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Nature & Animals [Solved] Endangered Species of the Philippines

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List, discuss, about animals that are either endemically endangered or endangered in their habitats in the Philippines.

Cloud rats aka cloudrunners (giant rats living on trees found only in the PI---3 genus---bushy tailed, dwarf, and giant). The dwarves are critically endangered, the giant genus is usually doing much better, the bushy tailed ones are endangered.

This one I think is the Northern Luzon cloud rat (from the looks ie color and where it was found around Benguet---I'm assuming Baguio since they're speaking in Tagalog). The native name in Tagalog region is "paro-ot". In Igorot areas, they are called 'buwit' (root words with Tagalog 'bubwit' meaning mice, slang meaning "tiny" or "runt") or luwit.

This specie is actually not endangered, but I can't find videos of other species.

Picture to show how large they are...and from pictures online it seems many of them are being kept as pets.



This one is the Dinagat (island located south of Leyte) bushy tailed tree rat that was thought extinct for a while.

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Cloud rats
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[url] http://pbcfi.org.ph/cloud-rats [/url]

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Bleeding-hearts, several specie and sub specie of ground doves found only in PI called by that name because of the signature red dots on their neck/chest area. Their genus name means "chicken dove" because they dwell on ground (probably why they are threatened compared to other birds which nest on trees). In parts of Visayas, the name is called purungan (in Sibuyan, Romblon).

All species are either endangered or extinct, with the exception of the Luzon bleeding heart (which now some are actually now being kept as pets by enthusiasts because they are not protected compared to other species).

Panay bleeding-heart (aka Bartlett bh) nesting chick

Adult

Luzon bleeding-heart

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Two leopard cat subspecies exist in the Philippines, the Visayan leopard cat (P. b. rabori) and P. b. heaneyi.

Visayan Leopard Cat (found in Panay, Negros, and Cebu)
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P. b. heaneyi (found in Palawan)
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How come Visayan animals are always endangered and they're always 'spotted'? -lmao (rhetorical question just in case...)

That leopard cat is cool, it's like a house cat that has huge eyes and a leopard camouflage.

Visayan spotted deer (lagsaw---general name for "deer" in Visayas)

Specie of deer related to Philippine deer (a specie of the sambar deer) found only now in island of Negros and Panay (mostly in nature reserves and state parks) but had been in larger distribution before in many islands in the Visayas. One of the most critically endangered mammals in the world.

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12:40 on

This one is a buck owned illegally by a pet trader that got out and roamed near a highway.

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