Mountain animals
Animals of high ground: the climbers (ibex, chamois, mountain goats, bighorn sheep), the high-altitude grazers (yaks, llamas, vicuñas) and the predators that follow them, like snow leopards.
Pandas, red pandas and mountain gorillas are here too, since their forests grow on mountainsides.
51 animals, A to Z.
- AlpacaA domesticated South American camelid bred for its highly valued fibre, descended from the wild vicuña at least 5,000–6,000 years ago.
- Arctic foxA small fox of the Arctic tundra with thick fur and a big, fluffy tail.
- Bighorn sheepA wild sheep of western North America named for its large horns.
- Black bearThe smallest and most widespread bear in North America, mostly living in forests.
- BobcatA medium-sized North American wild cat with tufted ears and the short, "bobbed" tail that gives it its name.
- BongoA large, mostly nocturnal forest antelope of sub-Saharan Africa with a chestnut coat, 10–15 thin white stripes and heavy spiral horns on both sexes.
- Brown bearA huge, mostly plant-eating bear of northern forests, mountains and tundra, and one of the largest land carnivores alive.
- BumblebeeOver 250 species of large, fuzzy, social bees, mostly in the Northern Hemisphere.
- ChamoisA small, nimble goat-antelope of the rugged mountains of Europe, Turkey and the Caucasus.
- ChinchillaTwo species of crepuscular rodents from the high Andes, living in colonies up to 4,270 m.
- Clouded leopardA medium-sized wild cat of Asian forests, named for the large cloud-like blotches on its grey or ochre coat.
- CondorTwo New World vultures, the largest flying land birds in the Western Hemisphere: the Andean condor of the Andes and the California condor of the western US and Mexico.
- CougarA large, plain-coated cat of the Americas, also called puma, mountain lion and panther.
- DeerHoofed plant-eaters whose males, in almost every species, grow and shed a new set of bony antlers every year.
- EagleLarge birds of prey with huge hooked beaks and powerful talons.
- ElandThe common eland, a huge spiral-horned antelope of the plains and open woodland of East and southern Africa.
- FalconAbout 40 species of fast birds of prey with thin, tapered wings, found on every continent except Antarctica.
- GorillaThe largest living primates: great apes of the tropical forests of equatorial Africa, living in troops led by a silverback male.
- Grizzly bearThe North American brown bear, a population or subspecies of the brown bear.
- GrouseCompact, heavily built game birds of the Northern Hemisphere, from arctic tundra to pine forest, moorland and mountains.
- GuanacoA wild camelid of South America and the ancestor of the domestic llama.
- IbexSeveral species of wild goat whose males carry large curved horns, ridged across the front.
- IndriOne of the two largest living lemurs, black and white with a stump of a tail, found only in the forests of eastern Madagascar.
- KeaA large olive-green parrot of the forests and mountains of New Zealand's South Island, with bright orange under its wings.
- KuduThe greater kudu, a tall woodland antelope of eastern and southern Africa with 4–12 thin white stripes on its sides.
- LeopardThe most widespread wild cat, a spotted, secretive hunter that survives almost anywhere with cover: rainforest, savanna, mountains and semi-desert across Africa and Asia.
- LlamaA domesticated South American camelid, used by Andean cultures for meat and as a pack animal since before Columbus.
- LynxFour species of medium-sized wild cat, the Canada, Eurasian and Iberian lynx and the bobcat, with black ear tufts, a short tail and big padded paws for walking on snow.
- MarkhorA large wild goat of the mountains of Central and South Asia.
- MarmotFifteen species of large ground squirrels, the heaviest members of the squirrel family, from Asia, Europe and North America.
- Mountain goatA sure-footed, white-coated climber of the high mountains of western North America, often seen on near-vertical cliffs.
- PandaA black-and-white bear found only in the mountains of central China.
- PigeonThe familiar city pigeon is the domestic form of the wild rock dove, native to southern Europe, North Africa and western Asia.
- PikaSmall, round, tailless relatives of rabbits with short, rounded ears, living on rocky mountain slopes in Asia and North America.
- RavenThe common raven is a big, all-black crow, the heaviest songbird, found across the Northern Hemisphere.
- Red pandaA small, reddish-brown tree-climber of the eastern Himalayas and south-western China, with a ringed tail.
- ReindeerA deer of the Arctic and subarctic, called caribou in North America.
- SalamanderTailed amphibians with slender, lizard-like bodies and moist skin, which keeps them near water or damp places.
- Snow leopardA big cat of the high mountains of Central and South Asia, with thick whitish-grey fur and a long, bushy tail.
- Spectacled bearThe only bear native to South America, living in the Andes, and the last of the short-faced bears.
- TakinA stocky, shaggy goat-antelope of the eastern Himalayas, closest to sheep despite its muskox-like looks.
- TardigradeAbout 1,500 species of plump, eight-legged micro-animals, usually about 0.5 mm long, also called water bears or moss piglets.
- TroutFreshwater fish closely related to salmon.
- Vervet monkeyAn African monkey with a black face and grey body hair, living in groups of 10 to 70.
- VicunaA wild camelid of the high Andes and probably the ancestor of the alpaca.
- VultureBirds of prey that scavenge carrion.
- WallabySmall and medium-sized relatives of the kangaroo.
- WolfThe largest wild member of the dog family.
- WolverineThe largest land-dwelling member of the weasel family, a solitary, muscular carnivore of the far north.
- YakLong-haired domesticated cattle of the Himalayas, the Tibetan Plateau and the mountains of Central Asia, north to Mongolia and Siberia.
- ZebraThree species of striped wild horse: the plains, Grévy’s and mountain zebras of eastern and southern Africa.
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