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Rarest Animals in the World
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- [Narrator] Remember when you used to draw animals as a kid
using whatever coloured crayons you had to hand?
You probably created ridiculous things
like purple polar bears, bright-yellow parrots,
white lions and pink grasshoppers,
but what if I told you all those things aren't as made-up
as you might think?
The animal kingdom is far more colourful than you know,
and coming up are some of the world's rarest creatures
that definitely won the genetic lottery.
(bright upbeat music)
Melanistic Fox.
When you think of the world's most beautiful wild animals,
foxes probably don't spring to mind,
but have you ever seen one like this before?
This is the incredibly rare
and majestic cross fox,
which was once abundant in America
until they were largely killed off
in the late 19th century
thanks to high demand for their unique fur.
Cross foxes are almost identical to red foxes,
but they have a larger, bushier tail
with more wool under their feet.
The cross fox was given its name
thanks to the long, dark stripe running down its back,
intersecting another stripe
to form a cross over the shoulders.
Their incredibly unique coat
is the result of a partially-melanistic variant.
Melanistic is basically the opposite of albinism,
meaning that an abundance of dark-coloured pigment
is produced under the skin.
Although melanistic foxes make up about 30%
of the Canadian fox population,
they're still a very rare sight to see,
but there's an even more elusive kind;
the silver fox.
These mysterious foxes
are a fully melanistic version of the cross fox
created through years of breeding.
As you can see,
they have a glossy black undercoat with a topcoat
that looks like they've been dusted with silver,
as well as some white colouring on the tip of their tails!
One thing's for sure:
you'd be incredibly lucky to see one of these foxes
raiding your bins!
King Cheetah.
Notice anything out of the ordinary about this cheetah?
Take a closer look at that magnificent coat
when compared with its run-of-the-mill counterpart,
and you'll see what makes the so-called king cheetah
so well sought-after.
This stunning big cat is a variety of the regular cheetah
with a rare mutation that produces cream-coloured fur
with large, blotchy spots
and three distinctive dark, wide stripes
extending from the neck down to the tail.
At first,
it was thought to be a different species altogether,
before it was discovered that the fur pattern
was actually caused by a recessive gene
that promotes the over-production of melanin in the skin.
Back in 1926,
Major A. Cooper shot a king cheetah
and noticed how the fur was thicker and darker than normal,
so he named it after himself.
Image, you kill an animal and then name it after yourself,
that's some nerve!
Thankfully, an English zoologist wasn't impressed
and renamed the animal 'Acinonyx Rex'.
'Rex' translates as 'king' in Latin,
and the King Cheetah was born!
This elusive big cat is actually one of the rarest animals
in the world.
There are only about 30 or 50 in the entire world.
As few as 10 of those are thought to exist in the wild,
while the others are in protected parks
and wildlife reservations.
You know, when the king cheetah's heard how rare they were,
they started to get depressed.
Now they can be found moping around
rather than standing proud and regal.
But you can help them get their mojo back
for the low, low cost of hitting those 'like'
and 'subscribe' buttons.
Go on, show them you care!
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so you don't miss out on more amazing content!
Pink Katydid.
This pretty pink insect is a katydid,
which are related to grasshoppers and crickets
and mostly found in the tropics like the Amazon Rainforest.
Usually, katydids are green,
but these awesome pink variants
were first described back in 1874!
Since then, there has been intense discussion
over the origins of their dazzling hue.
At the turn of the 20th century,
Harvard entomologist Hubbard Scudder
suggested that the pink colouring could be seasonal,
meaning the normally-green insect
would change colors with the Autumn leaves
as the temperature drops.
But this theory was debunked
when myrmecologist William Morton Wheeler
found bright-pink katydid nymphs
in the prairies of Wisconsin and Illinois
during the summer season of July 1907.
Finally, the truth was revealed.
These pimped-out bugs suffer from a genetic mutation
controlled by recessive genes which is known as erythrism.
This causes an absence of normal green pigment
and/or excessive production of a red or pink pigment
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