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My middle name is Spiny ENDANGERED
If a predator tries to eat me, I project Did you know?
my spiny ribs through my skin and
emit a secretion, which is painful and Chinhai spiny newt has a brother
makes it throw me out of its mouth. called the Anderson’s crocodile
Sometimes, I flatten and curl up my newt or Japanese warty newt who
body and display my hands and tail,
which have red spots. These spots lives in Japan.
are warning markings to scare the
predator away.
Fighting for a chance
My home is a hundred-square-
kilometre area. My family and I
live in three groups in different
localities. One of the groups
might have become extinct. There
are only three hundred of us left
now. Our numbers have gone
down because of over collection
for scientific research.
dHeustmroayninagctitvhietiheos,mcoenosftrthuectCiohni,nahnadi sapgirniycunlteuwret. are ENCDRIATNIGCEALLY RED
A chance to live CR
I’m on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature list. Some
of my family is being raised in
the Chengdu Institute of Biology, EN
so one day some of my family
members can come back home.
TtZhhheeeBjCieahinliugnnhPaarioresvpain,inecyaes,ntCeohwfinNt aiis.nognbloyCfoituynidnin Some suggest that a nature reserve VU
should be built in the area where
I live. I think that might help.
If a predator tries to eat me, I project Did you know?
my spiny ribs through my skin and
emit a secretion, which is painful and Chinhai spiny newt has a brother
makes it throw me out of its mouth. called the Anderson’s crocodile
Sometimes, I flatten and curl up my newt or Japanese warty newt who
body and display my hands and tail,
which have red spots. These spots lives in Japan.
are warning markings to scare the
predator away.
Fighting for a chance
My home is a hundred-square-
kilometre area. My family and I
live in three groups in different
localities. One of the groups
might have become extinct. There
are only three hundred of us left
now. Our numbers have gone
down because of over collection
for scientific research.
dHeustmroayninagctitvhietiheos,mcoenosftrthuectCiohni,nahnadi sapgirniycunlteuwret. are ENCDRIATNIGCEALLY RED
A chance to live CR
I’m on the International Union for
Conservation of Nature list. Some
of my family is being raised in
the Chengdu Institute of Biology, EN
so one day some of my family
members can come back home.
TtZhhheeeBjCieahinliugnnhPaarioresvpain,inecyaes,ntCeohwfinNt aiis.nognbloyCfoituynidnin Some suggest that a nature reserve VU
should be built in the area where
I live. I think that might help.
