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Animals in Burma
Another animal native to Burma is the tapir, a pig like beast that's found in the jungles of the Americas and Southeast Asia, including Burma. The tapir is a big animal that can grow about seven feet long and three feet high at the shoulder. Their proboscis, or nose, is prehensile, which means it can be used rather like an elephant's trunk as they forage. This gives their skull an unusual shape, and they have teeth and jaws very much like horses. They like to live in water and wallow in mudbaths to stay cool in the hot forests of Burma.
Gibbons also live in Burma. A gibbon is an ape with very long arms that make them adept at living and traveling in trees. Gibbons also have a special adaptation in their wrists, which are constructed like a ball and socket and can rotate easily. The basic unit of a gibbon is a mated pair, which is unusual for apes, and their children. They are quite vocal and social.
Flying foxes are also native to Burma. Flying foxes are bats that eat fruit and flowers. They can be very large, and can have a six foot wingspan, though they only weigh a few pounds. They have dense fur and the foxy shape of their heads give them their name. When they rest they often wrap their wings around them like a blanket. Unlike other bats, they lack echolocation, and some biologists believe they were descended not from bats but from primates.
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Even-toed ungulates in Burma
Red goral Chinese goral Goral Tufted deer Alpine musk deer Black musk deer Black muntjac Banteng Fea's muntjac Gaur Gongshan muntjac Takin Wild boar Kanchil Greater mouse deer Sambar Indian muntjac Brow-antlered deerCarnivores in Burma
Lesser panda Javan mongoose Crab-eating mongoose Asiatic wild dog Hog badger Chinese ferret-badger Burmese ferret-badger Yellow-throated marten Yellow-bellied weasel Flat-headed cat Clouded leopard Fishing cat Siberian weasel Banded palm civet Bearcat Small-toothed palm civet Gem-faced civet Asian palm civet Banded linsang Spotted linsang Jungle cat Large-spotted civet Large indian civet Small indian civet Leopard Tiger Marbled cat Asiatic black bear Malayan sun bear Asiatic jackal Arctic wolf Cross fox Back-striped weasel Common otter Indian smooth-coated otter Asiatic golden catDolphins, porpoises, and whales in Burma
Common minke whale Chinese white dolphin Blue whale Common rorqual Bridled dolphin Black finless porpoise Long-beaked dolphin Blainville's beaked whale Rough-toothed dolphin Pygmy killer whale Irrawaddy dolphin Pacific pilot whale Grey dolphin Fraser's dolphinBats in Burma
Kelaart's pipistrelle Large myotis Intermediat roundleaf bat Wrinkle-lipped free-tailed bat Greater mouse-tailed bat Lesser large-footed bat Shield-faced roundleaf bat Indian pipistrelle Horsfield's bat Pomona roundleaf bat Javan pipistrelle Burmese whiskered bat Pratt's roundleaf bat Greater long-tongued fruit bat Geoffroy's rousette Whiskered myotis Stoliczka's trident bat Leschenault's rousette Lesser dog-faced fruit bat Harlequin bat Mount popa pipistrelle Greater short-nosed fruit bat Pegu pipistrelle Greater false vampire bat Blanford's fruit bat Lesser false vampire bat Small flying-fox Large flying fox Lesser dawn bat Western bent-winged bat Long-winged tomb bat Thick-eared bat Black-bearded tomb bat Malayan slit-faced bat Disk-footed bat Naked-rumped tomb bat Theobald's tomb bat Intermediat horseshoe bat Croslet horseshoe bat Common thick-thumbed bat Blyth's horseshoe bat Little tube-nosed bat Woolly horseshoe bat Round-eared tube-nosed bat Lesser bamboo bat Malayan horseshoe bat Hutton's tube-nosed bat Greater bamboo bat Scully's tube-nosed bat Least horseshoe bat Blanford's bat Tickell's bat Hardwicke's woolly bat Shamel's horseshoe bat Great roundleaf bat Little nepalese horseshoe bat Dusky roundleaf bat Thomas's horseshoe bat Common pipistrelle Ashy roundleaf bat Trefoil horseshoe bat Whiskered bat Diadem roundleaf bat Dobson's horseshoe bat Hairy-faced bat Fulvus roundleaf bat Lesser mouse-tailed batFlying lemurs in Burma
Malayan flying lemurHares, pikas, and rabbits in Burma
Forrest's pika Burmese hareHorses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs in Burma
Sumatran rhinoceros Javan rhinoceros Asian tapirPangolins in Burma
Malayan pangolin Chinese pangolinPrimates in Burma
Assam macaque Crab-eating macaque Rhesus macaque Common gibbon Slow loris Dusky leaf monkey Bonneted langur Bear macaqueElephants in Burma
Asian elephantRodents in Burma
Fea's tree rat Hoary bamboo rat Pencil-tailed tree mouse Chinese bamboo rat Large bamboo rat South china field mouse Particolored flying squirrel Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine Indochinese flying squirrel Red spiny rat Red-cheeked flying squirrel Malayan porcupine Orange-bellied himalayan squirrel Indochinese ground squirrel Perny's long-nosed squirrel Lesser bandicoot rat Brahma white-bellied rat Asian red-cheeked squirrel Greater bandicoot rat Chinese white-bellied rat Chinese scrub vole Savile's bandicoot rat Müller's giant sunda rat Polynesian rat Dark-tailed tree rat Miss ryley's soft-furred rat Hairy-footed flying squirrel Himalayan striped squirrel Himalayan field rat Smoke-bellied rat Small white-toothed rat Swinhoe's striped squirrel Sikkim rat Lang bian white-bellied rat Pére david's vole Bower's white-toothed rat Tanezumi rat Tenasserim white-bellied rat Kenneth's white-toothed rat Black giant squirrel Manipur white-toothed rat Gray-bellied squirrel Pallas's squirrel Finlayson's squirrel Marmoset rat Phayre's squirrel Spotted giant flying squirrel Irrawaddy squirrel Red giant flying squirrel Little indian field mouse Fawn-colored mouse Anderson's squirrel Asiatic long-tailed climbing mouse Indian giant flying squirrel Cook's mouse Red climbing mouse Temminck's flying squirrel Gairdner's shrewmouse Vordermann's flying squirrel Shortridge's mouse Edwards's long-tailed giant rat Lesser bamboo ratTree shrews in Burma
Northern tree shrew
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