According to historical records, there are 133 species of wild mammals in Guangxi, including wild boars, yellow foxes, iguanas, forest musk deer, sika deer, green sheep, etc.; carnivorous big spirit cats, small spirit cats, civets, coconut foxes, mountain badgers, otters, South China tigers, clouded leopards, golden leopards, black bears, raccoons, jackals, etc.; squirrels, arrow pigs, Chinese bamboo rats, silver rats, and squirrels. Today, let's take a look at the precious beasts that have run rampant on the land of Guangxi in those years.
South China Tiger
The South China tiger is the smallest surviving tiger in the world, is regarded as a rare treasure and is listed as a national first-class protected animal. In Guangxi, from the 1950s to the 1960s, there were still frequent incidents of tigers harming people and livestock, and after the 1970s, only in the mountainous areas of Longzhou, Hexian (present-day Hezhou), Leye and other counties, there were occasional tiger and tiger suspicious information, most of which were land tigers, and they were frequently extinct.
elephant
There were Asian elephants in the history of Guangxi. Tang's "Records of the Ridge Table" said: "Guangzhi belongs to the county ..., many wild elephants." In the twenty-second year of Ming Jiajing (1543), according to the "Chronicle of Qinzhou", "A herd of elephants came from Lingshan to the vicinity of Qinzhou City to ravage TianHe and injure the people, and Dong Tingqin of Zhizhou sent the sentry officer Zhang Qi to deal with it, and Zhang Qi designed a whole group of elephants." The Chronicle of Nanning Province says: "In the autumn of the fifteenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1587), the elephants in the northern township of Hengzhou produced crops. "Lianzhou Fu zhi" Yun: "In the twenty-second year of the Wanli Calendar (1594), Qinzhou was awarded a wild elephant. The above records show that there were still wild elephant activities in various parts of Guangxi until the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.
Clouded leopard
The clouded leopard is also known as the turtle leopard. Clouded leopards generally live in broad-leaved forests, are good at climbing trees, and often lurk in trees to prey on primates, rodents and birds. Distributed in resources, Jeonju, Lingchuan, Yongfu, Buchuan, He County, Tianlin, Tian'e and other counties, the number is very small, is a national first-class protected animal.
black bear
Black bears are also known as dog bears. In the past, there were major forest areas, but in a few forest areas in the late 1980s.
Golden Cat
The Golden Cat is also known as the Yellow Tiger. Inhabiting the forest, it is a nocturnal animal, good at climbing trees, and is listed as a national second-class protected animal. It is distributed in the Shishan and Tushan districts of Guangxi, and the number is very small.
Lin Musk
The musk produced by the male musk of the forest musk is a valuable medicinal herb. Mainly distributed in the mountainous areas of various places, the number is not much, the original main production areas of Tian'e, Nandan, Xincheng, Liucheng and other counties have been difficult to find. It is a national second-level protected animal. Plum deer Sika deer are distributed in the area of Xi daming Mountain at the junction of Daxin, Long'an and Chongzuo counties, and there were small groups of deer in the 1950s, and nearly 100 sika deer were hunted in the early 1960s, resulting in the basic extinction of sika deer in the area. By the end of the 1980s, the number of sika deer in Guangxi was very small.
sambar
The sambar deer is the largest of the deer family in Guangxi, weighing up to 250 kg. In the 1950s, small groups often appeared in major forest areas, and in the late 1980s, there were still a few people living in Jiuwanshan, Huaping, Bucheon Xiling and other places.
Yellow Fox
The yellow fox is a common animal in forest areas throughout Guangxi, and due to indiscriminate fishing, the number of existing animals is very small. Tian'e County acquired more than 100,000 huanghu skins from the 1950s to the 1960s, and in 1964, it acquired 1971.1, and by the end of the 1980s, it had basically been acquired.