant stork. Both of these species are scavengers that feed upon carcasses / carrion and so perform a valuable ecological role and both birds have seen catastrophic population...

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time it is a contest of a species traditionally considered "cute / cuddly" and one typically seen as "weird / spooky": the aye-aye vs the red panda. Both are arboreal mammals, both are classified as...

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time decidedly of an elephantine theme and little vs large, the golden rumped sengi / elephant shrew and the Asiatic elephant. Despite the drastic size difference both are mammals within the superorder...

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time it is the saiga antelope and the saola. Both are critically endangered bovids, one from the windswept freezing Russian steppes and the other from the humid verdant jungles of Indochina, both are...

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammals. This time it is scaly vs spiky with the the echidna (any species) and the pangolin (also any species). Both are termite-insectivore specialists in terms of their feeding ecologies, both are evolutionarily distinct and...

I thought it would be interesting to create yet another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two small mammal EDGE species. This time these animals have some commonalities being that they are miniatures of their close relatives, exceedingly rare in captivity and "little brown...