Wildlife of China
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Wildlife of China includes its flora and fauna and their natural habitats. Many of the animals in China are endangered, such as the Giant Panda and the Siberian Tiger, because of habitat loss and deforestation.
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[edit] Fauna
Main article: Fauna of China
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Animals native to China:
- Alpine Musk Deer (Moschus chrysogaster)
- Argali (Ovis ammon)
- Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus)
- Asian Golden Cat
- Asian Black Bear (Ursus thibetanus)
- Asian Small-Clawed Otter (Aonyx cinerea)
- Asiatic Brush-tailed Porcupine (Atherurus macrourus)
- Assam Macaque (Macaca assamensis)
- Amur Hedgehog (Erinaceus amurensis)
- Bactrian Camel
- Baiji (Lipotes vexillifer)
- Beech Marten (Martes foina)
- Bengal Slow Loris (Nycticebus bengalensis)
- Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus)
- Binturong (Arctictis binturong)
- Black-bellied Hamster (Cricetus cricetus)
- Black Musk Deer (Moschus fuscus)
- Black-necked Crane
- Black Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus bieti)
- Blue bear
- Blue Sheep (Pseudois nayaur)
- Boar
- Brown Bear (Ursus arctos)
- Brown rat
- Caspian Tiger
- Chinese Alligator (Alligator sinensis)
- Chinese Dormouse (Chaetocauda sichuanensis)
- Chinese Forest Musk Deer (Moschus berezovskii)
- Chinese Giant Salamander (Andrias davidianus)
- Chinese Hare (Lepus sinensis)
- Chinese Mole Shrew (Anourosorex squamipes)
- Chinese Monal
- Chinese Mountain Cat
- Chinese crocodile lizard
- Chinese Paddlefish
- Chinese Pangolin (Manis pentadactyla)
- Chinese Rufous Horseshoe Bat (Rhinolophus sinicus)
- Chinese Serow (Capricornis milneedwardsii)
- Chinese Zokor (Eospalax fontanierii)
- Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
- Common Spoonbill
- Corsac Fox
- Crab-eating Mongoose (Herpestes urva)
- Deinagkistrodon
- Dhole
- Dice snake
- Dugong (Dugong dugon)
- Dwarf Blue Sheep
- Elaphe bimaculata
- Elk
- Ethmostigmus rubripes
- Eurasian Beaver (Castor fiber)
- Eurasian Elk (Alces alces)
- Eurasian Lynx
- Eurasian Water Vole (Arvicola amphibius)
- Finless Porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides)
- Gaur (Bos frontalis)
- Giant Panda
- Gloydius blomhoffii
- Glover's Pika (Ochotona gloveri)
- Gobi Jerboa (Allactaga bullata)
- Golden Pheasant
- Golden Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus roxellana)
- Grass Snake
- Gray Snub-nosed Monkey (Rhinopithecus brelichi)
- Great Gerbil (Rhombomys opimus)
- Hainan Hare
- Himalayan Tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus)
- Hog Badger
- Indochinese Tiger
- Indotestudo elongata
- Java Mouse-deer (Tragulus javanicus)
- Jerboa
- Jungle Cat (Felis chaus)
- Kulan (Equus hemionus)
- Kiang (Equus kiang)
- Large Bamboo Rat (Rhizomys sumatrensis)
- Large Mole (Mogera robusta)
- Least Weasel (Mustela nivalis)
- Leopard
- Leopard Cat
- Long-eared Jerboa
- Lynx (Lynx lynx)
- Malayan Porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
- Manchurian Hare
- Marbled Cat
- Marbled Polecat (Vormela peregusna)
- Marco Polo sheep
- Mongolian Gazelle (Procapra gutturosa)
- Ovophis monticola
- Northern Fur Seal (Callorhinus ursinus)
- Northern Pig-tailed Macaque (Macaca leonina)
- Northern Treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri)
- Pacific cod
- Pallas's Cat
- Painted Bat (Kerivoula picta)
- Pelochelys cantorii
- Père David's Deer
- Protobothrops jerdonii
- Przewalski's Horse
- Pygmy Slow Loris (Nycticebus pygmaeus)
- Qinling Panda
- Raccoon Dog
- Rafetus swinhoei (Yangzte Giant Softshell Turtle)
- Red Goral (Naemorhedus baileyi)
- Red Panda
- Red-crowned crane
- Red Fox (Vulpes vulpes)
- Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus)
- Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)
- Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida)
- Sable (Martes zibellina)
- Saiga
- Short-tailed Gymnure (Hylomys suillus)
- Siberian Ibex (Capra sibirica)
- Siberian Musk Deer
- Siberian Roe Deer
- Siberian Tiger
- Sichuan Niviventer (Niviventer excelsior)
- Spotted Seal (Phoca largha)
- Small Indian Civet (Viverricula indica)
- Snow Leopard
- South China Tiger
- Southern Red Muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak)
- Spotted Linsang (Prionodon pardicolor)
- Steller's Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)
- Stump-tailed Macaque (Macaca arctoides)
- Sun Bear (Helarctos malayanus)
- Takin (Budorcas taxicolor)
- Tibetan Fox
- Tibetan Wolf
- Tibetan antelope
- Tibetan Macaque (Macaca thibetana)
- Tiger
- Trimeresurus gramineus
- Trimeresurus mangshanensis
- Trimeresurus medoensis
- Trimeresurus stejnegeri
- Wolf (Canis lupus)
- Wolverine (Gulo gulo)
- Yak (Bos grunniens)
- Yangtze River Dolphin (Lipotes vexillifer)
- Yellow-Throated Marten (Martes flavigula)
- Yunnan Hadromys (Hadromys yunnanensis)
- Zeren (Mongolian Gazelle)
[edit] Birds
Main article: List of birds of China
The avifauna of China includes a total of 1314 species, of which 52 are endemic, two have been introduced by humans, and 55 are rare or accidental. One species listed is extirpated in China and is not included in the species count. Eighty seven species are globally threatened.
[edit] Flora
Main article: Flora of the People's Republic of China
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More than 30,000 plant species are native to China, representing nearly one-eighth of the world's total plant species, including thousands found nowhere else on Earth.
[edit] Endangered species
Main article: Conservation in China
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- Smith, Andrew (2008). A guide to the mammals of China. Princeton N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691099842.
[edit] External links
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