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Sulcata tortoise, Sulcata tortoise, African spurred tortoise, spurred tortoise, hairy-clawed tortoise
The Sulcata tortoise is a tortoise reptile that lives on land. It originally belonged to the family Testudinidae and the genus Tes···
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green sea turtle,Green turtle, blue turtle, stone turtle, tsio̍h-ku,ku-piah,ku-phi̍ah
Turtles are one of the oldest animals on Earth. These creatures have existed in the world for more than 200 million years, but the···
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Frilled lizard, cloaked lizard, frilled lizard, Australian cloaked lizard, pleated lizard, wrinkled lizard
伞蜥来自新几内亚南部和澳大利亚北部沿海地区，是一种知名度极高的中大型蜥蜴，在鬣蜥科属于第二大蜥蜴（最大的是斑帆蜥）。两种不同产地的···
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Water monitor, marsh monitor, five-clawed golden dragon, four-legged snake, round-nosed monitor
Speaking of the nickname of the water monitor lizard, everyone is familiar with it, that is - the five-clawed golden dragon.Althou···
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Veiled chameleon
The veiled chameleon is native to Central Asia, such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, so they have another name - Yemen chameleon. They ···
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carpet python, felt python, central python
All pythons are non-venomous, and carpet pythons are no exception.Carpet pythons strangle their prey by constricting their bodies.···
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Crocodile lizard, water gecko, Yaoshan crocodile lizard, big sleeping snake, wood sleeping fish, drowned dog
Between 1928 and 1929, the biology department of Sun Yat-sen University went to Dayao Mountain in Guangxi, China, and collected 28···
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Malayan alligator, Malayan crocodile
The Malayan crocodile looks very similar to the Ganges crocodile (Gavialis gangeticus), but its head gradually narrows towards the···
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Grassland monitor lizard, plains monitor lizard
The plain monitor lizard is docile and not too big; it rarely has problems with eating. Because it has a low sense of aggression a···
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Chameleon, horsehair snake, cockscomb snake, four-legged snake
Ancient folklore says that if you are bitten by a crested snake, you will definitely die. However, up to now, no snake has been fo···
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Aptenodytes forsteri
Emperor penguins mainly live in the sea. They hunt, swim and play in the water. On the one hand, they exercise their bodies well, ···
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Pygoscelis adeliae
The legs of the Adélie penguin are light pink and the soles of the feet are black. Like other penguins, the Adélie penguin is al···
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White-browed penguin, Gentleman penguin, Gentleman penguin
The Gentoo penguin walks on land with a shaky gait, and its long tail swings left and right behind it like sweeping the ground, so···
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pelican, owl, taohe, gannet, bag goose, bag bird
Pelicans often live in groups in the wild. In addition to swimming, they spend most of their time on the shore basking in the sun ···
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chinstrap penguin, Police officer penguin, Antarctic penguin, chinstrap penguin, whiskered penguin, chinstrap penguin
As penguins that look like police officers, they are also very courageous and are likely to conflict with other penguins, or even ···
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Ferruginous Duck，White-eyed Pochard，Ferruginous Pochard
As a male white-eyed pochard, it is born with a pair of bean-sized white eyes, which are particularly prominent against the dark c···
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Spot-billed duck, Valley duck, Yellow-billed duck, Fire duck, Chinese spot-billed duck, Chinese spot-billed duck, Oriental spot-billed duck,Anas zonorhyncha，Eastern Spot-billed Duck，Chinese Spot-bille
Spot-billed duck is also called valley duck, yellow-billed duck, and fire duck. Spot-billed duck is one of the ancestors of Chines···
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Wild goose, spotted goose, bright spotted goose，Greater White-fronted，Goose White-fronted Goose
You can often see flocks of wild geese flying freely in the sky, sometimes in a straight line or in a V-shape.There are 5 subspeci···
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White-headed goose, Black-headed goose，Bar-headed Goose
Bar-headed geese - they are the highest flying birds in the world. At an altitude of more than 9,000 meters, it only takes about e···
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Black Swan
In my country, swans are regarded as a symbol of beauty, auspiciousness, nobility and holiness. The black swan is the most beautif···
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Yellow duck, yellow duck, duck, red goose,Ruddy Shelduck
There is a kind of "duck" that is slightly larger than a domestic duck, but has golden feathers all over its body. In fa···
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Moon jellyfish, UFO jellyfish, Moon jellyfish
Moon jellyfish feed on plankton such as mollusks, crustaceans, worms and copepods.Moon jellyfish occasionally eat gelatinous zoopl···
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Southern bottlenose dolphin, Southern bottlenose dolphin, Southern dolphin, Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin, Eastern bottlenose dolphin
The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin has a short and thick beak that resembles a water bottle, hence the name "bottlenose"···
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Pacific spotted dolphin, sickle-finned dolphin, Pacific white-sided dolphin, slow-moving dolphin, Pacific striped dolphin, white-striped dolphin, Pacific white-sided dolphin
Pacific spotted dolphins are very active and expressive, creating large clouds of water. They often leap into the waves, sometimes···
