Crocodile

The ancients called the crocodile the tuo, and they left many records of its cry. The Piya, in its Explanation of Fish, quotes the Records of Sea Creatures of Jin'an: "The tuo cries at night like a drum." Du Fu wrote the line "The tuo roars as the wind drives the waves; fish leap as the sun lights the hills," while Li Shangyin wrote, "From afar I hear the tuo drums, like thunder about to break." When the Tang writer Han Yu was demoted to Chaozhou, he wrote his famous essay Proclamation to the Crocodiles, urging them to move away; today a prehistoric crocodile has even been named Hanyusuchus sinensis.

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