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The Maui’s dolphin is a small, coastal dolphin subspecies endemic to New Zealand’s northwest waters. It faces imminent extinction with an estimated population of under one hundred animals. This critically endangered species represents a unique genetic lineage within the delphinidae family. Conservat...
Locusta migratoria manilensis is the Oriental migratory locust, a subspecies of Locusta migratoria found in East and Southeast Asia, historically a major agricultural pest forming large destructive swarms.
The nominate subspecies (Aptenodytes patagonicus patagonicus) of the second-largest penguin, forming massive breeding colonies of hundreds of thousands on South Georgia Island.
Locustana pardalina pardalina is the brown locust of southern Africa, a major agricultural pest known for periodic outbreak swarms that devastate crops across South Africa and neighboring countries.
The subspecies Aptenodytes patagonicus halli of the King Penguin, breeding on the Crozet Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, home to one of the world's largest single penguin colonies.
The southern subspecies of Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua ellsworthii), breeding on colder islands closer to Antarctica, including the South Shetland Islands.
The northern subspecies of Gentoo Penguin (Pygoscelis papua papua), found on warmer sub-Antarctic islands such as South Georgia and the Falklands.
Acanthacris ruficornis citrina is a yellowish subspecies of the garden locust, a large solitary African acridid known to damage a broad range of crops and garden plants across its range.
