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The mountain gazelle, aka true gazelle or the Palestine mountain gazelle, hails from Israel, Jordan, Palestine, and Turkey. These gazelles face the threats of habitat loss and destruction at the hands of residential and commercial developments; roads and railroads, that can result in habitat fragmentation and vehicle strike (being hit […]

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The mountain quail, is the largest quail species in the United States. Their ancestors diverged from other New World (found in the Americas) quails earlier than the bobwhites, approximately 6,000,000 years ago. These birds face few threats, such as habitat loss and destruction, and are abundant throughout their ranges, numbering […]

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The large-eared pika, a member of the Lagomorpha family, is closely related to rabbits and hares. They can be found among the higher elevations of Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Tibet, Sichuan, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Nepal, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. With no serious threats to their existence, sans habitat loss and destruction, and […]

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The mountain beaver is sometimes confused with the North American beaver and the Eurasian beaver, however, these beavers are more closely related to squirrels. Although they are mostly considered pests throughout their ranges, they are still threatened by wildfires, grazing livestock, expansion of exotic plant species, rodent control methods, alteration […]

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The Arabian tahr was recently placed into a monotypic genus, Arabitragus. These critters dwell in eastern Arabia. Sadly, they face many threats such as habitat destruction at the hands of farming, ranching, mining, and quarrying; roads and railroads that divide their territory and can cause vehicle strike (being hit by […]

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The mountain zebra is native to southern and southwestern Africa. There are 2 subspecies, the Cape mountain zebra and the Hartmann’s mountain zebra. These zebras face the threats of habitat loss and division at the hands of residential and commercial developments, farming, and ranching; hunting; trapping; and climate change, that […]

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The mountain tapir, aka Andean tapir or woolly tapir, can be found in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. They prefer alpine meadows, mid & high-level montane cloud forests, and páramo grasslands, aka treeless moorlands. Due to deforestation at the hands of logging, farming, ranching, and mining; hunting; and trapping, these incredible […]

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The mountain hare, aka alpine hare, blue hare, Irish hare, snow hare, tundra hare, variable hare, or white hare, hails from Europe and Asia. They prefer coastal grasslands, forests in mountain areas, lowland pastures, moors, salt marshes, tundra, taiga, and woodlands of the open steppe. So, they don’t just prefer […]

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The Karpathos frog belongs to the Ranidae (true frog) family. They can only be found on the island of Karpathos, in the South Aegean Sea, in Greece. They prefer rivers, intermittent rivers, freshwater lakes, intermittent freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, arable land, ponds, and Mediterranean-type shrub vegetation. These […]

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The Andean mountain cat, aka Andean cat or mountain cat, is an extremely rare feline species found in Bolivia and southern Peru over to northwestern Argentina, as well as northern Chile in the Andean mountains. They prefer semi-arid and arid regions located in the Andes Mountains. These kitties dwell just […]

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