Extremely rare toeed tigers have been spotted near shoushan zoo in Kaohsiung, Taiwan
uux.cn According to ETtoday (Hong Jingyi): Shoushan Zoo in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, planned a series of animal forest camps in the autumn, and recently found exciting results, photographing the truncated tiger (scientific name Gehyra mutilata) near the Shoushan Zoo, a gecko that has not been seen in Taiwan for many years and is extremely rare, and the first toe of the mature truncated tiger does not have claws is an important feature in identification. Let the question of whether the toe-cutter tiger has an ethnic group in Taiwan for decades be confirmed.
Kaohsiung Zoo plans a series of animal forest camps in autumn, invites a number of experts and scholars to guide, arranges children to explore the secret area of Shoushan Mountain, and also has an in-depth experience of the animal ecology of Shoushan Mountain, and has recently discovered exciting results. Liu Hanxi and Lu Yimei, who have been conducting field observations in Shoushan for a long time, photographed the truncated tiger (scientific name Gehyra mutilata) near the Shoushan Zoo, which is not a tiger, but a rare gecko that has not been seen in Taiwan for many years, a mature truncated tiger, and its first toe without claws is an important feature in identification.
In order to seek the prudent team, Professor Li Zhengdi of the Institute of Marine Affairs of Sun Yat-sen University was specially invited to identify the juveniles on the spot, and the juveniles were successively recorded, so that the doubts about whether the toe-cut tiger had a actual ethnic group in Taiwan for decades were confirmed. Professor Lee said this is very important evidence that there is indeed an ethnic group of toe-cut tigers in Taiwan. In recent years, the common partners of Shoushan Wild Temple have made this rare gecko a member of the Gecko family in Kaohsiung City because of careful and continuous records, in fact, at present, only Shoushan has a real ethnic group in taiwan.
Professor Li Zhengti mentioned that Kaohsiung City has coasts and mountains, with a high diversity of geckos, in addition to the northeast corner of Guishan Island unique to the Guishan gecko, Lanyu unique Kikuchi gecko and Yamei scaly toe tiger 3 species, Kaohsiung City currently has 13 species of Gecko in Taiwan, can be said to be the most diverse county and city in Taiwan. One of the rarest things to know is the truncated tiger. In addition, other rare geckos, in Kaohsiung, there is the only identified gecko in Taiwan (called clams in Chinese medicine) breeding population in Lianchitan, there are scaly-toed tigers in the coastal area, half-leaf toed scorpion tigers in the tori pine hilly areas, and Stenggi lizard tigers in the mountainous areas. Commonly found in and around the neighborhood are lead mountain geckos, warty-tailed lizard tigers and warty lizard tigers. Because Kaohsiung is an international commercial port, there are also populations of exotic species of ridged geckos and dense warty scorpion tigers found around the port area.
Tourism Director Zhou Lingfei said that the Kaohsiung Municipal Government will attach importance to this rare resource, and asked the Shoushan Zoo team to continue to use this precious ecological resource as the educational content of the park to promote the forest camp team in the future, and also hopes that the zoo will focus on environmental conservation and education for Taiwan's native animals in the future, so as to create the characteristics of Kaohsiung Zoo, so that citizens and children can have more possibilities to experience biodiversity in person.