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Hong Kong is home to an impressive range of wild creatures, but even in the Country Parks many of the terrestrial or land animals are hard to see. Its ecological diversity, greater than one would expect in so small a place, is the result of its location. The territory straddles the transitional zone between two botanical and zoological regions. This, and its tropical summers and temperate winter are the reason why so much ecologcial diversity exists here - and why there is such a wide variety of birds, butterflies and dragonflies etc.