Question

Critically endangered animal species belonging to India are
a. 31
b. 18
c. 109
d. 54

Answer 1

Hint: Critically endangered species are found to be one, which is categorized by the international union of conservation of nature, where this is the species, which are at the high risk of extinction and this includes plants and animals of wildlife.

Complete answer:
- Conservative efforts are often focused on large wild animals such as elephants and tigers, which are undoubtedly in the danger list.
- The species are not ranked highest on the conservative pole, and at the same time they are in threat are classified as critically endangered species by the internal union of conservation of nature.
- Critically endangered is the highest category of the red list given by the IUCN.
- Generally, there are 5 quantitative criteria, to tell whether the taxon is threatened or not.
- Critically endangered species are those that the natural population of those species decreased, or 80% of the species population is not found in three generations. And this indicates that species are at the extremely high risk of extinction.
- Some of the birds that are in the critically endangered species are Jerdon's courser, forest owlet, white-bellied Heron, white backed vulture, Bengal florican.
- The mammal which is a critically endangered species is the Pygmy hog, the world’s smallest wild pig.
- Some of the reptiles and amphibians which are in the critically endangered condition are Gharial, Leatherback, four-toed river terrapin, and the gliding frog.

Hence, the correct answer is option (B).

Note: Some of the characteristic features of critically endangered species are, their number has decreased by 80% over the last 10 years, and they are restricted to the geographical range, and population size is very small like less than 50, and high probability of extinction in the wild.