The World’s 5 Rarest Animals

Today’s extraordinarily depressing dose comes to you in honor of Lonesome George, the world’s last Pinta Island tortoise, who passed away earlier this summer – Hank brings us the stories of five more extremely rare animals who may be headed the same way as George. Like SciShow? www.facebook.com Follow SciShow! www.twitter.com References for this episode can be found in the Google document here: dft.ba scishow, science, biology, ecology, conservation, extinction, animal, species, habitat destruction, climate change, lonesome george, tortoise, galapagos, rare, iberian lynx, spain, portugal, development, prey, pygmy tarsier, extinct, indonesia, logging, carnivore, javan rhino, rhinoceros, malaysia, india, burma, sumatra, java, mammal, hawaiian crow, biodiversity, hawaii, ‘alala, captive, captivity, wild, baiji, freshwater dolphin, yangtze river, china, overfishing, pollution