The top ten protected animals are: giant panda, crested ibis, saiga antelope, clouded leopard, Przewalski's horse, Asian elephant, tiger, snow leopard, leopard, and golden monkey. 1. The giant panda is a first-level protected animal in China and the iconic image of the World Wildlife Fund. Giant pandas are mainly distributed in the sub-alpine areas of Sichuan, Gansu, Shaanxi and other places in China. They feed on bamboo as their main food.

2. The crested ibis is a bird of the genus Crested ibis in the family Pelicanidae. The crested ibis uses its long beak to dig into the waterside quagmire to search for food. It feeds on small fish, loaches, shrimps, crabs, frogs, insects and others. Feed on small animals.

3. The saiga is a mammal of the genus saiga in the order Artiodactyla Bovidae, also known as saiga, saiga, and big-nosed antelope. It is found in the Junggar Basin and Beita Mountains in Xinjiang, China, and the Mazong Mountain area in Gansu. Traces of it have also been found near the Sino-Mongolian border in western Inner Mongolia.

4. The clouded leopard is a mammal belonging to the genus Clouded Leopard of the order Catidae. It is distributed in subtropical and tropical forest areas in China, extending to Qinling Mountains in Shaanxi Province, Luoyang in Henan Province and southern Gansu Province in the north, Chayu in Tibet in the west, Hainan in the south, and Zhejiang and Taiwan in the east.

5. Przewalski's horse is distributed in Xinjiang, Gansu, Inner Mongolia and other places in China. It mainly eats splendens and reeds. In winter, it can dig through the snow to find dead grass.

6. Asian elephants mainly inhabit tropical rainforests, monsoon forests and forest valleys, hillsides, savannas and broad areas in southern Asia. They often live in valleys, riversides, bamboo forests, and rivers below 1,000 meters above sea level. Wandering in the broadleaf mixed forest.

7. Tigers are typical mountain forest animals. They can live well in tropical rainforests and evergreen broadleaf forests in the south, as well as deciduous broadleaf forests and coniferous broadleaf mixed forests in the north. Tigers often move alone, and only during the breeding season do males and females live together.

8. The snow leopard is a large cat that often moves near the snow line and in the snow, hence the name "snow leopard". Snow leopards are distributed in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Pamir Plateau, Tianshan Mountains, Altai Mountains and Other high mountain areas in western my country and eastern Central Asia.

9. Leopards, also known as "leopards", live in forests, shrubs, wetlands, deserts and other environments. Their nests are mostly built in dense trees, shrubs or caves.

10. Golden monkey is the collective name for animals of the genus Thumb-nosed monkey in the family Primate Monidae. It is also called snub-nosed monkey. There are 5 species in the genus, namely, Yunnan golden monkey, Guizhou golden monkey, Sichuan golden monkey, Vietnamese golden monkey and Myanmar ( Nujiang) golden monkey.