In 2021, there is a lot of news about the return of wild animals to nature, in addition to the northward migration of Asian elephants in Yunnan at home and abroad, there are also these phenomena that have attracted everyone's attention.
There are "Hangzhou Wild Animal Park Golden Leopard Flight" and "Nanyang Huaichuan" Danjiang Peacock Valley Tiger Escape" incident (two tigers were killed after injuring people), and there are also traces of jackals and tigers and leopards in the ecosystem, such as "North China Leopard with Baby Outing" in Shanxi Qinyuan, "Tiger Mother" with Baby Patrol in Northeast China Tiger and Leopard National Park, 14 Jackal Groups in Qilian Mountain National Park foraging in alpine meadows, and Yangcai Arm Golden Turtle that has long been declared extinct, and even the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has repeatedly found new species "Red Spot Alpine Viper", The news of the "house snake" infestation is also often broken.
Not only has the population of many wild animals achieved restorative growth, but also the plant aspect is also excellent, such as the national key protection of wild plants, China's unique single genus of plants, medicinal and food homologous lettuce and other endemic or rare plants have also achieved good results.
Nowadays, with China's vigorous promotion of the construction of national parks and the increase in the protection of the ecological environment, more and more wild animals and plants have been well protected. According to statistics, China has more than 2,900 species of vertebrates and more than 36,000 species of higher plants, which is one of the countries with the richest biodiversity in the world.
Recently, just when Longling County, Baoshan, Yunnan Province, known as the "Rain Screen of Western Yunnan", once again discovered the "five-clawed golden dragon", a national treasure-level species, the round-nosed monitor lizard "five-clawed golden dragon" after 10 years, and the white brown bear was photographed for the first time in Xinjiang, there was good news from Sichuan, an "uninvited guest" actually jumped to the villagers' three-story self-built houses and could not get out, let's take a look at the situation.
"Report, there is a wild goat on the roof of my house jumping up and down", early in the morning of July 14, a villager in Xinlong County, Ganzi Prefecture, Sichuan Province, reported to the police that a "wild goat" jumped from the next platform to the roof of his house, and the local forest police brigade quickly arrived at the villager's home for disposal after receiving the report.
Because this "wild goat" is always in a dead corner on the roof, no matter how the staff has set up tricks to feed it with vegetable leaves, it cannot be attracted, and blindly approaching it will either provoke it to attack, or jump off the roof more than ten meters high and fall to its death. The staff had a clever idea to use a homemade noose method, and finally it took nearly 4 hours to successfully subdue it, and finally the forest police drove more than ten kilometers to send the iguana to the forest to be released.
Iguana (liè) is a subfamily of sheep in the suborder Ruminant suborder, mainly divided into Chinese iguana, Himalayan iguana, iguana in Taiwan Province of China, red iguana, Sumatran iguana, Japanese iguana, there are certain differences between each population, whether it is body size, or coat color, etc., such as Taiwan iguana and Japanese iguana look more like impala.
Because of its strange appearance, the iguana has the characteristics of "horned deer is not a deer, hooves like a cow is not a cow, the head is like a sheep is not a sheep, and the tail is like a donkey is not a donkey", so it is called "four unlike", in addition to the mane, mountain donkey, rock donkey, shepherd, Sumen antelope, bright mane, Pegasus and other nicknames, different places are called differently.
"Four unlikes" is better to understand and distinguish, in Order to the South Asian species with the widest distribution range in China, in addition to distinguishing by horns, hooves, heads and tails, the fur covered by the body is also more characteristic, the whole body is almost covered with black brown and mixed with gray-brown sparse and coarse hair, the neck has obvious white long hairs, and the four legs change from russet to yellow-brown at the joints, which is very eye-catching.
Although the iguana looks a bit like a sheep, it is significantly larger than the average domestic sheep, and it is also slightly larger than the 6 subspecies of the impala genus, its body length is basically between 140 cm and 190 cm, the shoulder height is 86 cm to 110 cm, and the weight can reach 100-200 kg. However, its tail and two horns are relatively short, and its ears are particularly narrow and long (longer than its horns).
Iguanas reproduce relatively slowly, breeding once a year, producing 1-2 litters per litter, and the cubs usually do not give birth to offspring normally until they are 2-3 years old. Breeding usually begins in the autumn of each year, and in may and June of the following year, the litters are abundant, mainly feeding on grass, young branches and leaves of trees, and fallen fruits.
From the perspective of distribution range, the iguana mainly inhabits tropical and subtropical mountainous and hilly areas in southeast Asia, which belongs to typical forest habitats, jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang and Anhui in east China, Guangdong and Guangxi in south China, Shaanxi, Gansu and Qinghai in northwest China, Hubei, Xinyang, Hunan in central China and Sichuan, Yunnan, southeast Tibet and other places in the southwest region of The woodland or rocky mixed shrub forests have different population sizes.
Of course, the "four unlikes" are not unique or unique species in China, and are distributed in Indonesia, northern India, Nepal, Myanmar, Xinmatai and other Southeast Asian and South Asian countries or regions.
Before the early 20s of last century, the population of China's iguana is still very large, usually female animals with small groups of living together, the number of small groups is generally 5-6, if you see a single activity, it is most likely a male.
However, due to over-reclamation and extensive deforestation, the habitat of the iguana is constantly destroyed and lost, and the living space is shrinking and dividing. And the iguana are all "treasures", of which the larger size can provide more meat, the quality of the leather plate is superior, so in the past era of material scarcity, the iguana often became a source of high-quality animal protein like wild boar, chamois, badgers, pheasants and other animals and was over-hunted, so at that time, the so-called go to the mountains to catch a few "sheep" is actually likely to be an iguana.
Therefore, the large number of forests being logged and over-hunting is the main reason for the decline in the population and the decrease in the distribution range of the iguana, of which the subspecies with the smallest population is the Taiwanese iguana unique to Taiwan Province, which has less than 200 wild populations about 13 years ago, and if it is not protected, there is a great risk of extinction.
The iguana is typical of forest-dwelling mammals, and the denser the forest for this herbivores, the more abundant the food and the more conducive it is to hide itself. The "national second-level protected animal iguana appears on the roof" Xinlong County, located in the central part of Sichuan Ganzi Prefecture, the southeast edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which belongs to the junction zone between the Hengduan Mountains and the Sichuan West Mountain Plain, the mountain high valley deep terrain is complex, the population is relatively sparse, there is a good distribution of primary forests, there are impala, leopard, black bear, horse bear, red deer, white-lipped deer, forest musk, musk, rock sheep, pan sheep and so on inhabit here.
We all know that the ecological environment from good to bad is basically overnight, and the restoration and improvement of the ecological environment is quite long.
Nowadays, it is a very good news to see the restorative growth of the population of wild animals and plants in China, which shows that China's ecological environment is getting better and better, and the whole society has a deeper and deeper understanding of the significance of ecological environmental protection, so as to provide a good habitat for the survival and reproduction of wild animals and plants, and can promote the harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
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