Shrubland Animals

Mammals living in the Shrubland

Shrubland or brush areas are dominated by shrub or bush type vegetation, and are notable for the varied animals that inhabit the low lying floral landscape. With grasses and herbs being the second most prominent type of plant life in the brush, there is a regularly replenished, seasonal food supply for the small mammals, reptiles, birds and insects that live there.

Shrublands, or "scrub" ecosystems can occur in environments all over the world, including desert and arid areas as well as burned out forests and open plains. Shrubland is unique in that it thrives in nutrient poor soil, which is why it has grown to cover large swaths of territory. Spring vegetation growth, affected by soil moisture, determines how much forage is available for the herbivorous rodents, birds and insects that primarily feed off of plant seed or small fruits such as berries.

Common predators take advantage of the open spaces of scrub that are now increasingly juxtaposed with human civilizations. There are few undisturbed shrubland areas save those in nature preserves, and the power lines, buildings and other human structures near the wide open spaces provide favorite nesting and hunting perches for crows, common ravens, and raptors. Rodents, like the vole, survive by taking advantage of the natural cover comprised of the vegetation.

Even-toed ungulates

Chousingha
Nilgai
Goral
Roan antelope
Sable antelope
Anoa
Suni
Takin
Silver dik-dik
Common rhebok
Salt's dik-dik
Blue & white-bearded wildebeest
Collared peccary
Waterbuck
Elk
Mountain nyala
Kob
Impala
Nyala
Puku
Klipspringer
Lesser kudu
Guanaco
Sahara oryx
Chunyi
Greater kudu
Markhor
Common hartebeest
Tsessebe
Nubian ibex
Walia ibex
Clarke's gazelle
Spanish ibex
Aoudad
Springbok
Cuvier's gazelle
Oribi
Cape grysbok
Dorcas gazelle
Argali
Sharpe's grysbok
Grant's gazelle
Aders' duiker
Gerenuk
Bighorn sheep
Southern reedbuck
Chinkara
Jentink's duiker
Bohar reedbuck
Natal duiker
Black duiker
Arabian tahr
Beira antelope
Harvey's duiker
Common hippopotamus

Carnivores

Eurasian lynx
Andean fox
Iberian lynx
Bay lynx
Clouded leopard
Maned wolf
Jungle cat
Cheetah
Wild cat
Racoon dog
Asiatic jackal
Chilean pampa cat
Geoffroy's cat
American jackal
Arctic wolf
Red wolf
Ethiopian wolf
Side-striped jackal
Black-backed jackal
Bat-eared fox
Asiatic wild dog
Ounce
Ocelot
Little spotted cat
Gray fox
California channel island fox
Polar bear
Serval
Bengal fox
African caracal
African clawless otter
Corsac fox
Cameroon clawless otter
African sand fox
Asiatic golden cat
Cape fox
Sand fox
Cross fox
Common otter
African lion
Palawan stink badger
Speckle-throated otter
Leopard
Eyra cat
Peruvian desert fox
Hairy-nosed otter
Tiger
Argentine gray fox
Common fox
African wild dog
Azara's fox

Bats

Lesser mouse-tailed bat
Little free-tailed bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Greater mouse-tailed bat
Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
Horn-skinned bat
Long-tailed house bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Desert yellow bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
De winton's long-eared bat
Kuhl's pipistrelle
Common pipistrelle
Persian trident bat
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Lesser long-fingered bat
Canary big-eared bat
African giant free-tailed bat
Natal free-tailed bat
Naked-rumped tomb bat
Banana bat
Heart-nosed bat
Patrizi's trident leaf-nosed bat
Blasius's horseshoe bat
Trident bat
Scott's mouse-eared bat
Lesser horseshoe bat
Cape horseshoe bat
Cape hairy bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Welwitch's bat

Dasyuroid marsupials and marsupial carnivores

Chuditch
Spotted-tailed quoll

Kangaroos, possums, wallabies, and relatives

Boodie
Western brush wallaby
Broom's pygmy-possum
Dusky pademelon
Quokka
Bridled nail-tailed wallaby

Hyraxes

Rock dassie

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Bushman hare
Tehuantepec hare
Arctic hare
Broom hare

Elephant-shrews

Somali elephant shrew
Western rock elephant shrew
Golden-rumped elephant shrew
Checkered elephant shrew
Round-eared elephant shrew
Bushveld elephant shrew
North african elephant shrew
Rufous elephant-shrew

Bandicoots and bilbies

Pig-footed bandicoot
Bilby
Barred bandicoot
Golden bandicoot
Eastern barred bandicoot

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs

Burchell's zebra
Black rhinoceros
Square-lipped rhinoceros

Primates

Gelada baboon
Common langur
Mandrill
Ring-tailed lemur
Garnett's greater galago
Dry-bush weasel lemur

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

Greater short-tailed gerbil
Black and red bush squirrel
Senegal gerbil
White-tailed mouse
Barfur gerbil
Red bush squirrel
Brants's whistling rat
Loring's rat
Betsileo short-tailed rat
Middle east blind mole rat
Asian garden dormouse
Somalia gerbil
Littledale's whistling rat
Black-tailed tree rat
Gregarious short-tailed rat
Pygmy gerbil
Speke's pectinator
Acacia rat
Allen's wood rat
Pouched mouse
Julian's gerbil
Spring hare
Shortridge's rat
Crested porcupine
Short-tailed bandicoot rat
Mearns's pouched mouse
Bolivian chincilla rat
Lataste's gerbil
Cape porcupine
Fernandina galapagos mouse
Forrest's rock squirrel
Nigerian gerbil
Lesser cane rat
Santiago galapagos mouse
Mullah spiny mouse
Principal gerbil
Edward's swamp rat
Lesser egyptian jerboa
Percival's spiny mouse
Cushioned gerbil
Elvira rat
Gerbil mouse
White-eared pocket mouse
Greater egyptian jerboa
Cape spiny mouse
Least gerbil
Ghana mole rat
Dassie rat
Northwestern fat mouse
Wilson's spiny mouse
Greater egyptian gerbil
African mole rat
Southern multimammate mouse
Barbour's rock mouse
Dainty fat mouse
Little red gerbil
Mechow's mole rat
Guinea multimammate mouse
Pygmy rock mouse
Kreb's fat mouse
Grant's rock mouse
Lesser short-tailed gerbil
Ochre mole rat
Natal multimammate mouse
Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse
Tiny fat mouse
Namaqua rock rat
Somalian gerbil
Gundi
Shortridge's rock mouse
Barbary lemniscomys
Galapagos rice rat
Ethiopian narrow-headed rat
Tinfields rock rat
Khartoum gerbil
Bushy-talied woodrat
Val's gundi
Nikolaus's mouse
Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat
Thomas's rock rat
Tarabul's gerbil
Libyan jird
Bangs's mountain squirrel
Waters's gerbil
Somali pygmy gerbil
Rudd's bristle-furred rat
Dent's vlei rat
East african mole rat
Arid thicket rat
Neill's long-tailed giant rat
Saunder's vlei rat
Bunting's thicket rat
Typical vlei rat
Gray-headed thicket rat
Mahomet mouse
Fat sand rat
Felou gundi
Bush vlei rat
Cape gerbil
Woodland thicket rat
Pygmy mouse
Thin sand rat
Congo rope squirrel
Highveld gerbil
Giant thicket rat
Kemp's gerbil
Ruwenzori thicket rat
Delany's mouse
Bushveld gerbil
Mountain beaver
Ethiopian thicket rat
Gray glimbing mouse
Black-tailed gerbil
Long-tailed field mouse
Shining thicket rat
Brant's climbing mouse
Crested rat
Phillip's gerbil
African grass rat
Namtap
Harrington's rat
Brown's hutia
Bahamian hutia
Fat-tailed gerbil
Robbins's tateril
Silvery mole rat
Four-striped grass mouse
Swan island hutia
South african ground squirrel
Harrington's gerbil
Damara ground squirrel
Lake chad gerbil
Cape mole rat
Unstriped ground squirrel
Petter's gerbil
Barbary ground squirrel
Naked mole rat
Hairy-footed gerbil
Smith's bush squirrel
Namaqua dune mole rat

Aardvark

Aardvark

Edentates

Screaming hairy armadillo
Large hairy armadillo
Burmeister's armadillo
Lesser fairy armadillo
Six-banded armadillo
Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Chacoan naked-tailed armadillo
Southern long-nosed armadillo
Common long-nosed armadillo
Llanos long-nosed armadillo
Pichi