Absolutely stunning!

An adorable Siamese rabbit hops over a hurdle on Nov. 17 during a pet fair in Stuttgart, Germany.

Wolfgang Grensens goes for a walk on Nov. 12 with his lamb Wally and his three Australian shepherd dogs in Luebeck, Germany.

The shepherd is raising the 6-week-old East-Prussian Skudde lamb after the death of its mother.

Although the International Union for Conservation of Nature doesn’t list fennec foxes as endangered yet, conservationists are concerned the species may soon be threatened. Native to North Africa and the Middle East, the animals are intensively hunted, and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora lists them as an Appendix II species and regulates their trade.

Endangered Species: The smallest of all wild cats, sand cats are the size of domestic cats and are found in the deserts of northern Africa and central Asia. Because the animals live in vast, arid locations, they’re difficult to study and population estimates aren’t available. Sand cats are threatened by habitat loss, hunting and collection for pet trade. The species went extinct in Israel due to habitat destruction following the territorial exchange between Israel and Jordan in 1994, but a litter of four sand cat kittens was recently born at the Zoological Center of Tel Aviv.

Endangered Species: These Pygmy Hippos look similar to their larger hippopotamus relatives, but they grow to only about two and a half feet tall and are extremely rare in the wild, with no more than a few thousand remaining. Their primary threat is loss of habitat due to deforestation, but they’re also hunted extensively for food and trophies. Although they’re endangered in the wild, they breed well in zoos. In 1927 Harvey Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, gave President Calvin Coolidge a male pygmy hippo named Billy as a gift, and Billy is the ancestor of most pygmy hippos in American zoos today.

Endangered Species: Native to southeastern Russia, the Amur leopard is listed as critically endangered, with only 19 to 26 of the animals left in the wild. Also known as the Far East leopard, the Manchurian leopard or the Korean leopard, it’s been reported that some males stay with females after mating and may even help rear the young. The species is threatened by poaching, habit loss and climate change.

Endangered Species:  The black-footed ferret is now considered one of America’s top  conservation success stories  even though the animal is still endangered. The species declined throughout the 20th century, primarily as result of a decrease in prairie dogs — the ferrets’ main prey — which were exteriminated as agricultural pests. In 1979, black-footed ferrets were declared extinct, but in 1981, Lucille Hogg’s dog brought a dead one back to their Wyoming home, and scientists scrambled to find more, eventually locating a colony of 61 ferrets. Thanks to conservation efforts, about 1,000 of the animals are now thought to live across the central U.S.