Recently, the news of the 15 Asian elephants moving north in Yunnan has been making a lot of noise in China, they not only occupy the front page headlines of the major domestic media, but also the international media have flocked to report, and they have made a big star in the animal kingdom for a while, and they have shown the world a colorful Yunnan while showing the world the harmonious coexistence of China's people and animals. Asian elephants are very representative of large wild animals in Yunnan, but they are not the only large wild animals in Yunnan, in the vast land of Yunnan, there are still many large wild animal populations, almost occupying all of China's large wild animal species, which is actually the land of China's giant beasts. Today, I will share the Yunnan giant beasts that everyone is familiar with or unfamiliar with. White-limbed bison: white-limbed bison, also known as Indian bison, because the lower half of the limbs are white, so the name of the white-limbed bison, is currently the world's largest bovine, adult male bison weigh up to 1 and a half tons, the country is only seen in the south and southwest of Yunnan, to the west of Shuangbanna and Pu'er Nuozhadu Nature Reserve as the main habitat, the current number has been extremely rare, the estimated population is only about 200.
White-limbed bison
White-rumped bison: White-rumped bison is a Javanese bison, named for having a white rump spot on the buttocks, weighing 800 kg, currently only in Xishuangbanna and Pu'er, Yunnan, Pu'er Sun River Nature Reserve is an important habitat, because it is very rare in China, so there is uncertainty in the number. Large-fronted cattle: The appearance of large-fronted cattle is very similar to that of white-limbed bison, but the forehead is relatively wide and flat, the forehead top between the two horns is wider, the body size is smaller than that of Indian bison, and the adult weight is about one ton, which is only distributed in the Dulongjiang River Basin of the Menyu-Luoyu Region of the Tibet Autonomous Region and the Dulong Autonomous County of The Nu Nationality autonomous county of Gongshan, Yunnan, and exists in a semi-wild state, and the current number of large-fronted cattle is more than 400. White rhinoceros: rhinos have been widely distributed in the vast areas of east and south China, because of the high economic and medicinal value of their head rhino horns, so that they have been hunted by humans since ancient times, so they finally disappeared in China in the early 20th century, according to the data, China's last rhino was arrested and killed in Jiangcheng, Yunnan in 1957, so it is generally believed that China's rhinos are extinct with 1957, but until 1996, Xishuangbanna there are rhino sightings. But the specific information also did not find relevant reports, because the rhinoceros in our country extinction time is relatively late, the original habitat is also adapted to the survival of rhinos, so people have implemented a rescue plan to restore the rhino population through the introduction, but there are some discrepancies in the introduced breeds, before The original rhino species in China were Indian rhinoceros, Sumatran rhinoceros and Javan rhinoceros, but these three kinds of rhinos in foreign countries in addition to the Indian rhinoceros There are more than 3,000 heads, the other two are not optimistic, Since the African white rhino is the largest in the existing rhino population, seven white rhinos "Three Females and Four Males" were introduced from South Africa to Yunnan in 2010 and were put into the Pu'er Sun River National Nature Reserve to live, allowing rhinos that have been extinct for more than 70 years to return to Yunnan again.
White rhinoceros
At present, the number of these kinds of bison living in Yunnan is very rare and even endangered, due to the number of reasons and they live in the mountains and forests, almost have been forgotten by people, I hope that more people to understand them, and join the ranks of protecting them.