Wildlife of China, the Glossary
China's vast and diverse landscape is home to a profound variety and abundance of wildlife.[1]
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828 relations: Ailao toad, Aksu Prefecture, Amami Ōshima, Amji's salamander, Amolops aniqiaoensis, Amolops bellulus, Amolops chunganensis, Amolops gerbillus, Amolops granulosus, Amolops hainanensis, Amolops jinjiangensis, Amolops lifanensis, Amolops loloensis, Amolops mantzorum, Amolops medogensis, Amolops monticola, Amolops ricketti, Amolops torrentis, Amolops viridimaculatus, Amolops wuyiensis, Amphibian, Amur hedgehog, Animal echolocation, Annam tree frog, Antelope, Ape, Aphrodisiac, Apple Daily (Taiwan), Argali, Armand David, Asian black bear, Asian elephant, Asian giant softshell turtle, Asian golden cat, Asian palm civet, Asian particolored bat, Asian small-clawed otter, Asiatic toad, Asiatic wildcat, Assam macaque, Back-striped weasel, Bactrian camel, Bactrian deer, Badger, Baengnyeongdo, Baird's beaked whale, Baleen whale, Bamboo rat, Bangeojin, Bashi Channel, ... Expand index (778 more) »
- Biota of China
Ailao toad
The Ailao toad (Bufo ailaoanus) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
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Aksu Prefecture
Aksu PrefectureThe official spelling according to is located in mid-Western Xinjiang, China.
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Amami Ōshima
, also known as Amami, is the largest island in the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.
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Amji's salamander
Amji's salamander (Hynobius amjiensis) is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae.
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Amolops aniqiaoensis
Amolops aniqiaoensis, commonly known as the Aniqiao torrent frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to China.
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Amolops bellulus
Amolops bellulus, commonly known as the Pianma torrent frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to the Gaoligong Mountains.
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Amolops chunganensis
Amolops chunganensis (common names: Chungan sucker frog, Chungan torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Amolops gerbillus
Amolops gerbillus, also known as the Yembung sucker frog or the gerbil stream frog, is a species of frog found in South Asia.
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Amolops granulosus
Amolops granulosus is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to China.
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Amolops hainanensis
Amolops hainanensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to southwestern and central Hainan, China.
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Amolops jinjiangensis
Amolops jinjiangensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Amolops lifanensis
Amolops lifanensis (common names: Lifan sucker frog, Lifan torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to central Sichuan, China.
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Amolops loloensis
Amolops loloensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in southern and western Sichuan and one locality in north-central Yunnan, China.
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Amolops mantzorum
Amolops mantzorum, commonly known as the Sichuan torrent frog or Kangting sucker frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Amolops medogensis
Amolops medogensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, the "true frogs".
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Amolops monticola
Amolops monticola is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, the "true frogs".
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Amolops ricketti
Amolops ricketti (Chinese sucker frog or South China torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in southern and eastern China and northern and central montane Vietnam.
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Amolops torrentis
Amolops torrentis, commonly known as the torrent sucker frog or the little torrent frog is a species of frog in the family Ranidae and genus Amolops that is endemic to China, specifically only on the island of Hainan.
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Amolops viridimaculatus
Amolops viridimaculatus, also known as green-spotted torrent frog, Dahaoping sucker frog, and Dahaoping cascade frog, is a species of frog found in Yunnan, China, northern Vietnam, northern Myanmar, and Nagaland, Northeast India; it is also expected to occur in northern Laos.
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Amolops wuyiensis
Amolops wuyiensis, commonly known as the Wuyi torrent frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to south-eastern China where it is found in Fujian, Anhui and Zhejiang provinces.
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Amphibian
Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
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Amur hedgehog
The Amur hedgehog (Erinaceus amurensis), also called the Manchurian hedgehog, is a hedgehog similar to the European hedgehog in appearance and behaviour, although it is more lightly coloured.
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Animal echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological active sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater.
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Annam tree frog
Annam tree frog (Hyla simplex), also known as the South China tree toad, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.
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Antelope
The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa, India, the Middle East, Central Asia, and a small area of Eastern Europe.
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Ape
Apes (collectively Hominoidea) are a clade of Old World simians native to sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia (though they were more widespread in Africa, most of Asia, and Europe in prehistory), which together with its sister group Cercopithecidae form the catarrhine clade, cladistically making them monkeys.
Aphrodisiac
An aphrodisiac is a substance alleged to increase libido, sexual desire, sexual attraction, sexual pleasure, or sexual behavior.
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Apple Daily (Taiwan)
Apple Daily (poj) was a Chinese-language tabloid published in Taiwan, known for its sensational headlines, paparazzi photographs, and animated news videos.
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Argali
The argali (Ovis ammon), also known as the mountain sheep, is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia, the Himalayas, Tibet, and the Altai Mountains.
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Armand David
Armand David, CM (7 September 1826, Espelette – 10 November 1900, Paris) was a Lazarist missionary Catholic priest as well as a zoologist and a botanist.
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Asian black bear
The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus), also known as the Indian black bear, Asiatic black bear, moon bear and white-chested bear, is a medium-sized bear species native to Asia that is largely adapted to an arboreal lifestyle.
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Asian elephant
The Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), also known as the Asiatic elephant, is a species of elephant distributed throughout the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, from India in the west to Borneo in the east, and Nepal in the north to Sumatra in the south.
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Asian giant softshell turtle
The Asian giant softshell turtle (Pelochelys cantorii), also known commonly as Cantor's giant softshell turtle and the frog-faced softshell turtle, is a species of freshwater turtle in the family Trionychidae.
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Asian golden cat
The Asian golden cat (Catopuma temminckii) is a medium-sized wild cat native to the northeastern Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia and China.
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Asian palm civet
The Asian palm civet (Paradoxurus hermaphroditus), also called common palm civet, toddy cat and musang, is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.
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Asian particolored bat
The Asian parti-colored bat (Vespertilio sinensis) is a species of parti-coloured bat.
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Asian small-clawed otter
The Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinereus), also known as the oriental small-clawed otter and the small-clawed otter, is an otter species native to South and Southeast Asia.
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Asiatic toad
The Asiatic toad or Chusan Island toad (Bufo gargarizans) is a species of toad endemic to East Asia.
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Asiatic wildcat
The Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica ornata), also known as the Asian steppe wildcat and the Indian desert cat, is an African wildcat subspecies that occurs from the eastern Caspian Sea north to Kazakhstan, into western India, western China and southern Mongolia.
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Assam macaque
The Assam macaque (Macaca assamensis) or Assamese macaque is a macaque of the Old World monkey family native to South and Southeast Asia.
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Back-striped weasel
The back-striped weasel (Mustela strigidorsa), also called the stripe-backed weasel, is a weasel widely distributed in Southeastern Asia.
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Bactrian camel
The Bactrian camel (Camelus bactrianus), also known as the Mongolian camel, domestic Bactrian camel or two-humped camel, is a large camel native to the steppes of Central Asia.
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Bactrian deer
The Bactrian deer (Cervus hanglu bactrianus), also called the Bukhara deer, Bokhara deer, or Bactrian wapiti, is a lowland subspecies of Central Asian red deer native to Central Asia.
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Badger
Badgers are short-legged omnivores in the family Mustelidae (which also includes the otters, wolverines, martens, minks, polecats, weasels, and ferrets).
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Baengnyeongdo
Baengnyeongdo, sometimes Baekryeong Island, is an island in Ongjin County, Incheon, South Korea.
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Baird's beaked whale
Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii), also known as the northern giant bottlenose whale, North Pacific bottlenose whale, giant four-toothed whale, northern four-toothed whale and the North Pacific four-toothed whale, is a species of whale from the genus Berardius.
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Baleen whale
Baleen whales, also known as whalebone whales, are marine mammals of the parvorder Mysticeti in the infraorder Cetacea (whales, dolphins and porpoises), which use keratinaceous baleen plates (or "whalebone") in their mouths to sieve planktonic creatures from the water.
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Bamboo rat
The bamboo rats are four species of rodents of the subfamily Rhizomyinae.
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Bangeojin
Bangeojin is an area in the Dong-gu district of Ulsan, South Korea.
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Bashi Channel
The Bashi Channel is a waterway between Mavulis Island of the Philippines and Orchid Island of Taiwan.
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Batrachuperus pinchonii
Batrachuperus pinchonii, the Western Chinese mountain salamander or stream salamander, is a species of hynobiid salamander that is endemic to China.
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Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the southeastern Xinjiang, China.
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Bearded seal
The bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), also called the square flipper seal, is a medium-sized pinniped that is found in and near to the Arctic Ocean.
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Beech marten
The beech marten (Martes foina), also known as the stone marten, house marten or white breasted marten, is a species of marten native to much of Europe and Central Asia, though it has established a feral population in North America.
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Beijing mouse-eared bat
The Beijing mouse-eared bat, or Peking myotis (Myotis pequinius) is a species of vesper bat.
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Bengal slow loris
The Bengal slow loris (Nycticebus bengalensis) or northern slow loris is a strepsirrhine primate and a species of slow loris native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina.
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Bharal
The bharal (Pseudois nayaur), also called the blue sheep, is a caprine native to the high Himalayas.
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Big cat
The term "big cat" is typically used to refer to any of the five living members of the genus Panthera, namely the tiger, lion, jaguar, leopard, and snow leopard, as well as the non-pantherine cheetah and cougar.
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Bighorn sheep
The bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) is a species of sheep native to North America.
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Bile bear
Bile bears, sometimes called battery bears, are bears kept in captivity to harvest their bile, a digestive fluid produced by the liver and stored in the gallbladder, which is used by some traditional Asian medicine practitioners.
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Birch mouse
Birch mice (genus Sicista) are small jumping rodents that resemble mice with long, tufted tails and very long hind legs, allowing for remarkable leaps.
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Birdlike noctule
The birdlike noctule (Nyctalus aviator) is a species of bat.
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Black crested gibbon
The black crested gibbon (Nomascus concolor) is a Critically Endangered species of gibbon found in China, Laos, and northern Vietnam, with four subspecies.
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Black knobby newt
The black knobby newt (Tylototriton asperrimus) is a species of salamanders in the family Salamandridae found in China and Vietnam.
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Black-bearded tomb bat
The black-bearded tomb bat (Taphozous melanopogon) is a species of sac-winged bat found in South and South East Asia.
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Black-necked crane
The black-necked crane (Grus nigricollis) is a medium-sized crane in Asia that breeds on the Tibetan Plateau and remote parts of India and Bhutan.
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Blainville's beaked whale
Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), or the dense-beaked whale, is believed to be the widest ranging mesoplodont whale.
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Blue whale
The blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) is a marine mammal and a baleen whale.
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Bobak marmot
The bobak marmot (Marmota bobak), also known as the steppe marmot, is a species of marmot that inhabits the steppes of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.
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Boettger's horned toad
Boettger's horned toad (Boulenophrys boettgeri), also known as Boettger's spadefoot toad or the pale-shouldered horned toad, is a species of toad found in southern and southeastern China (the northern border runs roughly from Sichuan in the west to Shanxi in the north and Zhejiang in the east) and north-eastern India (Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, and Assam).
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Bohol Sea
The Bohol Sea, also called the Mindanao Sea, is a sea located between the Visayas and Mindanao islands in the Philippines.
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Bombina maxima
Bombina maxima, commonly known as the Yunnan firebelly toad or large-webbed bell toad, is a species of toad in the family Bombinatoridae found in Yunnan, China and likely to Myanmar.
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Boreal digging frog
The boreal digging frog (Kaloula borealis) is a species of microhylid, or "narrow-mouthed," frog found in Northeast Asia.
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Boulenophrys brachykolos
Boulenophrys brachykolos, the short-legged horned toad or Peak spadefoot toad, is a frog native to southern China and Vietnam.
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Boulenophrys daweimontis
Boulenophrys daweimontis, the Mount Dawei horned toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Boulenophrys huangshanensis
Boulenophrys huangshanensis is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Boulenophrys parva
Boulenophrys parva is a specie of horned frog found in South Asia, Southeast Asia, eastern India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Burma, western Thailand, southern China, (Yunnan and Guangxi) northern Laos and Vietnam.
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Boulenophrys shuichengensis
Boulenophrys shuichengensis is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Boxer Rebellion
The Boxer Rebellion, also known as the Boxer Uprising or the Boxer Insurrection, was an anti-foreign, anti-imperialist, and anti-Christian uprising in North China between 1899 and 1901, towards the end of the Qing dynasty, by the Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists, known as the "Boxers" in English due to many of its members having practised Chinese martial arts, which at the time were referred to as "Chinese boxing".
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Brachiation
Brachiation (from "brachium", Latin for "arm"), or arm swinging, is a form of arboreal locomotion in which primates swing from tree limb to tree limb using only their arms.
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Brachytarsophrys carinense
Brachytarsophrys carinense (common names: Burmese horned toad, Karin Hills frog, and many others) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Brachytarsophrys feae
Brachytarsophrys feae (common names: Fea's horned frog, Fea's short-legged toad, Kakhien Hills spadefoot toad, and others) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Brackish water
Brackish water, sometimes termed brack water, is water occurring in a natural environment that has more salinity than freshwater, but not as much as seawater.
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Bronze sprite
The bronze sprite (Arielulus circumdatus), also known as the black-gilded pipistrelle, is a species of vesper bat found in China, India, Myanmar, and Nepal.
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Brown bear
The brown bear (Ursus arctos) is a large bear native to Eurasia and North America.
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Brown long-eared bat
The brown long-eared bat or common long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus) is a small Eurasian insectivorous bat.
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Brown rat
The brown rat (Rattus norvegicus), also known as the common rat, street rat, sewer rat, wharf rat, Hanover rat, Norway rat and Norwegian rat, is a widespread species of common rat.
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Bryde's whale
Bryde's whale, or the Bryde's whale complex, putatively comprises three species of rorqual and maybe four.
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Bufo
Bufo is a genus of true toads in the amphibian family Bufonidae.
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Bufo cryptotympanicus
Bufo cryptotympanicus is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
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Bufo pageoti
Bufo pageoti, also known as Tonkin toad or Burma(n) toad (when referring to no-longer-recognized Bufo burmanus) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
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Bufo tuberculatus
Bufo tuberculatus, commonly known as the Qinghai Lake toad or round-warted toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
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Bufotes pewzowi
Bufotes pewzowi is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
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Bumblebee
A bumblebee (or bumble bee, bumble-bee, or humble-bee) is any of over 250 species in the genus Bombus, part of Apidae, one of the bee families.
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Burmese whiskered myotis
The Burmese whiskered myotis or Burmese whiskered bat (Myotis montivagus) is a species of vesper bat.
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Busan
Busan, officially is South Korea's second most populous city after Seoul, with a population of over 3.3 million inhabitants as of 2024.
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Bycatch
Bycatch (or by-catch), in the fishing industry, is a fish or other marine species that is caught unintentionally while fishing for specific species or sizes of wildlife.
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Campbell's dwarf hamster
Campbell's dwarf hamster (Phodopus campbelli) is a species of hamster in the genus Phodopus.
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Canidae
Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.
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Cape Santiago (Taiwan)
Cape Santiago is a cape on the easternmost point of the island of Taiwan, located in the Gongliao District, New Taipei City.
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Caprinae
The subfamily Caprinae, also sometimes referred to as the tribe Caprini, is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after ennoblement in 1761 as Carl von Linné,Blunt (2004), p. 171.
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Carnivora
Carnivora is an order of placental mammals that have specialized in primarily eating flesh, whose members are formally referred to as carnivorans.
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Caspian tiger
The Caspian tiger was a Panthera tigris tigris population native to eastern Turkey, northern Iran, Mesopotamia, the Caucasus around the Caspian Sea, Central Asia to northern Afghanistan and the Xinjiang region in western China.
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Castoreum
Castoreum is a yellowish exudate from the castor sacs of mature beavers and platypuses.
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Catfish
Catfish (or catfishes; order Siluriformes or Nematognathi) are a diverse group of ray-finned fish.
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Cát Bà Island
Cát Bà Island is the largest of the 367 islands spanning that comprise the Cat Ba Archipelago, which makes up the southeastern edge of Lan Ha Bay in Northern Vietnam and maintains the dramatic and rugged features of Ha Long Bay.
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Central Asian red deer
The Central Asian red deer (Cervus hanglu), also known as the Tarim red deer, is a deer species native to Central Asia, where it used to be widely distributed, but is scattered today with small population units in several countries.
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Cetacea
Cetacea is an infraorder of aquatic mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla that includes whales, dolphins and porpoises.
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Cetacean stranding
Cetacean stranding, commonly known as beaching, is a phenomenon in which whales and dolphins strand themselves on land, usually on a beach.
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Cetology
Cetology (from Greek κῆτος, kētos, "whale"; and -λογία, -logia) or whalelore (also known as whaleology) is the branch of marine mammal science that studies the approximately eighty species of whales, dolphins, and porpoises in the scientific order Cetacea.
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Changdao County
Changdao County was a county in Yantai, a prefectural area of Shandong in the People's Republic of China.
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Changqing National Nature Reserve
Changqing National Nature Reserve is located near Huayang Village in the Qin Mountains of Shaanxi province of China.
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Chenggong fire belly newt
The Chenggong fire belly newt (Cynops chenggongensis) is a species of newt of China.
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Chevron-spotted brown frog
The chevron-spotted brown frog (Rana chevronta) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, endemic to Mount Emei, Sichuan, China.
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Chevrotain
Chevrotains, or mouse-deer, are diminutive, even-toed ungulates that make up the family Tragulidae, and are the only living members of the infraorder Tragulina.
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Chiala mountain salamander
The Chiala mountain salamander (Batrachuperus karlschmidti) is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae endemic to China and known from northwestern Sichuan, northeastern Tibet, and southeastern Gansu.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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China News Service
China News Service (CNS) is the second largest state news agency in China, after Xinhua News Agency.
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China proper
China proper, also called Inner China are terms used primarily in the West in reference to the traditional "core" regions of China centered in the southeast.
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Chinese alligator
The Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis), also known as the Yangtze alligator, China alligator, or historically the muddy dragon, is a crocodilian endemic to China.
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Chinese crocodile lizard
The Chinese crocodile lizard (Shinisaurus crocodilurus) is a semiaquatic anguimorph lizard found only in cool forests in southeastern China and northeastern Vietnam.
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Chinese dormouse
The Chinese dormouse or Sichuan dormouse (Chaetocauda sichuanensis) is a species of dormouse found in subalpine mixed forests in northern Sichuan, China, where it is known from Jiuzhaigou and Wanglang Nature Reserves.
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Chinese edible frog
The Chinese edible frog (Hoplobatrachus chinensis), also known as East Asian bullfrog and Taiwanese frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Chinese ferret-badger
The Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata), also known as the small-toothed ferret-badger is a member of the Mustelidae, and widely distributed in Southeast Asia.
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Chinese fire belly newt
The Chinese fire belly newt (Cynops orientalis) is a small black newt, with bright-orange aposematic coloration on their ventral sides.
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Chinese giant salamander
The Chinese giant salamander (Andrias davidianus) is one of the largest salamanders and one of the largest amphibians in the world.
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Chinese hamster
The Chinese hamster (Cricetulus griseus or Cricetulus barabensis griseus) is a rodent in the genus Cricetulus of the subfamily Cricetidae that originated in the deserts of northern China and Mongolia.
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Chinese monal
The Chinese monal or Chinese impeyan (Lophophorus lhuysii) is a pheasant.
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Chinese mountain cat
The Chinese mountain cat (Felis bieti), also known as Chinese desert cat and Chinese steppe cat, is a small wild Felis species with sand-coloured fur, faint dark stripes on the face and legs and black tipped ears.
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Chinese paddlefish
The Chinese paddlefish (Psephurus gladius;: literal translation: "white sturgeon"), also known as the Chinese swordfish, is an extinct species of fish that was formerly native to the Yangtze and Yellow River basins in China.
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Chinese pangolin
The Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla) is a pangolin native to the northern Indian subcontinent, northern parts of Southeast Asia and southern China.
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Chinese pipistrelle
The Chinese pipistrelle (Hypsugo pulveratus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Chinese striped hamster
The Chinese striped hamster (Cricetulus barabensis), also known as the striped dwarf hamster, is a species of hamster.
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Chinese warty newt
The Chinese warty newt (Paramesotriton chinensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae.
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Chinese water dragon
Physignathus cocincinus is a species of agamid lizard native to southern China and mainland Southeast Asia.
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Chinhai spiny newt
The Chinhai spiny newt (Echinotriton chinhaiensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae, found only in a small section of Zhejiang province in eastern China.
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Chipmunk
Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of Sciuridae, the squirrel family; specifically, they are ground squirrels (Marmotini).
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Chocolate pipistrelle
The chocolate pipistrelle (Hypsugo affinis) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Chongming Island
Chongming, formerly romanized as Chungming, is an alluvial island at the mouth of the Yangtze River in eastern China covering as of 2010.
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Chow Chow
The Chow Chow is a spitz-type of dog breed originally from Northern China.
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Chrysanthemum
Chrysanthemums, sometimes called mums or chrysanths, are flowering plants of the genus Chrysanthemum in the family Asteraceae.
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Chuxiong fire-bellied newt
The Chuxiong fire-bellied newt (Cynops cyanurus) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae that is endemic to China where it is only found in Guizhou and Yunnan.
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CITES
CITES (shorter name for the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals from the threats of international trade.
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Clouded leopard
The clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), also called mainland clouded leopard, is a wild cat inhabiting dense forests from the foothills of the Himalayas through Northeast India and Bhutan to mainland Southeast Asia into South China.
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Colobinae
The Colobinae or leaf-eating monkeys are a subfamily of the Old World monkey family that includes 61 species in 11 genera, including the black-and-white colobus, the large-nosed proboscis monkey, and the gray langurs.
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Common bent-wing bat
The common bent-wing bat (Miniopterus schreibersii), also known as the Schreibers's long-fingered bat or Schreibers's bat, is a species of insectivorous bat.
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Common bottlenose dolphin
The common bottlenose dolphin or Atlantic bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) is one of three species of bottlenose dolphin in the genus Tursiops.
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Common Chinese tree frog
The common Chinese tree frog (Hyla chinensis), also known under common names common Chinese treetoad and Chinese tree toad, is a species of frog in the family Hylidae found in southeastern and eastern China and in Taiwan.
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Common dolphin
The common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is the most abundant cetacean in the world, with a global population of about six million.
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Common minke whale
The common minke whale or northern minke whale (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) is a species of minke whale within the suborder of baleen whales.
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Common noctule
The common noctule (Nyctalus noctula) is a species of insectivorous bat common throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa.
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Common pipistrelle
The common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) is a small pipistrelle microbat whose very large range extends across most of Europe, North Africa, South Asia, and may extend into Korea.
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Common raccoon dog
The common raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), also called the Chinese or Asian raccoon dog to distinguish it from the Japanese raccoon dog, is a small, heavy-set, fox-like canid native to East Asia.
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Complex-toothed flying squirrel
The complex-toothed flying squirrel (Trogopterus xanthipes) occurs in the southern Chinese provinces Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan.
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Concave-eared torrent frog
Odorrana tormota, also known as the concave-eared torrent frog, is a species of frog native to China.
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Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
The Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, also known as the Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) or the Bonn Convention, is an international agreement that aims to conserve migratory species throughout their ranges.
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Convex-tailed horned toad
The convex-tailed horned toad (Boulenophrys caudoprocta) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae, endemic to China, and is only known from the type locality, Tianping Mountain, Sangzhi County, in Hunan.
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Convex-vented horned toad
The convex-vented horned toad (Xenophrys pachyproctus), also known as the Gelin spadefoot toad or Huang's spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Copepod
Copepods (meaning "oar-feet") are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat.
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Corsac fox
The corsac fox (Vulpes corsac), also known simply as a corsac, is a medium-sized fox found in steppes, semi-deserts and deserts in Central Asia, ranging into Mongolia and northern China.
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Crab-eating frog
The crab-eating frog (Fejervarya cancrivora) is a frog native to south-eastern Asia including Taiwan, China, Sumatra in Indonesia, the Philippines and more rarely as far west as Orissa in India.
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Crab-eating mongoose
The crab-eating mongoose (Urva urva) is a species of mongoose found from the north-eastern Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia to southern China and Taiwan.
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Craspedocephalus gramineus
Craspedocephalus gramineus, known as the bamboo pit viper, Indian green pit viper, or common green pit viper, is a venomous pit viper species found in the southern and north eastern parts of India.
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CRC Press
The CRC Press, LLC is an American publishing group that specializes in producing technical books.
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Cuvier's beaked whale
Cuvier's beaked whale, goose-beaked whale, or ziphius (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae.
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Cypriniformes
Cypriniformes is an order of ray-finned fish, which includes many families and genera of cyprinid (carps and their kin) fish, such as barbs, gobies, loaches, botias, and minnows (among others).
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Dalian
Dalian is a major sub-provincial port city in Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, and is Liaoning's second largest city (after the provincial capital Shenyang) and the third-most populous city of Northeast China (after Shenyang and Harbin).
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Daya Bay
Daya Bay, formerly known as Bias Bay, is a bay of the South China Sea on the south coast of Guangdong Province in China.
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Dayang newt
The Dayang newt (Cynops orphicus) is a rare species of salamander in the family Salamandridae, endemic to China.
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Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
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Deinagkistrodon
Deinagkistrodon is a monotypic genus created for the venomous pit viper species, Deinagkistrodon acutus, which is endemic to Southeast Asia.
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Dhole
The dhole (Cuon alpinus) is a canid native to Central, South, East and Southeast Asia.
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Dian Lake
Dian Lake, also known as Dianchi, Dianchi Lake, Lake Dian and Kunming Lake, is a fault lake located on the Puduhe-Xishan fault in Kunming, Yunnan, China at 24°23′–26°22′ N, 102°10′–103°40′ E. Its nickname is the "Sparkling Pearl Embedded in a Highland" (pinyin: Gāoyuánmíngzhū).
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Dice snake
The dice snake (Natrix tessellata), also known as the Eurasian, European or tessellated water snake (or simply 'water-snake'), is a species of highly amphibious, aglyphous (non-venomous) squamate (snake) of the water-snake genus Natrix (family Colubridae, subfamily Natricinae).
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Dog
The dog (Canis familiaris or Canis lupus familiaris) is a domesticated descendant of the wolf.
Dog breed
A dog breed is a particular type of dog that was purposefully bred by humans to perform specific tasks, such as herding, hunting, and guarding.
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Doichang frog
The Doichang frog (Nanorana aenea) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Dolphinarium
A dolphinarium is an aquarium for dolphins.
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Dongshan County
() is a county of far southern Fujian Province, People's Republic of China, located along the Taiwan Strait.
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Dongting Lake
Dongting Lake is a large, shallow lake in northeastern Hunan Province, China.
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Dragon King
The Dragon King, also known as the Dragon God, is a Chinese water and weather god.
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Dugong
The dugong (Dugong dugon) is a marine mammal.
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Dusky tube-nosed bat
The dusky tube-nosed bat (Murina fusca) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Duttaphrynus himalayanus
Duttaphrynus himalayanus, also known as the Himalaya toad, Himalayan toad, Himalayan broad-skulled toad, and Günther's high altitude toad (among others), is a species of toad that is widely distributed throughout the Himalayan mountains.
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Duttaphrynus melanostictus
Duttaphrynus melanostictus is commonly called Asian common toad, Asian black-spined toad, Asian toad, black-spectacled toad, common Sunda toad, and Javanese toad.
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Dwarf musk deer
The dwarf musk deer or Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii) is an artiodactyl native to southern and central China and northernmost Vietnam.
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Dwarf sperm whale
The dwarf sperm whale (Kogia sima) is a sperm whale that inhabits temperate and tropical oceans worldwide, in particular continental shelves and slopes.
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Dzungaria
Dzungaria (from the Mongolian words, meaning 'left hand'), also known as Northern Xinjiang or Beijiang, is a geographical subregion in Northwest China that corresponds to the northern half of Xinjiang.
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Eared seal
An eared seal, otariid, or otary is any member of the marine mammal family Otariidae, one of three groupings of pinnipeds.
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Earless seal
The earless seals, phocids, or true seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal lineage, Pinnipedia.
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East China Sea
The East China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China.
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Eastern black crested gibbon
The eastern black crested gibbon (Nomascus nasutus), also called Cao-vit black crested gibbon or the Cao-vit crested gibbon, is a Critically Endangered species of gibbon from southeast China and northern Vietnam.
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Eastern golden frog
The eastern golden frog (Pelophylax plancyi) is a species of true frog found in eastern and northeastern China.
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Ebisu (mythology)
, also transliterated or called or, is the Japanese god of fishermen and luck.
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Elaphe bimaculata
Elaphe bimaculata, the twin-spotted ratsnake or Chinese leopard snake, is a small ratsnake (60–80 cm) found in China.
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Eld's deer
Eld's deer (Rucervus eldii or Panolia eldiiPitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004). Evolution and phylogeny of old world deer. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 880–895.), also known as the thamin or brow-antlered deer, is an endangered species of deer endemic to South and Southeast Asia.
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Elephants in ancient China
The existence of elephants in ancient China is attested both by archaeological evidence and by depictions in Chinese artwork.
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Elk
The elk (elk or elks; Cervus canadensis), or wapiti, is the second largest species within the deer family, Cervidae, and one of the largest terrestrial mammals in its native range of North America and Central and East Asia.
Elongated tortoise
The elongated tortoise (Indotestudo elongata) is a species of tortoise found in Southeast Asia and parts of South Asia.
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Emballonuridae
Emballonuridae is a family of microbats, many of which are referred to as sac-winged or sheath-tailed bats.
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Emei music frog
The Emei music frog (Nidirana daunchina) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Eptesicus
Eptesicus is a genus of bats, commonly called house bats or serotine bats, in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Erhai Lake
Erhai or Er Lake, is an alpine fault lake in Dali City, Dali Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.
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Erinaceidae
Erinaceidae is a family in the order Eulipotyphla, consisting of the hedgehogs and moonrats.
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Ethmostigmus rubripes
Ethmostigmus rubripes, commonly known as the giant centipede, is a species of centipede in the family Scolopendridae.
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Eurasian beaver
The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) or European beaver is a species of beaver widespread across Eurasia, with a rapidly increasing population of at least 1.5 million in 2020.
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Eurasian lynx
The Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) is one of the four extant species within the medium-sized wild cat genus Lynx.
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Eurasian otter
The Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), also known as the European otter, Eurasian river otter, European river otter, common otter, and Old World otter, is a semiaquatic mammal native to Eurasia and Maghreb.
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Eurasian spoonbill
The Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia), or common spoonbill, is a wading bird of the ibis and spoonbill family Threskiornithidae.
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Eurasian wolf
The Eurasian wolf (Canis lupus lupus), also known as the common wolf,Mech, L. David (1981), The Wolf: The Ecology and Behaviour of an Endangered Species, University of Minnesota Press, p. 354, is a subspecies of grey wolf native to Europe and Asia.
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European free-tailed bat
The European free-tailed bat (Tadarida teniotis, sometimes given as Tadarida insignis) is a species of free-tailed bat found in the Old World.
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European hamster
The European hamster (Cricetus cricetus), also known as the Eurasian hamster, black-bellied hamster or common hamster, is the only species of hamster in the genus Cricetus.
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European water vole
The European water vole (Arvicola amphibius) or northern water vole, is a semi-aquatic rodent.
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Evenki people
The Evenki, also known as the Evenks and formerly as the Tungus, are a Tungusic people of North Asia.
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Exclusive economic zone
An exclusive economic zone (EEZ), as prescribed by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, is an area of the sea in which a sovereign state has exclusive rights regarding the exploration and use of marine resources, including energy production from water and wind.
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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
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False killer whale
The false killer whale (Pseudorca crassidens) is a species of oceanic dolphin that is the only extant representative of the genus Pseudorca.
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Fangshan, Beijing
Fangshan District is a district of the city of Beijing.
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Far East
The Far East is the geographical region that encompasses the easternmost portion of the Asian continent, including East, North, and Southeast Asia.
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Far Eastern myotis
The Far Eastern myotis or bombinus bat (Myotis bombinus) is a species of mouse-eared bat found in East Asia.
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Fea's muntjac
The Fea's muntjac or Tenasserim muntjac (Muntiacus feae) is a rare species of muntjac native to southern Myanmar and Thailand.
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Fejervarya limnocharis
Fejervarya limnocharis is a species of frog found in South East Asia and parts of Indochina.
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Fejervarya moodiei
Fejervarya moodiei is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Fejervarya multistriata
Fejervarya multistriata (common name: Hong Kong paddy frog or simply paddy frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Ferret-badger
Ferret-badgers are the six species of the genus Melogale, which is the only genus of the monotypic mustelid subfamily Helictidinae.
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Fin whale
The fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus), also known as the finback whale or common rorqual, is a species of baleen whale and the second-longest cetacean after the blue whale. The biggest individual reportedly measured in length, with a maximum recorded weight of 77 to 81 tonnes.
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Finless porpoise
Neophocaena is a genus of porpoise native to the Indian and Pacific oceans, as well as the freshwater habitats of the Yangtze River basin in China.
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Flying squirrel
Flying squirrels (scientifically known as Pteromyini or Petauristini) are a tribe of 50 species of squirrels in the family Sciuridae.
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Foraging
Foraging is searching for wild food resources.
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Formosan rock macaque
The Formosan rock macaque (Macaca cyclopis), also known as the Formosan rock monkey or Taiwanese macaque, is a macaque endemic to the island of Taiwan, which has also been introduced to Japan.
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François' langur
François' langur (Trachypithecus francoisi), also known as Francois' leaf monkey, the Tonkin leaf monkey, or the white side-burned black langur is a species of Old World monkey and the type species of its species group.
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Fraser's dolphin
Fraser's dolphin or the Sarawak dolphin (Lagenodelphis hosei) is a cetacean in the family Delphinidae found in deep waters in the Pacific Ocean and to a lesser extent in the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.
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Fraternal myotis
The fraternal myotis (Myotis frater) is a species of vesper bat native to East Asia.
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Free-tailed bat
The Molossidae, or free-tailed bats, are a family of bats within the order Chiroptera.
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The fringed long-footed myotis (Myotis fimbriatus) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Fujian
Fujian is a province on the southeastern coast of China.
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Functional extinction
Functional extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that.
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Fur clothing
Fur clothing is clothing made from the preserved skins of mammals.
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Fuwa
The Fuwa (literally "good-luck dolls", also known as "Friendlies") were the mascots of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
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Gan River
The Gan River (Gan: Kōm-kong) runs north through the western part of Jiangxi before flowing into Lake Poyang and thus the Yangtze River.
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Gansu
Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.
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Gansu hamster
The Gansu hamster (Cansumys canus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae, endemic to China.
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Gaur
The gaur (Bos gaurus) is a bovine native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, and has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List since 1986.
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Gayal
The gayal (Bos frontalis), also known as the Drung ox or mithun, is a large domestic cattle distributed in Northeast India, Bangladesh, Myanmar and in Yunnan, China.
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Gene flow
In population genetics, gene flow (also known as migration and allele flow) is the transfer of genetic material from one population to another.
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Geoffroy's rousette
Geoffroy's rousette (Rousettus amplexicaudatus) is a species of megabat or Old World fruit bats.
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Geography of China
China has great physical diversity.
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Gezhouba Dam
The Gezhouba Dam or Gezhouba Water Control Project on the Yangtze River is located in the western suburbs of Yichang, in central China's Hubei province.
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Giant panda
The giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), also known as the panda bear or simply panda, is a bear species endemic to China.
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Gibbon
Gibbons are apes in the family Hylobatidae.
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Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale
The ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) is a poorly known species of whale even for a beaked whale, and was named for the unusual shape of its dual teeth.
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Glandirana minima
Glandirana minima (known as Fujian frog or little gland frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Glyphoglossus yunnanensis
Glyphoglossus yunnanensis, also known as Yunnan squat frog or Yunnan small narrow-mouthed frog, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.
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Goa (antelope)
The goa (Procapra picticaudata), also known as the Tibetan gazelle, is a species of antelope that inhabits the Tibetan plateau.
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Gobi big brown bat
The Gobi big brown bat (Eptesicus gobiensis) is a species of vesper bat.
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Goitered gazelle
The goitered gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa) or black-tailed gazelle is a gazelle native to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Iran, parts of Iraq and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan and in northwestern China and Mongolia.
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Golden pheasant
The golden pheasant (Chrysolophus pictus), also known as the Chinese pheasant, and rainbow pheasant, is a gamebird of the order Galliformes (gallinaceous birds) and the family Phasianidae (pheasants).
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Gongshan muntjac
The Gongshan muntjac (Muntiacus gongshanensis) is a species of muntjac (a type of deer) living in the Gongshan mountains in northwestern Yunnan, southeast Tibet, Northeast India (especially in Arunachal Pradesh) and northern Myanmar.
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Goral
The gorals are four species in the genus Naemorhedus.
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Grass snake
The grass snake (Natrix natrix), sometimes called the ringed snake or water snake, is a Eurasian semi-aquatic non-venomous colubrid snake.
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Gray whale
The gray whale (Eschrichtius robustus), also known as the grey whale,Britannica Micro.: v. IV, p. 693.
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Great evening bat
The great evening bat (Ia io) is the largest bat in the vesper bat family (Vespertilionidae) and the only living species in the genus Ia.
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Great gerbil
The great gerbil (Rhombomys opimus) is a large rodent found throughout much of Central Asia.
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Great Leap Forward
The Great Leap Forward was an economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China (PRC) from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Great piebald horned toad
The great piebald horned toad (Atympanophrys gigantica), or giant spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae, endemic to China.
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Greater Asiatic yellow bat
The greater Asiatic yellow bat (Scotophilus heathii) is a species of vesper bat.
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Greater bamboo bat
The greater bamboo bat (Tylonycteris robustula) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Greater false vampire bat
The greater false vampire bat (Lyroderma lyra) is a species of bat in the family Megadermatidae, the false vampire bats.
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Greater horseshoe bat
The greater horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrumequinum) is an insectivorous bat of the genus Rhinolophus.
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Greater Khingan
The Greater Khingan Range or Da Hinggan Range (IPA), is a -long volcanic mountain range in the Inner Mongolia region of Northeast China.
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Greater long-tailed hamster
The greater long-tailed hamster (Tscherskia triton) is a rodent native to Siberia, the Korean Peninsula, and China.
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Greater tube-nosed bat
The greater tube-nosed bat (Murina leucogaster) is a species of bat.
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Green Island, Taiwan
Green Island, also known by other names, is a small volcanic island in the Pacific Ocean about off the eastern coast of the main island of Taiwan.
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Grey dwarf hamster
The grey dwarf hamster, grey hamster or migratory hamster (Nothocricetulus migratorius) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Ground squirrel
Ground squirrels are rodents of the squirrel family (Sciuridae) that generally live on the ground or in burrows, rather than in trees like the tree squirrels.
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Guanxi
Guanxi is a term used in Chinese culture to describe an individual's social network of mutually beneficial personal and business relationships.
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Gulf of Tonkin
The Gulf of Tonkin is a gulf at the northwestern portion of the South China Sea, located off the coasts of Tonkin (northern Vietnam) and South China.
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Hainan
Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration.
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Hainan hare
The Hainan hare (Lepus hainanus) is a hare endemic to Hainan Island, China.
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Hainan knobby newt
The Hainan knobby newt (Tylototriton hainanensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae.
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The hairy-footed flying squirrel (Belomys pearsonii) is a flying squirrel found in the mountains of the eastern Himalaya, Southeast Asia, southern China, and the island of Taiwan.
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Hairy-fronted muntjac
The hairy-fronted muntjac or black muntjac (Muntiacus crinifrons) is a type of deer currently found in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and Fujian in southeastern China.
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Haiyang
Haiyang, is a coastal city in the Shandong province in eastern China, located on the Yellow Sea (southern) coast of the Shandong Peninsula.
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Hamster
Hamsters are rodents (order Rodentia) belonging to the subfamily Cricetinae, which contains 19 species classified in seven genera.
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Han dynasty
The Han dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC9 AD, 25–220 AD) established by Liu Bang and ruled by the House of Liu.
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Haplorhini
Haplorhini, the haplorhines (Greek for "simple-nosed") or the "dry-nosed" primates is a suborder of primates containing the tarsiers and the simians (Simiiformes or anthropoids), as sister of the Strepsirrhini ("moist-nosed").
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Hardwicke's woolly bat
Hardwicke's woolly bat (Kerivoula hardwickii) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Harlequin bat
The harlequin bat (Scotomanes ornatus) is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae, the vesper bats.
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Hebei
Hebei is a province in North China.
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Hedgehog
A hedgehog is a spiny mammal of the subfamily Erinaceinae, in the eulipotyphlan family Erinaceidae.
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Henan
Henan is an inland province of China.
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Hepu County
Hepu, alternately romanized as Hoppo, Hopu or Hop'u, is a county under the administration of Beihai City in southeastern Guangxi, China.
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Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford
Herbrand Arthur Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, (19 February 1858 – 27 August 1940) was an English politician and peer.
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Himalayan brown bear
The Himalayan brown bear (Ursus arctos isabellinus), also known as the Himalayan red bear or isabelline bear, is a subspecies of the brown bear occurring in the western Himalayas.
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Himalayan goral
The Himalayan goral (Naemorhedus goral) or the gray goral, is a bovid species native to the Himalayas.
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Himalayan marmot
The Himalayan marmot (Marmota himalayana) is a marmot species that inhabits alpine grasslands throughout the Himalayas and on the Tibetan Plateau.
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Himalayan tahr
The Himalayan tahr (Hemitragus jemlahicus) is a large even-toed ungulate native to the Himalayas in southern Tibet, northern India, western Bhutan and Nepal.
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Himalayan wolf
The Himalayan wolf (Canis lupus chanco) is a canine of debated taxonomy.
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Himalayas
The Himalayas, or Himalaya.
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Hipposideros
Hipposideros is one of the most diverse genera of bats, with more than 70 species.
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Hodgson's bat
Hodgson's bat (Myotis formosus), also called the copper-winged bat or black-and-orange myotis, is a species of vesper bat in the genus Myotis, the mouse-eared bats.
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Hong Kong
Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Hong Kong warty newt
The Hong Kong warty newt or Hong Kong newt (Paramesotriton hongkongensis, see also) is a species of salamander found in Hong Kong.
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Horseshoe bat
Horseshoe bats are bats in the family Rhinolophidae.
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Horsfield's bat
Horsfield's bat (Myotis horsfieldii) is a species of vesper bat.
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Hotan Prefecture
Hotan PrefectureThe official spelling is "Hotan" according to (see also § Etymology) is located in the Tarim Basin region of southwestern Xinjiang, China, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region to the south and Union Territory of Ladakh and Gilgit-Baltistan to the west.
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Huai River
The Huai River, formerly romanized as the Hwai, is a major river in East China, about long with a drainage area of.
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Huangshan
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Huanren frog
The Huanren frog (Rana huanrensis) is a species of true frog found in East Asia.
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Hubei
Hubei is an inland province of China, and is part of the Central China region.
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Human
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning "thinking man") or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo.
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Humerana lateralis
Humerana lateralis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Humpback whale
The humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) is a species of baleen whale.
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Hunan
Hunan is an inland province of China.
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Hutton's tube-nosed bat
Hutton's tube-nosed bat (Murina huttoni) is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Hyla sanchiangensis
Hyla sanchiangensis (proposed common name: San Chiang tree frog) is a species of frog in the family Hylidae.
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Hyla zhaopingensis
Hyla zhaopingensis is a species of frogs in the family Hylidae endemic to China.
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Hylarana latouchii
Hylarana latouchii, also known as Kuatun frog, La Touche's frog, or broad-folded frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Hynobius guabangshanensis
Hynobius guabangshanensis is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to China, as it is only known from the locality from where it was described as a new species to science in 2004, at Guabang Shan Tree Farm in Qiyang County of Hunan Province.
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Hynobius yiwuensis
Hynobius yiwuensis, the Yiwu salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to Zhejiang, China.
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Ikonnikov's bat
Ikonnikov's bat (Myotis ikonnikovi) is a species of vesper bat.
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Imienpo Station frog
The Imienpo Station frog (Glandirana emeljanovi) is a species of frog found in Northeast Asia.
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Indian crested porcupine
The Indian crested porcupine (Hystrix indica) is a hystricomorph rodent species native to southern Asia and the Middle East.
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Indian leopard
The Indian leopard (Panthera pardus fusca) is a subspecies of the leopard (P. pardus) widely distributed on the Indian subcontinent.
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Indian rhinoceros
The Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), also known as the greater one-horned rhinoceros, great Indian rhinoceros, or Indian rhino for short, is a rhinoceros species native to the Indian subcontinent.
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Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin
The Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) is a species of bottlenose dolphin.
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Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin
The Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin (Sousa chinensis) is a species of humpback dolphin inhabiting coastal waters of the eastern Indian and western Pacific Oceans.
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Indochinese tiger
The Indochinese tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to Southeast Asia.
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Ink brush
Ink brushes are paintbrushes used in Chinese calligraphy as well as in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese which all have roots in Chinese calligraphy.
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Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
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International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
The International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling is an international environmental agreement aimed at the "proper conservation of whale stocks and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry".
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Irrawaddy dolphin
The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) is a euryhaline species of oceanic dolphin found in scattered subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries and rivers in parts of the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia.
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Irtysh
The Irtysh is a river in Russia, China, and Kazakhstan.
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Ishigaki Island
, also known as Ishigakijima, is a Japanese island south-west of Okinawa Hontō and the second-largest island of the Yaeyama Island group, behind Iriomote Island.
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Japan Coast Guard
The is the coast guard responsible for the protection of the coastline of Japan under the oversight of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism.
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Japanese giant flying squirrel
The is a species of flying squirrel, one of the giant flying squirrels in the genus Petaurista.
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Japanese tree frog
Hyla japonica, commonly known as the Japanese tree frog, is a species of anuran native to Japan, China, and Korea.
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Javan rhinoceros
The Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros sondaicus), Javan rhino, Sunda rhinoceros or lesser one-horned rhinoceros is a critically endangered member of the genus Rhinoceros, of the rhinoceros family, Rhinocerotidae, and one of the five remaining extant rhinoceros species across South Asia and Africa.
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Jeju Island
Jeju Island (Jeju/) is South Korea's largest island, covering an area of, which is 1.83% of the total area of the country.
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Jeju Province
Jeju Province, officially Jeju Special Self-Governing Province (Jeju), is the southernmost province of South Korea, consisting of eight inhabited and 55 uninhabited islands, including Mara Island, Udo Island, the Chuja Archipelago, and the country's largest island, Jeju Island.
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Jerboa
Jerboas are hopping desert rodents found throughout North Africa and Asia, and are members of the family Dipodidae.
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Jiang Ziya
Jiang Ziya (century BC – century BC), also known by several other names, was a Chinese military general, monarch, strategist, and writer who helped kings Wen and Wu of Zhou overthrow the Shang in ancient China.
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Jiangxi
Jiangxi is an inland province in the east of the People's Republic of China.
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Jiaozhou Bay
Jiaozhou Bay (Kiautschou Bucht) is a bay located in the prefecture-level city of Qingdao (Tsingtau), Shandong Province, China.
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Jilin
Jilin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.
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Jingdong horned toad
The Jingdong horned toad (Boulenophrys jingdongensis), or Jingdong spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae found in Yunnan and Guangxi, China.
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Johns' groove-toed frog
Johns' groove-toed frog or Johns' frog (Rana johnsi), is a frog species in the true frog family (Ranidae).
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JoongAng Ilbo
The JoongAng, formally known as JoongAng Ilbo, is a South Korean daily newspaper published in Seoul, South Korea.
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Kalophrynus interlineatus
Kalophrynus interlineatus, commonly known as the spotted narrow-mouthed frog, is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in India and South East Asia including Hong Kong.
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Kalophrynus menglienicus
Kalophrynus menglienicus is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.
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Kaloula rugifera
Kaloula rugifera, the Sichuan digging frog or Szechwan narrowmouth toad, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae found in China.
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Kaloula verrucosa
Kaloula verrucosa, the verrucous digging frog or Chinese narrowmouth toad, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.
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Kam dwarf hamster
The Kam dwarf hamster (Cricetulus kamensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Kamchatka Peninsula
The Kamchatka Peninsula (poluostrov Kamchatka) is a peninsula in the Russian Far East, with an area of about.
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Karakoram
The Karakoram is a mountain range in the Kashmir region spanning the border of Pakistan, China, and India, with the northwestern extremity of the range extending to Afghanistan and Tajikistan.
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Kashmiris
Kashmiris are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group speaking the Kashmiri language and originating from the Kashmir Valley, which is today located in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir.
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Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
Kekexili: Mountain Patrol (ཨ་ཆེན་གངས་རྒྱབ།) is a 2004 Chinese film directed by Lu Chuan that depicts the struggle between vigilante rangers and bands of poachers in the remote Tibetan region of Kekexili (Hoh Xil).
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Kelaart's pipistrelle
Kelaart's pipistrelle (Pipistrellus ceylonicus) is a species of vesper bat found in southern and south-eastern Asia from Pakistan to Indonesia.
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Kenting National Park
Kenting National Park, commonly known as Kenting, is a national park located on the Hengchun Peninsula of Pingtung County, Taiwan, covering Hengchun, Checheng, and Manzhou Townships.
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Kiang
The kiang (Equus kiang) is the largest of the Asinus subgenus.
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King Zhou of Shang
King Zhou was the pejorative posthumous name given to Di Xin of Shang or King Shou of Shang, the last king of the Shang dynasty of ancient China.
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Kinmen
Kinmen, alternatively known as Quemoy, is a group of islands governed as a county by the Republic of China (Taiwan), only east from the city of Xiamen in Fujian, located at the southeastern coast of the People's Republic of China, from which they are separated by Xiamen Bay.
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Koh Tao Island caecilian
The Koh Tao Island caecilian (Ichthyophis kohtaoensis) is a species of amphibian in the family Ichthyophiidae found in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
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Korean salamander
The Korean salamander (Hynobius leechii), or Gensan salamander, is the most common species of salamander on the Korean peninsula, and is also found and on Jeju Island and in the north-eastern Chinese provinces of Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.
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Korean water toad
The Korean water toad, Korean toad, water toad, or Stejneger's toad (Bufo stejnegeri), is a species of toad found in East Asia.
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Kuatun horned toad
The Kuatun horned toad (Boulenophrys kuatunensis), or Kuatun spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Kuhl's creek frog
Kuhl's creek frog or large-headed frog (Limnonectes kuhlii) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Kunming
Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China.
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Lantau Island
Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao or Lan Tau) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located west of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories.
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Lar gibbon
The lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), also known as the white-handed gibbon, is an endangered primate in the gibbon family, Hylobatidae.
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Large Indian civet
The large Indian civet (Viverra zibetha) is a viverrid native to South and Southeast Asia.
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Large white-bellied rat
The large white-bellied rat (Niviventer excelsior), also known as the Sichuan niviventer, is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.
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The large-footed bat, large-footed mouse-eared bat, or large-footed myotis (Myotis adversus) is a species of vesper bat (family Vespertilionidae).
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Least pipistrelle
The least pipistrelle (Pipistrellus tenuis) is a species of vesper bat.
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Least weasel
The least weasel (Mustela nivalis), little weasel, common weasel, or simply weasel is the smallest member of the genus Mustela, family Mustelidae and order Carnivora.
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Least-concern species
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.
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Leizhou Peninsula
The Leizhou Peninsula, alternately romanized as the Luichow Peninsula, is a peninsula in the southernmost part of Guangdong province in South China.
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Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.
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Leopard cat
The leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) is a small wild cat native to continental South, Southeast, and East Asia.
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Leptobrachella alpina
Leptobrachella alpina is a frog species in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptobrachella liui
Leptobrachella liui, also known as Fujian Asian toad or Fujian metacarpal-tubercled toad, is a frog species in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptobrachella oshanensis
Leptobrachella oshanensis, also known as the Oshan metacarpal-tubercled toad or pigmy crawl frog, is a frog species in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptobrachium ailaonicum
Leptobrachium ailaonicum (variously known as the Ailao spiny toad, Ailao moustache toad, or Yunnan moustache toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptobrachium boringii
Leptobrachium boringii, commonly known as the Emei moustache toad or Taosze spiny toad, is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptobrachium hainanense
Leptobrachium hainanense, the Hainan pseudomoustache toad, is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptobrachium leishanense
Leptobrachium leishanense, the Leishan spiny toad or Leishan moustache toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptobrachium liui
Leptobrachium liui, the Chong'an moustache toad or Pope's spiny toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptolalax sungi
Leptolalax sungi (Sung toad or Sang's metacarpal-tubercled toad) is a frog species in the family Megophryidae.
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Leptolalax ventripunctatus
Leptolalax ventripunctatus (known as Yunnan Asian toad or more elaborately, speckle-bellied metacarpal-tubercled toad) is a frog species in the family Megophryidae.
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Leschenault's rousette
Leschenault's rousette (Rousettus leschenaultii) is a species of fruit bat.
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Lesser bamboo bat
The lesser bamboo bat or lesser flat-headed bat (Tylonycteris pachypus) is one of the smallest species of vesper bat, and is native to Southeast Asia.
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Lesser noctule
The lesser noctule, Leisler's bat or the Irish bat (Nyctalus leisleri), is a species of insectivorous bat belonging to the vesper bat family, Vespertilionidae.
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Lhoba people
Lhoba (English translation:;; ལྷོ་པ།) is any of a diverse amalgamation of Sino-Tibetan-speaking tribespeople living in and around Pemako, a region in southeastern Tibet including Mainling, Medog and Zayü counties of Nyingchi and Lhünzê County of Shannan, Tibet.
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Liaodong Bay
Liaodong Bay is largest and longest of the three main bays of the Bohai Sea, the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea.
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Liaoning
Liaoning is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region.
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Liberty Times
The Liberty Times is a national newspaper published in Taiwan.
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This is a list of notable zoologists who have published names of new taxa under the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.
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List of mammals of China
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in China.
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List of mammals of Hong Kong
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Hong Kong.
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List of mammals of Taiwan
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Taiwan.
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List of protected areas of China
This is a list of the nationally designated protected areas of China.
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List of water deities
A water deity is a deity in mythology associated with water or various bodies of water.
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Little horned toad
The little horned toad (Boulenophrys minor), also known as the dwarf horned toad, Kwangshien spadefoot toad, or tiny spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Little tube-nosed bat
The little tube-nosed bat (Murina aurata) is a species of bat.
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Liuqiu Island
Liuqiu, also known by several other names, is a coral island in the Taiwan Strait about southwest of the main island of Taiwan.
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Liuyang
Liuyang is a county-level city, the most populous and the easternmost county-level division of Hunan Province, China; it is under the administration of the prefecture-level city of Changsha, the provincial capital.
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Local extinction
Local extinction, also extirpation, is the termination of a species (or other taxon) in a chosen geographic area of study, though it still exists elsewhere.
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Long-tailed dwarf hamster
The long-tailed dwarf hamster (Cricetulus longicaudatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Long-tailed goral
The long-tailed goral or Amur goral (Naemorhedus caudatus) is a species of ungulate of the family Bovidae found in the mountains of eastern and northern Asia, including Russia, China, and Korea.
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Loris
Loris is the common name for the strepsirrhine mammals of the subfamily Lorinae (sometimes spelled Lorisinae) in the family Lorisidae.
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Macaque
The macaques constitute a genus (Macaca) of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae.
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Macau
Macau or Macao is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.
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Mainland serow
The mainland serow (Capricornis sumatraensis) is a species of serow native to the Himalayas, Southeast Asia and China.
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Mainland Southeast Asia
Mainland Southeast Asia (also known Indochina or the Indochinese Peninsula) is the continental portion of Southeast Asia.
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Mamushi
Gloydius blomhoffii, commonly known as the mamushi,Mehrtens JM (1987).
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Manatee
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.
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Manchuria
Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.
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Manchurian hare
The Manchurian hare (Lepus mandshuricus) is a species of hare found in northeastern China and Russia, the Amur River basin, and the higher mountains of northern North Korea.
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Manchurian wapiti
The Manchurian wapiti (Cervus canadensis xanthopygus) is a subspecies of the wapiti native to East Asia.
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Mangrove
A mangrove is a shrub or tree that grows mainly in coastal saline or brackish water.
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Mangshan horned toad
The Mangshan horned toad (Xenophrys mangshanensis), or Mangshan spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Marco Polo
Marco Polo (8 January 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.
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Marco Polo sheep
The Marco Polo sheep (Ovis ammon polii) is a subspecies of argali sheep, named after Marco Polo.
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Marmot
Marmots are large ground squirrels in the genus Marmota, with 15 species living in Asia, Europe, and North America.
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Marten
A marten is a weasel-like mammal in the genus Martes within the subfamily Guloninae, in the family Mustelidae.
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Masked palm civet
The masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), also called the gem-faced civet or Himalayan palm civet, is a viverrid species native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
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Matsu Islands
The Matsu Islands, officially Lienchiang County, are an archipelago of 36 islands and islets in the East China Sea governed by the Republic of China (Taiwan), situated alongside the southeastern coast of mainland China.
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Mazu
Mazu or Matsu is a Chinese sea goddess in Chinese folk religion, Chinese Buddhism, Confucianism, and Taoism.
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Medog horned toad
The Medog horned toad (Xenophrys medogensis), or Medog spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Megabat
Megabats constitute the family Pteropodidae of the order Chiroptera (bats).
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Megadiverse countries
A megadiverse country is one of a group of nations that harbours the majority of Earth's species and high numbers of endemic species.
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Megophrys glandulosa
Xenophrys glandulosa, the glandular horned toad or Jingdong spadefoot toad is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae found in Yunnan in China, in Nagaland in northeastern India, and in northern Kachin State, Myanmar.
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Mekong
The Mekong or Mekong River is a trans-boundary river in East Asia and Southeast Asia.
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Melon-headed whale
The melon-headed whale (Peponocephala electra), also known less commonly as the electra dolphin, little killer whale, or many-toothed blackfish, is a toothed whale of the oceanic dolphin family (Delphinidae).
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Microbat
Microbats constitute the suborder Microchiroptera within the order Chiroptera (bats).
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Microhyla berdmorei
Microhyla berdmorei, commonly known as Berdmore's chorus frog, Berdmore's narrow-mouthed frog, Burmese microhylid frog, large pygmy frog, and Pegu rice frog, is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in eastern India, Bangladesh, southernmost China (Yunnan), Mainland Southeast Asia as well as Borneo and Sumatra.
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Microhyla heymonsi
Microhyla heymonsi, also known as the dark-sided chorus frog or the Taiwan rice frog, is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in northeastern India, southern China, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia south to the Malay Peninsula and Sumatra as well as the Great Nicobar Island.
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Microhyla pulchra
Microhyla pulchra is a species of narrow-mouthed frog found in northeastern India, southern China, and Southeast Asia south to at least Thailand but possibly as far south as Malaysia and Singapore.
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Micryletta inornata
Micryletta inornata is a rare species of frog in the family Microhylidae.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
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Minke whale
The minke whale, or lesser rorqual, is a species complex of baleen whale.
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Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.
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Mongolian gazelle
The Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), or dzeren (Дзерэн), is a medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, southern Siberia and northern China.
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Mongolian hamster
The Mongolian hamster (Allocricetulus curtatus) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Mongolian toad
The Mongolian toad (Strauchbufo raddei), also known commonly as the piebald toad or the Siberian sand toad, is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.
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Mongolian wild ass
The Mongolian wild ass (Equus hemionus hemionus), also known as Mongolian khulan, is the nominate subspecies of the onager.
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Mongoose
A mongoose is a small terrestrial carnivorous mammal belonging to the family Herpestidae.
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Monkey (zodiac)
The monkey (猴) is the ninth of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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Monkey brains
Monkey brains is a supposed dish consisting of, at least partially, the brain of some species of monkey or ape.
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Monpa people
The Monpa is a major tribe of Arunachal Pradesh in northeastern India.
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Moose
The moose ('moose'; used in North America) or elk ('elk' or 'elks'; used in Eurasia) (Alces alces) is the world's tallest, largest and heaviest extant species of deer and the only species in the genus Alces.
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Mount Emei
Mount Emei, alternatively Mount Omei, is a mountain in Sichuan Province, China, and is the highest of the Four Sacred Buddhist Mountains of China.
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Mount Popa pipistrelle
The Mount Popa pipistrelle (Pipistrellus paterculus) is a species of vesper bat.
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Mountain weasel
The mountain weasel (Mustela altaica), also known as the pale weasel, Altai weasel or solongoi, primarily lives in high-altitude environments, as well as rocky tundra and grassy woodlands.
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Mouse-eared bat
The mouse-eared bats or myotises are a diverse and widespread genus (Myotis) of bats within the family Vespertilionidae.
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Muli Tibetan Autonomous County
Muli Tibetan Autonomous County (smi-li rang-skyong-rdzong; Yi: ꃆꆹꀒꋤꊨꏦꏱꅉꑤ mup li op zzup zyt jie jux dde xiep) is in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Sichuan province, China, bordering Yunnan province to the southwest.
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Muntjac
Muntjacs, also known as the barking deer or rib-faced deer, (URL is Google Books) are small deer of the genus Muntiacus native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
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Murdoch University
Murdoch University is a public university in Perth, Western Australia, with campuses also in Singapore and Dubai.
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Musk deer
Musk deer can refer to any one, or all seven, of the species that make up Moschus, the only extant genus of the family Moschidae.
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Mustelidae
The Mustelidae (from Latin, weasel) are a diverse family of carnivoran mammals, including weasels, badgers, otters, polecats, martens, grisons, and wolverines.
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Myanmar
Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.
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Nan'ao County
Nan'ao or Nanao, formerly romanized Namoa, is an island and county of the prefecture-level city of Shantou in Guangdong Province, China.
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Nanjing
Nanjing is the capital of Jiangsu province in eastern China. The city has 11 districts, an administrative area of, and a population of 9,423,400. Situated in the Yangtze River Delta region, Nanjing has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having served as the capital of various Chinese dynasties, kingdoms and republican governments dating from the 3rd century to 1949, and has thus long been a major center of culture, education, research, politics, economy, transport networks and tourism, being the home to one of the world's largest inland ports.
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Nankiang horned toad
The Nankiang horned toad (Atympanophrys nankiangensis) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Nanorana arnoldi
Nanorana arnoldi (common name: Arnold's paa frog) is a large species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana blanfordii
Nanorana blanfordii (common names: Blanford's frog, Blanford's paa frog, Blanford's spiny frog, Blanford's hill frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana conaensis
Nanorana conaensis (Cona paa frog, Cona spiny frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana feae
Nanorana feae (common names: Kakhien paa frog, ocellated spiny frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana liebigii
Nanorana liebigii, also known as Sikkim paa frog, Liebig's paa frog, Liebig's frog, and spiny-armed frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana maculosa
Nanorana maculosa (common names: spotted paa frog, Piebald spiny frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae. It is endemic to central Yunnan, China, where it occurs in Jingdong County and Shuangbai County. This rare frog inhabits forest streams. It is threatened primarily by collection for human consumption.
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Nanorana medogensis
Nanorana medogensis (common name: Medog spiny frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana pleskei
Nanorana pleskei (common names: Songpan slow frog, Pleske's high altitude frog, plateau frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana polunini
Nanorana polunini (common names: Langtang paa frog, Smith frog, Polunin's paa frog, Polunin's spiny frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana quadranus
Nanorana quadranus (common names: Kwang-yang Asian frog, swelled vent frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana taihangnica
Nanorana taihangnica, or the Taihangshan swelled-vented frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana unculuanus
Nanorana unculuanus (common names: Yunnan Asian frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana ventripunctata
Nanorana ventripunctata (common names: Yunnan slow frog, spot-bellied plateau frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nanorana yunnanensis
Nanorana yunnanensis, commonly known as Yunnan paa frog, Yunnan spiny frog, Bourret's paa frog or Bourret's frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Nantong
Nantong is a prefecture-level city in southeastern Jiangsu province, China.
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National Institute of Fisheries Science
The National Institute of Fisheries Science (previous called National Fisheries Research and Development Institute or NFRDI), is a scientific body operated by the South Korean government, under the authority of the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries.
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National Museum of Nature and Science
The is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo.
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National Sun Yat-sen University
National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU) is a public research university located in Sizihwan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
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Natterer's bat
Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri) is a European vespertilionid bat with pale wings.
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Nidirana adenopleura
Nidirana adenopleura is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Nidirana lini
Nidirana lini is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Nidirana pleuraden
The Yunnan pond frog (Nidirana pleuraden) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae found in south-western China (Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou provinces) and possibly in adjacent parts of Myanmar.
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Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County
The Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County is an autonomous county under the jurisdiction of Pu'er City in the southwest of Yunnan Province, China.
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Ningbo
Ningbo is a sub-provincial city in northeast Zhejiang province, People's Republic of China. It comprises six urban districts, two satellite county-level cities, and two rural counties, including several islands in Hangzhou Bay and the East China Sea. Ningbo is the southern economic center of the Yangtze Delta megalopolis.
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Ningxia
Ningxia, officially the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region in Northwestern China.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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North China
North China is a geographical region of China, consisting of two direct-administered municipalities (Beijing and Tianjin), two provinces (Hebei and Shanxi), and one autonomous region (Inner Mongolia).
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North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia.
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North Pacific right whale
The North Pacific right whale (Eubalaena japonica) is a very large, thickset baleen whale species that is extremely rare and endangered.
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Northeast China
Northeast China, also historically called Manchuria or Songliao, is a geographical region of China.
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Northern bat
The northern bat (Eptesicus nilssonii) is the most abundant species of bat in northern Eurasia occurring from France to Hokkaidō and south to Kazakhstan.
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Northern frog
The northern frog (Ingerana borealis), or the Rotung oriental frog is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Northern fur seal
The northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) is an eared seal found along the north Pacific Ocean, the Bering Sea, and the Sea of Okhotsk.
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Northern treeshrew
The northern treeshrew (Tupaia belangeri) is a treeshrew species native to Southeast Asia.
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Northern white-cheeked gibbon
The northern white-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus leucogenys) is a Critically Endangered species of gibbon native to South East Asia.
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Nyctereutes
Nyctereutes (Greek: nyx, nykt- "night" + ereutēs "wanderer") is a genus of canid which includes only two extant species, both known as raccoon dogs: the common raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides) and the Japanese raccoon dog (Nyctereutes viverrinus).
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Ocean University of China
The Ocean University of China is a public university in Qingdao, Shandong, China.
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Odorrana andersonii
Odorrana andersonii (common names: golden cross band frog, Yunnan odorous frog, Anderson's frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Odorrana anlungensis
Odorrana anlungensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to China: it is only known from its type locality, Mount Longtou in Anlong County, Guizhou.
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Odorrana chapaensis
Odorrana chapaensis (Vietnam sucker frog or Chapa torrent frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in southern Yunnan in China and in northern Vietnam.
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Odorrana chloronota
Odorrana chloronota, commonly known as the chloronate huia frog or copper-cheeked frog, is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is found in Cambodia, China, India, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, and possibly Bangladesh and Nepal.
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Odorrana exiliversabilis
Odorrana exiliversabilis (Fujian bamboo-leaf frog) is a species of frogs in the family Ranidae that is endemic to southeastern China where it is found in Fujian, western Zhejiang, and southern Anhui provinces.
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Odorrana grahami
Graham's frog (Odorrana grahami) – also known as the diskless-fingered odorous frog – is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Odorrana graminea
Odorrana graminea, the large odorous frog, inhabits fast-flowing streams in elevated mountainous regions of Southern China and Northern Indochina.
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Odorrana hejiangensis
Odorrana hejiangensis (common names: Hejiang frog, Hejiang odorous frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to China.
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Odorrana kuangwuensis
Odorrana kuangwuensis (common names: Kuang-wu Shan frog, Kuangwu odorous frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae that is endemic to China.
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Odorrana lungshengensis
Odorrana lungshengensis (common names: Lung-shen-hsien frog, Lungshen odorous frog) is a species of frogs in the family Ranidae that is endemic to China.
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Odorrana margaretae
Odorrana margaretae (common names: Margareta's frog, Margaret frog, green odorous frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Old World monkey
Old World monkeys are primates in the family Cercopithecidae.
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Old World porcupine
The Old World porcupines, or Hystricidae, are large terrestrial rodents, distinguished by the spiny covering from which they take their name.
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Omei horned toad
The Omei horned toad (Boulenophrys omeimontis), also known as the Mount Omei spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Omura's whale
Omura's whale or the dwarf fin whale (Balaenoptera omurai) is a species of rorqual about which very little is known.
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Onychodactylus fischeri
Onychodactylus fischeri is a lungless salamander found in Northeast Asia.
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Ophryophryne microstoma
Ophryophryne microstoma is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Ophryophryne pachyproctus
Ophryophryne pachyproctus is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Orca
The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.
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Oreolalax chuanbeiensis
Oreolalax chuanbeiensis (Sichuan lazy toad or Chuanbei toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax granulosus
Oreolalax granulosus is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax jingdongensis
Oreolalax jingdongensis (Jingdong lazy toad or Jingdong toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax liangbeiensis
Oreolalax liangbeiensis (Liangbei toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae endemic to China: it is only known from the vicinity of its type locality, Puxiong (普雄镇) in Yuexi County, Sichuan, where it is known only from a single stream.
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Oreolalax lichuanensis
Oreolalax lichuanensis (Lichuan lazy toad or Lichuan toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax major
Oreolalax major (common lazy toad or large toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax multipunctatus
Oreolalax multipunctatus (dotted lazy toad or spotted toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax nanjiangensis
Oreolalax nanjiangensis (Nanjiang toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax omeimontis
Oreolalax omeimontis (Omei lazy toad or Omei toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax pingii
Oreolalax pingii (Chinese lazy toad or Ping's toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax popei
Oreolalax popei (Pope's lazy toad or Baoxing toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax puxiongensis
Oreolalax puxiongensis (Puxiong toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax rhodostigmatus
Oreolalax rhodostigmatus (Guizhou lazy toad or red-spotted toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax rugosus
Oreolalax rugosus (Chaochiao lazy toad or warty toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax schmidti
Oreolalax schmidti (Schmidt's lazy toad or webless toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax weigoldi
Oreolalax weigoldi, also known as Weigold's lazy toad or Weigold's toothed toad, is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oreolalax xiangchengensis
Oreolalax xiangchengensis (Xiangcheng lazy toad or Xiangcheng toothed toad) is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Oriental fire-bellied toad
The Oriental fire-bellied toad (Bombina orientalis) is a small semiaquatic frog species found in northeastern Asia, where they primarily dwell in slow-moving bodies of water and temperate forests.
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Oroqen people
The Oroqen or Orochen people (Oroqen:ɔrɔtʃeen;; Mongolian) are an ethnic group in northern China.
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Otter
Otters are carnivorous mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.
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Ovophis monticola
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Owston's palm civet
Owston's palm civet (Chrotogale owstoni) is a viverrid native to Vietnam, Laos and a very small portion of southern China, in three counties located in the Yunnan province: Hekou, Luchun, and Jinping, and has never been found west of the Mekong River.
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Oxbow
An oxbow is a U-shaped metal pole (or larger wooden frame) that fits the underside and the sides of the neck of an ox or bullock.
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Pachyhynobius
Pachyhynobius shangchengensis, the Shangcheng stout salamander, is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae.
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Pacific cod
The Pacific cod (Gadus macrocephalus) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Gadidae.
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Pacific white-sided dolphin
The Pacific white-sided dolphin (Lagenorhynchus obliquidens), also known as the hookfin porpoise, is an active dolphin found in the cool or temperate waters of the North Pacific Ocean.
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Painted bat
The painted bat (Kerivoula picta) or painted wooly bat is a species of vesper bat in the family Vespertilionidae.
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Painted chorus frog
The painted chorus frog (Microhyla butleri), also commonly known as Butler's narrow-mouthed toad, Butler's pigmy frog, Butler's rice frog, Butler's ricefrog, noisy frog or tubercled pygmy frog, is a species of frog in the family Microhylidae.
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Pallas's cat
The Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), also known as the manul, is a small wild cat with long and dense light grey fur, and rounded ears set low on the sides of the head.
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Pamir Mountains
The Pamir Mountains are a range of mountains between Central Asia and South Asia.
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Panda diplomacy
Panda diplomacy is the practice of sending giant pandas from China to other countries as a tool of diplomacy and wildlife conservation.
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Pangolin
Pangolins, sometimes known as scaly anteaters, are mammals of the order Pholidota.
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Panjin
Panjin is a coastal prefecture-level city in central Liaoning province, People's Republic of China, situated on the northern shore of the Liaodong Bay.
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Pantropical spotted dolphin
The pantropical spotted dolphin (Stenella attenuata) is a species of dolphin found in all the world's temperate and tropical oceans.
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Paracel Islands
The Paracel Islands, also known as the Xisha Islands and the Hoàng Sa Archipelago (lit), are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea under de facto administration by the People's Republic of China.
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Paramesotriton guangxiensis
Paramesotriton guangxiensis, the Guangxi warty newt, is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae.
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Paramesotriton labiatus
Paramesotriton labiatus is a species of newt in the family Salamandridae. It is endemic to Guangxi, China. In literature prior to 2011, this species may have been confused with Paramesotriton chinensis, Pachytriton granulosus, or Paramesotriton ermizhaoi (the last now in synonymy). This species has several vernacular names, including Unterstein's newt, spotless stout newt, spotless smooth warty newt, Zhao Ermi's smooth warty newt, and paddletail newt.
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Parti-coloured bat
The parti-coloured bat or rearmouse (Vespertilio murinus) is a species of vesper bat that lives in temperate Eurasia, from Western and Southern Europe, eastwards over the Caucasus and Iran into Mongolia, north-east China, Korea, Afghanistan and northern Pakistan.
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Patagium
The patagium (patagia) is a membranous body part that assists an animal in obtaining lift when gliding or flying.
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Père David's deer
The Père David's deer (Elaphurus davidianus), also known as the milu or elaphure, is a species of deer native to the subtropical river valleys of China.
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Pearl River
The Pearl River is an extensive river system in southern China.
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Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta Metropolitan Region is the low-lying area surrounding the Pearl River estuary, where the Pearl River flows into the South China Sea.
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Pelophylax fukienensis
Pelophylax fukienensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Pelophylax hubeiensis
Pelophylax hubeiensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Pelophylax nigromaculatus
Pelophylax nigromaculatus (formerly Rana nigromaculata), is a species of true frog found in East Asia, first described in 1861.
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Penghu
The Penghu (Hokkien POJ: Phîⁿ-ô͘ or Phêⁿ-ô͘) or Pescadores Islands are an archipelago of 90 islands and islets in the Taiwan Strait, located approximately west of the main island of Taiwan across the Penghu Channel, covering an area of.
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People's Daily
The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
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Perissodactyla
Perissodactyla is an order of ungulates.
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Pesticide
Pesticides are substances that are used to control pests.
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Phayre's leaf monkey
Phayre's leaf monkey (Trachypithecus phayrei), also known as Phayre's langur, is a species of Old World monkey native to South Asia and Southeast Asia, namely India, Bangladesh, and Myanmar.
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Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
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Pig
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.
Pilot whale
Pilot whales are cetaceans belonging to the genus Globicephala.
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Pingtung County
Pingtung County is a county located in southern Taiwan.
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Pinniped
Pinnipeds (pronounced), commonly known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of carnivorous, fin-footed, semiaquatic, mostly marine mammals.
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Pipistrel
Pipistrel d.o.o Ajdovščina is a Slovenian light aircraft manufacturer established in 1989Or 1989...
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Pipistrellus
Pipistrellus is a genus of bats in the family Vespertilionidae and subfamily Vespertilioninae.
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Plateau brown frog
The plateau brown frog or plateau wood frog (Rana kukunoris) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, endemic to the plateau region of western China (northwestern Sichuan, eastern Qinghai, Gansu, and very northeastern Tibet).
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Poaching
Poaching is the illegal hunting or capturing of wild animals, usually associated with land use rights.
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Polypedates megacephalus
Polypedates megacephalus, the Hong Kong whipping frog or spot-legged tree frog, is a species in the shrub frog family (Rhacophoridae).
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Porcupine
Porcupines are large rodents with coats of sharp spines, or quills, that protect them against predation.
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Poyang Lake
Poyang Lake, also known by its Chinese name as Poyang Hu, is the largest freshwater lake in China.
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Primate
Primates is an order of mammals, which is further divided into the strepsirrhines, which include lemurs, galagos, and lorisids; and the haplorhines, which include tarsiers; and the simians, which include monkeys and apes.
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Primorsky Krai
Primorsky Krai (lit), informally known as Primorye (Приморье), is a federal subject (a krai) of Russia, part of the Far Eastern Federal District in the Russian Far East.
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Protobothrops jerdonii
Protobothrops jerdonii, also known commonly as Jerdon's pitviper,Brown, John Haynes (1973).
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Protobothrops mangshanensis
Protobothrops mangshanensis, commonly known as the Mangshan pit viper, Mangshan pitviper, Mt.
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Przewalski's gazelle
Przewalski's gazelle (Procapra przewalskii) is a member of the family Bovidae, and in the wild, is found only in China.
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Przewalski's horse
Przewalski's horse ((Пржевальский);; Equus ferus przewalskii or Equus przewalskii), also called the takhi (Тахь), Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered subspecies of horse originally native to the steppes of Central Asia.
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Pteropus
Pteropus (suborder Yinpterochiroptera) is a genus of megabats which are among the largest bats in the world.
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Puxiong salamander
The Puxiong salamander (Pseudohynobius puxiongensis) is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to China.
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Pygmy blue whale
The pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda) is a subspecies of the blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) found in the Indian Ocean and the Southern Pacific Ocean.
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Pygmy killer whale
The pygmy killer whale (Feresa attenuata) is a poorly known and rarely seen oceanic dolphin.
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Pygmy slow loris
The pygmy slow loris (Xanthonycticebus pygmaeus) is a species of slow loris found east of the Mekong River in Vietnam, Laos, eastern Cambodia, and China.
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Pygmy sperm whale
The pygmy sperm whale (Kogia breviceps) is one of two extant species in the family Kogiidae in the sperm whale superfamily.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
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Qingdao
Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.
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Qinggil County
Qinggil County (Uyghur), also Chinggil County, Qinghe County, is a county of Altay Prefecture in northeastern Xinjiang, China, bordering Bayan-Ölgii Province and Khovd Province in Mongolia to the east.
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Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.
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Qinghai Lake
Qinghai Lake, also known by other names, is the largest lake in China.
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Qingzhou
Qingzhou Wade–Giles: Tsing-chou, sometimes written as Ching-chow-fu, formerly Yidu County (Yitu), is a county-level city, which is located in the west of the prefecture-level city of Weifang, in the central part of Shandong Province, China.
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Qinling
The Qinling or Qin Mountains, formerly known as the Nanshan ("Southern Mountains"), are a major east–west mountain range in southern Shaanxi Province, China.
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Quasipaa boulengeri
Quasipaa boulengeri is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Quasipaa exilispinosa
Quasipaa exilispinosa is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Quasipaa jiulongensis
Quasipaa jiulongensis (Jiulong paa frog or Jiulong spiny frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Quasipaa shini
Quasipaa shini (common names: spiny-flanked frog, Chinese paa frog) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Quasipaa spinosa
Quasipaa spinosa is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Quasipaa verrucospinosa
Quasipaa verrucospinosa is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Quasipaa yei
Quasipaa yei, or Ye's spiny-vented frog, is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Rana amurensis
Rana amurensis (Khabarovsk frog, Siberian wood frog, Heilongjiang brown frog or Amur brown frog) is a species of true frog found in northern Asia.
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Rana chensinensis
The Asiatic grass frog or Chinese brown frog (Rana chensinensis) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae, found in China and Mongolia.
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Rana omeimontis
The Omei brown frog or Omei wood frog (Rana omeimontis) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Ranodon
Ranodon is a monotypic genus of salamanders in the family Hynobiidae.
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Red deer
The red deer (Cervus elaphus) is one of the largest deer species.
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Red giant flying squirrel
The red giant flying squirrel or common giant flying squirrel (Petaurista petaurista) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae (squirrels).
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Red goral
The red goral (Naemorhedus baileyi) is a species of even-toed ungulate in the subfamily Caprinae in the family Bovidae.
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Red panda
The red panda (Ailurus fulgens), also known as the lesser panda, is a small mammal native to the eastern Himalayas and southwestern China.
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Red squirrel
The red squirrel or Eurasian red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) is a species of tree squirrel in the genus Sciurus common throughout Europe and Asia.
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Red-crowned crane
The red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis), also called the Manchurian crane (the Chinese character '丹' means 'red', '頂/顶' means 'crown' and '鶴/鹤' means 'crane'), is a large East Asian crane among the rarest cranes in the world.
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Reeves's muntjac
Reeves's muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi), also known as the Chinese muntjac, is a species of muntjac found widely in south-eastern China (from Gansu to Yunnan) and Taiwan.
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Reindeer
The reindeer or caribou (Rangifer tarandus) is a species of deer with circumpolar distribution, native to Arctic, subarctic, tundra, boreal, and mountainous regions of Northern Europe, Siberia, and North America.
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Rhacophoridae
The Rhacophoridae are a family of frogs in tropical sub-Saharan Africa, South India and Sri Lanka, Japan, northeastern India to eastern China and Taiwan, south through the Philippines and Greater Sundas, and Sulawesi.
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Rhesus macaque
The rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta), colloquially rhesus monkey, is a species of Old World monkey.
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Rhinoceros
A rhinoceros (rhinoceros or rhinoceroses), commonly abbreviated to rhino, is a member of any of the five extant species (or numerous extinct species) of odd-toed ungulates in the family Rhinocerotidae; it can also refer to a member of any of the extinct species of the superfamily Rhinocerotoidea.
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Rickett's big-footed bat (Myotis pilosus) is a species of vesper bat.
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Ringed seal
The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.
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Risso's dolphin
Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus) is a dolphin, the only species of the genus Grampus.
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Roborovski dwarf hamster
The Roborovski hamster (Phodopus roborovskii), also known as the desert hamster, Robo dwarf hamster or simply dwarf hamster is the smallest of three species of hamster in the genus Phodopus.
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Romer's tree frog
Romer's tree frog (Liuixalus romeri) is a species of frog native to Hong Kong and a small portion of Guangxi, China.
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Rorqual
Rorquals are the largest group of baleen whales, comprising the family Balaenopteridae, which contains nine extant species in two genera.
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Rough-skinned horned toad
The rough-skinned horned toad or Tonkin spadefoot toad (Boulenophrys palpebralespinosa) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Rough-toothed dolphin
The rough-toothed dolphin (Steno bredanensis) is a species of dolphin that can be found in deep warm and tropical waters around the world.
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Round-eared tube-nosed bat
The round-eared tube-nosed bat (Murina cyclotis) is a species of bat in the family Vespertilionidae from Central and Southeast Asia.
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Round-tongued floating frog
The round-tongued floating frog (Occidozyga martensii) is a species of frog in the family Dicroglossidae.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Ryukyu Islands
The, also known as the or the, are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni the westernmost.
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Sable
The sable (Martes zibellina) is a species of marten, a small omnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia.
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Saiga antelope
The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica), or saiga, is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast.
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Sakhalin
Sakhalin (p) is an island in Northeast Asia.
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Salamandrella keyserlingii
Salamandrella keyserlingii, the Siberian salamander, is a species of salamander found in Northeast Asia.
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Sambar deer
The sambar (Rusa unicolor) is a large deer native to the Indian subcontinent, South China and Southeast Asia that is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List since 2008.
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SARS-CoV-1
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 1 (SARS-CoV-1), previously known as severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV), is a strain of coronavirus that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), the respiratory illness responsible for the 2002–2004 SARS outbreak.
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Savi's pipistrelle
Savi's pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii sometimes classified as Pipistrellus savii) is a species of vesper bat found across North West Africa, the Mediterranean region and the Middle East.
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Scutiger boulengeri
Scutiger boulengeri (common names: Boulenger's lazy toad, Boulenger's high altitude toad, Himalayan stream frog, and Xizang alpine toad) is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger brevipes
Scutiger brevipes is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger chintingensis
Scutiger chintingensis, also known as the Chinting lazy toad or Chinting alpine toad, is an endangered species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger glandulatus
Scutiger glandulatus is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger gongshanensis
Scutiger gongshanensis is a species of toad found in Gongshan County and Biluoxueshan 碧罗雪山 of Deqen County in Yunnan, China.
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Scutiger jiulongensis
Scutiger jiulongensis, also known as Juilong cat-eyed toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger liupanensis
Scutiger liupanensis is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger maculatus
Scutiger maculatus, the spotted lazy toad or Piebald alpine toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger mammatus
Scutiger mammatus (common names: Tungsolo lazy toad, chest spiny cat-eyed toad, spiny-chest cat-eyed toad) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger muliensis
Scutiger muliensis is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger ningshanensis
Scutiger ningshanensis is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae known commonly as the Ningshan lazy toad and Ningshan alpine toad.
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Scutiger nyingchiensis
Scutiger nyingchiensis is a species of toad found in the Himalayas of southeastern Tibet (China), northwestern Nepal, and tentatively, Bhutan.
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Scutiger pingwuensis
Scutiger pingwuensis is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae known commonly as the Pingwu lazy toad and the Pingwu alpine toad.
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Scutiger sikimmensis
Scutiger sikimmensis is a species of toad in the family Megophryidae.
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Scutiger tuberculatus
Scutiger tuberculatus is a species of amphibian in the family Megophryidae.
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Sea lion
Sea lions are pinnipeds characterized by external ear flaps, long foreflippers, the ability to walk on all fours, short and thick hair, and a big chest and belly.
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Sea of Japan
The Sea of Japan is the marginal sea between the Japanese archipelago, Sakhalin, the Korean Peninsula, and the mainland of the Russian Far East.
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Seagrass
Seagrasses are the only flowering plants which grow in marine environments.
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Sei whale
The sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis) is a baleen whale.
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Semnopithecus
Semnopithecus is a genus of Old World monkeys native to the Indian subcontinent, with all species with the exception of two being commonly known as gray langurs.
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Serotine bat
The serotine bat (Eptesicus serotinus), also known as the common serotine bat, big brown bat, or silky bat, is a fairly large Eurasian bat with quite large ears.
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Shaanxi
Shaanxi is an inland province in Northwestern China.
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Shahtoosh
Shahtoosh (from Persian شاهتوش 'king of wools'), also known as Shatoush, is a wool obtained from the fur of the chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii, also called Tibetan antelope).
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Shandong
Shandong is a coastal province in East China.
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Shandong Peninsula
The Shandong (Shantung) Peninsula or Jiaodong (Chiaotung) Peninsula is a peninsula in Shandong in eastern China, between the Bohai Sea to the north and the Yellow Sea to the south.
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Shang dynasty
The Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty, was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow River valley during the second millennium BC, traditionally succeeding the Xia dynasty and followed by the Western Zhou dynasty.
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Shanghai
Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.
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Shanghai Daily
Shanghai Daily is an English-language newspaper founded in 1999 and owned by the Shanghai United Media Group, a state media company under the control of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Shanxi
Shanxi is an inland province of China and is part of the North China region.
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Shaping horned toad
The Shaping horned toad (Atympanophrys shapingensis) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Shenzhen
Shenzhen is a city and special economic zone on the east bank of the Pearl River estuary on the central coast of the southern Chinese province of Guangdong, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Dongguan to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, and Macau to the southwest.
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Short-finned pilot whale
The short-finned pilot whale (Globicephala macrorhynchus) is one of the two species of cetaceans in the genus Globicephala, which it shares with the long-finned pilot whale (G. melas).
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Siberian chipmunk
The Siberian chipmunk (Eutamias sibiricus), also called common chipmunk, is native to northern Asia from central Russia to China, Korea, and Hokkaidō in northern Japan.
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Siberian flying squirrel
The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is an Old World flying squirrel ranging from the Baltic Sea in the west, throughout Northern Asia to the coast of the Pacific Ocean in the east.
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Siberian ibex
The Siberian ibex (Capra sibirica), also known using regionalized names including Altai ibex, Asian ibex, Central Asian ibex, Gobi ibex, Himalayan ibex, Mongolian ibex or Tian Shan ibex, is a polytypic species of ibex, a wild relative of goats and sheep.
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Siberian musk deer
The Siberian musk deer (Moschus moschiferus) is a musk deer found in the mountain forests of Northeast Asia.
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Siberian roe deer
The Siberian roe deer, eastern roe deer, or Asian roe deer (Capreolus pygargus), is a species of roe deer found in northeastern Asia.
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Siberian tiger
The Siberian tiger or Amur tiger is a population of the tiger subspecies Panthera tigris tigris native to the Russian Far East, Northeast China and possibly North Korea.
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Siberian weasel
The Siberian weasel or kolonok (Mustela sibirica) is a medium-sized weasel native to Asia, where it is widely distributed and inhabits various forest habitats and open areas.
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Sichuan
Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north and the Yungui Plateau to the south.
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Sichuan deer
The Sichuan deer (Cervus canadensis macneilli), also known as MacNeill's deer, is a subspecies of the Elk native to Western China.
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Sika deer
The sika deer (Cervus nippon), also known as the Northern spotted deer or the Japanese deer, is a species of deer native to much of East Asia and introduced to other parts of the world.
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Sirenia
The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.
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Small Indian civet
The small Indian civet (Viverricula indica) is a civet native to South and Southeast Asia.
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Small-toothed palm civet
The small-toothed palm civet (Arctogalidia trivirgata), also known as the three-striped palm civet, is a viverrid native to dense forests of Southeast Asia, from the Assam district of India to Indochina and the Malay Peninsula and on Sumatra, Bangka, Java, Borneo, and numerous small nearby islands of Indonesia.
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Smooth-coated otter
The smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata) is a freshwater otter species from regions of South and Southwest Asia, with the majority of its numbers found in Southeast Asia.
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Snub-nosed monkey
Snub-nosed monkeys are a group of Old World monkeys and make up the entirety of the genus Rhinopithecus.
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Sogou
Sogou, Inc. is a Chinese technology company and subsidiary of Tencent.
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Sokolov's dwarf hamster
Sokolov's dwarf hamster (Cricetulus sokolovi) is a species of rodent in the hamster and vole family Cricetidae.
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Song dynasty
The Song dynasty was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 960 to 1279.
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South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.
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South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean.
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South China tiger
The South China tiger is a population of the Panthera tigris tigris subspecies that is native to southern China.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
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Southern birch mouse
The southern birch mouse (Sicista subtilis) is a species of birch mouse in the family Sminthidae.
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Southern red muntjac
The southern red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) is a deer species native to Southeast Asia.
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Southwestern China
Southwestern China is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China.
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Spectral bat
The spectral bat (Vampyrum spectrum), also called the great false vampire bat, great spectral bat, American false vampire bat or Linnaeus's false vampire bat, is a large, carnivorous leaf-nosed bat found in Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Sperm whale
The sperm whale or cachalot (Physeter macrocephalus) is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
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Spinner dolphin
The spinner dolphin (Stenella longirostris) is a small dolphin found in off-shore tropical waters around the world.
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Spiny-fingered horned toad
The spiny-fingered horned toad (Boulenophrys spinata) or spiny spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Spot-tailed warty newt
The spot-tailed warty newt (Paramesotriton caudopunctatus) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae only found in central China.
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Spotted paddle-tail newt
The spotted paddle-tail newt (Pachytriton brevipes) is an amphibian native to southeastern China; it was named in 1876.
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Spotted seal
The spotted seal (Phoca largha), also known as the larga seal or largha seal, is a member of the family Phocidae, and is considered a "true seal".
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Spratly Islands
The Spratly Islands (Kapuluan ng Kalayaan; Mandarin p; Kepulauan Spratly; Quần đảo Trường Sa) are a disputed archipelago in the South China Sea.
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Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.
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Stejneger's beaked whale
Stejneger's beaked whale (Mesoplodon stejnegeri), also known as the Bering Sea beaked whale or the saber-toothed whale, is a relatively unknown member of the genus Mesoplodon inhabiting the North Pacific Ocean.
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Steller sea lion
The Steller sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus, also known as Steller's sea lion or the northern sea lion) is a large, near-threatened species of sea lion, predominantly found in the coastal marine habitats of the northeast Pacific Ocean and the Pacific Northwest regions of North America, from north-central California to Oregon, Washington and British Columbia to Alaska.
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Steppe polecat
The steppe polecat (Mustela eversmanii), also known as the white or masked polecat, is a species of mustelid native to Central and Eastern Europe and Central and East Asia.It is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List because of its wide distribution, occurrence in a number of protected areas, and tolerance to some degree of habitat modification.
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Stoat
The stoat (Mustela erminea), also known as the Eurasian ermine or ermine, is a species of mustelid native to Eurasia and the northern regions of North America.
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Strepsirrhini
Strepsirrhini or Strepsirhini is a suborder of primates that includes the lemuriform primates, which consist of the lemurs of Madagascar, galagos ("bushbabies") and pottos from Africa, and the lorises from India and southeast Asia.
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Striped dolphin
The striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) is a dolphin found in temperate and tropical waters of all the world's oceans.
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Stump-tailed macaque
The stump-tailed macaque (Macaca arctoides), also called the bear macaque, is a species of macaque native to South Asia and Southeast Asia.
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Submarine canyon
A submarine canyon is a steep-sided valley cut into the seabed of the continental slope, sometimes extending well onto the continental shelf, having nearly vertical walls, and occasionally having canyon wall heights of up to, from canyon floor to canyon rim, as with the Great Bahama Canyon.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
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Sumatran rhinoceros
The Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), also known as the Sumatran rhino, hairy rhinoceros or Asian two-horned rhinoceros, is a rare member of the family Rhinocerotidae and one of five extant species of rhinoceros; it is the only extant species of the genus Dicerorhinus.
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Summer Palace
The Summer Palace is a vast ensemble of lakes, gardens and palaces in Beijing.
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Sun bear
The sun bear (Helarctos malayanus) is a species in the family Ursidae (the only species in the genus Helarctos) occurring in the tropical forests of Southeast Asia.
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Sunda pangolin
The Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica), also known as the Malayan or Javan pangolin, is a species of pangolin.
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Sylvirana cubitalis
Sylvirana cubitalis, the Siam frog, Siamese frog yellow stream frog, darkeared frog, or black-eared frog is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Sylvirana guentheri
Hylarana guentheri (Günther's frog) is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Sylvirana maosonensis
Sylvirana maosonensis is a species of frog in the family Ranidae.
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Szechwan myotis
The Szechwan myotis (Myotis altarium) is a species of vesper bat.
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Taihang Mountains
The Taihang Mountains are a Chinese mountain range running down the eastern edge of the Loess Plateau in Shanxi, Henan and Hebei provinces.
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Taitung City
Taitung City is a county-administered city and the county seat of Taitung County, Taiwan.
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Taiwan
Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.
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Taiwan serow
The Taiwanese serow (Capricornis swinhoei) also known as the Formosan serow, is a small species of bovid that is endemic to Taiwan.
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Taiwan Strait
The Taiwan Strait is a -wide strait separating the island of Taiwan and the Asian continent. The strait is part of the South China Sea and connects to the East China Sea to the north. The narrowest part is wide. The Taiwan Strait is itself a subject of an international dispute over its political status.
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Taiwanese indigenous peoples
Taiwanese indigenous peoples, also known as Formosans, Native Taiwanese or Austronesian Taiwanese, and formerly as Taiwanese aborigines, Takasago people or Gaoshan people, are the indigenous peoples of Taiwan, with the nationally recognized subgroups numbering about 600,303 or 3% of the island's population.
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Takin
The takin (Budorcas taxicolor), also called cattle chamois or gnu goat, is a large species of ungulate of the subfamily Caprinae found in the eastern Himalayas.
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Taklamakan Desert
The Taklamakan Desert (p, Xiao'erjing: تَاكْلامَاقًا شَاموْ, Такәламаган Шамә; تەكلىماكان قۇملۇقى, Täklimakan Qumluqi; also spelled Teklimakan) is a desert in Southwestern Xinjiang in Northwest China.
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Taliang knobby newt
The Taliang knobby newt (Tylototriton taliangensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae.
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Tang dynasty
The Tang dynasty (唐朝), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705.
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Tarim River
The Tarim River (c; Tarim deryasi), known in Sanskrit as the Śītā, is an endorheic river in Xinjiang, China.
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Thai language
Thai,In ภาษาไทย| ''Phasa Thai'' or Central Thai (historically Siamese;Although "Thai" and "Central Thai" have become more common, the older term, "Siamese", is still used by linguists, especially when it is being distinguished from other Tai languages (Diller 2008:6).
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Theloderma asperum
Theloderma asperum is a frog in the family Rhacophoridae.
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Thick-eared bat
The thick-eared bat (Eptesicus pachyotis) is a species of vesper bat native to China, India, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Thailand.
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Thorold's deer
Thorold's deer (Cervus albirostris)Pitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves (2004).
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
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Tian Shan
The Tian Shan, also known as the Tengri Tagh or Tengir-Too, meaning the "Mountains of God/Heaven", is a large system of mountain ranges in Central Asia.
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Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Nature Reserve
The Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Nature Reserve is an area of wetland in the Yangtze basin near Shishou, Hubei province, People's Republic of China.
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Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Tibetan antelope
The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (pronounced) is a medium-sized bovid native to the northeastern Tibetan plateau.
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Tibetan blue bear
The Tibetan brown bear (Ursus arctos pruinosus), also known as Tibetan blue bear, is a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the eastern Tibetan Plateau.
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Tibetan dwarf hamster
The Tibetan dwarf hamster (Cricetulus alticola) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
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Tibetan fox
The Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata), also known as the Tibetan sand fox, is a species of true fox endemic to the high Tibetan Plateau, Ladakh plateau, Nepal, China, Sikkim, and Bhutan, up to elevations of about.
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Tibetan Plateau
The Tibetan Plateau, also known as Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and Qing–Zang Plateau, is a vast elevated plateau located at the intersection of Central, South, and East Asia covering most of the Tibet Autonomous Region, most of Qinghai, western half of Sichuan, Southern Gansu provinces in Western China, southern Xinjiang, Bhutan, the Indian regions of Ladakh and Lahaul and Spiti (Himachal Pradesh) as well as Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan, northwestern Nepal, eastern Tajikistan and southern Kyrgyzstan.
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Tibetan red deer
The Tibetan red deer (Cervus canadensis wallichi) also known as shou, is a subspecies of elk/wapiti native to the southern Tibetan highlands and Bhutan.
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Tickell's bat
Tickell's bat (Hesperoptenus tickelli) is a species of vesper bat.
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Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a member of the genus Panthera and the largest living cat species native to Asia.
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Tiger (zodiac)
The Tiger (虎) is the third of the 12-year cycle of animals which appear in the Chinese zodiac related to the Chinese calendar.
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Toothed whale
The toothed whales (also called odontocetes, systematic name Odontoceti) are a parvorder of cetaceans that includes dolphins, porpoises, and all other whales possessing teeth, such as the beaked whales and the sperm whales.
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Trachypithecus
Trachypithecus (derived from Greek τραχύς, meaning "rough" and πίθηκος, meaning "monkey") is a genus of Old World monkeys containing species known as lutungs, langurs, or leaf monkeys.
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Traditional Chinese medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China.
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Tree squirrel
Tree squirrels are the members of the squirrel family (Sciuridae) commonly just referred to as "squirrels".
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Trimeresurus medoensis
Trimeresurus medoensis, commonly named the Motuo bamboo pitviper,Gumprecht A, Tillack F, Orlov NL, Captain A, Ryabov S. 2004.
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Trimeresurus stejnegeri
Trimeresurus stejnegeri is a species of venomous pit viper endemic to Asia.
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Tropical bottlenose whale
The tropical bottlenose whale (Indopacetus pacificus), also known as the Indo-Pacific beaked whale or Longman's beaked whale, was considered to be the world's rarest cetacean until recently, but the spade-toothed whale now holds that position.
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True frog
True frogs is the common name for the frog family Ranidae.
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Tsushima Strait
or Eastern Channel (동수로 Dongsuro) is a channel of the Korea Strait, which lies between Korea and Japan, connecting the Sea of Japan, the Yellow Sea, and the East China Sea.
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Tufted deer
The tufted deer (Elaphodus cephalophus) is a small species of deer characterized by a prominent tuft of black hair on its forehead and fang-like canines for the males.
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Tumen River
The Tumen River (река Туманная,; Korean pronunciation), also known as the Tuman River or Duman River, is a long river that serves as part of the boundary between China (left shore), North Korea (right) and Russia (left), rising on the slopes of Mount Paektu and flowing into the Sea of Japan.
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Ulleungdo
Ulleungdo, also spelled Ulreungdo, is a South Korean island east of the Korean Peninsula in the Sea of Japan, formerly known as Dagelet Island or Argonaut Island in Europe.
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Ulsan
Ulsan, officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants.
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United Daily News
United Daily News (UDN) is a newspaper published in Taiwan.
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Ushibuka, Kumamoto
was a city located in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.
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Vertebrate
Vertebrates are deuterostomal animals with bony or cartilaginous axial endoskeleton — known as the vertebral column, spine or backbone — around and along the spinal cord, including all fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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Vespertilionidae
Vespertilionidae is a family of microbats, of the order Chiroptera, flying, insect-eating mammals variously described as the common, vesper, or simple nosed bats.
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Viverridae
Viverridae is a family of small to medium-sized, feliform mammals.
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Wanggao warty newt
The Wanggao warty newt (Paramesotriton fuzhongensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae found only in northeastern Guangxi, China, in Zhongshan, Fuchuan and Gongcheng counties.
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Wanning
Wanning, or in local Hainanese dialect as Ban Ning, is a county-level city in the southeast of Hainan Province, China.
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Wanshan Archipelago
The Wanshan Archipelago, formerly known as the Ladrones Islands, is a 104-island archipelago that is a part of Xiangzhou District in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China.
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Water deer
The water deer (Hydropotes inermis) is a small deer species native to Korea and China.
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Wawu horned toad
Atympanophrys wawuensis, commonly known as the Wawu horned toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Weasel
Weasels are mammals of the genus Mustela of the family Mustelidae.
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Weizhou Island
Weizhou Island is a Chinese island in Beibu Gulf in the Gulf of Tonkin.
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Wenchang
Wenchang (postal: Mencheong) is a county-level city in the northeast of Hainan province, China.
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Wenxian knobby newt
The Wenxian knobby newt or Wenxian knobby salamander (Tylototriton wenxianensis) is a species of salamander in the family Salamandridae.
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Western bent-winged bat
The western bent-winged bat (Miniopterus magnater) is a species of vesper bat in the family Miniopteridae.
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Whale watching
Whale watching is the practice of observing whales and dolphins (cetaceans) in their natural habitat.
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Whaling
Whaling is the hunting of whales for their usable products such as meat and blubber, which can be turned into a type of oil that was important in the Industrial Revolution.
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Whaling in Japan
Japanese whaling, in terms of active hunting of whales, is estimated by the Japan Whaling Association to have begun around the 12th century.
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Whiskered bat
The whiskered bat (Myotis mystacinus) is a small European bat with long fur.
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White-bellied musk deer
The white-bellied musk deer or Himalayan musk deer (Moschus leucogaster) is a musk deer species occurring in the Himalayas of Nepal, Bhutan, India, Pakistan and China.
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Wild boar
The wild boar (Sus scrofa), also known as the wild swine, common wild pig, Eurasian wild pig, or simply wild pig, is a suid native to much of Eurasia and North Africa, and has been introduced to the Americas and Oceania.
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Wild horse
The wild horse (Equus ferus) is a species of the genus ''Equus'', which includes as subspecies the modern domesticated horse (Equus ferus caballus) as well as the endangered Przewalski's horse (Equus ferus przewalskii, sometimes treated as a separate species i.e. Equus przewalskii).
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Wiley (publisher)
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., commonly known as Wiley, is an American multinational publishing company that focuses on academic publishing and instructional materials.
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Winter white dwarf hamster
The winter white dwarf hamster (Phodopus sungorus), also known as the Russian dwarf hamster, Djungarian hamster, Dzungarian hamster, striped dwarf hamster, Siberian hamster, or Siberian dwarf hamster, is one of three species of hamster in the genus Phodopus.
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Woburn Abbey
Woburn Abbey, occupying the east of the village of Woburn, Bedfordshire, England, is a country house, the family seat of the Duke of Bedford.
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Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America.
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Wolong National Nature Reserve
Wolong National Nature Reserve (from Chinese), officially known as Wolong Special Administrative Region, is a national protected area located in Wenchuan County in China.
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Wolverine
The wolverine (Gulo gulo), also called the carcajou or quickhatch (from East Cree, kwiihkwahaacheew), is the largest land-dwelling member of the family Mustelidae.
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Wuhan
Wuhan is the capital of Hubei Province of China.
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Wuliangshan horned toad
Boulenophrys wuliangshanensis, commonly known as the Wuliangshan horned toad, is a species of frog found in eastern Asia.
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Wushan horned toad
The Wushan horned toad (Boulenophrys wushanensis) is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Xenophrys
Xenophrys is a genus of amphibians in the family Megophryidae.
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Xenophrys major
Xenophrys major is a species of toad found in northeastern India, Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and southern China.
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Xiamen
Xiamen is a sub-provincial city in southeastern Fujian, People's Republic of China, beside the Taiwan Strait.
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Xiang River
The Xiang River is the chief river of the Lake Dongting drainage system of the middle Yangtze, the largest river in Hunan Province, China.
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Xiangshui County
Xiangshui County is a coastal county under the administration of Yancheng, Jiangsu province, China.
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Xinhua News Agency
Xinhua News Agency (English pronunciation),J.
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Xinmin Evening News
Xinmin Evening News, formerly known as Xinmin Po, is a state-owned newspaper published since September, 1929 in Shanghai, China.
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Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture
Xishuangbanna, sometimes shortened to Banna, is an autonomous prefecture for Dai people in the extreme south of Yunnan Province, China, bordering both Myanmar and Laos.
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Yak
The yak (Bos grunniens), also known as the Tartary ox, grunting ox, or hairy cattle, is a species of long-haired domesticated cattle found throughout the Himalayan region of Gilgit-Baltistan (Kashmir, Pakistan), Nepal, Sikkim (India), the Tibetan Plateau, (China), Tajikistan and as far north as Mongolia and Siberia.
Yangtze
Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Eurasia, the third-longest in the world.
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Yangtze Delta
The Yangtze Delta or Yangtze River Delta (YRD), once known as the Shanghai Economic Zone, is a megalopolis generally comprising the Wu-speaking areas of Shanghai, southern Jiangsu, northern Zhejiang, southern Anhui.
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Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition 2006
The Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition 2006 was a six-week search expedition undertaken in November and December 2006 in Central China in an attempt to locate continued proof of the existence of the endangered baiji Yangtze dolphin (Chinese river dolphin).
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Yangtze giant softshell turtle
The Yangtze giant softshell turtle (Rafetus swinhoei), also known commonly as the Red River giant softshell turtle, the Shanghai softshell turtle, the speckled softshell turtle, and Swinhoe's softshell turtle, is an extremely rare species of turtle in the family Trionychidae.
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Yarkand deer
The Yarkand deer (Cervus hanglu yarkandensis), also known as the Theenivs deer, Tarim deer, or Lop Nor stag, is a subspecies of the Central Asian red deer that is native to the province of Xinjiang, China.
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Yellow River
The Yellow River is the second-longest river in China, after the Yangtze; with an estimated length of it is the sixth-longest river system on Earth.
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Yellow Sea
The Yellow Sea, also known as North Sea, is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea.
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Yellow-spotted salamander
The yellow-spotted salamander (Pseudohynobius flavomaculatus) is a species of salamander in the family Hynobiidae, endemic to China, where it is known from Nanchuan in Chongqing (formerly Sichuan), Suiyang in Guizhou, Lichuan in Hubei, and Sangzhi in Hunan Province.
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Yellow-throated marten
The yellow-throated marten (Martes flavigula) is a marten species native to the Himalayas, Southeast and East Asia.
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Yilong Lake
Yilong Lake is a large freshwater lake located in Shiping County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan province, southwestern China.
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Yunnan
Yunnan is an inland province in Southwestern China.
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Yunnan lake newt
The Yunnan lake newt (Cynops wolterstorffi) is an extinct species of newt in the family Salamandridae, and was also known as Wolterstorff's newt.
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Zapodidae
Zapodidae, the jumping mice, is a family of mouse-like rodents in North America and China.
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Zhang's horned toad
Zhang's horned toad (Xenophrys zhangi), or Zhang's spadefoot toad, is a species of frog in the family Megophryidae.
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Zhejiang
Zhejiang is an eastern coastal province of the People's Republic of China.
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Zhoushan
Zhoushan is an urbanized archipelago with the administrative status of a prefecture-level city in the eastern Chinese province of Zhejiang.
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Zokor
Zokors are Asiatic burrowing rodents resembling mole-rats.
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2008 Summer Olympics
The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad and officially branded as Beijing 2008, were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China.
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See also
Biota of China
- Ecoregions of China
- Gobi Desert
- Tarim Basin
- Wildlife of China
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_China
Also known as Amphibians in China, Amphibians of China, Biodiversity of China, Biota of China, China wildlife, Chinese amphibians, Deer in China, Elephants in China, Fauna of China, Fauna of the People's Republic of China, Frogs in China, Frogs of China, Wildlife in China, Wildlife of the People's Republic of China.
, Batrachuperus pinchonii, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Bearded seal, Beech marten, Beijing mouse-eared bat, Bengal slow loris, Bharal, Big cat, Bighorn sheep, Bile bear, Birch mouse, Birdlike noctule, Black crested gibbon, Black knobby newt, Black-bearded tomb bat, Black-necked crane, Blainville's beaked whale, Blue whale, Bobak marmot, Boettger's horned toad, Bohol Sea, Bombina maxima, Boreal digging frog, Boulenophrys brachykolos, Boulenophrys daweimontis, Boulenophrys huangshanensis, Boulenophrys parva, Boulenophrys shuichengensis, Boxer Rebellion, Brachiation, Brachytarsophrys carinense, Brachytarsophrys feae, Brackish water, Bronze sprite, Brown bear, Brown long-eared bat, Brown rat, Bryde's whale, Bufo, Bufo cryptotympanicus, Bufo pageoti, Bufo tuberculatus, Bufotes pewzowi, Bumblebee, Burmese whiskered myotis, Busan, Bycatch, Campbell's dwarf hamster, Canidae, Cape Santiago (Taiwan), Caprinae, Carl Linnaeus, Carnivora, Caspian tiger, Castoreum, Catfish, Cát Bà Island, Central Asian red deer, Cetacea, Cetacean stranding, Cetology, Changdao County, Changqing National Nature Reserve, Chenggong fire belly newt, Chevron-spotted brown frog, Chevrotain, Chiala mountain salamander, China, China News Service, China proper, Chinese alligator, Chinese crocodile lizard, Chinese dormouse, Chinese edible frog, Chinese ferret-badger, Chinese fire belly newt, Chinese giant salamander, Chinese hamster, Chinese monal, Chinese mountain cat, Chinese paddlefish, Chinese pangolin, Chinese pipistrelle, Chinese striped hamster, Chinese warty newt, Chinese water dragon, Chinhai spiny newt, Chipmunk, Chocolate pipistrelle, Chongming Island, Chow Chow, Chrysanthemum, Chuxiong fire-bellied newt, CITES, Clouded leopard, Colobinae, Common bent-wing bat, Common bottlenose dolphin, Common Chinese tree frog, Common dolphin, Common minke whale, Common noctule, Common pipistrelle, Common raccoon dog, Complex-toothed flying squirrel, Concave-eared torrent frog, Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals, Convex-tailed horned toad, Convex-vented horned toad, Copepod, Corsac fox, Crab-eating frog, Crab-eating mongoose, Craspedocephalus gramineus, CRC Press, Cuvier's beaked whale, Cypriniformes, Dalian, Daya Bay, Dayang newt, Deer, Deinagkistrodon, Dhole, Dian Lake, Dice snake, Dog, Dog breed, Doichang frog, Dolphinarium, Dongshan County, Dongting Lake, Dragon King, Dugong, Dusky tube-nosed bat, Duttaphrynus himalayanus, Duttaphrynus melanostictus, Dwarf musk deer, Dwarf sperm whale, Dzungaria, Eared seal, Earless seal, East China Sea, Eastern black crested gibbon, Eastern golden frog, Ebisu (mythology), Elaphe bimaculata, Eld's deer, Elephants in ancient China, Elk, Elongated tortoise, Emballonuridae, Emei music frog, Endemism, Eptesicus, Erhai Lake, Erinaceidae, Ethmostigmus rubripes, Eurasian beaver, Eurasian lynx, Eurasian otter, Eurasian spoonbill, Eurasian wolf, European free-tailed bat, European hamster, European water vole, Evenki people, Exclusive economic zone, Extinction, False killer whale, Fangshan, Beijing, Far East, Far Eastern myotis, Fea's muntjac, Fejervarya limnocharis, Fejervarya moodiei, Fejervarya multistriata, Ferret-badger, Fin whale, Finless porpoise, Flying squirrel, Foraging, Formosan rock macaque, François' langur, Fraser's dolphin, Fraternal myotis, Free-tailed bat, Fringed long-footed myotis, Fujian, Functional extinction, Fur clothing, Fuwa, Gan River, Gansu, Gansu hamster, Gaur, Gayal, Gene flow, Geoffroy's rousette, Geography of China, Gezhouba Dam, Giant panda, Gibbon, Ginkgo-toothed beaked whale, Glandirana minima, Glyphoglossus yunnanensis, Goa (antelope), Gobi big brown bat, Goitered gazelle, Golden pheasant, Gongshan muntjac, Goral, Grass snake, Gray whale, Great evening bat, Great gerbil, Great Leap Forward, Great piebald horned toad, Greater Asiatic yellow bat, Greater bamboo bat, Greater false vampire bat, Greater horseshoe bat, Greater Khingan, Greater long-tailed hamster, Greater tube-nosed bat, Green Island, Taiwan, Grey dwarf hamster, Ground squirrel, Guanxi, Gulf of Tonkin, Hainan, Hainan hare, Hainan knobby newt, Hairy-footed flying squirrel, Hairy-fronted muntjac, Haiyang, Hamster, Han dynasty, Haplorhini, Hardwicke's woolly bat, Harlequin bat, Hebei, Hedgehog, Henan, Hepu County, Herbrand Russell, 11th Duke of Bedford, Himalayan brown bear, Himalayan goral, Himalayan marmot, Himalayan tahr, Himalayan wolf, Himalayas, Hipposideros, Hodgson's bat, Hong Kong, Hong Kong warty newt, Horseshoe bat, Horsfield's bat, Hotan Prefecture, Huai River, Huangshan, Huanren frog, Hubei, Human, Humerana lateralis, Humpback whale, Hunan, Hutton's tube-nosed bat, Hyla sanchiangensis, Hyla zhaopingensis, Hylarana latouchii, Hynobius guabangshanensis, Hynobius yiwuensis, Ikonnikov's bat, Imienpo Station frog, Indian crested porcupine, Indian leopard, Indian rhinoceros, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin, Indochinese tiger, Ink brush, Inner Mongolia, International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Introduced species, Irrawaddy dolphin, Irtysh, Ishigaki Island, Japan Coast Guard, Japanese giant flying squirrel, Japanese tree frog, Javan rhinoceros, Jeju Island, Jeju Province, Jerboa, Jiang Ziya, Jiangxi, Jiaozhou Bay, Jilin, Jingdong horned toad, Johns' groove-toed frog, JoongAng Ilbo, Kalophrynus interlineatus, Kalophrynus menglienicus, Kaloula rugifera, Kaloula verrucosa, Kam dwarf hamster, Kamchatka Peninsula, Karakoram, Kashmiris, Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, Kelaart's pipistrelle, Kenting National Park, Kiang, King Zhou of Shang, Kinmen, Koh Tao Island caecilian, Korean salamander, Korean water toad, Kuatun horned toad, Kuhl's creek frog, Kunming, Lantau Island, Lar gibbon, Large Indian civet, Large white-bellied rat, Large-footed bat, Least pipistrelle, Least weasel, Least-concern species, Leizhou Peninsula, Leopard, Leopard cat, Leptobrachella alpina, Leptobrachella liui, Leptobrachella oshanensis, Leptobrachium ailaonicum, Leptobrachium boringii, Leptobrachium hainanense, Leptobrachium leishanense, Leptobrachium liui, Leptolalax sungi, Leptolalax ventripunctatus, Leschenault's rousette, Lesser bamboo bat, Lesser noctule, Lhoba people, Liaodong Bay, Liaoning, Liberty Times, List of authors of names published under the ICZN, List of mammals of China, List of mammals of Hong Kong, List of mammals of Taiwan, List of protected areas of China, List of water deities, Little horned toad, Little tube-nosed bat, Liuqiu Island, Liuyang, Local extinction, Long-tailed dwarf hamster, Long-tailed goral, Loris, Macaque, Macau, Mainland serow, Mainland Southeast Asia, Mamushi, Manatee, Manchuria, Manchurian hare, Manchurian wapiti, Mangrove, Mangshan horned toad, Marco Polo, Marco Polo sheep, Marmot, Marten, Masked palm civet, Matsu Islands, Mazu, Medog horned toad, Megabat, Megadiverse countries, Megophrys glandulosa, Mekong, Melon-headed whale, Microbat, Microhyla berdmorei, Microhyla heymonsi, Microhyla pulchra, Micryletta inornata, Ming dynasty, Minke whale, Mongolia, Mongolian gazelle, Mongolian hamster, Mongolian toad, Mongolian wild ass, Mongoose, Monkey (zodiac), Monkey brains, Monpa people, Moose, Mount Emei, Mount Popa pipistrelle, Mountain weasel, Mouse-eared bat, Muli Tibetan Autonomous County, Muntjac, Murdoch University, Musk deer, Mustelidae, Myanmar, Nan'ao County, Nanjing, Nankiang horned toad, Nanorana arnoldi, Nanorana blanfordii, Nanorana conaensis, Nanorana feae, Nanorana liebigii, Nanorana maculosa, Nanorana medogensis, Nanorana pleskei, Nanorana polunini, Nanorana quadranus, Nanorana taihangnica, Nanorana unculuanus, Nanorana ventripunctata, Nanorana yunnanensis, Nantong, National Institute of Fisheries Science, National Museum of Nature and Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Natterer's bat, Nidirana adenopleura, Nidirana lini, Nidirana pleuraden, Ning'er Hani and Yi Autonomous County, Ningbo, Ningxia, North America, North China, North Korea, North Pacific right whale, Northeast China, Northern bat, Northern frog, Northern fur seal, Northern treeshrew, Northern white-cheeked gibbon, Nyctereutes, Ocean University of China, Odorrana andersonii, Odorrana anlungensis, Odorrana chapaensis, Odorrana chloronota, Odorrana exiliversabilis, Odorrana grahami, Odorrana graminea, Odorrana hejiangensis, Odorrana kuangwuensis, Odorrana lungshengensis, Odorrana margaretae, Old World monkey, Old World porcupine, Omei horned toad, Omura's whale, Onychodactylus fischeri, Ophryophryne microstoma, Ophryophryne pachyproctus, Orca, Oreolalax chuanbeiensis, Oreolalax granulosus, Oreolalax jingdongensis, Oreolalax liangbeiensis, Oreolalax lichuanensis, Oreolalax major, Oreolalax multipunctatus, Oreolalax nanjiangensis, Oreolalax omeimontis, Oreolalax pingii, Oreolalax popei, Oreolalax puxiongensis, Oreolalax rhodostigmatus, Oreolalax rugosus, Oreolalax schmidti, Oreolalax weigoldi, Oreolalax xiangchengensis, Oriental fire-bellied toad, Oroqen people, Otter, Ovophis monticola, Owston's palm civet, Oxbow, Pachyhynobius, Pacific cod, Pacific white-sided dolphin, Painted bat, Painted chorus frog, Pallas's cat, Pamir Mountains, Panda diplomacy, Pangolin, Panjin, Pantropical spotted dolphin, Paracel Islands, Paramesotriton guangxiensis, Paramesotriton labiatus, Parti-coloured bat, Patagium, Père David's deer, Pearl River, Pearl River Delta, Pelophylax fukienensis, Pelophylax hubeiensis, Pelophylax nigromaculatus, Penghu, People's Daily, Perissodactyla, Pesticide, Phayre's leaf monkey, Pheromone, Pig, Pilot whale, Pingtung County, Pinniped, Pipistrel, Pipistrellus, Plateau brown frog, Poaching, Polypedates megacephalus, Porcupine, Poyang Lake, Primate, Primorsky Krai, Protobothrops jerdonii, Protobothrops mangshanensis, Przewalski's gazelle, Przewalski's horse, Pteropus, Puxiong salamander, Pygmy blue whale, Pygmy killer whale, Pygmy slow loris, Pygmy sperm whale, Qing dynasty, Qingdao, Qinggil County, Qinghai, Qinghai Lake, Qingzhou, Qinling, Quasipaa boulengeri, Quasipaa exilispinosa, Quasipaa jiulongensis, Quasipaa shini, Quasipaa spinosa, Quasipaa verrucospinosa, Quasipaa yei, Rana amurensis, Rana chensinensis, Rana omeimontis, Ranodon, Red deer, Red giant flying squirrel, Red goral, Red panda, Red squirrel, Red-crowned crane, Reeves's muntjac, Reindeer, Rhacophoridae, Rhesus macaque, Rhinoceros, Rickett's big-footed bat, Ringed seal, Risso's dolphin, Roborovski dwarf hamster, Romer's tree frog, Rorqual, Rough-skinned horned toad, Rough-toothed dolphin, Round-eared tube-nosed bat, Round-tongued floating frog, Russia, Ryukyu Islands, Sable, Saiga antelope, Sakhalin, Salamandrella keyserlingii, Sambar deer, SARS-CoV-1, Savi's pipistrelle, Scutiger boulengeri, Scutiger brevipes, Scutiger chintingensis, Scutiger glandulatus, Scutiger gongshanensis, Scutiger jiulongensis, Scutiger liupanensis, Scutiger maculatus, Scutiger mammatus, Scutiger muliensis, Scutiger ningshanensis, Scutiger nyingchiensis, Scutiger pingwuensis, Scutiger sikimmensis, Scutiger tuberculatus, Sea lion, Sea of Japan, Seagrass, Sei whale, Semnopithecus, Serotine bat, Shaanxi, Shahtoosh, Shandong, Shandong Peninsula, Shang dynasty, Shanghai, Shanghai Daily, Shanxi, Shaping horned toad, Shenzhen, Short-finned pilot whale, Siberian chipmunk, Siberian flying squirrel, Siberian ibex, Siberian musk deer, Siberian roe deer, Siberian tiger, Siberian weasel, Sichuan, Sichuan deer, Sika deer, Sirenia, Small Indian civet, Small-toothed palm civet, Smooth-coated otter, Snub-nosed monkey, Sogou, Sokolov's dwarf hamster, Song dynasty, South China Morning Post, South China Sea, South China tiger, South Korea, Southern birch mouse, Southern red muntjac, Southwestern China, Spectral bat, Sperm whale, Spinner dolphin, Spiny-fingered horned toad, Spot-tailed warty newt, Spotted paddle-tail newt, Spotted seal, Spratly Islands, Squirrel, Stejneger's beaked whale, Steller sea lion, Steppe polecat, Stoat, Strepsirrhini, Striped dolphin, Stump-tailed macaque, Submarine canyon, Subspecies, Sumatran rhinoceros, Summer Palace, Sun bear, Sunda pangolin, Sylvirana cubitalis, Sylvirana guentheri, Sylvirana maosonensis, Szechwan myotis, Taihang Mountains, Taitung City, Taiwan, Taiwan serow, Taiwan Strait, Taiwanese indigenous peoples, Takin, Taklamakan Desert, Taliang knobby newt, Tang dynasty, Tarim River, Thai language, Theloderma asperum, Thick-eared bat, Thorold's deer, Three Gorges Dam, Tian Shan, Tian-e-Zhou Oxbow Nature Reserve, Tibet, Tibetan antelope, Tibetan blue bear, Tibetan dwarf hamster, Tibetan fox, Tibetan Plateau, Tibetan red deer, Tickell's bat, Tiger, Tiger (zodiac), Toothed whale, Trachypithecus, Traditional Chinese medicine, Tree squirrel, Trimeresurus medoensis, Trimeresurus stejnegeri, Tropical bottlenose whale, True frog, Tsushima Strait, Tufted deer, Tumen River, Ulleungdo, Ulsan, United Daily News, Ushibuka, Kumamoto, Vertebrate, Vespertilionidae, Viverridae, Wanggao warty newt, Wanning, Wanshan Archipelago, Water deer, Wawu horned toad, Weasel, Weizhou Island, Wenchang, Wenxian knobby newt, Western bent-winged bat, Whale watching, Whaling, Whaling in Japan, Whiskered bat, White-bellied musk deer, Wild boar, Wild horse, Wiley (publisher), Winter white dwarf hamster, Woburn Abbey, Wolf, Wolong National Nature Reserve, Wolverine, Wuhan, Wuliangshan horned toad, Wushan horned toad, Xenophrys, Xenophrys major, Xiamen, Xiang River, Xiangshui County, Xinhua News Agency, Xinmin Evening News, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Yak, Yangtze, Yangtze Delta, Yangtze Freshwater Dolphin Expedition 2006, Yangtze giant softshell turtle, Yarkand deer, Yellow River, Yellow Sea, Yellow-spotted salamander, Yellow-throated marten, Yilong Lake, Yunnan, Yunnan lake newt, Zapodidae, Zhang's horned toad, Zhejiang, Zhoushan, Zokor, 2008 Summer Olympics.