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JAPANESE WILD ANIMALS (6)

CARNIVORA

URSIDAE Polar Bear

Body length 250-300cm。 Polar bear has ever been captured in Soya of the extreme Japanese northern end only one time.

URSIDAE Brown Bear

Body length 200-230cm. Brown Bear is living in only Hokkaido. This is the biggest animal in Japan. They are bigger than Black Bear to live in Honshu though they are smaller than Brown Bear to live in Alaska.

URSIDAE Asiatic Black Bear

Body length 120-145cm. This is a small bear to lives in Honshu. They have a white pattern of the new moon type in the breast.

PROCYONIDAE Common Raccoon (importation kind) Body length 40-65cm. Tail length 25-35cm. PROCYONIDAE Crab-eating Raccoon (importation kind) Body length 40-90cm. Tail length 20-56cm.

Raccoon is a native of North America. Crab-eating Raccoon is a native of Central-South America.

CANIDAE Raccoon Dog

Body length 50-60cm. Tail length 15cm. Raccoon dog is the animal of the dog family though they are good at the tree climbing.

CANIDAE Red Fox

Body length 60-75cm. Tail length 40cm. Fox appears well with Raccoon Dog in the Japanese folk tale. In the old days Japanese believed they could be put under a spell by a fox.

CANIDAE Dog (importation kind)

Kept dog became the wild. They are living like a wolf.

Japanese Wolf Ezo Wolf CANIDAE Wolf

Japanese Wolf : Body length is 100cm. Tail length is 30cm. Ezo Wolf : Body length is 100cm. Tail length is 40cm. Two sub-species of the wolf were inhabiting Japan. They are the biggest sub-species and the minimum sub-species in Wolf species. The minimum sub-species is Japanese Wolf lived in Honsyu. The biggest sub-species is Ezo Wolf lived in Hokkaido. Both sub-species are now extinct.

summer yellow type in winter gray type in winter MUSTELIDAE Japanese Marten

Body length 30cm. Tail length 19cm. Martens is quick, and tree climbing is good. It is the most fearful natural enemy for the squirrel and the mouse. There are two types yellow and gray.

MUSTELIDAE Sable

Body length 50cm. Tail length 17cm. A sable is the animal who has the fur of the superlative degree. They are finished in Hokkaido.

female male MUSTELIDAE Japanese Weasel Body length male 27-37cm, female 16-25cm. Tail length male 12-16cm, female 7-9cm. female male MUSTELIDAE Siberian Weasel Body length male 28-39cm, female 25-31cm. Tail length male 16-21cm, female 13-16cm.

Two kinds of weasels are in Japan. One is a Japanese Weasel another one is a Siberian Weasel. Siberian weasel is put artificially, and they extend distribution. Body size is varies with male and female.

summer winter MUSTELIDAE Least Weasel

Body length male 16-17cm, female 14-15cm. Tail length male and female 3cm. It is the kind of minimum in the Carnivora family. They live in the northern part of Honshu and Hokkaido.

summer winter MUSTELIDAE Stoat

Body length male 18cm, female 16cm. Tail length male 6cm, female 5cm. Stoat lives in the high mountain. They come up to person because they aren't afraid of the person.

MUSTELIDAE American mink (importation kind)

Body length male 45cm, female 36cm. Tail length male 36cm, female 30cm. It is the animal of the weasel family from North America Hara.

MUSTELIDAE Eurasian Badger

Body length 52cm. Tail length 14cm. Sub seed of the badger distributed in the Eurasian continent. Because it was delicious, the meat of the badger was made the one for food from the old days.

MUSTELIDAE Eurasian River Otter

Body length 70cm. Tail length 46cm. Japanesen otter is just before the extinction in Japan. There is just only living in Shikoku. There is specified in the special natural monument.

MUSTELIDAE Sea otter

Body length 110cm. Tail length 30cm. Sea otter is in the Weasel family to live in the sea. Their fur is the highest grade of goods. Because of that, they were very much caught. They doesn't breed in Japan. When he grows up, a head becomes a silver color.

VIVERRIDAE Masked Musang

Body length 61-66cm. Tail length 40cm. It is the animal of the only VIVERRIDAE (Rasse family) that it lives in Japan. Because an orange and an apple are big favorite food, damage to the agricultural produce causes a trouble well with Masked Musang.

VIVERRIDAE Javanese Mongoose (importation kind)

Body length 30-40cm. Tail length 25-35cm. Javanese Mongoose is a native of Java or India.

FELIDAE Cat (importation kind)

Kept cat became the wild.

FELIDAE Leopard Cat (Tsushima Wildcat)

Body length 50-58cm. Tail length 20cm. This wildcat lives in Tsushima Island which is between Japan and Korea. It is sub species of Leopard Cat finished in the Eurasian continent.

FELIDAE Iriomote Wildcat

Body length 55cm. Tail length 23cm. This ia a precious wildcat to live only in Iriomote Island in the world. This wildcat was discovered in 1965.

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