White crown long tail pheasants are our country′s special rare animals, which produced in the northern and central part of our country. They like to live in trees, lush forest shrub sparse environment.

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Red belly tragopan usually likes to live in the lofty mountains and steep hills, only thirsty to drink water stream. In addition to drinking enough water, in the water sac will be in charge of 1 catty water. It puts on a bag of water, about 4 or 5 days. When used up, they come down to stream water, therefore, all the villagers call it “back water cock”

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ZJJ Clouded leopard gets its name with body cloud of grey or black spot. It is the smallest one of large cat form. They are only one metre long and 10 to 25 kg weight. Its body length is 70 ~ 106 centimeters, tail length is 70 ~ 90 centimeters, the shoulder height is 60 ~ 80 cm. The weight of male is about 23 kg, female is about 16 kilograms.

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Zhangjiajie Red-billed Leiothrix(Love Bird) has soft, well-rounded figure, colorful feather, and bright red mouth. They love living in somewhere with beautiful natural landscape, thus Wulingyuan becomes their paradise certainly.The most highlighted characteristic of Red-billed Leiothrixes are their loyalty.

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Rhododendron tianmenshanense is a new species which was found to grow in Tianmenshan National Forest Park, Zhangjiajie city, named by the Hunan Forest Botanical Garden, Central South University of Forestry and Technology and Tianmenshan National Forest Park. It was officially unveiled in the opening ceremony of Zhangjiajie International Forest Conservation Festival 2007 and its appearance was a contribution to the development of ecological tourism in Zhangjiajie.

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Among scarce plants, the dove tree is perhaps the most famous one and regarded as  “living fossil”, survived during the Glacier of the Fourth Period ( 2.5 million years ago). Botanists were not able to trace its origin until the middle of 19th century. In the Badagongshan National Nature Reserve located in Sangzhi county, there exists a small valley replete with over 10, 000 wild dove trees, hence named “dove tree valley”, which boasts the world’s biggest “ King of Dove Tree”  that  is 30 meters high and 1.5 meters diametric, covering 600 square meters with its leaves and branches.

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Wulingyuan abounds with Chinese chestnuts. They look like hedgehogs that are very funny and people must take care not to be prickled when picking them. The  chestnut and chicken soup  is quite nutritious and delicious.  

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Tangerines grow usually in Wulingyuan or Jiangya, which are a specialty of Zhangjiajie. When they are ripe in autumn, they look very beautiful and taste very sweet with sort of sour flavor. It is a must for you to  taste this fruit when making a journey to Wulingyuan.  

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