Amy’s Reviews > Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures > Status Update

Seahorses mate for life and once mated meet their partner and dance every morning. They’re also the only species where males carry and birth the children.

Elephants are afraid of bees just like me!

It’s so cool how the swift can close off half its brain and sleep in flight and wake up on its path.

“In the last fifty years, the world’s wildlife has declined by an average of almost seventy percent. We have lost more than half of all wild things that lived.”

“The time to fight, with all our ingenuity and tenacity, and love and fury, is now.”

“It is a difficult world to survive in, this one we have created. It is so very beautiful; and it is so ruthlessly perilous to the vulnerable.”