I believe that everyone who has been to Guangxi will have such an exclamation: There are really many mountains in Guangxi! Primary school texts say "Guilin landscape and water in the world", as far as the whole of Guangxi is concerned, relative to the water, the mountain is the protagonist, driving on the highway, almost all the stone mountains of different shapes are coming, and each kilometer is a different scenery.
It is precisely because there are so many stone mountains, so Guangxi's ecological environment is a relatively well-preserved type in China, many wild animals breed here, terrestrial vertebrate wildlife species account for 43% of the total number of the country, only the first-class protected animals account for 27%, including the very precious white-headed langur, the eastern black-crowned gibbon, the golden-spotted beaked phoenix butterfly and so on.
Fusui County in Chongzuo, Guangxi, is also a place with a relatively intact ecological environment and rich animal resources, including black langurs, southern musk, mountain rui, pangolins and so on.
In November, villagers found an "unknown creature" on a rocky mountain in Fusui County, which looked like a cat in appearance, but on closer inspection it did not look like a cat, because it was larger than a cat, and the proportion of tail was longer than that of a cat.
Later, professionals identified that the animal that haunted the stone mountain was actually a medium-sized cat, and its scientific name was "Asian Golden Cat".
Among the 39 species of wild cats in the world, China has 12 species, ranking second in the world.
Among the 12 species of "wild cats" in China, the Asian golden cat is the rarest and most mysterious. Its distribution in China, mainly in Sichuan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangxi and other southern provinces, because the number is very rare, so people do not see the Asian golden cat many times.
Of course, sometimes it is not excluded that some people see them, but just think of them as ordinary wild cats, after all, in appearance, the Asian golden cat does look like a larger cat.
The Asian golden cat is a very beautiful feline with a mainly yellow coat, a brownish-black dorsal spine, and spots on the throat, forebreast, and sides.
From the currently known data, there is more than one color of the Asian golden cat, there are roughly 3 color types, namely bright red, dark gray-brown and flower golden cat with spots all over the body.
The biggest feature of the Asian golden cat is its face, which has a regular pattern, which looks like a large flower face like a face, which is its biggest feature, and with this trait, it is easy to distinguish them from ordinary wild cats.
The weight of the Asian golden cat is 9-16 kg, in the cat subfamily, in addition to the mountain lion, cheetah, etc., its size is a relatively large class, similar to the Eurasian lynx, so in the small and medium-sized cats, the strength of the Asian golden cat is almost ceiling level, but compared with the male lynx, it may be weaker.
In appearance, the Asian golden cat is relatively robust, with a thick tail, like a small leopard.
Many people in the description of the Asian golden cat, will be described as like a tiger and leopard, in fact, as a cat, the body is generally similar, only cheetahs, Canadian lynx and a few others, in order to adapt to survival, the body has shown specialization.
In the folklore of Lingnan and western Sichuan in Fujian, one of the unifying features of the description of "Biao" is that it has a large flower face and a fierce personality. Based on this trait, many scholars believe that the Asian golden cat is the prototype of "Biao", which I also agree with.
Just as the so-called "tiger gives birth to three sons, there must be a biao", because the Asian golden cat is similar to the tiger and leopard, and has a pattern, coupled with the rarity, some people who do not have a deep study of cats, when they first see this thing, think that it is a different little tiger, it is not impossible.
Over time, the legend of "Biao" was formed, believing that this animal was an extra cub in the tiger's womb, with a strange appearance, a fierce personality, and more powerful than a tiger when it grew up.
Historically, China is a "tiger and leopard" country, the vast majority of the country's forests are living tigers and leopards, take the tiger, at that time the world's 9 tiger subspecies, China has 5 species, of which south China tiger has the largest number, the most widely distributed.
After the 1950s, due to the sharp rise in the population of China, the need to vigorously develop productive forces led to the destruction of animal habitats, the intensification of conflicts between humans and animals, and eventually tigers and leopards and other beasts of prey that posed a greater threat to humans became the main targets of hunting.
Every year, a large number of tigers and leopards are hunted and killed, which directly leads to the extinction of the South China tiger in the wild, although the condition of the leopard is a little better than that of the tiger, but the population has also dropped significantly, and now in the southern forest, the tiger and leopard are almost invisible.
In the southern forests, where tigers and leopards are widely lacking, the Asian golden cat has become the local beast king. It has a fierce personality, strong predatory ability, and a variety of objects it hunts, in addition to conventional rodents, in the Diet of the Asian Golden Cat, it also contains some deer and small wild boars.
In the folk, some people even say that they have witnessed an Asian golden cat attacking a calf, which shows its strength. As a kind of solitary cat, the Feeding Methods of the Asian Golden Cat are generally similar to those of tigers and leopards, using ambushes to catch prey, because it is good at climbing trees, so some birds and birds are also in its diet.
The discovery of the Asian golden cat, a rare medium-sized cat, in Fusui, Guangxi, shows how good the local ecological environment is. In fact, in recent years, in the provinces where Asian golden cats are distributed, such as Yunnan, Sichuan and other places, people have begun to witness them more, indicating that the country's construction of the ecological environment in recent years has achieved remarkable results.
As a medium-sized beast in the south, in the general lack of tigers and leopards, the Asian golden cat seems to carry the banner of "King of the Forest". So the question is, do you also think that the Asian golden cat may be the prototype of "Biao"?