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VERTEBRATES

REPTILES & MAMMALS BIRDS AMPHIBIANS FISH Vancouver Island Eastern peregrine Timber Longjaw cisco marmot falcon rattlesnake*

Black-tailed prairie dog*

Eastern cougar Black-footed ferret

Sea otter

Northern kit fox

Northern Rocky Mountain Wolf Wood bison

Blue whale

Humpback whale Right whale

Grey whale

Arctic peregrine falcon

Whooping crane

Eskimo curlew

Greater prairie chicken

Blue racer * Lake Erie water snake

Pacific gopher snake*

Pigmy short- horned 1izards*

Eastern tiger

salamander*

Small-mouthed salamander*

Blanchard's cricket frog*

Atlantic Whitefish

Silver chub* Gravel chub*

Pugnose minnow*

Banff longnose dace

Black redhorse*

Shorthead sculpin

Aurora brook trout

INVERTEBRATES (Incomplete)

MOLLUSCS

Yellow lamp musse11*

Gatineau tadpole snail

Mud puppy mussel*

Banff Springs physa

Bean villosa*

Tan blossom pearly musse1*

Laird Hot Springs physa

* Peripheral - rare, threatened or endangered within most or all of its Canadian range, although not in its range as a whole.

LONESOME GEORGE

Consider the plight of Lonesome George, the Pinta Island tortoise

who probably is the world's loneliest creature.

Lonesome George

is the last known member of his subspecies, the last to carry the

traits peculiar to his breed.

particular giant Galapagos Island tortoise.

And Lonesome George is expected to live another century!

There are no known females of this