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Wolverine

Carnivora16years

Wolverine What animal is it?The wolverine (scientific name: Gulo gulo), also known as the bully or North American flat-headed brot···

Fishing Cat， Chat Pêcheur，Gato Pescador，Felis viverrina Bennett

Carnivora15-20years

Fishing cat: one of Asia's most endangered small and medium-sized catsThe fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) is one of Asia···

Equus ferus × asinus,Horse mule, donkey mule,Equus mulus Erxleben

Ungulata35years

Mule (scientific name: Equus ferus × asinus, foreign name: Mule) is the offspring of a donkey and a horse, also known as a horse ···

CarnivoraNo verification information

Japanese sea lion, Zalophus japonicus (Peters, 1866), is an extinct species of sea lion in the genus Zalophus of the family Eurasi···

Phoca sibirica,Baikal Seal,Siberian seal, freshwater seal

Carnivora20-23years

Baikal Seal (Phoca sibirica), also known as Baikal Seal in English, lives in the Baikal Lake area of Russia. It is the only freshw···

Asian tapir,Indian tapir

Ungulata20-30 years

The body color of an adult Malay tapir is the classic "black and white", with no other colors. The head, shoulders, and ···

Takin,wildebeest,golden takin

Ungulata12-15 years old

Takin is a large bovine herbivore distributed in the dense forests of the eastern foothills of the Himalayas. Due to different ori···

Ursus thibetanus,Moon bear,bear,black blind man

Carnivora25 years old

Black bears, also known as Asiatic black bears, were historically placed in a separate genus <Selenarctos>. A wild hybrid be···

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