Question

A critically endangered animal is

• A. passenger pigeon
• B. dodo
• C. great Indian bustard
• D. zebu.

Answer 1

Answer: (C)

The correct option is C great Indian bustard
Critically Endangered is the most threatened conservation status assigned by IUCN to a species that still exists in the wild. Decreasing levels of threat are assigned to species classified as Endangered, Vulnerable, Near Threatened and Least Concern. Extinct in the Wild means that only captive populations remain, and Extinct which is the end of the line. When a species is classified as Critically Endangered, the experts are telling us that it faces an extremely high risk of extinction. Key to this assessment is the status of the species’ remaining populations – their sizes, trends, extent of occurrence, degrees of fragmentation, numbers of locations, and numbers of mature individuals – all of which factor into the threat equation. The great Indian bustard (GIB) is fluttering for survival. Earlier found across several states of India, it is now on the brink of extinction.

So the correct option is 'great Indian bustard'.