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A glove destroyed by a yellow-bellied marmot (Marmota flaviventris) at the hibernation study lab of Dr. Greg Florant at Colorado State University.

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The critically endangered, Pirre harlequin frog (Atelopus glyphus) at the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project. The male is smaller. This is a project designed to establish captive breeding populations of frogs at risk of extinction from the frog-killing Chytrid fungus.

The male is smaller and darker with small yellow spots.

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Hundreds of critically endangered toad mountain harlequin froglets (Atelopus certus) explore their new home inside a plexiglass rearing tank at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Gamboa, Panama. The outside of the tank is covered in transparent labels, each indicating the date the froglets emerged from the water, as well as their parentage.

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A female Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) in Florida.

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A female Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis) in Florida.

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Danube crested newt (Triturus dobrogicus) at the National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium in Dubuque, Iowa.

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A partial albino red-tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) at the Minnesota Zoo.

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A federally threatened captive northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) in healthy habitat in the Siskiyou National Forest near Merlin, Oregon.

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A federally threatened captive northern spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) in healthy habitat in the Siskiyou National Forest near Merlin, Oregon.

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A group of fisherman cleaning lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho.

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A group of fisherman cleaning lake trout (Salvelinus namaycush) at Lake Pend Oreille, Idaho.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a pelican at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean an oiled bird at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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Workers washing an oiled brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A crew working to clean a brown pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) at the rehab center in Fort Jackson, Louisiana. This is where the majority of the oiled birds were brought in from the deep water horizon oil spill.

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A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. This fish was found on the top of a thick oil slick.

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A dead bait fish in a gloved hand covered with crude oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, in Barataria Bay, Louisiana. This fish was found on the top of a thick oil slick.

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A Harris’s hawk (Parabuteo unicinctus harrisi) is held by a handler at the New York State Zoo in Watertown, NY.

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A Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) at the San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas. (IUCN: Near Threatened)

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A Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) at the San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas. (IUCN: Near Threatened)

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A Japanese giant salamander (Andrias japonicus) at the San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas. (IUCN: Near Threatened)

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A white-footed mouse (Peromyscus leucopus noveboracensis) at the New York State Zoo.

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Endangered Anderson’s newt (Echinotriton andersoni) at the Detroit Zoo.

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A Peale’s peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus pealei) at Reptile Gardens.

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A Peale’s peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus pealei) at Reptile Gardens.

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A golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos canadensis) named Bubba from Nebraska.

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A critically endangered (IUCN) and federally endangered Panamanian golden frog (Atelopus zeteki) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

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A Mandarin ratsnake (Elaphe mandarina) in the hand of a keeper at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

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A Mandarin ratsnake (Elaphe mandarina) in the hand of a keeper at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

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A Mandarin emperor newt (Tylototriton shanjing) at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo.

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