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Indian porcupine Caucasian squirrel Greater Egyptian jerboa Palestine mole rat Sand rat Drawing of a short-tailed bandicoot rat Eastern spiny mouse. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
The region is home to a variety of plants and animals; at least 47,000 living species have been identified, with another 4,000 assumed to exist. At least 116 mammal species are native to Palestine/Israel, as well as 511 bird species, 97 reptile species, and 7 amphibian species. There are also an estimated 2,780 plant species.
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National animals of the Levant: Arabian oryx (Jordan), mountain gazelle and hoopoe (), striped hyena (Lebanon), Palestine sunbird (Palestine), and saker falcon (Syria). The wildlife of the Levant encompasses all types of wild plants and animals, including mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fresh and saltwater fish, and invertebrates, that inhabit the region historically known as the Levant ...
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The mountain gazelle (Gazella gazella), also called the true gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle, [3] [4] [5] is a species of gazelle that is widely but unevenly distributed. [ 6 ] Approximately 6,000 are left in the wild as of 2024.
The bats' most distinguishing feature is that their forelimbs are developed as wings, making them the only mammals capable of flight. Bat species account for about 20% of all mammals. Family: Pteropodidae (flying foxes, Old World fruit bats) Subfamily: Pteropodinae. Genus: Rousettus. Egyptian fruit bat, R. aegyptiacus LC; Family: Vespertilionidae