What is a animal species that not many people know about?

Question

What is a animal species that not many people know about?

Answer 1

Paracercies sculpta, a sponge dwelling isopod.

Answer 2

the spix macaw

believed to be extinct in the wild and approximatly 120 individual spix macaws in captivity, 78 of these are participating in an international breeding program

Answer 3

Platapus

Answer 4

snub nosed monkey

bamboo bat

Answer 5

Try the Mexican Freetail Bat.  This little creature is flying around all over the Southern USA.  The dramatic photos of Carlsbad Caverns at dusk when the bats swarm out are this species.  Wide ranging and very hearty. They feed on insects and can carry rabies.  The caves where they dwell have such high concentrations of ammonia from the collective urine that humans can not survive without protective breathing gear.  The bat has a system able to filter out the ammonia.  Very interesting little fellow, especially with the bat man thing going on now.

Tadarida brasiliensis is the scientific name.  Google the  mexican freetail bat and you will get plenty of web sites to review.

Answer 6

In the South American rainforests there are lots of cool animals including: tapirs, capibaras, agoutis, pacas, tayras, jaguarundis, agouchis and lots more!