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  2. Wildlife of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    The wildlife of Mongolia consists of flora, fauna and funga found in the harsh habitats dictated by the diverse climatic conditions found throughout the country. In the north, there are salty marshes and fresh-water sources. The centre has desert steppes. In the south, there are semi deserts as well as the hot Gobi desert in the south, the ...

  3. List of mammals of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the naturally occurring mammal species recorded in Mongolia. There are 121 mammal species in Mongolia, of which two are critically endangered, four are endangered, nine are vulnerable, and six are near threatened. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International ...

  4. Mongolian gazelle - Wikipedia

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    Gazella mongolica Heude, 1894. The Mongolian gazelle (Procapra gutturosa), or dzeren (Russian: Дзерэн), is a medium-sized antelope native to the semiarid Central Asian steppes of Mongolia, southern Siberia and northern China. The name dzeren is the Russian spelling and pronunciation of the Mongolian word zeer (Mongolian: Зээр), or the ...

  5. Argali - Wikipedia

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    The name 'argali' is the Mongolian word for wild sheep. [2] It is the largest species of wild sheep. Argali stand 85 to 135 cm (3 to 4 ft) high at the shoulder and measure 136 to 200 cm (4 to 7 ft) long from the head to the base of the tail. The female, or ewe is the smaller sex by a considerable margin, sometimes weighing less than half as ...

  6. Gobi bear - Wikipedia

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    The Gobi bear (Ursus arctos gobiensis), known in Mongolian as the Mazaalai (Мазаалай), is a subspecies of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) that is found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia. [2] It is listed as critically endangered by the Mongolian Redbook of Endangered Species and by IUCN standards. [3] Currently, there are only 31 (95% CI: 32 ...

  7. Przewalski's horse - Wikipedia

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    Przewalski's horse (/(p) ʃ ə ˈ v ɑː l s k iː z, ˌ p ɜːr ʒ ə-/ (p)shə-VAHL-skeez, PUR-zhə-; [3] Russian: [prʐɨˈvalʲskʲɪj] (Пржевальский); Polish: [pʂɛˈvalskʲi]; Equus ferus przewalskii or Equus przewalskii [4]), also called the takhi (Mongolian: Тахь), [5] Mongolian wild horse or Dzungarian horse, is a rare and endangered horse originally native to the ...

  8. List of birds of Mongolia - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of the bird species recorded in Mongolia.The avifauna of Mongolia include a total of 534 species.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition.

  9. Bactrian camel - Wikipedia

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    The Bactrian camel shares the genus Camelus with the dromedary (C. dromedarius) and the wild Bactrian camel (C. ferus).The Bactrian camel belongs to the family Camelidae. [1] [5] The ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle was the first European to describe the camels: In his 4th century BCE History of Animals he identified the one-humped Arabian camel and the two-humped Bactrian camel.