Animals living in the Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane habitat

Subtropical/tropical moist montane regions are typically mountainous rainforest ecosystems with a significant annual rainfall and warm temperatures. They are spread throughout neotropical regions at elevations above 3900 feet, and they are home to a multitude of plants and animals, many of which are endangered. Tropical moist montane regions occur between 20' north and south of the equator, and subtropical moist montane regions exist between 20' and 40' north and south of the equator. Tropical moist montane regions occur in South and Central America, Australasia, Asia, and Africa, and subtropical moist montane regions are found in North America, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand.

Among the species found in subtropical/tropical moist montane regions are reptiles, amphibians, mammals, bats, and birds. In Asia, carnivores including the Asiatic wild dog, Everett's ferret badger (found only in Malaysia), and the golden jackal rely on a wide variety of smaller animal life as a primary food source. In Africa, the same can be said of the Cameroon clawless otter and the African wild dog, as it can of the margay and the ocelot of South and Central America.

Smaller animals that inhabit the subtropical/tropical moist montane regions include the Eastern tree dassie and the black colobus monkey of Africa and the white bellied spider monkey and the cabasu in South America. These animals are supported by a wide variety of plant and insect life, ensuring a fully cooperative ecosystem ultimately reliant on the moist, tropical and subtropical mountainous climate in which they live.


Even-toed ungulates

Abbott's duiker
Chunyi
Mountain anoa

Carnivores

Indian smooth-coated otter
Asiatic jackal
African wild dog
Common fox
Everett's ferret-badger
Asiatic wild dog
Bush dog
Ocelot
Little spotted cat
Cameroon clawless otter
Margay
Andean fox
Gray fox
Harris's olingo
Chiriqui olingo

Bats

Gland-tailed free-tailed bat
Lamotte's roundleaf bat
Little free-tailed bat
Decken's horseshoe bat
Moloney's flat-headed bat
Aellen's roundleaf bat
Guinean horseshoe bat
Peter's tube-nosed bat
Swinny's horseshoe bat
Long-haired rousette
Lesser dog-faced fruit bat
Sao tomé collared fruit bat
Scott's mouse-eared bat
Mandelli's mouse-eared bat
Welwitch's bat
Spurrell's woolly bat
Veldkamp's bat
Dwarf slit-faced bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Salim ali's fruit bat
Lesser dawn bat
Sombre bat

Hyraxes

Eastern tree dassie

Elephant-shrews

Four-toed elephant shrew
Black and rufous elephant shrew
Checkered elephant shrew

Primates

Lion-tailed macaque
Drill
Preuss's guenon
Black colobus
Bonobo
Chimpanzee
Long-haired spider monkey
Gee's golden langur
Orang-utan
Gorilla
Slender loris
Andean titi monkey

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

Jackson's praomys
Ruwenzori thicket rat
Musser's shrew mouse
Misonne's praomys
Shining thicket rat
Short-footed luzon tree rat
Rümmler's brush mouse
Cameroon praomys
Woodland dormouse
Forest soft-furred mouse
Mutable sun squirrel
Tullberg's praomys
Ruwenzori sun squirrel
Bioko hybomys
African wading rat
Toad mouse
Eisentraut's hybomys
Giant rat
Mahomet mouse
Moon striped mouse
Liberian forest hybomys
Gambian rat
Pygmy mouse
Peters' hybomys
Thomas's pygmy mouse
Beaded hylomyscus
Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
Allen's hylomyscus
Montane shaggy rat
Gray-tailed narrow-headed rat
Montane hylomyscus
Audacious mole rat
Stella hylomyscus
Demon mole rat
Mt. kahuzi climbing mouse
Naivasha mole rat
Remarkable climbing mouse
King mole rat
Mt. oku rat
Kivu climbing mouse
Ruanda mole rat
Rudd's mole rat
Brant's climbing mouse
Embi mole rat
Dent's vlei rat
Congo forest mouse
Kaiser's rock rat
East african mole rat
Typical vlei rat
Defua rat
Charming thicket rat
Harrington's rat
Kemp's thicket rat
Crested rat
Svynnerton's bush squirrel
Gray brush-furred rat
African brush-tailed porcupine
Boehm's bush squirrel
Medium-tailed brush-furred rat
Cooper's mountain squirrel
Rahm's brush-furred rat
Carruther's mountain squirrel
Black and red bush squirrel
Lady burton's rope squirrel
Greater hamster-rat
Vincent's bush squirrel
Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Red-cheeked rope squirrel
Woosnam's brush-furred rat
Hartwig's praomys
Forest thicket rat
Delectable soft-furred mouse
Giant thicket rat

Edentates

Hairy long-nosed armadillo
Northern naked-tailed armadillo
Cabasu

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