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Flora and Fauna

• Chinese Giant Salamander	• Rhesus Monkeys	• Pangolins
• Carrying water Bird	• Golden Fragrant Pomelo	• Tangerines
• Chinese chestnuts	• Lobster flowers	• Dove Tree


Wulingyuan Scenic Area is a green treasure store and natural zoo. It lies in the Central China Botanic Region of the Sino-Japanese Botanic Zone, and was a refuge for many ancient species during the Quaternary Glacial Era. There are over 3000 species of plants, above 700 types of trees, up to 450 kinds of ornamental flowers, and about 116 species of vertebrates falling into 50 families. In addition, hundreds of species of animals are found in Wulingyuan. Among them are rare animals such as Chinese giant salamander, Asiatic wild dog, Asiatic black bear, clouded leopard, Chinese water deer, rhesus monkeys, civets and pangolins, and some 20 rare birds such as tragopan, golden pheasant, white-headed duck and leiothrix.

Chinese Giant Salamander is also called Baby Fish because its four legs like baby’s arms a

The rhesus monkey is listed under the second rank of state-protected animal. Ac

Pangolins, listed under the national second rank of protected animal, is good at in diggin

It belongs to the first rank of state-protected animal with colorful feather which is very

The Golden Fragrant Pomelo grows mostly along Suoxi Valley or near Wulingyuan. When it is ripe, it

Tangerines grow usually in Wulingyuan or Jiangya which are a specialty of Zhangjiaji

Wulingyuan abounds in Chinese chestnuts. They look like hedgehogs which are very funny and peopl

Lobster flowers usually grow in humid and shady places, named after its shrimp-shaped petals

Among scarce plants, dove tree is perhaps the most famous and reputed “living