🇹🇼 Animals of Taiwan

The Asian black bear is a medium-sized forest bear of Asia with a pale crescent on its chest and a gift for climbing.

The barn swallow is the most widespread swallow on earth, with a steel blue back and a deeply forked tail.

The black kite is a medium-sized raptor with angled wings and a forked tail.

The clownfish lives inside the stinging tentacles of a sea anemone, which it cleans and defends in return.

The coconut crab is the largest land-living arthropod.

The common kingfisher is a small blue and orange bird of clear, slow rivers across Europe, Asia and North Africa.

The common myna is a brown starling with a black head and a bare yellow patch behind the eye, native to southern Asia.

The common pheasant is a long-tailed gamebird from Asia that people have released across the world.

The false killer whale is a large black dolphin of warm, deep seas that hunts tuna and squid in pods bound by lifelong ties.

The great egret is a tall white heron that hunts fish in shallow water on six continents.

The green sea turtle grazes on seagrass in warm coastal waters.

The grey heron is a tall grey and white wading bird of European, Asian and African wetlands.

The leopard cat is a small spotted cat found across South, Southeast and East Asia, from Pakistan to the Russian Far East.

The mandarin duck is a small perching duck of East Asian woodland rivers.

The osprey is a large brown and white raptor that lives on fish and hunts by plunging feet first into water.

The peregrine falcon is the fastest animal on Earth.

The rock dove is the wild pigeon of sea cliffs and rocky gorges in Europe, North Africa and southern Asia.

The sperm whale is the biggest of the toothed whales and the largest predator with teeth.

The wild boar is the wild pig of Europe, Asia and North Africa and the ancestor of the domestic pig.