I. Introduction

The scientific name of the beaver (scientific name:? Civet? English name? : Swinhoe) belongs to? Carnivora, civet and beaver are precious wild animals. The body color is yellowish grayish brown, the body is slightly fat, and the neck is thick and short, which is difficult to distinguish from the body. There are 9 species of 17 subspecies in China. Only one species belongs to the genus Beaver, which belongs to the primitive group of carnivores with other species at the undergraduate stage.

Second, the morphological signs.

Beaver's limbs are 48 ~ 50 cm long and its tail is 37 ~ 4 1 cm long. Weighing 3600 ~ 5000 grams. The body hair is short and thick, the body color is taupe, the head hair color is dark, there are obvious four bands from the forehead to the bridge of the nose, there are white spots under the eyes and ears, and the back body hair is taupe. The back, shoulders, limbs and the back half of the tail are black, and the limbs are short and powerful, with five toes each. There are claws on the toes, which are slightly flexible; The tail length is about two-thirds of the body length.

Third, the level of protection

It has been listed in the Red List of Biodiversity in China-Vertebrate Volume, and the assessment level is close to danger.

It has been listed in cites Appendix III.

It has been listed in the List of Terrestrial Wild Animals with National Key Protection or Important Economic and Scientific Research Value issued by China State Forestry Administration on August, 2000 1.

reference data

Civets Return to the Forest-News Channel-Wei Bei Network (Ya 'an News Network). Wei Bei net [reference time 20 17- 12-20]