Ding Lingwei

Asian Small-clawed Otter Exhibit

Native Wildlife Conservation Area, September 22, 2024.
The largest exhibit of the "Native Wildlife Conservation Area". As in Shanghai, Asian small-clawed otters are used as stand-ins for the native (and extirpated) Eurasian otter. Below is an updated species list based on my visit last month:

Malayan porcupine (Hystrix brachyura)
Amur hedgehog (Erinaceus amurensis)
Raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides)
Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)
Asian small-clawed otter (Aonyx cinerea)
Asian badger (Meles leucurus)
Chinese ferret-badger (Melogale moschata)
Siberian weasel (Mustela sibirica)
Wild boar (Sus scrofa)
Reeves's muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi)
Water deer (Hydropotes inermis)

Gray heron (Ardea cinerea)
Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
Cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis)

Modest ground skink (Scincella modesta)
Beauty rat snake (Orthriophis taeniurus)
Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis)

Chinese fire belly newt (Cynops orientalis)
Asiatic toad (Bufo gargarizans)

Chinese false gudgeon (Abbottina rivularis)
Spotted steed (Hemibarbus maculates)
Sharpbelly (Hemiculter leucisculus)
Stone moroko (Pseudorasbora parva)
Rosy bitterling (Rhodeus ocellatus)
Chinese bitterling (Rhodeus sinensis)
Siberian spiny loach (Cobitis sinensis)
Pond loach (Misgurnus anguillicaudatus)
Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes)
Taiwanese fire-bellied gudgeon (Micropercops swinhonis)
Amur goby (Rhinogobius similis)
Round-tailed paradise fish (Macropodus ocellatus)
 

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