Give me 10 extinct animals
1. Xinjiang tiger (extinct in 1916)
The Xinjiang tiger was discovered in Lop Nur and Korla by the Swedish explorer Sven in 1916. It is an independent subspecies of tigers. It is about 3 meters long and weighs about 230 kilograms. In his book "Lop Nur Adventure", he described the scene where the tiger's remains were eaten by ants. Siwen announced two miracles to the world at that time, one was the Loulan monument and the other was the Xinjiang tiger. The Loulan historic site as a cultural site has attracted the attention of the world, but the Xinjiang tiger, a natural species, has mysteriously disappeared, accompanied by the permanent deterioration of the ecological environment: desertification.
2. Przewalski’s horse (extinct in the 1960s)
Przewalski’s horse, also known as Mongolian horse. It was once distributed in the south of the Altai Mountains, the Junggar Basin and the Manas River Basin in the north of the Tianshan Mountains. In 1881, the Russian Przhelvalski discovered this species in Xinjiang and named it Przewalski's horse. In 1890, a German captured 52 wild horses from China. After being transported long distances to Hamburg, only 28 were left, 8 of which bred offspring. At present, there are more than 1,000 Przewalski's horses in the world descended from 13 ancestors, of which 12 are wild horses and 1 is a domestic horse. Wild horses are carefully raised in zoos to save them from extinction. The last recorded wild observation of wild horses was in the 1960s, and nothing has been heard from since. In 1978, the International Wild Horse Returning Conference was held in The Hague. It was believed that the 400 wild horses under artificial conditions were facing serious degradation and decided to return to their hometown to restore the wildness of the species in the place where their ancestors lived. In 1980, China exchanged wild donkeys and white-lipped deer for 18 wild horses from European and American countries, and established two wild horse protection centers in Xinjiang and Gansu.
3. The saiga antelope (extinct in the 1960s)
Before the 1960s, the saiga antelope had discontinuous distribution in areas such as the Junggar Basin in northwest Xinjiang, and has never been seen since. trace. Distributed abroad in Mongolia, Kazakhstan and other regions. The saiga antelope was identified and named by Linnaeus in 1766. It was named after its bulging nose. It lives in deserts and is resistant to severe cold. It lives in groups of more than 10, with one male and many females. Female antelopes can participate in breeding at the age of 8 months, and male antelopes mature in the following year. There are 2 subspecies of Japanese subspecies. The Russian subspecies had only nearly 1,000 individuals during World War I. It recovered to 90,000 individuals after World War II, rose to 1.3 million individuals in 1960, and has dropped by more than half in recent years. It belongs to the Mongolian subspecies in China and has become extinct in the wild; the current reintroduction started in 1988 and was implemented in Gansu without success.
4. Taiwanese clouded leopard (extinct in 1972)
Formosan clouded leopard is distributed in tropical and subtropical mountains of Asia. It is the most typical forest-dwelling animal among leopards. Taiwan is the easternmost region where clouded leopards are distributed in China. There are still hunting records in the 1960s. Due to deforestation and human demand for fur and leopard bones, their numbers have plummeted. Even after being protected, clouded leopards have also been killed due to human hunting of other animals. Food sources dried up, eventually driving it to desperation. In 1972, there were no more leopards on the island.
5. Zhili macaques (extinct in the 1980s)
Zhili macaques were once the northernmost primates in China, located in the Wuling Mountains of Hebei Province at 40 degrees and 40 minutes north latitude. It is a national nature reserve established as the northern limit of macaque distribution. The Zhili macaque was identified and named by French zoologist Millet Edward in 1870. Because the Wuling Mountain area was once a royal Feng Shui area, logging and hunting were prohibited for a long time, and many species were preserved. After entering the 20th century, people poured into the Wuling Mountain area and cut down wildly, resulting in fewer and fewer macaques. Finally, they did not survive the 1980s and became extinct in Wuling Mountain. The northern limit of the distribution of macaques has since been in name only. At present, the northern limit of the world's macaque distribution has given way to Aomori, Japan (41 degrees 20 minutes), and the Japanese monkey has become the northernmost non-human primate.
6. White-headed stork (the age of extinction is unknown)
The white-headed stork is a large wading bird that breeds in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, eastern Sichuan, Fujian, Guangdong, and Hainan, and in Mengzi, Yunnan Overwintering, the body is 100 cm long, with metallic green dark stripes on the back, a black horizontal band on the chest, and red legs. White-headed storks live in clusters in coastal and inland swamps and floodplain areas. The breeding season depends on monsoon conditions and they do not breed in drought years. Researchers have collected specimens from Luanhekou, Fuzhou, and Lhasa, and classified them as national second-level protected animals. However, there have been no wild reports since the 1950s, so it is concluded that it may be extinct in China.
Currently, there are only one specimen in the Institute of Zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Shanghai Museum of Natural History.
7. Dolphin deer (extinct in the 1970s)
Dolphin deer, also known as sage deer, has two subspecies. One is distributed in India and Pakistan. The named subspecies of , Myanmar and Nepal; the first is the Indosinian subspecies distributed in Indo-China, Thailand, and southern Yunnan, China. my country's dolphin deer is an Indosinian subspecies and has been found on the border of Gengma and Ximeng counties in Yunnan. The dolphin deer inhabits the reed swamps along the river, using the reeds and sagebrush as hiding places. It hides during the day and comes out at night, walking alone. Their staple food is red deer grass and reed leaves, and they are national first-level protected animals. However, scientists only found a handful of them during surveys in the 1960s, and when they were surveyed again in the 1980s, they were extinct. The main reason is that during the Cultural Revolution, large-scale farms were established, which severely damaged the ecological environment. The guinea pig was estimated to have become extinct in the 1970s.
8. Small-toothed Civet (extinct in the 1980s)
The small-toothed civet has a tail longer than its body, a white stripe in the middle of its face, a yellowish-brown body, and three vertical stripes on its back. Dark lines. Domestically, it is only distributed in Mengwa and Mengyang in Xishuangbanna, southern Yunnan, hiding in tropical ravine rainforests and forest edge shrubs. It is active at night and in the morning and dusk, and feeds on mice, amphibians, reptiles and insects. Except for two specimens obtained in Mengwa in the 1970s and three skins acquired in Jinghong and Mengyang, there has been no trace since the 1980s and it is estimated to have become extinct. Yunnan is the northernmost limit of the small-toothed civet's distribution. The reason for its extinction is the local reclamation of virgin forests and rubber planting, which destroyed the animal's original ecological environment. In addition, the small-toothed civet is only listed as a provincial second-level protected animal.
9. Sickle-winged chicken (extinct in 2000)
Sickle-winged chicken is named because the flight feathers on its wings are shaped like sickles. The sickle-winged chicken is distributed in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains and the lower reaches of Heilongjiang, and is found in Siberia abroad. Because of its similar appearance to the hazel pheasant, it was once thought of as a flying dragon for prey. When investigated in 1986-1987, there was no trace. In 2000, Xinhua News Agency announced that after five years of investigation by the Heilongjiang Zoological Institute, no sickle-winged chickens were found, and local people had not seen them for decades. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red Book, if a species has not been seen for 50 years, it can be concluded that it is extinct in the area.
10. Crested Shelduck (extinct in the middle of the 20th century)
Crested Shelduck is native to Northeast China, Japan, North Korea, and Russia. The Crested Shelduck was discovered in 1877, 1913, and 1916, but disappeared into the 20th century. People just thought they had disappeared, but on May 16, 1964, one male, two females and three were seen again in Vladivostok. People thought they saw hope, but then they mysteriously disappeared. Experts are searching hard, and the former Ministry of Forestry of China has also distributed a large number of colorful cards, hoping to see her again. The crested shelduck has a red beak and white spots on its wings. Currently, there are only three specimens of the crested shelduck, one female in Denmark and one male and one female in Japan. The crested shelduck is estimated to have become extinct in the mid-20th century.