sable

The body is slender, the limbs are short and healthy, and the body shape is slightly larger than that of Yellow weasel, and the male is generally larger than the female; With 5 toes and sharp claws. Ears are large and erect, slightly triangular. The tail hair is fluffy. The face and nose are sharp, the snout is blunt, there are obvious longitudinal grooves in the center of the nose and lips, and there are more than 20 elastic developed tentacles. The eyes are big and full of spirit, the ear shell is big and upright, slightly triangular, and the tail is thick and fluffy, accounting for about 30 ~ 40% of the body length. [Body length]: about 40 cm [tail length]: about 12 cm [weight]: 0.5 ~ 1.0 kg [coat color]: the whole body of wild sable is brownish black or brown (domestic sable has black, white, blue and yellow colors); The head is grayish brown, the ear margin is dirty white, with yellow or yellow-white throat spots; The chest has brown hair and the abdomen is light. Now it is only found in Daxing 'anling, Xiaoxing 'anling, Laoyeling, Zhangguangcailing and Wandashan in Heilongjiang, Changbai Mountain in Jilin, Linhai Snowfield in Huanren County in Liaoning, and Altai Mountain in northern Xinjiang, with intermittent distribution. Subspecies differentiation: It is known that Chinese sable can be divided into four subspecies, namely, Altai subspecies (M. z. averin), Daxing 'anling subspecies (M. z. princeps), Xiaoxing 'anling subspecies (M. z. linkouensis) and Changbai Mountain subspecies.
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