The gyrfalcon is a species of falcon. It has a strong beak and feet with sharp hooks, which are adapted to catching and tearing prey. The base of the beak is covered with wax; the wings are strong and powerful, and it is good at flying and soaring. The skull is cord-shaped. The feet and toes are str...
The green peacock is a large chicken. The male has emerald blue-green feathers, a cluster of upright crest feathers on the head, and emerald green lower back with a coppery luster. Behind the body is a tail covert that is more than 1 meter long, with shiny and gorgeous eye-shaped spots on the feathe...
The white-throated hornbill is a large bird of the family Rhinoceros Bipedidae and the genus Rhinoceros Biped. It is about 88 cm long, with dark gray-brown upper body, light brown lower body, white throat, and white tips on the outer flight feathers and outer tail feathers. The male bird has a small...
The global population of golden eagles is estimated at around 300,000 individuals, equivalent to 200,000 mature adults. The European population is estimated at 9,300-12,300 pairs, equivalent to 18,500-24,500 mature individuals. Europe accounts for about 16% of the global population, so a prelimina...
The Chinese sturgeon is the largest and longest-lived freshwater fish. (After the extinction of the Chinese sturgeon)The Chinese sturgeon is the oldest vertebrate on Earth and a descendant of the ancient stickleback, the common ancestor of fish, with a history of 140 million years. It lived in the s...
The white sturgeon is one of the largest freshwater fish, named for its lighter color. It is also known as the harp fish, the swordfish, and the ancient name tuna. Like the Chinese sturgeon, it has existed for 150 million years and is one of the very few ancient fish that survived from the Cretaceou...
The Tibetan wild donkey is a unique animal on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. It is the only wild donkey species in the world and a national first-class protected animal.If you drive into Tibet or go to Xinjiang, Gansu, Qinghai and other high-altitude mountainous areas where Tibetan wild donkeys are acti...
In 1875, Russian naturalist Przewalski discovered this animal unique to China on the Ordos grassland in Inner Mongolia, China, but he always mistakenly thought it was a Tibetan gazelle. It was not until 13 years later that it was officially named "Przewalski's gazelle". However, in his...
In the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, the mascot Fuwa Yingying is a cute Tibetan antelope.The origin of the Tibetan antelope provides an interesting example of an endemic species on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, whose ancestors can be traced back to the late Miocene. In the Qaidam Basin in the northern Qi...
I have heard that musk deer are the best medicine in the world. As long as musk deer live in the forest, the air and water will be purified, and any human or animal living in or around the forest will not suffer from disease.The musk deer is suspicious by nature. When it moves, it always looks...
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...
Sometimes they look out of the water, sometimes they dive for food, and sometimes they go up to the islands and reefs to bask in the sun. They are all naive and cute. Yes, they are the cutest seals in the world - harbor seals.Harbor seals spend most of their lives in the water. Except for the infanc...
Except for the white hair on the abdomen, buttocks, and the inside of the limbs, the rest of the body of the Sichuan golden snub-nosed monkey is golden yellow. The shoulders and back have long hair from the tail to the buttocks, which is gray-brown, similar to the straw raincoat used by farmers to p...
The black leaf monkey, with a black body, upright crest on the top of the head, and only white cheeks and tail tip, is a national first-class protected animal. There are only about 2,000 black leaf monkeys in the world. Among them, there are 76 groups of about 730 black leaf monkeys in the Mayang Ri...
Asian elephants are giant herbivoresFood,The staple food is bamboo shoots, young leaves, wild plantains and palm leaf reeds, etc. In the morning, evening and night, Asian elephants will go out to forage. They mainly eat grass, leaves, buds and bark. Asian elephants also eat crops such as bananas and...
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...
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...
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...
The black panther is a black variant of the leopard (Panthera pardus fusca). In China, people are used to calling it "Golden Leopard", while the African one is generally called "Flower Leopard". Classification: Mammalia, Carnivora, Family Felidae. Diet: Carnivorous, feeding on va...
Armadillo (scientific name Priodontes maximus or P.giganteus) is also known as Armadillo in Chinese (qiú yú in pinyin). It is a mammal of the family Armadilloidae in the order Edentata. There are 9 genera and 21 species in the family Armadillo (1 genus and 1 species are extinct): naked-tailed arma...