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Herpestes edwardsii

Herpestes edwardsii

Herpestes edwardsii,Indian Gray Mongoose

Features:Good at controlling the number of venomous snakes and rats

The gray mongoose, scientifically known as Herpestes edwardsii, is a lone ranger that likes to wander around in the early morning and evening in search of reptiles. They move very quickly, as if they are anxiously looking for something; they rarely climb trees. The gray mongoose is good at attacking...

Helogale parvula,Dwarf mongoose

Helogale parvula,Dwarf mongoose

Helogale parvula

Features:One of the smallest mongooses in the world

The dwarf mongoose (scientific name Helogale parvula) is a small carnivore in Africa and a snake nemesis.The dwarf mongoose is docile and lives mainly in dry grasslands, open forests or shrub areas, and sometimes near buildings. They can live at an altitude of up to 2,000 meters. They like to live i...

Atilax paludinosus,

Atilax paludinosus,

Atilax paludinosus,Swamp Mongoose

Features:The fur is dark brown with black tips

The swamp mongoose (scientific name Atilax paludinosus) is a medium-sized mongoose.The swamp mongoose is a solitary animal with territoriality. When in danger, they will make high-frequency calls. They are most active at dusk and at night, feeding on fish, frogs, insects and their larvae, snails, an...

Proteles cristatus

Proteles cristatus

Proteles cristatus,Aardwolf, Hyena

Features:Timid, when attacked by enemies, it releases a foul fluid from its anus, mainly feeding on termites

Coyote (scientific name: Proteles cristatus) is also known as Aardwolf in English. It has two subspecies.The coyote is small, its teeth are highly degenerate, and its body shape is far from the streamline theory; the opening angle of its mouth is almost the smallest among beasts, which greatly limit...

Parahyaena brunnea

Parahyaena brunnea

Parahyaena brunnea,Brown Hyaena,Brown hyena, beach wolf

Features:The hair is long, coarse and shaggy, with no markings on the body, and is mainly tan in color.

Brown hyena (scientific name: Parahyaena brunnea) is also known as Brown Hyaena in English. It has two subspecies.Brown hyenas have a tightly organized social system, which is generally ruled by females, because in the group, the female as the leader is stronger than the male, while in other aspects...

Hyaena hyaena

Hyaena hyaena

Hyaena hyaena,Striped Hyaena, Hyène rayée,Hiena Rayada, Daba'a Moukhattat

Features:Except for the face and limbs, it has black stripes and is completely furry.

Striped hyena (scientific name: Hyaena hyaena) English Striped Hyaena, French Hyène rayée, Spanish Hiena Rayada, Arabic Daba'a Moukhattat, there are 5 subspecies.Striped hyenas are most often seen alone or in pairs, sometimes in small groups of up to seven. They need a very large range to fora...

Crocuta crocuta

Crocuta crocuta

Crocuta crocuta,Spotted Hyaena,Spotted Hyena

Features:It can compete with lions and is the most vocal mammal in Africa.

Spotted hyena (scientific name: Crocuta crocuta), also known as spotted hyena, is a member of the genus Crocuta and family Hyaenidae.The spotted hyena was first formally described by German naturalist Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben in 1777. The ancient Greek root of the name was used by Pliny th...

Civettictis civetta

Civettictis civetta

Civettictis civetta

Features:Unlike other civets, it is not cat-like, but rather more like a short dog.

The African civet (scientific name: Civettictis civetta) is a civet in tropical Africa.The African civet is the largest representative of the African civet family. It is the only member of its genus. African civets are found in sub-Saharan Africa and most of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. They...

Paguma larvata

Paguma larvata

Paguma larvata,Masked Palm Civet,Civet cat, white nose heart, hairy mouse, white eyebrow, five-faced civet cat, white nose dog, Qingjie, etc.

Features:It is named after the wide white facial line from the back edge of the nose through the center of the face to the top of the forehead.

Paguma larvata (scientific name: Masked Palm Civet) is a carnivorous animal of the family Viverridae and the genus Paguma. It has 16 subspecies and is commonly known as the palm civet.Paguma larvata lives in a family, often male and female, old and young, living in the same cave. They often move in...

Fossa fossana

Fossa fossana

Fossa fossana,Spotted Fanaloka,Malagasy civet, Malagasy civet, Malagasy civet

Features:Looks and acts like a fox

The Spotted Fanaloka (scientific name: Fossa fossana) is also called the Spotted Fanaloka, but it is not a cat. It is called the Spotted Fanaloka because some of its characteristics are similar to those of cats after it evolved to adapt to the jungle living environment. In the past, it was classifie...

Eupleres goudotii

Eupleres goudotii

Eupleres goudotii,Small-toothed mongoose, sharp-nosed civet, anteater

Features:It looks like a mongoose, with a long snout and a low body, but is plain brown in color.

The small-toothed mongoose (scientific name: Eupleres goudotii), also known as the small-toothed mongoose or sharp-nosed civet, is classified under the subfamily Myrmecophaga with its close relative, the Madagascar civet. It is only 50 cm long and has a 24 cm long tail. It is almost entirely insecti...

Cryptoprocta ferox

Cryptoprocta ferox

Cryptoprocta ferox,Fossa, Hidden Anal Civet, Hidden Spirit Cat

Features:It looks like a puma, has a dog-like mouth, short fur, and is brown and shiny all over.

The mongoose (scientific name: Cryptoprocta ferox) is called Fossa in foreign language, and has no subspecies.The nests of the mongoose are hidden, and they are mainly active at night or at dusk, although they are occasionally observed during the day. They are solitary by nature, and usually act alo...

Panthera onca

Panthera onca

Panthera onca,Jaguar,Jaguar, jaguar

Features:It has a leopard-like appearance and pattern, a tiger-like body, a shorter tail, and tumor-like protrusions on the inside of its eye sockets.

The scientific name of the jaguar is Panthera onca (Linnaeus, 1758), and its foreign name is Jaguar, also known as the jaguar. It is the third largest cat species in existence.Jaguars live in water-rich areas and, like tigers, are cats that love to swim. Jaguars love to travel alone, are dormant pre...

Tigon

Tigon

Tigon

Features:The beast has a tiger's head, a lion's mane, and a tiger's body.

Tigon (English name Tigon) is a hybrid of a male tiger and a female lion. It is congenitally weak and more precious than a liger.The successful conception rate between lions and tigers is only 1%~2%! However, the survival rate of ligers is higher than that of tigons. The survival rate of ligers is 1...

Panthera leo × tigris

Panthera leo × tigris

Panthera leo × tigris,liger

Features:It looks like a lion, but has tiger stripes on its body.

Liger (scientific name: Panthera leo×tigris), also known as liger in English, is the offspring of a lion and a tiger. It is huge in size. Like lions and tigers, it is a member of the genus Panthera in the family Felidae. It looks similar to a lion, but has tiger stripes on its body.The world's...

Golden Tiger

Golden Tiger

Golden Tiger,Strawberry Tiger

Features:Golden background with brown stripes, but the stripes are lighter. Wild populations are extinct.

The golden tiger is a golden variant of the Bengal tiger. It is golden with black stripes. It is extinct in the wild and is even rarer than the snow tiger. It is a rare animal in the world.In some legends, stories and blessings, there are often sayings such as "Golden Tiger Happy New Year"...

Pure White Tiger

Pure White Tiger

Pure White Tiger

Features:The whole body is white, without stripes, and the wild population is extinct

Pure white tigers, as the name suggests, are all white without any stripes. There have only been two pure white Bengal tigers in the world, and wild pure white tigers are now extinct.Pure white tigers live alone and are nocturnal. They mainly feed on ungulates. There is no fixed breeding season. The...

Snow Tiger

Snow Tiger

Snow Tiger

Features:The whole body is snow-white, and the stripes are very light in color

The snow tiger is the result of further mutation of the white tiger gene, with a probability of one in 100,000. It is a silver-white variant of the Bengal tiger, a rare animal in the world. There are only dozens of them in zoos around the world.The snow tiger's fur is whiter than the white tiger...

Bengal White Tiger

Bengal White Tiger

Bengal White Tiger,Bengal Tiger (white),Bengal white tiger, white tiger Bengal white tiger, white tiger

Features:A variation of the Bengal tiger, with white fur and black, gray or chocolate stripes

The albino Bengal tiger (English name: Bengal White Tiger) is also known as the Bengal white tiger, or "white tiger" for short. It is a variant of the Bengal tiger. Due to a genetic mutation, the Bengal tiger's original orange-yellow hair with black stripes has turned into a white-base...

Panthera tigris virgata

Panthera tigris virgata

Panthera tigris virgata,Persian tiger, Xinjiang tiger, Caucasian tiger, Turan tiger, West Asian tiger, Central Asian tiger, Black Sea tiger

Features:Second in size only to the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger, now extinct

The Caspian tiger (Latin name: Panthera tigris virgata) is the third largest subspecies of tiger, second only to the Siberian tiger and the Bengal tiger. It became extinct in China in 1916, and then successively became extinct in West Asia and Central Asia, and became extinct in the 1980s.The Caspia...

Panthera tigris tigris

Panthera tigris tigris

Panthera tigris tigris,Bengal Tiger,Indian tiger, Bhutan tiger, Royal Bengal tiger

Features:It is the most numerous and widely distributed tiger subspecies in the world.

Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), also known as Bengal Tiger, is a nominative subspecies of tiger, also known as Indian tiger, and is the most numerous and widely distributed tiger subspecies in the world.The habitat of Bengal tigers is relatively wide. The territory of a tiger ranges from doze...