Endangered Species Athletics Opening Ceremony

Photo By/Credit
Cal Robinson/usfws
Date Shot/Created
07/08/2024
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Alt Text: A six-panel comic strip featuring animals that are competing in the Endangered Species Athletics.
Panel 1 shows a polar bear wearing a suit looking like a sports commentator saying, 鈥淧repare your Votes! This week, athletes will go head-to-head, fin-to-fin, beak-to-beak to make it to the top in the Endangered Species Athletics!鈥
Panel 2 shows illustrated depictions of a bull trout, Ozark hellbender, sea otter and Arkansas River shiner, swimming aggressively through waves with looks of determination on their faces. Text says, 鈥淐ompetitors are ready to show you what makes them the best of the best in鈥 Swimming against the current.鈥
Panel 3 shows illustrated depictions of a Florida panther, fisher, Virginia big-eared bat and leedy鈥檚 roseroot plant climbing a steep hillside. Text says, 鈥淐limbing the steepest slopes.鈥
Panel 4 shows illustrated depictions of a rufa red knot, desert tortoise, and Sonoran pronghorn traversing a bleak landscape with a river running through it and a chinook salmon swimming upstream. Text says, 鈥淭raversing the harshest terrain.鈥
Panel 5 shows illustrated depictions of an Eastern massausaga rattlesnake, Kemp鈥檚 ridely sea turtle and whitebark pine on a shore next to a river where there鈥檚 a dwarf wedgemussel poking out of the water. Text says, 鈥淎nd using raw muscle!鈥
Panel 6 shows the polar bear commentator saying, 鈥淪ixteen athletes, four sports. Whose story will win your vote? Tune in this week to judge our competitors and crown this year鈥檚 athletic champions!鈥
Subject tags
Endangered and/or Threatened species