The macaques are critically endangered, according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
And about a third of ocean-going sharks appear on the internationally-recognised Red List of Threatened Species.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists a dozen types of night monkeys on its Red List of threatened species.
The species has been listed as critically endangered on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species since 1996.
The whale is listed as "critically endangered" by Russia and is on the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species.
Two years ago, scientists compiling the internationally recognised Red List of Threatened Species decided to include polar bears, giving them a listing of Vulnerable to Extinction.
The latest update to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species reviews more than 60, 000 species, concluding that 25% of mammals on the list are at risk of extinction.
They are now also one of the most endangered: As of the end of this year, for the first time in history coral reefs have been included on the World Conservation Union's Red List of Threatened Species.
Its evidence will inform the IUCN Red List of threatened and endangered species.
Humans pose much more of a threat to sharks than the reverse: 17% of more than 1000 assessed shark species are threatened by fishing and bycatch, according to the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
If one looks at the IUCN Red List, the global authority on threatened species, the concentrations are much higher, with 83% of the most threatened birds, 82% of the most threatened mammals, and 90% of the most threatened amphibians concentrated in the Hotspots.
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