Stumble this page!Mammals living in the Temperate Grassland
Characteristics of the Temperate Grassland:
- Temperature: warm to hot season (usually with a cold to freezing season in winter)
- Soil: fertile with rich nutrients and minerals
- Plants: grass
- Animals: large, grazing mammals; birds
Image of the Altyn Emeil National Park, Kazakhstan, by Walton Lloyd Burns, This image is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike License v. 2.5: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/
Even-toed ungulates
Black wildebeest
Argali
Bighorn sheep
Elk
Chiru
Goa
Cuvier's gazelle
Dzeren
Goitered gazelle
Bharal
Saiga antelope
Himalayan tahr
Carnivores
Bush dog
American jackal
Arctic wolf
African caracal
Racoon dog
California channel island fox
Asiatic wild dog
Corsac fox
Swift fox
Pallas's cat
Sand fox
Cross fox
Argentine gray fox
Leopard
Azara's fox
Andean fox
Chinese desert cat
Cheetah
Wolverine
Bats
Kuhl's pipistrelle
Canary big-eared bat
Hares, pikas, and rabbits
Arctic hare
Hainan hare
Muli pika
Steppe pika
Elephants
African elephant
Rodents
Gobi jerboa
Armenian birch mouse
Plateau vole
Iranian jerboa
Long-tailed birch mouse
Nelson's antelope squirrel
Southern birch mouse
Barbary ground squirrel
European ground squirrel
Long-tailed marmot
Idaho ground squirrel
Menzbier's marmot
Washington ground squirrel
Vancouver island marmot
Townsend's ground squirrel
Bobak marmot
Russet ground squirrel
Beach vole
Caucasian snow vole
Speckled ground squirrel
Townsend's vole
European snow vole
Highveld gerbil
Algerian mouse
Robert's snow vole
Idaho pocket gopher
White-tailed mouse
Mazama pocket gopher
Utah prairie dog
Arizona black-tailed prairie dog
Angoni vlei rat
African marsh rat
Pacific jumping mouse
Stephens' kangaroo rat
Franklin's ground squirrel
Bushy-talied woodrat
Alai mole vole
Florida mouse
Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Pouched mouse
Greater short-tailed gerbil
Namaqua rock rat
Thick-tailed pygmy jerboa
Edentates
Screaming hairy armadillo
Large hairy armadillo
Lesser fairy armadillo
Common long-nosed armadillo
Six-banded armadillo