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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT A victim of climate change, captive falcons are now being introduced to the wild;
this beautiful and exotically spelled fritillary lives high in the mountains but that didn’t stop it being hunted by
collectors; the elegant red wolf’s diet of rabbit, raccoon and rodent has extended to livestock, which led to
culling; a female whooper may only produce one chick every two to three years, hindering its recovery following
habitat loss in Montana’s prairie marshes; Alabama’s dune-dwelling mouse is threatened by oil spills, hurricanes
and predators; once ubiquitous in a Wyoming river basin, this warty toad is considered extinct in the wild and so
far reintroducing tadpoles and toadlets has only had mixed success.