Shinisaurus crocodilurus
Crocodile lizard, water gecko, Yaoshan crocodile lizard, big sleeping snake, wood sleeping fish, drowned dog
Features:It looks very much like the Chinese alligator, so it is called the crocodile lizard.
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...
Phoca largha
Harbor seal, seal, fur seal, fur seal, western Pacific harbor seal
Features:The cutest seal in the world.
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...
Rhinopithecus roxellana
Sichuan golden monkey, snub-nosed monkey, snub-nosed monkey, golden velvet monkey, blue-faced monkey, Rockanna monkey, long-tailed monkey, thread monkey, thread marmoset, horse marmoset, Guoran beast,
Features:The golden hair is particularly dazzling
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...
Trachypithecus francoisi
Black monkey, black leaf monkey, monkey hanging monkey, rock spider monkey
Features:The black leaf monkey is large, thin, with slender limbs and a particularly long tail that is longer than the head and body. The head is small with a tuft of upright black crested hair on the top of the head. It does not have cheek pouches. The whole body is black, and the hair is shiny. From the base of the front of the ear to the corner of the mouth, there is a white band composed of white hair on the left and right. There is a small amount of yellow-white hair on the inner side of the upper edge of the ear. The back of the ear is almost hairless, and there is a circle of light white hair at the base. The tip of the tail is white. The top of the head, back and tail of the newborn monkey are gray-brown, and the rest of the body is orange-yellow. After one month, the whole body begins to gradually turn black, and after half a year, it is basically close to the body color of the adult monkey.
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 elephant
elephant
Features:Asian elephants have two ridges on the top of their heads, like longevity stars, which African elephants do not have.
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
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
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...
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...
Panthera pardus fusca
Black Leopard, Leopard, panther
Features:It has agile movements and excellent eyesight, can hunt in very low light conditions, is solitary, active at night, can climb trees and swim. It can run at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour and can jump 6 meters away and 3 meters high. It has extremely sensitive vision, hearing and smell, and preys on various small and medium-sized animals. The gestation period is about 100 days, and each litter has 1-3 cubs. It reaches sexual maturity at the age of 3 and has a lifespan of more than 20 years. The black panther is a black variant of the leopard, with blue eyes.
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...
Priodontes maximus
Priodontes maximus、P.giganteus、Armadillo、qiú yú、Armored rat
Features:Exoskeleton features: The armadillo's body is covered with a layer of hard and uniform scales, which is their natural protective armor and can effectively resist external damage. They have relatively large heads, a pair of pointed beaks and sharp claws. Most species of armadillos mainly feed on insects, but also eat invertebrates and small vertebrates, or plant food. Armadillos have powerful molars in their mouths that can easily bite hard plant fibers. Life habits: Armadillos are nocturnal animals. They usually rest in tree holes or burrows during the day and come out to move and forage at night. They like to live alone and usually only meet other armadillos during the mating season. During the breeding season, male armadillos will use their special snoring to attract the attention of female armadillos. After mating, they go their separate ways again. A female armadillo usually gives birth to four cubs after one fertilization. All cubs born in the same litter are of the same
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...
Saccoglossus hwangtauensis
Saccoglossus hwangtauensis,Huangdao long-nosed acorn worm, jade hookworm
Features:Light orange body
The snout of the Huangdao long-nosed worm is relatively long, about 1/20 of the total length, hence the name. The snout is oblate and conical, with an obvious or inconspicuous longitudinal groove on each of the central lines of the dorsal and ventral surfaces, extending from the base of the snout to...
Grylloblattella cheni
Grylloblattella cheni
Features:
Chen's western cockroach has an ancient origin, which can be traced back to the Upper Lime Period about 300 million years ago. It can be called a "living fossil" of the class Insecta. As an extremely rare insect that ordinary people rarely see, there are only a few museums in the world...
Garrulax bieti
Garrulax bieti,White-speckled Laughingthrush,
Features:White spots on the body
White-speckled Laughingthrush is a species endemic to southwestern China. The habits of the White-speckled Laughingthrush are little known. Some authors classify this species as a subspecies of the Spot-backed Laughingthrush. Globally vulnerable (Collar et al1994).Listed in the first lev...