The Siberian tiger is the national animal of South Korea.Korean Peninsula and surrounding islandsOnce common throughout Korea, the red fox is now extremely rare.The Amur leopard was one of the most abundant large carnivores in the Korean peninsula. However, they are extremely rare in North Korea.
Approximately 100 species of mammal are known to inhabit, or to have recently inhabited, the Korean Peninsula and its surrounding waters. This includes a few species that were introduced in the 20th century; the coypu was introduced for farming in the 1990s, and the muskrat was introduced in the early 20th century into the Russian Far East, and was subsequently first recorded in Korea in the Tumen River basin in 1965. The Siberian tiger is the national animal of South Korea. The Siberian tiger and Amur leopard have most likely been extirpated from Korea, but are still included in standard lists of Korean mammals.
Most Korean mammal species are found only in a small part of Korea. The large southeastern island of Jeju, and the rugged northeastern Paektu Mountain region, are particularly known for their distinctive mammal species. Several species, including the Dsinezumi shrew, are found only on Jeju, while many other species, such as the wild boar, are absent or extirpated from there. Some mammals, such as the Manchurian wapiti, are considered natural monuments of North Korea, while others, such as the spotted seal, are considered natural monuments of South Korea.
It is unknown whether historically whales were seen for year-round in Korean waters.
All modern records of the species in Yellow Sea had been concentrated vicinity to Haiyang Island, and all modern catches[51] and strandings and sightings in East China Sea have been restricted around Amami Oshima[52][53][54][55] (5 records on Amami and Sukomobanare Islands in the last 110 years[56]) until 2014 as a right whale entered and cavorted in the port of Ushibuka, Kumamoto, later being chased out by fishery boats to concern either boat-struck or damage to fishery (Eubalaena sp. never or mostly does not feed on fish) on March.[57][58]
Last record sighting on Amami was of a 10-meter individual off Cape Miyakozaki on January 28, 2014, and another whale (unknown whether or not the same individual) swam into Ushibuka Port on March 28. Prior to this, a 10-meter individual was seen in Yakiuchi Bay on April 12, 1997.[59][60]
Last record in Yellow Sea was of the catch of a single whale in the south of Haiyang Dao in December 1977.[61] Prior to this, a pair was caught off Haiyang Dao by Japanese whalers in north of the island in January 1973 where both of these were later made to be specimen where smaller specimen became the only specimen (with skins and baleens) of the species in the world at the Dalian Natural History Museum,[62] and the larger individual is now on the Zhejiang Museum of Natural History.[63] reaching around 16–17.1m, and were later made to be specimens for exhibition at several locations.[64] Many of these captured individuals were rather large individuals as reaching around 16m, and were later made to be specimens for exhibition at several locations.[65] There have also been unknown quantity of modern catches exist on Taiwan as well.[66] At least two whales were taken off Haiyang in the Yellow Sea in by Japanese whalers in 1944. There have been none of confirmed records along Chinese coasts targeting right whales since after the last catch (or a sighting) in 1977.[67] For the catches in the Yellow Sea, P Wang, the same researcher who reported the catch in December 1977 off Haiyang Island in the Yellow Sea mentioned that it was possibly the same record as one in 1944 by Japanese whalers.[68]
The first confirmed record of the species happened in February, Namhae,[69] 41 years after the last record in 1974[70][71] (an illegal catch).[72][73][74]
This case was an entanglement and joint releasing effort by the governmental team and Busan aquarium was taken place,[75][76] although the whale disappeared during the night after the efforts, the actual consequences of disappearance and the fate of whale is unclear due to failure of monitoring thereafter.[citation needed]
Not officially confirmed vicinity to Korean Peninsula, but historical catch (es) or sighting (s) off an area near Ulsan and Yangsan although this record(s) might or might not be of right whale (s).[77]
Gray Whale Migration Site[79] was listed as South Korea's the 126th national monument in 1962,[80] and national protection of higher priorities was situated although illegal hunts had been taken place thereafter,[81] and there have been no recent sightings of the species in Korean waters.
There had been at least 24 records of gray whales in Chinese waters since in 1933 including sighting, stranding, and bycatches.[82] DNA analysis of 2011 specimen indicate that this female might not originate in the western population.
Last record in Korean waters was of the sighting of a pair off Bangeojin, Ulsan in 1977.[83]
Historically, possibly year-round residential happened in Chinese waters[84] hence residential or semi-residential occurrences around Korean Peninsula could have been feasible as well.
Widespread but less common in Mediterranean seas (smaller numbers historically migrated into both sides of Korean Peninsula)[91]
Regarded as being almost/already extinct in east Asian waters[92]
Being wiped out by Japanese whalers. Of the populations that once existed off coastal Japan, the last recorded confirmed stranding was in the 1950s.[93]
During cetacean sighting visual surveys in Tsushima Strait conducted by Japanese Coast Guard, several gigantic whales measuring over 20m in length have been observed in recent years, however their exact identities are unclear.[94]
Coastal groups in northeast Asian waters, along with many other baleen species, were likely driven into serious perils or functional extinctions by industrial catches by Japan covering wide ranges of China and Korean EEZ within very short period in 20th century.[96]
After the functional extinction in Pacific side of Japanese waters between the 1910s and 1930s,[51] Japanese whalers cornered other Asian populations into serious peril (functional extinction might have been possible for some groups like the one in East China Sea)[97] After the cease of exploiting Asian stocks, Japan kept mass commercial and illegal hunts until 1975, and parts of Korean populations might have been damaged as several thousand individuals were hunted from various stations mainly along coasts of Hokkaido, Sanriku, and the Gotō Islands.[98]
Recent sightings of large whales exceeding 20m in length, likely to be fin whales, as blue whales in coastal northeast Asia are considered to be extinct,[100] indicate that remnants of the Sea of Japan or the Yellow– ohai Sea groups still pass through the Tsushima Strait[101] where all the larger cetaceans are under threats of being struck by high-speed vessels.[102]
There had been congregation areas among Sea of Japan to Yellow Sea such as in East Korea Bay, along eastern coasts of Korean Peninsula, and Ulleungdo,[103] although recent occurrences into these locations are of unclear due to locational disorders.
Fin whales in Yellow Sea could have been a unique form from outer Pacific populations due to their smaller size of around 20m or more at near maximum,[104] and breeding season in these regions was mainly in winter.
Not officially confirmed in Korean EEZ, but the specimen led to listing of the species as a valid was found on Tsunoshima in 1998 near Tsushima Strait)
↑ Yeong-Seok Jo, John T. Baccus, John Koprowski, 2018, Mammals of Korea, p.30, National Institute of Biological Resources of Korea
↑ Given as Nemorhaedus goral in Won (2004). The Korean population is generally referred to N. c. raddeanus Heude.
↑ Won (2004), p. 273; Won & Smith (1999), p. 21. It was once widespread across the Taebaek and Rangrim ranges, but the population had fallen to around 40 by 1990.
↑ The Samjiyon population has been designated Natural Monument 349, and the Paegam population Natural Monument 362. "삼지연사슴". Cultural Heritage Administration website. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
↑ The musk deer of Rogya ri, in Undok, North Hamgyong, has been designated natural monument #331. "록야리 사향노루". Cultural Heritage Administration website. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-01. The population in the Mayafgdfgsertewrtwrtwertwertwerng workers' district of Musan is designated #380, while the population in Taehung county is designated #401. [permanent dead link]
↑ Designated natural monument #216 on October 20, 1968. "사향노루". Cultural Heritage Administration website. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-01.
↑ The Poptong population is designated Natural Monument #249, and population in Yonsa's Sinyang workers' district is designated #331. "법동수달". 남북한의 천연기념물. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-06. "천연기념물". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
↑ Designated as Natural Monument #330. "Natural Monuments No. 330". Cultural Heritage Administration website. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-10-01.
↑ The Paegam population is designated North Korean Natural Monument #331. "백암검은돈". 남북한의 천연기념물. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
↑ The variety of M. sibirica found on Jeju Island is sometimes regarded as a separate subspecies, the "Jeju weasel" or Mustela sibirica quelpartis Thomas 1906.
↑ The Ryongrim population was designated natural monument #124 on January 1, 1980. "룡림큰곰". 남북한희 천연기념물. Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-06. The Yonsa population has been designated natural monument #330. "천연기념물". Archived from the original on 2007-09-30. Retrieved 2006-12-06.
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↑ The first specimen was taken on Odaesan in South Korea in 1999. Won (2004), p. 33; cites Han et al. (2000), "New records of two Sorex species (Soricidae) from South Korea", Mammal Study 25:2, 141–144.
↑ There are records from the provinces of Gyeonggi, South Korea, and South Pyongan, North Korea. However, the only recent record is from Anju in North Korea.
↑ Seldom seen at elevations above 500 meters, according to Ministry of Environment (2005). "멧토끼"(PDF). 한국고유생물종도감 [Hanguk goyu saengmuljong dogam] [English title: Endemic species of Korea]. p.6. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2007-06-20.
↑ Formerly considered a subspecies of Apodemus agrarius, but shown to be a separate species by mitochondrial studies in the 1990s. Won & Smith (1999), p. 27.
1 2 The muskrat was first recorded in the Tumen River basin in 1965; according to Won & Smith (1999), it had been introduced several decades earlier into the Russian Far East, and may have been present in Korea for some time before the first report.
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