Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane Animals

Mammals living in the Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

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	Carnivores	Cetaceans	Bats	Dasyuroids	Opossums	Sirenia	Primates	Xenarthra

Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane Animals

Animals living in the Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane habitat

Mammals living in the Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane

Even-toed ungulates

Carnivores

Bats

Hyraxes

Elephant-shrews

Primates

Elephants

Rodents

Edentates