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The wildlife of Iran include the fauna and flora of Iran. One of the most famous animals of Iran is the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus venaticus ), which today survives only in Iran.
Individual animals in Iran (4 P) R. Reptiles of Iran (1 C, 121 P) Pages in category "Fauna of Iran" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total.
Lion in Iran photographed by Antoin Sevruguin (1830s–1933). The Asiatic lion reportedly disappeared here before the end of the 20th century. Persian leopard Turkestan sand cat Striped hyena Indian wolf Asiatic black bear. There are over 260 species of carnivorans, the majority of which feed primarily on meat.
The biosphere reserves of Iran have a total land area of 1.64 million km 2. They support more than 8,000 recorded species of plants (almost 2,421 are endemic ), 502 species of birds , 164 species of mammals , 209 species of reptiles , and 375 species of butterflies .
The Asiatic cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus venaticus) is a critically endangered cheetah subspecies currently only surviving in Iran. [1] Its range once spread from the Arabian Peninsula and the Near East to the Caspian region, Transcaucasus, Kyzylkum Desert and northern South Asia, but was extirpated in these regions during the 20th century.
From 1941 to 1979, Iran was ruled by King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah. On February 11, 1979, the Islamic Revolution swept the country.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Iran.The avifauna of Iran include a total of 573 species, of which two are endemic, and 4 have been introduced by humans.. 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.
The images back up the Pentagon's refutation of a New Jersey lawmaker who suggested that one of the Iranian ships was operating nearby and responsible for the rash of reported drone sightings in ...