[Concept]

username: Concept
zebra name: Scale
prompt: The Pangolin is an animal that no one ever really thought was real when I was a kid trying to tell people about them in school! As the only known mammal with scales, they look a lot like something out of a fantasy movie, but they're 100% real. They're tree climbers, diggers, and their diet is made up almost exclusively of ants and termites. Currently, they're THE most poached and trafficked wild animal, mostly desired for their meat and scales both, and they're in desperate need of protection.

[Hemalily]

username: Hemalily
zebra name: Ripples in the Wake "Kelvin"
prompt: Kakapo, a large flightless parrot species from New Zealand, only breeds every few years when native Rimu trees fruit heavily. Female kakapo stop eating their regular diet and almost exclusively eat Rimu fruit to feed their offspring.

[Zentropy]

username: Zentropy
zebra name: Makonnen
prompt: a wild painted river terrapin is estimated to life up to 40 years old, scientists have yet to get enough data to definitively state the lifespan though

[Baobabel]

username: Baobabel
zebra name: Atlanticus
prompt: Devils Hole pupfish (Cyprinodon diabolis)
The entire wild population of this critically threatened species is found in one single location- Devils Hole; a deep limestone cave in Nevada in very arid northern Mojave Desert; where all the individuals reside on a shallow shelf only 215 square feet (20 square meters) along one side of Devils Hole.

[sleepybat]

username: sleepybat
zebra name: Splendor
prompt: Golden Fuchsia was discovered by botanist Dennis Breedlove in 1972 in Chiapas, Mexico. He collected seeds and brought them back to San Francisco that were grown at the University of California botanical garden. The plant is considered extinct in the wild after being cleared for farmland, so every current known living specimen is descended from the seeds that Breedlove collected.

[-s-i-n-]

username: -s-i-n-
zebra name: Mercéo
prompt: The Rapa Fruit Dove can likely see Blaschko’s lines (invisible skin patterns on humans) due to their ability to perceive ultraviolet (UV) light. While humans cannot see these, birds have a fourth cone receptor (tetrachromatic vision) that makes the world, including skin pigmentation differences, appear significantly different and more detailed, including UV patterns that are invisible to us.

[_Wolfgirl_]

username: _Wolfgirl_
zebra name: Poseidon
prompt: Napoleon Fish (aka Humphead Wrasse) keep reef ecosystem healthy by eating venomous creatures, including the crown-of-thorns starfish - which without the Napoleon wrasse in the area become overpopulated and wipe out entire coral beds.

[konjac]

username: konjac
zebra name: Shark
prompt: Smaller-stalked species of hammerhead sharks, like bonnetheads, are more derived than large-stalked species, like great hammerheads (i.e. big heads came first). They also have 360-degree vision and can see above and below simultaneously.

bonus fact: Giant pandas haven't been Endangered in years. In 2016, the IUCN updated their status to Vulnerable. Go conservation!!

[Andromeda]

username: Desmond
zebra name: Miguel
prompt: The vaquita is the smallest known living porpoise - there are fewer than ten left in the wild, as they are often caught as bycatch while poachers seek the similarly sized and similarly endangered totoaba fish; however, their genome shows that they have gone through another breeding bottleneck in the past, and individuals are oddly relatively healthy despite their low breeding population numbers.

Y'all made this very hard to judge as I learned so many cool things about our planet's most vulnerable plants and creatures!! Ultimately I had to go with these guys as they are so cute?! It's tragic there are only 10 left in the wild.. ;O;

I'll make more blue taffy's for y'all in the future, I know you love them so much c;

[Desmond]

Thank you so much!!
Vaquitas are certainly special little guys 💜 They're a whole whopping 2.5 feet long at birth and weigh about 20lbs - just wee lil things. And they don't even reach 5 feet long as adults!