One of the three largest countries in the world in terms of the size and diversity of wild animals is China. Having a huge scale of the state, which animals V China only they don’t live: foxes, lynxes, wolves and bears, these are residents of the taiga part.
Jeyran
Beautiful, slender inhabitants of desert areas are gazelle antelopes. On numerous photo of animals in China you can see all the beauty and grace of the gazelle. Males are distinguished from females by their unusual, lyre-shaped horns.
Dzheyrans live, strictly following only their schedule. In early autumn, males begin the rut, that is, territorial division. An interesting sight: the males, having dug out a small depression with their hoofs, deposit their excrement in it, thereby staking out a place. Another, more impudent one, digs them up, pulls them out and puts his own aside, noting that he is now the boss here.
Goitered gazelles winter in flocks, but they do not go high into the mountains, since their slender legs cannot tolerate deep snow. And with the onset of spring, the females leave to seek shelter for themselves and their future offspring.
For the first seven days, newborn babies lie tightly pressed to the ground and stretch out their heads, camouflaging themselves from predators, of which they have a lot. When a mother comes to feed her babies with her milk, she does not immediately approach them.
At first she will look around with caution. Noticing a threat to the life of the cub, she will fearlessly rush at the enemy, killing him with her head and sharp hooves. On hot summer days, in order to shelter from the heat, goitered gazelles look for a tree or bush to hide in the shade, and then move around behind this shade all day long.
Panda
The well-known bamboo bears, these animals are symbol China, they are officially declared national property. In the ninetieth year of the last century animal contributed to Red book China like an endangered species. After all, there are only one thousand and a half of them left in nature, and about two hundred live in the country’s zoos.
Due to their black and white color, they were previously called spotted bears. And now, if we literally translate the name of the animal from Chinese, it is “cat-bear”. Many zoological naturalists see the panda as similar to a raccoon. These bears grow over one and a half meters in length and weigh an average of 150 kg. Males, as often happens in nature, are larger than their females.
They have a very interesting structure of their front paws, or rather their toes; they are six-toed, so they can easily pick up young bamboo branches with them. After all, an animal needs to eat up to thirty kilograms of plants per day for full development.
Their color is very beautiful, white body, on the muzzle around the eyes there is black wool in the form of a “pince-nez”. Pandas' ears and paws are also black. But no matter how pretty they look, you need to be careful with them. Still, wild nature makes itself felt, and a bear can easily attack a person.
Pandas inhabit bamboo forests and feed on them, very rarely diluting their diet with rodents or grass. Due to the massive cutting down of bamboo, pandas are climbing further into the mountains.
Bears are used to living alone, with the exception of mothers with children. They can live together for up to two years, then go their separate ways. In the Celestial Empire, pandas are highly valued and protected, and those who, God forbid, kill a bear are strictly punished by law; for this, a person is sentenced to death.
Himalayan bear
An unusually beautiful animal belonging to the category of predators. Himalayan bears, also called white-breasted or moon bears. This is because each of them has a snow-white spot on its chest in the shape of an inverted crescent moon.
The animal itself is smaller in size than its usual counterpart, black in color. Their fur is very soft and plush. They have neat small rounded ears and a long nose. These bears are frequent guests in trees, where they feed and hide from ill-wishers.
Although they are considered predators, their diet consists of 70 percent vegetation. If they want meat, the bear will catch an ant or a toad; it can also eat carrion. When meeting people, the animal behaves extremely unfriendly. There have been cases of fatal collisions.
Orongo
They are Chiru or Tibetan antelopes, coming from the goat family of bovids. Artiodactyls have a very valuable fur coat, so they often become victims of poachers. They are caught and killed en masse, and it is estimated that the number of such animals is just over seventy thousand.
Tibetan antelopes are almost a meter tall and weigh forty kilograms. Males differ from females in their larger size, the presence of horns and stripes on their front legs. Chiru's horns take about four years to grow and grow up to half a meter in length. Orongo is brown with a red tint, a white belly and a black muzzle.
These artiodactyls live in small families, a male and up to ten females. After the calves are born, the male cubs live with their parents for about a year, then leave to gather their harems.
Girls will stay close to their mother until they become mothers themselves. The number of antelopes decreases every year; over the last century there have been one million fewer of them.
Przewalski's horse
In 78 of the 19th century, the great traveler and naturalist N.M. Przhevalsky was given a gift, the remains of an unknown animal. Without thinking twice, he sent them to his biologist friend to examine them. During the course it turned out that this was a wild horse unknown to science. It was described in detail and named after the person who discovered it and did not ignore it.
Currently they are on the pages of the Red Book as an endangered species. The Przewalski's horse no longer lives in the wild, only in zoos and protected areas. There are no more than two thousand of them around the world.
The animal is one and a half meters high and two meters long. Its parameters are a bit like those of a donkey - a strong body, short legs and a large head. The horse weighs no more than four hundred kilograms.
She has a short mane, like the hair on a punk's head, and her tail, on the contrary, reaches to the ground. The horse is light brown in color, with black legs, tail and mane.
During its habitat in the wild, large herds inhabited the territory of China. They were never able to domesticate her, even living in captivity, she retained all the habits of a wild animal. In search of food, horses led a nomadic lifestyle.
In the morning and evening they grazed, and at lunchtime they rested. Moreover, only women and children did this, while their leader, the father of the family, walked around the surrounding areas in order to detect the enemy in time and protect his family. Naturalists have made attempts to return horses to their natural environment, but, unfortunately, none of them were successful.
White Tiger
IN Chinese there are four mythologies sacred animals, one of them is a white tiger. He personified power, severity and courage, and was often depicted in paintings wearing military chain mail.
These tigers descended from Bengal tigers, but having mutated in utero, they acquired an absolutely snow-white color. Out of a thousand Bengal tigers, only one will be white. Coffee-colored stripes run throughout the animal’s snow-white fur coat. And his eyes are like the sky blue.
In 1958 of the last century, the last representative of this family was killed, and after that there were no more of them in the wild. Just over two hundred white tigers live in the country's zoos. And to get to know the animal better, there is nothing left to do but leaf through magazines and surf the Internet in search of information.
Kiang
Animals belonging to the equine family. They inhabit all the mountains of Tibet, which is why they are not very loved by the locals. Because due to their large numbers, livestock have no room left for grazing.
Kiangi is one and a half meters high and two meters long. They weigh on average three hundred to four hundred kg. They have an unusually beautiful body color; in winter they are almost chocolate-colored, and by summer they lighten to light brown. A dark stripe runs from the mane, along the entire length of the spine and to the tail. And his belly, sides, legs, neck and lower part of the muzzle are completely white.
Kiangs do not live alone; the number of their groups ranges from 5 to 350 individuals. In a large herd, there is a predominant number of mothers and children, as well as young animals, both males and females.
At the head of the pack, as a rule, is a mature, wise and strong female. Male kiangs lead a bachelor lifestyle, and only with the arrival of cold weather do they gather in small groups.
From mid-summer, they begin to become sexually active; they join herds with females and organize exhibition fights among themselves. The winner wins the lady of his heart, impregnates her and goes home.
After a year of pregnancy, only one calf is born. He stands firmly on all four hooves and follows his mother everywhere. Kiangs are excellent swimmers, so it is not difficult for them to swim across any body of water in search of food.
It becomes sad and even ashamed for the actions of people, through whose fault almost all of the animals described above are now in critical condition and on the verge of extinction.
Chinese giant salamander
A miraculous creature, even difficult to compare with anyone or anything, lives in the icy, clean mountain rivers of northern, eastern and southern China. It feeds exclusively on meat - fish, small crustaceans, frogs and other small things.
It is not only the largest, but also the most unusual amphibian in the whole world. The salamander grows almost two meters long and weighs more than sixty kg. The head, like the entire body, is large, wide and slightly flattened.
On both sides of the head, far from each other, there are tiny eyes that have no eyelids at all. The salamander has four limbs: two front ones, with three flattened fingers, and two back ones, each with five fingers. And also the tail, it is short, and like all salamanders, it is also flattened.
The upper part of the amphibian’s body is gray-chocolate in color; due to the non-uniform color and highly pimpled skin of the animal, it appears spotted. Her belly is painted with dark and light gray spots.
By the age of five years, the salamander is ready to reproduce. About half a thousand babies are born from its larvae. They are born three centimeters long. Their external gill membranes are already sufficiently developed for a full-fledged existence.
The Chinese giant salamander, like many animals in China, is listed in the Red Book as an endangered species. This is facilitated by natural and human factors.
Recently, in an isolated mountain cave with a spring, a two-hundred-year-old salamander was discovered. She was one and a half meters long and weighed 50 kg.
Bactrian camel
He is also a Bactrian or haptagai (this means domestic and wild), of all camelids he is the largest. Camels are unique animals because they feel absolutely comfortable both in the scorching sun and in the frosty winter.
They cannot tolerate dampness at all, so their habitat is the hot regions of China. Camels can go without liquid for a whole month, but when they find a life-giving source, they can easily drink up to one hundred liters of water.
The humps are an indicator of satiety and sufficient moisture in the body. If everything is in order with the animal, then they stand straight as soon as they sag, which means that the camel should refuel well.
Back in the 19th century, the great traveler Przhevalsky, already familiar to us, described it, which suggests that two-humped camels are the most ancient of their entire family. Their numbers in the wild are decreasing at a rapid pace, and natural biologists are sounding the alarm, doubting that even the measures taken to save them may not help them.
Little panda
The one that really looks like a raccoon is the red or red panda. The Chinese call it “fire cat”, “bear cat”, and the French call it in their own way – “brilliant cat”.
Back in the 8th century, the historical chronicles of ancient China mentioned a “cat-bear”. And then only in the 19th century, during another expedition by a naturalist from England T. Hardwick, the animal was noticed, studied and described.
For a very long time, the red panda could not be attributed to any species; it was either attributed to raccoons or bears. After all, the red panda's muzzle looks like a raccoon, but it walks just like a bear cub, bending its furry paws inward. But then, after carefully studying the animal at the genetic level, they identified it as a separate family - the little panda family.
Wonderful animals live in densely overgrown coniferous and bamboo forests. Unlike giant pandas, they eat not only bamboo, but also leaves, berries, and mushrooms. He loves bird eggs very much, stealing them from the nest.
Don’t mind catching a fish in a pond or an insect flying by. Animals go in search of food in the morning and evening, and during the day they lie down on branches or hide in empty hollows of trees.
Pandas live in a temperate climate with an air temperature of no higher than twenty-five degrees Celsius; due to their long fur, they practically cannot tolerate much. On too hot days, animals collapse on tree branches with their paws hanging down.
This cute little animal is half a meter long, and its tail is forty centimeters long. With a beautiful round red face, white ears, eyebrows and cheeks, and a small white nose with a black spot. The eyes are black, like two coals.
The red panda has a very long, soft and fluffy coat of an interesting combination of colors. Her body is dark red with a brown tint. The belly and paws are black, and the tail is red with a light transverse stripe.
Chinese river dolphin
A rare species, which, unfortunately, is already doomed. After all, there are about ten of them left. All attempts to save dolphins in artificial conditions as close as possible to natural conditions failed; not a single individual took root.
River dolphins were listed in the Red Book back in 75 of the last century as an endangered species. This year, a special commission in China officially declared this species extinct.
They are inhabitants of shallow rivers and lakes in eastern and central China. River dolphins were also called flag-bearing dolphins, since their dorsal fin is small and shaped like a flag.
This mammal was first discovered in the 18th century. The dolphin's shape was more like a whale, with a blue-gray body and a white belly. Its length is from one and a half to two and a half meters, and its weight is from 50 to 150 kg.
The river dolphin differed from the sea dolphin in its rostrum-beak (i.e. nose), it was curved upward. He ate river fish, which he took from the river bottom using his beak. The dolphin led a daytime life, and at night preferred to rest somewhere in shallow water.
They lived in pairs, and the mating season occurred at the end of winter - the beginning of spring. The female dolphins are believed to have carried their pregnancies for just under a year. They gave birth to only one meter-long baby dolphin, and not every year.
The baby couldn’t swim at all, so his mother held him with her fins for some time. They have poor eyesight but good echolocation, thanks to which he could navigate perfectly in muddy water.
Chinese alligator
One of the four sacred animals of China. Rare, critically endangered species. After all, there are two hundred of them left in nature. But in nature reserves, caring people managed to preserve and reproduce reptiles, and there there are almost ten thousand of them.
As often happens, “diligent” poachers have caused the extinction of alligators. Currently, the Chinese alligator lives in eastern China on the banks of a river called the Yangtze.
They differ from crocodiles in a slightly smaller size; on average, they grow to one and a half meters tall reptiles, with a long tail and short limbs. They are gray with a reddish tint. The entire back is covered with armor - ossified growths.
From mid-autumn to early spring, alligators hibernate. Having awakened, they will lie for a long time and warm up in the sun, restoring their body temperature.
Chinese alligators are the calmest of the entire crocodile family, and if they happen to attack a person, it is only in self-defense.
Golden snub-nosed monkey
Or Roxellan's rhinopithecus, its species is also on the pages of the Red Book. There are no more than 15,000 monkeys left in the wild. They live in mountain forests at altitudes from 1000 to 3000 meters and never go lower. They eat only vegetarian food; their diet includes twigs, leaves, cones, moss, and bark.
These monkeys are of unusual beauty; first of all, I would like to describe its face: it is blue in color, with an absolutely flattened nose so that even its nostrils are elongated. Light ears stick out to the side, and in the center of the head there is a black hair like a punk's. And the cubs look like little Yetties, light-colored and with long hair.
The monkey's body is golden-red in color, its length is seventy centimeters, the length of its tail is the same. Males grow up to fifteen kilograms, while females are almost twice as large.
David's Deer
In the 18th century, one Chinese emperor donated deer to zoos in three countries: the Germans, the French and the British. But only in Great Britain did the animals take root. There weren't many of them in the wild.
In the 19th century, the French zoologist Armand David, in the garden of this emperor, found the remains of two long-dead adults and a baby deer. He immediately sent them to Paris. Everything there was carefully examined, described and given a name.
This is how the hitherto unknown deer began to be called by the proud name of David. Today they can only be found in zoos and nature reserves, particularly in China.
The animal is large in size, weighing two hundred kilograms and one and a half meters in height. In the summer, their fur is brown with a red tint; by winter it becomes grayer in color. Their antlers are slightly curved towards the back and deer change them twice a year. Female David's deer are generally antlerless.
South China tiger
He is the smallest and fastest of all tigers. In pursuit of prey, its speed is 60 kilometers per hour. This wild cat is 2.5 meters long and weighs on average 130 kg. The Chinese tiger is one of ten animals that are becoming extinct at a catastrophic rate.
It lives and has lived in nature only in China. But for the sake of preserving the species, many zoos have housed these endangered animals. And, lo and behold, in our century, in a reserve in Africa, a baby was born, the heir to the family of South Chinese tigers.
Brown eared pheasant
These unique birds inhabit the northern and eastern forests of China. At this time, most of them are in captivity, as they are on the verge of extinction.
They are the largest of their family, with a plump body and a long velvety tail. Their legs are quite short, powerful, and like roosters, they have spurs. They have a small head, a slightly curved beak and a red muzzle.
On the top of the head there is a cap of feathers and, of course, ears, which is how these birds got their name. Externally, the male and female are no different.
These birds are moderately calm except during mating periods, then they become very aggressive and, in a fever, can fly at a person. Females lay eggs either in holes they dug or on the bottoms of bushes and trees.
White-handed gibbon
Gibbons live in the south and west of China, in dense tropical forests. Primates spend almost their entire lives in trees, being born, growing up, aging and dying. They live in families, the male chooses a female once and for life. This is how mom and dad, children of different ages, perhaps even elderly individuals, live.
The female white-handed gibbon gives birth to one baby only once every three years. For almost a year, the mother feeds the child with her milk and protects him in every possible way.
Moving from branch to branch in search of food, gibbons can jump over distances of three meters. They feed mainly on fruits from fruit trees, in addition to which they can eat leaves, buds, and insects.
They range from dark to light brown in color, but their paws and muzzle are always white. Their fur coat is long and thick. The front and hind limbs are long, the front ones are large, for better tree climbing. These animals have no tail at all.
These animals each live on their own territory and, indicating where whose land is, they begin to sing. Moreover, the chants begin every morning, and with such volume and beauty that not every person can do this.
Slow loris
This is a thirty centimeter primate weighing 1.5 kilograms. They are like plush toys, with thick dark red fur. A stripe of dark color runs along their back, but not all of them, and the abdomen is slightly lighter. The eyes are large and bulging, with a stripe of white fur between them. The ears of the loris are small, most of them are hidden in the fur.
The slow loris is one of the few mammals that is toxic. The slits on his hands produce a certain secretion, which when combined with saliva becomes poisonous. In this way, lorises protect themselves from enemies.
Animals live alone and in families, while sharing territories. And they mark it by soaking their paws in their own urine. And every touch on the branch more and more indicates his possession.
Ili pika
This is the most secretive animal in the whole world, which lives only in the Middle Kingdom. Its territory is the mountain slopes of Tibet, the pika rises almost five kilometers high into the mountains.
Outwardly, she looks like a miniature hare, albeit with small ears, and her paws and tail are exactly like a hare’s. The fur coat is gray with dark specks. Ili pikas are an endangered species, their numbers are very small.
Snow Leopard
Or the snow leopard, one of the few animals that has never been fully studied. There are very few people who have come face to face with him. This is a very cautious and distrustful predator. Following his paths you can only see traces of his life.
The leopard is thin, flexible and graceful. He has short legs, a neat small head and a long tail. And its entire length, including its tail, is two meters and 50 kg. in weight. The animal is gray in color, with solid or ring-shaped black spots.
Chinese paddlefish
The largest and oldest river freshwater fish. It is also known as the sword sturgeon. Paddlefish grow about five meters in length and weigh three centners.
Because of their extraordinary nose, they received this name. Only oceanologists cannot understand the direct purpose of this oar. Some believe that with its help it is more convenient for the fish to eat, others think that this nose has remained since ancient times.
They feed on small fish, crustaceans and plankton. Now it is very fashionable to keep these fish at home in large aquariums, and they will live half their lives with their owners.
Tupaya
Its appearance is very similar to the degu squirrel, having a sharp muzzle and a fluffy tail. It is twenty centimeters long, brown-gray in color. Its small legs have five toes with long claws.
They live high in the mountains, in forests, on farm plantations and in gardens. In search of food, there were cases of barbaric break-ins of people's houses and theft of food from the table.
Like a squirrel, the animal eats while sitting on its hind legs and holds its captured piece with its front legs. They live strictly demarcating their territories. There are single individuals, and there are whole groups of these animals.
In this post there will be scary, nasty, cute, kind, beautiful, incomprehensible animals.
Plus a short comment about each. They all really exist
Watch and be surprised
SNAP TOOTH- a mammal from the order of insectivores, divided into two main species: the Cuban slittooth and the Haitian. The animal is relatively large compared to other types of insectivores: its length is 32 centimeters, its tail is on average 25 cm, the weight of the animal is about 1 kilogram, and its body is dense. 
MANED WOLF. Lives in South America. The long legs of the wolf are the result of evolution in matters of adaptation to the habitat; they help the animal to overcome obstacles in the form of tall grass growing on the plains. 
AFRICAN CIVET- the only representative of the genus of the same name. These animals live in Africa in open spaces with high grass from Senegal to Somalia, southern Namibia and in the eastern regions of South Africa. The size of the animal can visually increase quite significantly when the civet raises its fur when excited. And her fur is thick and long, especially on the back closer to the tail. The paws, muzzle and tail end are completely black, most of the body is spotted. 
MUSKRAT. The animal is quite famous due to its sonorous name. It's just a good photo. 
PROCHIDNA. This miracle of nature usually weighs up to 10 kg, although larger specimens have also been observed. By the way, the length of the echidna’s body reaches 77 cm, and this is not counting their cute five to seven centimeter tail. Any description of this animal is based on comparison with the echidna: the legs of the echidna are higher, the claws are more powerful. Another feature of the echidna’s appearance is the spurs on the hind legs of males and the five-fingered hind limbs and three-fingered forelimbs. 
CAPIBARA. Semi-aquatic mammal, the largest of modern rodents. It is the only representative of the capybara family (Hydrochoeridae). There is a dwarf variety, Hydrochoerus isthmius, which is sometimes considered as a separate species (lesser capybara). 
SEA CUCUMBER. HOLOTHURIA. Sea capsules, sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea), a class of invertebrate animals such as echinoderms. Species eaten as food are commonly known as sea cucumbers. 
PANGOLIN. This post simply could not do without him. 
HELL VAMPIRE. Mollusk. Despite its obvious similarity with octopus and squid, scientists have identified this mollusk as a separate order Vampyromorphida (lat.), because it is characterized by retractable sensitive whip-shaped filaments. 
AARDVARK. In Africa, these mammals are called aardvark, which translated into Russian means “earthen pig.” In fact, the aardvark is very similar in appearance to a pig, only with an elongated snout. The structure of the ears of this amazing animal is very similar to that of a hare. There is also a muscular tail, which is very similar to the tail of an animal such as a kangaroo. 
JAPANESE GIANT SALAMANDER. Today it is the largest amphibian, which can reach 160 cm in length, weigh up to 180 kg and can live up to 150 years, although the officially recorded maximum age of the giant salamander is 55 years. 
BEARDED PIG. In different sources, the Bearded Pig species is divided into two or three subspecies. These are the curly bearded pig (Sus barbatus oi), which lives on the Malay Peninsula and the island of Sumatra, the Bornean bearded pig (Sus barbatus barbatus) and the Palawan bearded pig, which live, as the name suggests, on the islands of Borneo and Palawan, as well as on Java , Kalimantan and small islands of the Indonesian archipelago in Southeast Asia. 
SUMATRAN RHINO. They belong to the odd-toed ungulates of the rhinoceros family. This type of rhinoceros is the smallest of the entire family. The body length of an adult Sumatran rhinoceros can reach 200–280 cm, and the height at the withers can vary from 100 to 150 cm. Such rhinoceroses can weigh up to 1000 kg. 
SULAWESI BEAR COUSCUS. An arboreal marsupial living in the upper layer of lowland tropical forests. The fur of the bear cuscus consists of a soft undercoat and coarse guard hairs. Coloration ranges from gray to brown, with a lighter belly and limbs, and varies depending on the geographic subspecies and age of the animal. The prehensile, non-haired tail is approximately half the length of the animal and serves as a fifth limb, making it easier to move through the dense tropical forest. The bear cuscus is the most primitive of all cuscus, retaining primitive tooth growth and structural features of the skull. 
GALAGO. Its large fluffy tail is clearly comparable to that of a squirrel. And his charming face and graceful movements, flexibility and insinuation, clearly reflect his cat-like traits. The amazing jumping ability, mobility, strength and incredible dexterity of this animal clearly show its nature as a funny cat and an elusive squirrel. Of course, there would be a place to use your talents, because a cramped cage is very poorly suited for this. But, if you give this animal a little freedom and sometimes allow him to walk around the apartment, then all his quirks and talents will come true. Many even compare it to a kangaroo. 
WOMBAT. Without a photograph of a wombat, it is generally impossible to talk about strange and rare animals. 
AMAZONIAN DOLPHIN. It is the largest river dolphin. Inia geoffrensis, as scientists call it, reaches 2.5 meters in length and weighs 2 quintals. Light gray juveniles become lighter with age. The Amazonian dolphin has a full body, with a thin tail and a narrow muzzle. A round forehead, a slightly curved beak and small eyes are the characteristics of this species of dolphin. The Amazonian dolphin is found in the rivers and lakes of Latin America. 
MOONFISH or MOLA-MOLA. This fish can be more than three meters long and weigh about one and a half tons. The largest specimen of the sunfish was caught in New Hampshire, USA. Its length was five and a half meters, there is no data on weight. The shape of the fish’s body resembles a disk; it was this feature that gave rise to the Latin name. The moon fish has thick skin. It is elastic, and its surface is covered with small bony projections. The larvae of fish of this species and young individuals swim in the usual way. Adult large fish swim on their sides, quietly moving their fins. They seem to lie on the surface of the water, where they are very easy to notice and catch. However, many experts believe that only sick fish swim this way. As an argument, they cite the fact that the stomach of fish caught on the surface is usually empty. 
TASMANIAN DEVIL. Being the largest of modern predatory marsupials, this black animal with white spots on the chest and rump, with a huge mouth and sharp teeth has a dense physique and a stern disposition, for which, in fact, it was called the devil. Emitting ominous screams at night, the massive and clumsy Tasmanian devil looks like a small bear: the front legs are slightly longer than the hind legs, the head is large, and the muzzle is blunt. 
LORI. A characteristic feature of the loris is its large eyes, which can be bordered by dark circles; there is a white dividing stripe between the eyes. The face of a loris can be compared to a clown mask. This most likely explains the animal's name: Loeris means "clown". 
GAVIAL. Of course, one of the representatives of the crocodile order. With age, the gharial's muzzle becomes even narrower and longer. Due to the fact that the gharial feeds on fish, its teeth are long and sharp, located at a slight angle for ease of eating. 
OKAPI. FOREST GIRAFFE. Traveling through Central Africa, journalist and African explorer Henry Morton Stanley (1841-1904) more than once encountered local aborigines. Having once met an expedition equipped with horses, the natives of the Congo told the famous traveler that in their jungle there were wild animals very similar to his horses. The Englishman, who had seen a lot, was somewhat puzzled by this fact. After some negotiations in 1900, the British were finally able to purchase parts of the skin of the mysterious animal from the local population and send them to the Royal Zoological Society in London, where the unknown animal was given the name “Johnston's Horse” (Equus johnstoni), that is, it was assigned to the equine family . But imagine their surprise when a year later they managed to get a whole skin and two skulls of an unknown animal, and discovered that It looked more like a dwarf giraffe from the Ice Age. Only in 1909 was it possible to catch a living specimen of Okapi. 
WALABI. TREE KANGAROO. The genus of Tree kangaroos - wallabies (Dendrolagus) includes 6 species. Of these, D. Inustus or the bear wallaby, D. Matschiei or Matchisha's wallaby, which has a subspecies D. Goodfellowi (Goodfellow's wallaby), D. Dorianus - the Doria wallaby, live in New Guinea. In Australian Queensland, there are D. Lumholtzi - Lumholtz's wallaby (bungari), D. Bennettianus - Bennett's wallaby, or tharibin. Their original habitat was New Guinea, but now wallabies are also found in Australia. Tree kangaroos live in tropical forests of mountainous regions, at altitudes from 450 to 3000m. above sea level. The body size of the animal is 52-81 cm, the tail is from 42 to 93 cm long. Wallabies weigh, depending on the species, from 7.7 to 10 kg for males and from 6.7 to 8.9 kg. females. 
WOLVERINE. Moves quickly and deftly. The animal has an elongated muzzle, a large head, with rounded ears. The jaws are powerful, the teeth are sharp. Wolverine is a “big-footed” animal; its feet are disproportionate to the body, but their size allows them to move freely through deep snow cover. Each paw has huge and curved claws. Wolverine is an excellent tree climber and has keen eyesight. The voice is like a fox. 
FOSSA. The island of Madagascar has preserved animals that are not found not only in Africa itself, but also in the rest of the world. One of the rarest animals is the Fossa - the only representative of the genus Cryptoprocta and the largest predatory mammal living on the island of Madagascar. The appearance of the Fossa is a little unusual: it is a cross between a civet and a small puma. Sometimes the fossa is also called the Madagascar lion, since the ancestors of this animal were much larger and reached the size of a lion. Fossa has a squat, massive and slightly elongated body, the length of which can reach up to 80 cm (on average it is 65-70 cm). The fossa's paws are long, but quite thick, with the hind paws being higher than the front paws. The tail is often equal to the length of the body and reaches up to 65 cm. 
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PALM THIEF. Representative of decapod crustaceans. Its habitat is the western Pacific Ocean and the tropical islands of the Indian Ocean. This animal from the family of land crayfish is quite large for its species. The body of an adult reaches a size of up to 32 cm and a weight of up to 3-4 kg. For a long time it was mistakenly believed that with its claws it could even crack coconuts, which it then eats. To date, scientists have proven that crayfish can only feed on already split coconuts. They, being its main source of nutrition, gave the name palm thief. Although he is not averse to eating other types of food - the fruits of Pandanus plants, organic substances from the soil, and even his own kind.
The variety of shapes, colors and sizes of creatures inhabiting our planet surpasses even the richest imagination. We are pleased to present to you the most unusual animals in the world. Some of them look like characters from a science fiction movie about Mars, others seem to come from another dimension, but they all live on Earth and were created by Mother Nature.
25. Octopus Dumbo
The funny octopus opens the hit parade of amazing creatures. It lives at great depths (from one hundred to five thousand meters) and is primarily engaged in searching for crustaceans and worm-like creatures on the seabed. The octopus got its name, reminiscent of a baby elephant with large ears, thanks to its two unusually shaped fins.
24. Darwin's Bat
Creatures from the bat family are found in the waters around the Galapagos Islands. They are terrible swimmers and have instead learned to navigate the ocean floor on their fins.
23. Chinese water deer
This animal has earned the nickname "Vampire Deer" for its prominent tusks, which are used in battles for territory.
22. Star-nosed
The small North American mole gets its name from the circle of 22 pink, fleshy tentacles at the end of its snout. They are used to identify starfish food (worms, insects and crustaceans) by touch.
21. Aye-aye
This photo shows one of the most unusual animals in the world called “aye-aye” or “little arm”. This native of Madagascar is distinguished by its unique method of foraging; it knocks on trees to find larvae and then chews holes in the wood and inserts an elongated middle finger to pull out its prey.
20. "Living Stone"
Pyura Chilensis are living, breathing organisms found on Chilean beaches. Their appearance allows them to avoid predators. Interestingly, these creatures have both male and female organs and can reproduce without the help of a partner.
19. Pacu fish
Freshwater fish with human teeth are found in rivers in the Amazon and Orinoco basins, as well as in Papua New Guinea. A nightmare for local fishermen who are afraid to swim in the water because pacu confuse male testicles with nuts falling from trees into the water.
18. Drop fish
One of the strangest animals in the world. From the appearance of this creature, one can say that it is despondency incarnate. Lives in deep waters off the coast of Australia and Tasmania.
The blobfish lives in the depths and its flesh is a gel-like mass with a density slightly less than that of water. This allows the “dull” creature to stay afloat.
17. Eastern long-necked turtle
These turtles can be found throughout Australia. Their remarkable necks can reach a length of up to 25 cm.
16. Surinamese pipa
The leaf-like appearance of the Suriname pipa is a natural defense against predators. These toads have a unique method of reproduction: the female lays eggs and the male simultaneously releases sperm. The female dives down and the eggs fall onto her back, into the cells, where they remain until the time comes for the young peeps to be born.
15. Yeti Crab
The “hairy” claws of this crustacean, which lives in the depths of the southern part, contain many filamentous bacteria. They are needed to neutralize toxic minerals from water and, possibly, serve their host as food.
14. Bearded man
These beautiful birds live on Everest, the Himalayas and other mountainous areas in Europe and Asia. They were almost destroyed because people were afraid that bearded men would attack animals and children. Now there are only 10 thousand of them left on Earth.
13. Pike blenny
Found in the waters off the west coast of America, they can grow up to 30cm in length and have intimidatingly large mouths. Their pike blennies show each other as if they are kissing. Whoever has the biggest mouth is more important.
12. Decorated Tree Serpent
Many people's nightmare comes to life: a snake that climbs trees and then jumps down. Before jumping, the reptile curls up into a spiral, and then sharply turns around and rushes into the air. In flight, it stretches out and lands smoothly on a lower branch or other tree. Fortunately, flying snakes do not pay attention to people; they are more interested in bats, frogs and rodents.
11. North American kakimitsli
This cute animal from the raccoon family is native to the arid regions of North America. Cacomitsli are so easy to tame that miners and settlers once kept them as companions and gave them the nickname "miner's cat."
10. Striped Tenrec
It lives only in the tropical forests of Madagascar. The tenrec is somewhat porcupine-like, and the quills on the central part of the back can vibrate. With their help, animals locate each other.
9. Pink sea cucumber
He looks like a character from a science fiction film, but in reality he is a harmless creature. And it looks more like a jellyfish than its fellow sea cucumbers. Around its red mouth are tentacles that dig up edible mud from the bottom of the sea. From there it enters the creature's intestines.
8. Rhinopithecus
Famous TV presenter and naturalist David Attenborough once remarked that these amazing monkeys with their stub noses and blue “mask” around their eyes look like “elves.” Or, looking at them, you can say that “plastic surgery has gone too far.” Rhinopithecus lives in Asia, at altitudes up to 4000 meters and is rarely seen by humans.
7. Mantis crab
The colorful stomatopod, or mantis, spends most of its life hiding in burrows. Capable of breaking through the walls of aquariums by moving at speeds of up to 80 km per hour. During mating displays, mantis crabs actively fluoresce, and the fluorescence wavelength corresponds to the wavelength that the pigments in their eyes can perceive.
6. Panda Ant
Among the most unusual animals on the planet is a furry creature with the coloring of a panda. In fact, this is not an ant, but a wingless wasp that lives in South America. It is very similar in appearance to an ant, but, unlike it, it has a powerful sting.
5. Leaf-tailed gecko
Master of disguise originally from Madagascar. Thanks to its leaf-shaped tail, it can fit into the interior of the local jungle.
4. Gerenuk
It's hard to believe that this long-necked cutie is not a mini-giraffe, but a real African gazelle. In order to reach high branches, the gerenuk lacks only the length of its neck. You still have to stand up on your hind legs.
3. Chinese giant salamander
It can grow up to 180 cm long and weigh up to 70 kg. If you are in China and see such a creature in a local pond, then know that the water in this reservoir is very clean and cold.
2. Angora rabbit
It looks like the result of an experiment on crossing a Bigfoot with a kitten. Angora rabbits were extremely popular in the 17th and 18th centuries among European nobility. They were not eaten, but kept as pets.
1. Goblin shark (aka goblin shark)
Number one on our top 25 weird creatures is a rare shark, sometimes called a “living fossil.” It is the only surviving member of the family Scapanorhynchidae, with a pedigree of about 125 million years. Goblin sharks live all over the world at depths of more than 100 m, so they are not dangerous to swimmers.
The fauna of Thailand is very diverse and often dangerous, but today we will talk to you about the unusual animals of the land of smiles.
1. The world's smallest mammal is pig-nosed bat the mouse, which for its tiny size (length -3.3 cm, and weight - up to 2g) was called a bumblebee bat. And this baby is called pig-nosed because of her nose, which is different from other bats and looks like a pig’s snout. The world learned about this amazing creature only in 1983 thanks to the Thai biologist Kitty Thonglongya. Unfortunately, this rare species of bat is now under threat of complete extinction.
2. Thailand is also home to one of the most amazing animals in the world -. This is a miracle fish that, thanks to thickened fins that resemble arms and a curved tail that you can lean on, can jump high, walk on the ground and even climb trees and bushes. This strange creature is completely harmless, feeds on algae and often becomes food for predatory fish.
3. - a huge bat with a wingspan of almost 2 meters. Despite its formidable appearance, the animal is very useful because it helps pollinate plants. And these creatures were called foxes for their sharp muzzle, similar to a fox. Flying foxes eat fruits and leaves, and build their nests in the crowns of trees.
4. - miniature forest animal. It does not have antlers like a deer, but males have fangs and, of course, small hooves. There are two main varieties of deer in Thailand - the Javan and the Kanchil. This animal is unusually cunning and agile.
5. (emphasis on the last letter) - a small animal, about 20 cm, with a sharp muzzle and a fluffy tail, similar to a squirrel. In Thailand, there are two main varieties - the common tupaya and the malayan tupaya - which are slightly smaller in size. They make their home in tree hollows or under roots and snags. They are not afraid of people and often make their home not far from human habitation.
6. - he is also called the bear cat, because in appearance he looks a little like a cat and his “gait” is like that of a bear. Binturongs are funny and a little clumsy. Interestingly, this is perhaps the only animal that has retained the ability to use its tail as hands. They feed on fruits, insects and fish. Outside of Southeast Asia, this animal is extremely rare and only in captivity. In Thailand, you can get to know these cute little animals better at the Khao Kaew Zoo - there you can feed them, pet them, and even cuddle them - they treat people very kindly.
7. Viverrid cat or the fishing cat is a very rare animal that lives in southeast Asia. It is distinguished from its relatives by its ability to swim and dive perfectly in pursuit of fish and crayfish, which it mainly feeds on. Moreover, the unusual structure of its paws helps it catch fish; the fishing cat has membranes between the toes of its front paws.
8. Thailand is the homeland of the mysterious Siamese cats. Here they are called wichen-maat, meaning "moon diamond". Truly amazing animals that have won the respect of the Thais. The origin and development of this species is quite difficult to trace - cats have existed for many centuries, and debates about their origin continue to this day.
In ancient Siam, cats were the property of the king and had the status of royal cats. Back then, Siamese cats were larger than ever before, with dark coats and yellow eyes, but numerous intermixings and mutations over the centuries resulted in the spotted Siamese cats with the stunning blue eyes that we know and love today. Unfortunately, the history of selection and breeding of this breed has not reached us. However, it is known that we owe the appearance of Siamese in Europe to a certain Mr. Goode, who first took a pair of Siamese cats from the British Consulate in Bangkok in 1884.
9. Thailand is the birthplace of an unusual, but very beautiful breed of dog - Thai Ridgeback. Its origins go back to the very beginnings of domestication of the wild ancestors of dogs. Despite its impressive age, this breed was officially recognized by the Asian Dog Breeders' Union only in 1989, and in 1993 it was registered by the International Federation of Cynologists.
In ancient times, Thai Ridgebacks hunted tapirs, wild boars, foxes, deer, martens, badgers, mongooses and other animals and protected homes from snakes, and later began to accompany carts, protecting the owner and his property. The Thai Ridgeback is a strong and athletic dog, slightly larger than average in size, its main feature is the so-called ridge - a strip of hair on the back, growing in the opposite direction to the main one. Her intelligence, loyalty and easy-going nature make her an excellent companion, and thanks to their innate “hygienic” habits, Thai Ridgebacks are easy to keep at home.
10. Another breed of dog that appeared in Thailand is the Thai. According to legend, in the province of Phitsanulok, in the Wat Bangkaew temple, there lived an abbot, Laung Pu Maak Metaree, who was known for his amazing and quirky kindness. One day a villager brought him a pregnant bitch, which was quite strange, since there were no dogs in the area. Hundreds of years later, modern chromosomal studies showed that the “father” of the first representatives of the emerging breed was the jackal. Then the dog gave birth to 4 puppies - with long hair, black and dark brown.
For natural reasons, there were no dogs in that area, and the new breed appeared as a result of inbreeding. She was named after the temple in which a kind monk raised and fed the first ancestors of today's Bangkaew dogs. Outwardly, they are somewhat similar to Spitz dogs, medium in size, well built, in character they are friendly, loyal and excellent guards. Today, the Thai Bangkaew dog is considered one of the rarest and most expensive breeds. At dog shows, puppies can fetch up to $10,000.
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