Four National Treasures of China

1, giant panda:

Giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca, English name: grand Panda) is the only mammal belonging to Carnivora, Xiong Ke, Ailuropoda subfamily and Ailuropoda genus. Its body color is black and white. It has round cheeks, big dark circles, chubby body, iconic walking posture, with eight characters inside and claws as sharp as scalpels. Is one of the cutest animals in the world.

The giant panda is a unique animal in China, and its main existing habitats are mountainous areas in China, Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu.

2. Golden monkey:

Golden Monkey: There are five kinds: Sichuan Golden Monkey (type species), Yunnan Golden Monkey, Guizhou Golden Monkey, Vietnamese Golden Monkey and Myanmar Golden Monkey. Medium size, ranging from 5 1-83 cm, and the tail length is equal to the body length. The coat color is mainly gold or black gray. The nostrils are almost parallel to the face, commonly known as "nose facing the sky", which adapts to the plateau hypoxia environment. The deterioration of nasal bone is beneficial to reduce the resistance to breathing in thin air.

As the earliest golden monkey in the world is the Sichuan golden monkey living in Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu in China, this genus of animals is usually called the golden monkey, whose English name literally translates into Chinese as the snub-nosed monkey. There are five species of animals in this genus, all of which are distributed in Asia.

3. Baiji dolphin:

White-fin dolphin (scientific name: Lipotes vexillifer), also known as white-fin whale, white fin, white flag, white clip, green fin, Ma Jiang, China finless porpoise, Yangtze finless porpoise and Yangtze puffer fish, is a freshwater whale unique to China and only produced in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

In the 1980s, due to various reasons, the population of Baiji dolphin decreased sharply, and it was estimated that there were less than 50 in 2002, so it was known as the "giant panda in water". Baiji dolphin is a family of its own, which is listed as a national first-class wild protected animal and one of the most endangered animals in the world 12. On August 8, 2007, a report was published in the journal of Biological Letterhead of the Royal Society, officially announcing the functional extinction of the baiji.

4. White-lipped deer:

White-lipped deer (scientific name: Gervus albirostris): It is tall and about 2 meters long. Its coat is very thick, hard and fluffy, and its coat color is different in winter and summer. White mandible is marked on both sides of nose and lower lip. There are yellow patches around the buttocks and tail, so the locals also call it "yellow-waisted deer". Male white-lipped deer has horns and a flat trunk, so it is also called "Boxer Deer".

White-lipped deer is a typical alpine animal, whose habitat is 3000-5000 meters above sea level, and the vegetation is mainly alpine coniferous forest and alpine meadow. Their food is mainly Gramineae and Cyperaceae. Group activities, the size of the group varies with the season and habitat. It is only distributed in China, mainly distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its marginal alpine grassland areas, including Qinghai, Gansu, western Sichuan, Tibet and northern Yunnan.