Wildlife of Afghanistan

Afghanistan is a country that has lots of amazing animals. Many of the large mammals in Afghanistan are threatened. These include the snow leopard, Marco Polo sheep, Siberian musk deer, markhor, urial, and the Asiatic black bear. Most of the Marco Polo sheep and ibex are being killed for food. While wolves, snow leopards and bears are being killed for prevent damage.

Fauna
Here is a list of the animals that live in Afghanistan. They are:

Mammals
 Afghan flying squirrel
 Afghan mouse-like hamster
 Afghan pika
 Afghan vole
 Asian house shrew
 Asiatic black bear
 Asiatic brown bear
 Balochistan gerbil

 Baluchi mouse-like hamster
 Blanford's jerboa
 Brandt's hedgehog
 Bucharian vole
 Cape hare
 Etruscan shrew
 Euphrates jerboa
 Eurasian otter
 Eurasian pygmy shrew
 Forest dormouse
 Geoffroy's bat
 Gmelin's white-toothed shrew
 Great gerbil
 Grey dwarf hamster
 Gray wolf
 Hotson's jerboa
 Indian gerbil
 Juniper vole
 Kashmir cave bat
 Large-eared pika
 Leopard
 Lesser horseshoe bat
 Lesser white-toothed shrew
 Libyan jird
 Long-clawed ground squirrel
 Long-eared hedgehog
 Long-tailed marmot
 Marco Polo sheep
 Markhor
 Mehely's horseshoe bat
 Mid-day jird
 Mountain weasel
 Northern palm squirrel
 Palla's cat
 Persian jird
 Red fox
 Red giant flying squirrel
 Rhesus macaque
 Sand-colored soft-furred rat
 Short-tailed bandicoot rat
 Siberian ibex
 Silver mountain vole
 Sind bat
 Small five-toed jerboa
 Snow leopard
 Southern mole vole
 Stoat
 Stone marten
 Sundevall's jird
 Swarthy gerbil
 Taiga shrew
 Tanezumi rat
 Thomas's pygmy jerboa
 Tien Shan vole
 Transcaspian vole

 Turkestan rat
 Turkestan red pika
 Urial
 Ward's field mouse
 Yellow ground squirrel
 Zarudny's jird
 Zarudny's shrew

References

Category:Animals by country
Category:Afghanistan