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The Arabian leopard (Panthera pardus nimr) is the smallest leopard subspecies. It was described in 1830 and is native to the Arabian Peninsula, where it was widely distributed in rugged hilly and montane terrain until the late 1970s. Today, the population is severely fragmented and thought to decline continuously.
The wildlife of Saudi Arabia is substantial and varied. Saudi Arabia is a very large country forming the biggest part of the Arabian Peninsula. It has several geographic regions, each with a diversity of plants and animals adapted to their own particular habitats. The country has several extensive mountain ranges, deserts, highlands, steppes ...
The Arabian leopard, one of the endangered species, is inhabiting this reserve. There are other species in this reserve including Arabian wolf, caracal, rock fox, striped hyaena and genet. See also. Saudi Arabia portal; List of protected areas of Saudi Arabia; References
The order Cetacea includes whales, dolphins and porpoises. They are the mammals most fully adapted to aquatic life with a spindle-shaped nearly hairless body, protected by a thick layer of blubber, and forelimbs and tail modified to provide propulsion underwater. Suborder: Mysticeti. Family: Balaenopteridae.
The Hijaz Mountains[1] (Arabic: جِبَال ٱلْحِجَاز, romanized: Jibāl al-Ḥijāz (Hejazi Arabic pronunciation: [dʒɪˈbaːl alħɪˈdʒaːz]) or "Hejaz Range" is a mountain range located in the Hejazi region of western Saudi Arabia. The range runs north and south along the eastern coast of the Red Sea, and can thus be treated as ...
The presence of the Arabian leopard was reported here. [9] [10] Hamadryas baboons are present in both Yemen and Saudi Arabia. [11] Gallery
Ibrahim Mountain, also called Bithra Mountain and the White Mountain (because it consists of white rocks) [2] is a mountain in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the Hejaz mountain range in the southwest on the King Fahd Tourist Road, near the center of Al-Qurayyah Bani Malik (south of Taif).
Area. 4,500 km 2 (1,700 sq mi) Jabal Samhan Nature Reserve[ 1] ( Arabic: محمية جبل سمحان) is a nature reserve in the area of Jabal Samḥān ( Arabic: جَبَل سَمْحَان, "Mount Samhan") in Dhofar, Oman. It has an area of 4,500 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi) and has no permanent population. [ 2] Being in the region of the ...