Animals by Scientific Class Names

Sulcata tortoise, Sulcata tortoise, African spurred tortoise, spurred tortoise, hairy-clawed tortoise

Features：The third largest tortoise in the world and the largest tortoise on the African continent.

The Sulcata tortoise is a tortoise reptile that lives on land. It originally belonged to the family Testudinidae and the genus Testudinidae, so its Chinese name includes the Sulcata tortoise and the Sulcata tortoise. It was finally classified into the genus Centrochelys and is the only surviving spe...

green sea turtle,Green turtle, blue turtle, stone turtle, tsio̍h-ku,ku-piah,ku-phi̍ah

Features：One of the largest hard-shelled sea turtles.

Turtles are one of the oldest animals on Earth. These creatures have existed in the world for more than 200 million years, but their living environment is being threatened by the growing development of humans. Therefore, in 2000, the American Turtle Rescue Organization launched an international fest...

Frilled lizard, cloaked lizard, frilled lizard, Australian cloaked lizard, pleated lizard, wrinkled lizard

Features：When meeting an enemy, hold up an umbrella to intimidate them. If they fail to scare them, stand upright and run away.

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）。两种不同产地的伞蜥，体型颜色上会有明显区别，原产于澳洲的伞蜥体型更大，颜色偏棕红。而产于印尼的伞蜥体型稍小，颜色偏灰白。市面上常见的是来自印尼个体。大部分时间在树上，也会到地面上捕食。...

Water monitor, marsh monitor, five-clawed golden dragon, four-legged snake, round-nosed monitor

Features：The second largest lizard in the world.

Speaking of the nickname of the water monitor lizard, everyone is familiar with it, that is - the five-clawed golden dragon.Although the water monitor lizard looks unfriendly, it is actually very docile and very friendly to people. It is said to be a non-aggressive animal, and no cases of biting peo...

Veiled chameleon

Features：The easiest chameleon species to breed.

The veiled chameleon is native to Central Asia, such as Saudi Arabia and Yemen, so they have another name - Yemen chameleon. They are a relatively large chameleon and are also the most suitable chameleon for beginners to raise.When the mood is beautiful, the iridophore crystals are closely arranged,...

carpet python, felt python, central python

Features：The carpet python gets its name from its unique pattern that resembles a carpet.

All pythons are non-venomous, and carpet pythons are no exception.Carpet pythons strangle their prey by constricting their bodies. The species is usually active during the day and at night, with some subspecies being primarily nocturnal. Carpet pythons like to live in trees, although they usually ba...

Crocodile lizard, water gecko, Yaoshan crocodile lizard, big sleeping snake, wood sleeping fish, drowned dog

Features：It looks very much like the Chinese alligator, so it is called the crocodile lizard.

Between 1928 and 1929, the biology department of Sun Yat-sen University went to Dayao Mountain in Guangxi, China, and collected 28 reptiles that looked like lizards but had tails like crocodiles in Qiongwu Village, Luoxiang Township, Jinxiu County, Guangxi. No. 2 of them was sent to the Zoological M...

Malayan alligator, Malayan crocodile

Features：It was once believed that there were Malayan crocodiles in the Lingnan area of ​​mainland China in ancient times, mainly distributed in inland rivers, but they no longer exist today.

The Malayan crocodile looks very similar to the Ganges crocodile (Gavialis gangeticus), but its head gradually narrows towards the snout, and it does not have the bulbous protrusion on the snout of the male Ganges crocodile.Historically, the Malayan crocodile has a wide distribution range and appear...

Grassland monitor lizard, plains monitor lizard

Features：Husky among monitor lizards

The plain monitor lizard is docile and not too big; it rarely has problems with eating. Because it has a low sense of aggression and is relatively easy to keep, it is the most commonly kept monitor lizard. Unsurprisingly, the plain monitor was first raised by Americans. Due to its docile personality...

Chameleon, horsehair snake, cockscomb snake, four-legged snake

Features：Body color changes with wet or dry conditions and light intensity.

Ancient folklore says that if you are bitten by a crested snake, you will definitely die. However, up to now, no snake has been found in the world with a mortality rate of 100%.After relevant investigations, it was reported that this crested snake may be a tiger-spotted neck snake or a chameleon tre...

Aptenodytes forsteri

Features：Emperor penguins are the largest of all the different species of penguins.

Emperor penguins mainly live in the sea. They hunt, swim and play in the water. On the one hand, they exercise their bodies well, and on the other hand, they eat and drink enough to conserve their energy for the arrival of the winter breeding season. In winter, emperor penguins have the opportunity...

Pygoscelis adeliae

Features：The Adelie penguin's tail is slightly longer than other penguin species.

The legs of the Adélie penguin are light pink and the soles of the feet are black. Like other penguins, the Adélie penguin is also a good swimmer, and can swim at a speed of up to 15 kilometers per hour. Normally, it swims at a speed of 4-7 kilometers per hour. When the Adélie penguin swims fast,...

White-browed penguin, Gentleman penguin, Gentleman penguin

Features：The Gentoo penguin is the fastest swimmer in the penguin family and can swim at speeds of up to 36 kilometers per hour.

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 its scientific name is "Pygoscelis", which means "broom-like tail".The Gentoo penguin is one of the three members of the genus Pygoscelis. Mitochondr...

pelican, owl, taohe, gannet, bag goose, bag bird

Features：A simple and honest toucan.

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 or patiently grooming their feathers. Pelicans have very sharp eyesight and are good at swimming and flying. Even when flying high in the sky, fish swimming in the water...

chinstrap penguin, Police officer penguin, Antarctic penguin, chinstrap penguin, whiskered penguin, chinstrap penguin

Features：There is a black stripe under the neck, like a naval officer's hat band, which makes it look majestic and resolute. The Soviets called it the "Police Officer Penguin".

As penguins that look like police officers, they are also very courageous and are likely to conflict with other penguins, or even fight with them.The breeding colony of chinstrap penguins is huge, usually consisting of more than 100,000 breeding pairs of penguins. Their communication is very complex...

Ferruginous Duck，White-eyed Pochard，Ferruginous Pochard

Features：Pochards are very good at diving, but they do not stay underwater for long. They often move around in waters rich in reeds and aquatic plants and lurk in them.

As a male white-eyed pochard, it is born with a pair of bean-sized white eyes, which are particularly prominent against the dark chestnut head. Therefore, whenever people see male white-eyed pochards, they are always "rolling their eyes", which gives people a sense of "looking at life...

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

Features：It is named after the characteristics of its mouth. Its mouth is black with a yellow tip. During the breeding season, there is a black spot on the tip of the yellow mouth, like a spot.

Spot-billed duck is also called valley duck, yellow-billed duck, and fire duck. Spot-billed duck is one of the ancestors of Chinese domestic ducks, and its wild population is relatively abundant.Spot-billed ducks build their nests in grass, bushes or bamboo bushes near waters. Grass stems, grass lea...

Wild goose, spotted goose, bright spotted goose，Greater White-fronted，Goose White-fronted Goose

Features：The upper body is mostly gray-brown, with a broad white spot from the base of the upper beak to the forehead, and the lower body is white with black spots.

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 subspecies of white-fronted geese in the world, and 2 subspecies are distributed in my country. Both are winter migratory birds. The nominate subspecies winters in western and so...

White-headed goose, Black-headed goose，Bar-headed Goose

Features：The highest flying bird in the world.

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 eight hours to fly over the Himalayas.Incredibly, if the wind is favorable, they can complete a one-way flight of more than 1,600 kilometers in a few days. Its average fli...

Black Swan

Features：It is a world-famous ornamental bird.

In my country, swans are regarded as a symbol of beauty, auspiciousness, nobility and holiness. The black swan is the most beautiful species in the swan family. Compared with the white swan, the black swan is more elegant, rational and wise.Observing the black swan up close is like appreciating a wo...

Yellow duck, yellow duck, duck, red goose,Ruddy Shelduck

Features：What the ancients called "mandarin ducks".

There is a kind of "duck" that is slightly larger than a domestic duck, but has golden feathers all over its body. In fact, this is not a domestic duck, but a Ruddy Shelduck, which is a kind of bird.Speaking of lovebirds, everyone will think of the poem "I wish to be lovebirds in the...