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giant anteater

giant anteater

anteater,ant bear

Features:The largest animal among the anteaters

Giant anteaters may occupy territories as large as 9,000 hectares. Communication and perception, as well as most communication, occurs between young and their mothers, including courtship and fighting when they are only briefly together. These include fighting, sniffing, hissing, and growling...

takin

takin

Takin,wildebeest,golden takin

Features:It is shaped like a cow and sounds like a sheep. It is also known as the four different things.

Takin is a large bovine herbivore distributed in the dense forests of the eastern foothills of the Himalayas. Due to different origins, the coat color gradually becomes lighter from south to north. Divided into 4 subspecies: Gaoligong takin, Bhutan takin, Sichuan takin, Qinling takin, all pro...

giant panda

giant panda

Cat bear,bamboo bear,silver dog,iron-eating beast

Features:China’s national treasure and living fossil in the biological world

The giant panda has lived on the earth for at least 8 million years and is a first-level protected animal in China. At the end of 2016, the World Conservation Union (IUCN) downgraded the giant panda's threat level from "endangered" to "vulnerable" . However, due to its low fertility rate, it...

black bear

black bear

Ursus thibetanus,Moon bear,bear,black blind man

Features:Black bears have excellent tree climbing abilities

Black bears, also known as Asiatic black bears, were historically placed in a separate genus <Selenarctos>. A wild hybrid between a black bear and a sun bear has been recorded in Cambodia. Black bears use a variety of forest habitats within their distribution area, including broadleaf forests and coniferous forests. The altitude span of their activities can range from close to sea level to 4000m, and they may occasionally appear in open meadows at high altitudes. Black bears are om...

tiger

tiger

Big cat,big insect,mountain king,Yin beast

Features:One of the largest living cats in the world

There are nine species of tigers, namely: Siberian tiger, South China tiger, Bali tiger, Indochinese tiger, Malayan tiger, Javan tiger, Sumatran tiger, Bengal tiger, and Caspian tiger. China has the largest number of tiger species among the 14 tiger-producing countries in the world, and India has the largest number of tigers in the world, although there is only one type of Bengal tiger. In the mid-20th century, due to deforestation and over-hunting, the number of tigers in India was once reduced...

kubanochoeres

kubanochoeres

kubanochoeres

Features:It has a rather large horn, similar to the horn of the legendary unicorn

kubanochoeres are a group of large, mound-toothed pigs that once lived in the Old World.Kuban pig is a kind of huge pig that lived in the Old world during the Middle Miocene geological period. Because it has some unique characteristics, it plays an important role in the systematic evolution of pigs....

wolverine

wolverine

Wolf's green

Features:Fiercely loyal to his master

Wolf green dog pedigree is more complex, mainly several breeds from the cross, tracing is very difficult, is a big project, both historical problems, and technical problems, Such as < a target = "_blank" href = "https://baike.baidu.com/item/DNA/98123?fromModule=lemma_inlink" &...

Taphozous melanopogon

Taphozous melanopogon

Taphozous melanopogon

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The black-bearded tomb bat (Taphozous melanopogon), also known as the black-bearded sheath-tailed bat, is a member of the sheath-tailed bat family. The black-bearded tomb bat clusters in the cracks of the cave, or lies on the rock wall in the cave, hiding in the deep cracks by retreating. It can be...

Macroglossus sobrinus

Macroglossus sobrinus

Macroglossus sobrinus

Features:Very short tail, very narrow teeth

Andersen's long-tongued fruit bat (<M. sobrinus>) was named by Andersen (1911) based on the specimens of Gunong Igari, Malaysia. It was originally considered to be a subspecies of the small long-tongued fruit bat (<M. m. sobrinus>). However, Medway (1969) believed that Andersen's...

Eonycteris spelaea

Eonycteris spelaea

CHIROPTERA

Features:The tongue is very long, with a brush-like protrusion on the tip and a tricuspid papilla in the center of the tongue.

The tongue of the long-tongued fruit bat is very long, with a brush-like protrusion at the tip, a tridentate papillae in the center of the tongue, and a forearm length of 47.31-51.01 mm. It is similar to the long-tongued fruit bat (Eonycteris spelaea), but the second finger has a claw, the wing memb...

Cynictis penicillata

Cynictis penicillata

Cynictis penicillata ,Yellow mongoose, bush-tailed mongoose, yellow mongoose, red mongoose

Features:They have long claws and dig their own burrows or occupy the burrows of gray meerkats and ground rats.

Yellow mongoose (Cynictis penicillata, G. Cuvier, 1829) is a carnivorous animal of the genus Cynictis in the family Viverridae. There are 12 known subspecies.The pen-tailed mongoose lives in groups, some go out to hunt insects, while others take turns on duty. When standing, they support their bodie...

Ochotona pusilla

Ochotona pusilla

Ochotona pusilla

Features:The ear has a wide and very obvious white edge; below the white edge there is a very narrow band of black hair, and further down is yellowish-brown hair.

The steppe pika belongs to the subgenus <Pika>. This species has always been considered not to be distributed in my country. In September 2008, the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Locust and Rat Control Headquarters collected specimens for the first time in Karamay in northwestern Xinjiang; t...

Pseudo-Spirited Rat

Pseudo-Spirited Rat

Pseudo-Spirited Rat

Rodents LC

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The species status of Pseudo-spiny rat is controversial, and it has long been considered a synonym of the needle-haired rat. The type locality of the needle-haired rat is Nepal, and the type locality of the Pseudo-spiny rat is Guadun, Fujian, and the two are far apart. Molecular phylogenetics confir...

Niviventer culturatus

Niviventer culturatus

Niviventer culturatus,White-tailed rat, sulfur-bellied rat, spiny gray rat, mountain rat, white-bellied rat

Rodents LC

Features:In summer, there are more spiny guard hairs and the back hair is darker brown; in winter, there are fewer spiny guard hairs and the back hair is slightly brownish yellow.

The species status of this species is highly controversial. It has long been a synonym of Niviventer confucianus. Only recently has molecular systematic research confirmed its independent species status. This species is mainly distributed in areas above 2000m above sea level in Taiwan. The habitat a...

Niviventer andersoni

Niviventer andersoni

Niviventer andersoni

Rodents LC

Features:It has a large body, a pointed snout, large ears, a pure white belly, and a clear boundary between the dorsal and ventral sides.

The species status of Andersen's white-bellied rat is stable, with three subspecies differentiation. In molecular systematics, it forms three obvious branches, but the boundaries of the branches are unclear and there is no one-to-one correspondence between the three subspecies.This species has b...

Cansumys canus

Cansumys canus

Cansumys canus,Cansumys

Rodents LC

Features:The tail hair is uniform gray in color, gray-black at the tip, and the hair at the tip forms a tuft.

The taxonomic status of Gansu hamster is controversial. Some scholars regard Gansu hamster as an independent genus and species, some scholars regard it as an independent species of the giant hamster genus (<Tscherskia>); some scholars regard it as a subspecies of the giant hamster (<Tschers...

Alexandromys kikuchii

Alexandromys kikuchii

Alexandromys kikuchii,Kikuchi Field Vole

Rodents LC

Features:It has the longest tail among the genus vole, and its hair base is dark slate blue (commonly known as "iron gray").

The taxonomic status of Taiwan vole is stable, but the genus-level taxonomic unit has been controversial. Many scientists put this species in the genus Vole, while some scientists have put it in the genus Vole (<Volemys>). Molecular systematic studies have confirmed that this taxonomic unit be...

Eothenomys fidelis

Eothenomys fidelis

Eothenomys fidelis,Southwestern woolly rat

Rodents LC

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The Lijiang woolly mouse belongs to the genus Eothenomys. The species status is unstable and controversial. The type locality is Lijiang, Yunnan. Some scientists regard it as a synonym of the black-bellied woolly mouse (<Eothenomys melanogaster>), and some scientists regard it as a synonym of...

Eothenomys shimianensis

Eothenomys shimianensis

Eothenomys shimianensis

Rodents LC

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Asbestos woolly rat is a new species published by Liu Shaoying et al. in 2018, and its type locality is located in Shimian County, Sichuan. In the phylogenetic tree constructed based on the mitochondrial genome, asbestos woolly rat and Kachin woolly rat constitute sister groups, and in the phylogene...

Eothenomys custos

Eothenomys custos

Eothenomys custos,

Rodents LC

Features:The tail is relatively short, most of which are less than half the body length.

The southwestern woolly rat belongs to the subgenus <Anteliomys> of the genus <Anteliomys>, and its species-level status is stable. There are currently 4 subspecies under the species, all distributed in Yunnan. The nominate subspecies <E. c. custos> (Thomas, 1912), the type localit...

Eospalax rufescens

Eospalax rufescens

Eospalax rufescens,Eospalax fontanierii,Eospalax cansus

Rodents LC

Features:The tips of the hairs are rust-colored, and some older individuals are bright rust-red.

The classification status of Qinling zokor at both genus and species levels is controversial. At the genus level, some scholars regard it as the subgenus Myospalax of the genus Myospalax, while some believe that the subgenus Myospalax is an independent genus. At the species level, many people regard...