What are the animals in the lunar calendar

The animals in the lunar calendar are the "twelve signs of the Chinese zodiac."

1, the rat

The rat is a mammal, rodent, rodent family rodents, commonly known as "rat", reproduction is fetal, is the fastest mammal reproduction, the ability to survive is very strong animals. There are about 480 species of rodents in the world, and their footprints can be seen both indoors and in the wild.

2, cattle

Cattle (Latin name: Bovine), belonging to the bovine family, for the cattle under the subfamily of a family. Chromosome number 56 bison, 60 bison and 58 chromosome large forehead cattle, crossbreeding has fertile offspring.

Mammals, prone to Robertson translocations (filament fusions) that change chromosome number and reduce fertility, herbivorous, and partly domesticated (including domestic cattle, cattle, buffalo, water buffalo, and yaks). Robust in size, cattle help humans in agriculture.

3, tiger

Tiger (Pantheratigris) is a cat, known as the king of the beasts, for the national protection of living creatures, species of Sumatran tigers, Northeast tigers, Bengal tigers and so on. It is also derived as the king's style, the dragon's walk and the tiger's power. Native to the forests of Asia, it has become increasingly rare due to overhunting by humans.

4, rabbit

Rabbit (Rabbit) is a mammal rabbit-shaped order Rabbit family under the general name of all the genera. Commonly known as rabbits. Biological classification animal kingdom chordata phylum vertebrate subphylum mammalia rabbit order.

Rabbits have long tubular ears (ears several times longer than they are wide), short tufted tails, and strong hind legs that are much longer than the forelimbs. ***Nine genera and 43 species. The most numerous species are found in eastern and southern Asia, Africa, and North America, with a few species distributed in Europe and South America.

Some of these species are widely distributed or have been introduced into many areas, while a number have a very restricted distribution. Terrestrial, mostly found in deserts, desertified grasslands, savannas, steppes and forests or woods.

5. Dragon

The dragon is a divine animal in ancient Chinese legends. The dragon is one of the most representative traditional cultures of the Han Chinese, and other Asian countries and nations have also been influenced by the Chinese dragon culture.

The legend says that the dragon is capable of being visible and invisible, fine and huge, and short and long. The spring equinox ascends to the sky, the autumn equinox dives into the abyss, calls the wind and calls the rain, and these are already images of dragons developed in the late period, which are more complex compared to the original dragons.

6, snake

Snake (scientific name: Serpentiformes) is a class of animals under the phylum Chordata, Reptilia. The body is elongated, divided into three parts: head, trunk and tail, without limbs or with claw-like remains of hind limbs on either side of the transverse cloaca of lower snakes; the body is scaly; the head is of different shapes, and the nostrils are situated on the side of the muzzle, but species of the sea-dwelling sea serpent family (Hydrophidae) reside in the dorsal part of the muzzle.

Protective transparent skin over eyes, pupils round, vertically elliptical, or horizontally elliptical, no movable eyelids, crystals several times rounded; tongue elongate and forked; teeth with recurved cusps attached to premaxillae (only Pythonidae snakes are dentate), maxillae, maxillae, palatines, pterygomastoid, and odontoblastoid, although the size and number of teeth, as well as their structure, vary with the different snake species; tail conspicuously shorter than the head and body length.

7, the horse

Horses in animal taxonomy is categorized as: vertebrates subphylum (Vertebrata), mammals (Mammalia), odd-toed hooves (Perissodactyla), Equidae (Equidae), the genus Equus (Equus), horse (Equuscaballus). It is a herbivorous animal. Two subspecies, the domestic horse and the Przewalski's wild horse, exist.

Since the horse was domesticated by mankind, in the long process of development, due to the influence of the natural environment of each region and the needs of socio-economic development in different periods, the use of the horse has gone through a number of phases of alternation or integration with each other, such as meat, dairy, agricultural production, transportation, military and sports and entertainment.

8, sheep

Sheep is the sheep subfamily of the collective name, the mammalian class, even-footed, bovine, sheep subfamily, is one of the human livestock. Hairy four-legged ruminants are the main source of wool. Hair color is mainly white. China mainly raises goats and sheep.

Goats are also known as sheep or white sheep. Hairy four-legged ruminants. Originally a product of the northern hemisphere mountains, and goats have relatives; the difference is that the body is fatter, fuller body, dense body hair. The head is short. Males have large spiral horns, females have no horns or only tiny ones.

9. Monkey

Monkey is a general term. Many animals in the primate group we call monkeys. Primates are 1 order of mammals, the highest class in the animal kingdom, with a well-developed brain; orbits facing forward, with a narrow orbital spacing; toes (fingers) of the hands and feet are separated, and the thumbs are flexible, most of which can grip with the other toes (fingers). It is also one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs.

10, chicken

Chicken is a kind of poultry, domestic chicken originated from the wild proto-cock, its domestication history of at least about 4,000 years, but it was not until around 1800 that chicken meat and eggs became mass-produced commodities. Types of chickens include turkeys, crows, pheasants and so on. And the chicken is also a genus in the 12 zodiac signs.

11, pig

Pig is a vertebrate, mammal, livestock, but also the ancient omnivorous mammals, mainly divided into domestic pigs and wild boars. Currently people believe that the pig is short for pig family animals. Pigs according to the different species, physical characteristics also vary; usually with large ears, long head, short limbs, straight nose, fat body, narrow waist and back as the main physical characteristics. The hair is coarse and hard, and the fur color is usually white, pink, black, brown and fancy.

12, dog

Dog (Latin Canislupusfamiliaris) belongs to the chordata, vertebrate subphylum, mammals, true animals, carnivorous order, split-footed suborder, canines. Also known as "dog" in Chinese, dogs are distributed around the world.

Dogs and horses, cows, sheep, pigs, chickens and called "six animals". Some scientists believe that the dog was domesticated from the gray wolf by early man, domestication time in 40,000 years ago ~ 1.5 million years ago.

Known as "man's most loyal friend," the dog is the highest rate of pet ownership, and its life expectancy is about 12 to 18 years. In Chinese culture, the dog belongs to one of the twelve Chinese zodiac signs, and is the 11th of the twelve.