mammals

Opossum、possum、rat

Features：‌Survival Strategy‌: Opossums use their unique "playing dead" strategy to escape predators. When feeling threatened, opossums will show a very realistic state of death, including respiratory arrest, decreased body temperature, body shaking, and discharge of foul-smelling fluid from anal glands, so that predators believe they are dead and avoid being eaten.
‌Reproductive Ability‌: Opossums have a very strong reproductive capacity. Female opossums can give birth to multiple pups per litter, up to 20. After birth, the pups live in the mother's pouch for a period of time, and then climb onto the mother's back until they can survive independently.
‌Food Range‌: Opossums are omnivorous animals, and their food includes plants, insects, small animals, etc. They can eat almost anything, including garbage and rotten fruits, which allows them to survive in a variety of environments.
‌Body Temperature and Health‌: Opossums have a low body temperature, which makes rabie

Opossum (scientific name Didelphinae, English name: Opossum) is a general term for mammals of the family Opossum in the order Possumidae. It is a small to medium-sized mammal. The mother opossum is named "opossum" because she can carry her young around with her. It has extraordinary reprod...

Chinchilladale,Chinchilla,South American Chinchilla, Woolly Mouse

Features：‌Chinchillas‌, also known as chinchillas, are very popular pets. They have the following characteristics:
‌Appearance features‌: Chinchillas are very similar to rabbits and squirrels in appearance. They are small and fat, and females are usually slightly larger than males. They have a rabbit-like head and a squirrel-like tail. They have large, thin, blunt and round ears, large and bright eyes, and many whiskers of varying lengths on the sides of their noses. They have short forelimbs with 5 toes; strong hind limbs with 4 toes, and are good at jumping.
‌Coat color‌: The back and sides of chinchillas have gray-blue fur, and the abdomen gradually fades to white. After artificial breeding, their colors have many variations‌.
‌Life habits‌: Chinchillas are native to the Andes Mountains in South America and are accustomed to living in rock crevices and caves. Their average lifespan is about 10 to 20 years. Chinchillas are vegetarian animals and mainly eat special pellets and Timothy

Chinchilla, also known as chinchilla, chinchilla, chinchilla, woolly mouse, chinchilla, etc., is a common name for a small rodent of the genus Chinchilla (scientific name: Chinchilladale, foreign name chinchilla), belonging to the subfamily Chinchilla under the family Chinchilla. There are two speci...

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....

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

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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

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...

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 ,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

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

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

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

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

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,Kikuchi Field Vole

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，Southwestern woolly rat

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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

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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,

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 fontanierii,Eospalax cansus

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...

Petaurista sybilla，Petaurista elegans

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The orange flying squirrel lives in subtropical evergreen broad-leaved forests or dark coniferous forests at medium and high altitudes. Its food mainly consists of fruits, seeds, and young branches and leaves of plants....

Petaurisa philippensis，Philippine flying squirrel, Giant flying squirrel

Features：The fur is thick, with white and grayish-white tips densely covering the head and back, as if covered with a layer of frost.

Frost-backed flying squirrels live in tropical and subtropical areas, mostly choosing dense tall tree forests. They build nests in tree crowns or tree holes. Their food mainly consists of fruits, seeds, tender branches and leaves of plants, and they also eat insects.Listed in the "List of Terre...

Microtus juldaschi

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The Pamir pine vole (Pitymys juldaschi (Severtzov, 1879)) is an animal of the genus Pitymys of the family Cricetidae. The species is native to the shore of Karakul Lake in Kashgar, my country, and belongs to the subfamily Arvicolinae. The classification is quite confusing. It was previously included...