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The wildlife of Iraq includes its flora and fauna [1] and their natural habitats. Iraq has multiple biomes from mountainous region in the north to the wet marshlands along the Euphrates river. The western part of the country is mainly desert and some semi-arid regions. As of 2001, seven of Iraq's mammal species and 12 of its bird species were ...
The list of mammals of Iraq comprises seventy-eight mammal species, of which one is endangered, eleven are vulnerable, and three are near threatened. One of the species is probably locally extinct in the wild. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed on the IUCN Red List:
The Baghdad Zoo is a 200-acre (81 ha) zoo originally opened in 1971 and located in Baghdad, Iraq, in the Al-Zawraa Park area along with the Al Zawra’a Dream Park (amusement park) and Zawra'a Tower. Before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the zoo housed 650 animals. After being nearly destroyed during the 2003 Iraqi war, when only about 35 animals ...
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In 1892, John Paul Dudley published a medical treatise on dogs and mentioned the Kurdish Mastiff: In Kurdistan in northern Asia Minor, and that region of Asia, there is a dog much resembling the English Mastiff, which is the constant companion and friend of the Kurd — a shepherd and watch dog partaking much of the character of his half - barbarous master, and will not well bear a change of ...
Although most attacks occur at low densities, a substantial number reputedly occur in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Iraq, and possibly Morocco. In Turkmenistan, striped hyenas kill dogs, while they also kill sheep and other small animals in the Caucasus, and were even reported to have killed horses and donkeys in Iraq during the mid-twentieth century ...
EX - extinct, EW - extinct in the wild CR - critically endangered, EN - endangered, VU - vulnerable NT - near threatened, LC - least concern DD - data deficient, NE - not evaluated (v. 2013.2, the data is current as of March 5, 2014 [1]) and Endangered Species Act: E - endangered, T - threatened XN, XE - experimental non essential or essential ...
Wild boar was the numerically dominant ungulate in forested habitats, along watercourses, in reed beds and in thickets of the Caspian and Aral Seas. Where watercourses penetrated deep into desert areas, suitable wild pig and tiger habitat was often linear, only a few kilometers wide at most.