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Mindanao hairy-tailed rat. Mindanao horned frog. Mindanao lowland forest mouse. Mindanao montane forest mouse. Mindanao mountain rat. Mindanao pygmy fruit bat. Mindanao rasbora. Mindanao shrew. Mindanao shrew-rat.
The Mindanao horned frog is only found on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It is mostly found near a fresh water supply when it can lay its eggs or in dense underbrush, leaf litter, or other fallen object covering the ground. [1] The climate of the ecoregion is tropical wet, with temperature and rainfall modified by the elevation ...
The Philippine eagle is endemic to the Philippines and can be found on four major islands: eastern Luzon, Samar, Leyte, and Mindanao. The largest numbers of eagles reside on Mindanao, with between 82 and 233 breeding pairs. Only six pairs are found on Samar, two on Leyte, and a few on Luzon.
Characteristics. The Philippine crocodile is a crocodilian endemic to the Philippines. It is a relatively small, freshwater crocodile. It has a relatively broad snout and thick bony plates on its back (heavy dorsal armor). This is a fairly small species, reaching breeding maturity at 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) and 15 kg (33 lb) in both sexes.
Mindanao hornbill. The Mindanao hornbill (Penelopides affinis), also known as the Mindanao tarictic hornbill, is a medium-small species of hornbill found in the canopy of rainforests on Mindanao, Dinagat, Siargao and Basilan in the southern Philippines. All five Philippine tarictics we're once considered a single species.
There are seven distinct Endemic Bird Areas in the Philippines: (1) Mindoro, (2) Luzon, (3) Negros and Panay, (4) Cebu, (5) Mindanao and the Eastern Visayas, (6) the Sulu Archipelago and (7) Palawan. [4] In the context of Philippines bird endemics, the rhabdornis merit special discussion. The affinities of these birds with other species has ...
The tamaraw was originally found all over Mindoro, from sea level up to the mountains (2000 m above sea level), but because of human habitation, hunting, and logging, it is now restricted to only a few remote grassy plains and is now a critically endangered species. [1] Tamaraw (Inside Philippine National Museum of Natural History)
The Mindanao treeshrew (Tupaia everetti), also called the Philippine tree shrew, is a species of treeshrew endemic to the Mindanao region in the Philippines. [2] It was formerly considered the only member of the genus Urogale, [1] but that genus was merged into Tupaia when the species was found to nest within the latter genus in a molecular phylogeny. [5]