Citizen @ Lao Yang 🐐 met by chance on Wild Beaver Island
Rare white squirrel!
The whole body is snow-white, and it is cute and cute!
Even hugging the flower buds, sniffing east and west.
Expert Identification:
For albino red-bellied squirrels
Staff from the Zhuhai Natural Resources Monitoring Center (Zhuhai Terrestrial Wildlife Conservation Center) and relevant experts identified the photo and judged it to be an albino red-bellied squirrel. This species has been included in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals with Important Ecological, Scientific and Social Value and is protected. If the public sees such a squirrel, they should not disturb its habitat and will not actively attack humans.
Staff at the Zhuhai Natural Resources Monitoring Center (Zhuhai Terrestrial Wildlife Conservation Center) pointed out that red-bellied squirrels have actually been recorded in Zhuhai for a long time, and are not a new species, and some climbers have encountered them by chance in places such as Phoenix Mountain. However, the squirrel photographed on Beaver Island is an albino red-bellied squirrel, so it looks snow-white.
- Bleaching is a biogenetic phenomenon that occurs in the animal kingdom because wild animals often inbreed, so bleaching tends to occur in individual animals.
It is worth noting that last year, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration released the "List of Terrestrial Wild Animals with Important Ecological, Scientific and Social Value", and the red-bellied squirrel was among them. In other words, this is a "three-have" protected animal.
- At present, the state implements classified and graded protection of wild animals, and the "three haves" protected animals are one of them. In accordance with the "Wildlife Protection Law of the People's Republic of China", it is forbidden to eat wildlife under national key protection, terrestrial wildlife with important ecological, scientific, and social value under national protection, as well as other terrestrial wildlife. Those who hunt terrestrial wildlife with important ecological, scientific, or social value and wildlife under key local protection shall obtain a hunting license issued by the department for the protection of wildlife of a local people's government at the county level or above in accordance with law, and obey the management of hunting quotas. Where terrestrial wildlife with important ecological, scientific, or social value is artificially bred, it shall be filed with the departments for the protection of wildlife of county-level people's governments. Where a hunting license is not obtained, or where a hunting license is not followed to hunt terrestrial wildlife with important ecological, scientific, or social value, or wildlife under key local protection, and a crime is constituted, criminal responsibility is to be pursued in accordance with law.
What a cute white squirrel!
This citizen is so lucky!
If you see it in the wild,
Just watch it from a distance, don't bother~
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Zhuhai Media Group Chen Ying/text
Photo courtesy of Lao Yang 🐐, Zhuhai Media Group has obtained permission
Hu Jieting/Editor-in-Charge
Yang Ziwei/Editor
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