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Connochaetes taurinus

Connochaetes taurinus

Connochaetes taurinus,Common Wildebeest,Common wildebeest, blue wildebeest, spotted wildebeest, white-bearded wildebeest

Features:It has a large head and broad shoulders like a buffalo, a slender back like a horse, and a black mane on its neck.

Common Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus) has five subspecies.Common Wildebeest can have two or three territorial ranges, each corresponding to a specific season. These generally include dry and wet season territories, as well as a third transitional territory that not all wildebeest use. Transition...

Zalophus japonicus

Zalophus japonicus

Zalophus japonicus

Features:Larger than the California sea lion, extinct

Japanese sea lion, Zalophus japonicus (Peters, 1866), is an extinct species of sea lion in the genus Zalophus of the family Eurasidae. Before 2003, Japanese sea lions were considered a subspecies of the California sea lion, but later it was pointed out that Japanese sea lions and California sea lion...

Zalophus californianus

Zalophus californianus

Zalophus californianus,Californian Sea Lion

Features:Males have an enlarged mane around their necks, usually with white fur on top and dark brown on the back.

Californian Sea Lion (scientific name: Zalophus californianus), foreign name California Sea Lion, no subspecies.The Japanese sea lion (Zalophus japonicus) and the Galapagos sea lion (Zalophus japonica) were once subspecies of the California sea lion, but were classified as separate species in 2007.T...

Arctocephalus pusillus

Arctocephalus pusillus

Arctocephalus pusillus,South African and Australian Fur Seal,Cape fur seal, African fur sea lion, South African fur sea lion, Australian fur sea lion

Features:The largest fur seal

The scientific name of the African fur seal is Arctocephalus pusillus, and its foreign name is South African and Australian Fur Seal. There are two subspecies.African fur sea lions are gentle and like to gather in groups. They generally do not have a fixed habitat except during the breeding season....

Cystophora cristata

Cystophora cristata

Cystophora cristata,Hooded seal

Features:The male has a black sac on his head, which swells into a "red balloon" when he gets angry.

Hooded seal (scientific name: Cystophora cristata) is also known as Hooded seal in foreign languages. There are no subspecies.Among the 19 species of seals, the hooded seal is the least known pinniped. In the past, people always mistakenly thought it was a whale (whales and pinnipeds are two distinc...

Phoca vitulina

Phoca vitulina

Phoca vitulina ,Common seal

Features:It often stays in the harbor, hence the name

The scientific name of the harbor seal is Phoca vitulina (Linnaeus, 1758), and the foreign name is Common seal. It is a seal distributed in the temperate and polar waters of the Northern Hemisphere.The harbor seal lives in groups, but the number of its groups is not as large as other seals. When not...

Phoca sibirica

Phoca sibirica

Phoca sibirica,Baikal Seal,Siberian seal, freshwater seal

Features:It has a round body and is the only freshwater seal in the world.

Baikal Seal (Phoca sibirica), also known as Baikal Seal in English, lives in the Baikal Lake area of Russia. It is the only freshwater seal in the world and also the smallest seal species in the world.The Baikal seals have long and strong claws that can break through the ice and open the hole for ai...

Phoca caspica

Phoca caspica

Phoca caspica,Caspian ringed seal, Phoca leucopus

Features:Small in size, with pale yellow skin and scattered irregular brown or black spots

The scientific name of the Caspian seal is Phoca caspica, an animal belonging to the genus Phoca of the family Phocidae.Caspian seals live in small groups in the middle or southern coast of the Caspian Sea in summer, migrate north in autumn, and form breeding groups on the ice. They give birth on fi...

Monachus tropicalis

Monachus tropicalis

Monachus tropicalis ,Caribbean monk seal,West Indian monk seal

Features:Slightly larger than an ordinary seal, it has a short and wide mouth and a high and round forehead. It is extinct.

Caribbean monk seal, Monachus tropicalis (Gray, 1850) foreign name Caribbean monk seal, a seal of the genus Phocaeus in the family Phocidae.Monk seals prefer warm tropical waters, and their body shape is more suitable for living in water than sea lions and walruses. Their hind limbs cannot bend forw...

Monachus schauinslandi

Monachus schauinslandi

Monachus schauinslandi,Hawaiian monk seal

Features:The head is very round and covered with short, dense hair, which looks like a monk's head.

Hawaiian monk seal (scientific name: Monachus schauinslandi) is the only native seal in Hawaii.Except for the breeding season, Hawaiian monk seals usually live alone and occasionally in small groups. They are active at night, spend a lot of time foraging at sea, and return to the shore to sleep afte...

Struthio camelus

Struthio camelus

ostrich、Struthio camelus

Features:The world's largest bird, it cannot fly and is the only two-toed bird in the world.

The largest bird on earth is the African ostrich, which is also a flightless bird. In biological classification, it is the only species of the family Struthionidae. The African ostrich is about 183-300 cm long, 240-280 cm tall, and weighs 130-150 kg. The female bird is slightly smaller. The snake-li...

Puma concolor

Puma concolor

Puma concolor,Puma、Mountain Lion,Mountain lion, golden cat, pounce horse

Features:It is about the same size as a leopard, but has no markings and a smaller skull.

Puma (scientific name: Puma concolor) is also known as Puma or Mountain Lion in foreign languages. It is an animal of the class Mammalia, family Felidae, and genus Cat. Based on the classical genetic analysis by Culver et al., 32 subspecies have been identified and described. In 2000, it was suggest...

Cynops orphicus

Cynops orphicus

Cynops orphicus,Shantou Salamander

Urodela LC

Features:There is an irregular longitudinal orange-red stripe in the middle of the ventral surface of the body.

The Chaoshan salamander is a tailed amphibian of the family Salamandridae and the genus Salamandridae. It lives in mountainous areas with an altitude of 640 to 1,600 meters. During the breeding season, adult salamanders are mostly active in still ponds and swamps, often living in ponds with a depth...

Zhangixalus hongchibaensis

Zhangixalus hongchibaensis

Wuxi tree frog

Anura LC

Features:The body and back of the limbs are light green with light brown spots of different sizes

During the breeding season from March to June, the male frog makes a "del, del, del" sound, which is more frequent at night. When mating, the male frog holds the female frog's armpit with its forelimbs. The female frog lays eggs at the bottom of the herbaceous plants near the swamp pon...

Rhacophorus laoshan

Rhacophorus laoshan

Old Mountain Tree Frog

Anura LC

Features:Small body, blunt snout, protruding from lower lip, eyes wider than upper eyelid and nose, with a brown horizontal stripe between eyes

The Laoshan tree frog is commonly found in mixed forests of secondary broad-leaved trees and bamboos at an altitude of about 1,390 meters. The ground is covered with dense bushes and weeds. It is distributed in the Wanglao Mountain in Tianlin, Guangxi, my country. The Laoshan tree frog usually breed...

Liuixalus romeri

Liuixalus romeri

Romer's Tree Frog,Romer Liu tree frog

Anura LC

Features:The head is small and flat, with an "X"-shaped dark spot above the shoulder. The skin on the ventral side is translucent, and its internal organs can be seen through the skin.

Romer's tree frog, a species of the genus Rhacophoridae, lives near the water pits near the sea and in the nearby bushes or grass. Adult frogs prey on ants, crickets, spiders, etc. From early March to September, the frog breeds in the shallow water of still ponds, and the male frog makes a short...

Polypedates hungfuensis

Polypedates hungfuensis

Hongfo tree frog

Anura LC

Features:The body is relatively flat, the eardrum is obvious, and the back is green.

Hongfo tree frog is an amphibian tree frog family, with a relatively flat body, a slightly blunt snout, a nose distance slightly smaller than the eye distance, a distinct eardrum, short and sturdy forelimbs, suckers at the fingertips, deep notches on the edge of the webbed toes, a green back with sp...

Wild Camel

Wild Camel

Camelus ferus

Features:The most rare wild animal on earth than the giant panda

Bactrian Camel, a monotypic species, a giant ungulate, with no valid subspecies.Wild camels are good at running, agile, quick to react, and have a very strong sense of smell. Some people believe that they rely on their sense of smell to find water in the desert, or they may rely on their unique gene...

Psittacus erithacus

Psittacus erithacus

Psittacus erithacus,Grey Parrot,Grey Parrot, Grey Parrot

Features:He has strong speaking ability, is intelligent, has a high IQ, and is famous for his ability to imitate human language.

African Gray ParrotIt is a large parrot, a typical climbing bird, with a pair of toes. The African Grey Parrot has a slender foot with two toes pointing forward and two toes pointing backward, which is suitable for grasping. The bird has a strong beak and can eat hard-shelled fruits. It has a short...

Corsac Fox

Corsac Fox

Vulpes corsac, Eastern Coral Fox

Features:It is a long-legged, reddish-gray fox.

Corsus foxes are slightly smaller than red foxes and as tall as a medium-sized dog. There are three subspecies.Corsus foxes live adjacent to other burrowing animals and take over vacant burrows. They are very active during the day, but there are also reports of nocturnal activity. Good at climbing,...

Cynops orientalis

Cynops orientalis

Oriental Salamander, Chinese Fire Dragon, Brazilian Fire Dragon

Urodela LC

Features:Contains tetrodotoxin.

The appearance of the Oriental Salamander is similar to that of the Blue-tailed Salamander (Cynops cyanurus), but the Oriental Salamander has a flat or slightly raised back; the skin is smoother, the palms are prominent or not prominent; there is no orange-red spot below the eyes; the front half of...