Are there any books about Chinese alligators, information about Chinese alligators

Alligator sinensis (fauvel, 1879), or tuó, is a crocodile of the genus Alligator in the family Crocodile family. It is a crocodile endemic to China and is one of the smallest crocodile species in the world.

It is both ancient and a very rare reptile in the world. Because it lives in the Yangtze River Basin, it is called "Yangtze Alligator". Many of the features of earlier dinosaur reptiles can still be found in the Chinese alligators.

Therefore, people call the Chinese alligator a "living fossil". Therefore, the Chinese alligator is of great significance for people to study the rise and fall of ancient reptiles, as well as to study paleogeology and biological evolution. China has listed the Chinese alligator as a national first-class protected animal, and it is strictly forbidden to hunt and kill it.

In order to perpetuate the race of this precious animal, China has also established nature reserves and artificial farms for Chinese alligators in Anhui, Zhejiang and other places. Alligators belong to reptiles and are oviparous.

The Chinese alligator is an ancient reptile that has lived on the earth for at least 100 million years and is known as the "living fossil" of Mesozoic animals. The Chinese alligator lives in the swampy area along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China, and now only survives at the junction of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Anhui.

Crocodile is a collective name for 22 and 23 species of animals in 8 genera of the reptilian crocodylidae crocodylidae. Alligators are just one of them. There are 8 genera, 22 and 23 species in the crocodile family, which is the only surviving representative of the lower class of the early dragon, and it is also the most extant.

The Chinese alligator is endemic to China and one of the world's endangered reptiles.

The Chinese crocodile is about a meter long, which is not as large as the African crocodile and the Thai crocodile. The alligator has a short and blunt snout, which is a type of alligator.

The scientific name of the Chinese alligator is alligator

sinensis

It is distributed in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in China. Endemic to China.

The alligator (also known as the stingray) inhabits rivers and shallow ponds. Sleeps alone, nocturnal, likes to sunbathe, often motionless, slow crawling.

Hibernating. It is ferocious and moves quickly when predating, feeding on small animals such as fish and frogs. The breeding period is from June to August, mating in water, a few to dozens of eggs are laid, and the incubation period is about 2 months.

China's first-class protected animals.

It is listed in the appendix of the International Convention on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora

Predation? Alligators often lurk in the water, exposing only their nostrils and eyes, quietly approaching their prey before suddenly attacking and biting their prey.

As early as oracle bone inscriptions, there are records of rays.

In the "Daya Lingtai" of the poetry collection "Book of Songs" in the Spring and Autumn Period, there are also verses of "drums and drums". This means that the squirrel's cry makes a "bang, bang" sound like a drum.

Xu Shen of the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Shuo Wen Jie Zi", Zhang Hua's "Naturalist Chronicles" of the Western Jin Dynasty, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty all have records about the Yangtze crocodile.

The Classic of Mountains and Seas, the Nine Classics of the Middle Time, Minshan, the river flows out of Yan, and the northeast flows into the sea, among which there are many good and prolific rays.

Mao Shi Wen Wang Lingtai" The drum is a meeting.

The Book of Rites: The Month of Order" In the autumn month, cut down the dragon.

Said the text" Ray, water worm, lizard-like, long zhang, from the turtle single voice.

Ji Tomb Zhou Shu Wang Hui Hui Hui Hui Ji Yi Xuan. (Note: The skin can be crowned and drummed) <>