edge mammals

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time it is a contest between two herbivorous heavyweights from Africa and Latin America respectively: the black rhino and the Baird's tapir. Both are odd toed ungulates, both are classified as endangered...

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...

Another poll in a series for zoochatters to vote for one of two EDGE mammal species. This time the giant panda and the greater bamboo lemur. Both are the only mammals with feeding ecologies as obligate specialists of bamboo ,both are threatened by habitat destruction and climate change and...