INTRODUCTION - Wildlife Conservation in China: Preserving the Habitat of China's Wild West - page 3

Table 1.1

Species Within Selected Taxonomic Groups: Comparing North America with China

North America China

Animal Grouping Species No. Species No.

Mammals
Order Primates
(primates)

— 0 loris (2); macaques (4);

langurs (3); golden monkeys (3);
gibbons (4)

16

Order Carnivora
Family Canidae
(dogs)

red, swift, kit, gray, and Arctic
foxes; coyote; red wolf; wolf

8 red, corsac, and Tibetan
foxes; wolf; raccoon dog; dhole

6

Family Felidae
(cats)

mountain lion; lynx; bobcat;
jagourundi; jaguar; ocelot

6 wild, desert, jungle, Pallas',
golden, and leopard cats; lynx;
clouded leopard; snow leopard;
common leopard; tiger

11

Family Ursidae
(bears)

black, brown, polar bears 3 Asiatic black, brown, and sun

bears; panda

4

Order Perissodactyla — 0 Przewalski's horse; Mongolian

and Tibetan wild asses

3

(horses and asses)
Order Artiodactyla
Superfamily
Cervoidae (deer)
Family Bovidae

mule, white-tailed deer; elk
(wapiti); moose; caribou

5 mouse deer, musk deer (4);
water deer; tufted deer; muntjaks
(3); sambar; red, Eld's, sika, white-
lipped, and Pere David's deer;
moose; roe deer

18

Subfamily Anti-
lopinae (antelopes
and gazelles)

pronghorn antelope 1 Mongolian, Tibetan, goitered,

and Przewalski's gazelles; saiga
antelope

5

Subfamily
Caprinae (sheep
and goats)

bighorn and Dall's sheep;
mountain goat, musk ox

4 argali; blue sheep; ibex; gray, red
goral; serow; takin; Himalayan
tahr; chiru

9

Birds
Order Galliformes
(grouse,
pheasants)

turkey; chacalaca; grouse (7);
quail (6); ptarmigan (3)

18 snow partrdige; snow cock (4),
partridge (19); quail (2); blood
pheasant; tragopoan (5);
pheasant (21); peacock; grouse/
ptarmigan/capercaillie (8)

62

Family Gruidae sandhill, whooping cranes 2 Siberian, sarus, white-naped,

common, hooded, black-necked,
and red-crowned cranes

7

Order Falconiformes
Family
Cahartidae
(vultures)

turkey, black vultures;
California condor

3 lammergeier; vultures (5) 6

Family
Accipitridae (hawks,
eagles, kites)

kites (4); accipiters (3); harrier;
buteos (13); eagles (2); osprey;
caracara; falcons (6)

31 bazas (2); honey-buzzard;
kites (4); accipiters (7); harriers
(6); buteos (7); falcons (13)

40

Sources : Mammals: Wilson and Reeder (1993); birds: MacKinnon and Phillipps (2000). Nearctica Checklist
of the Birds of North America, www.nearctica.com/nathist/birds/