Fauna of Kosna

Kosna, despite being a fairly small country, is home to an insane mass of wildlife, with lots of them being non-natives, endemic, and unique to the country and around the area.

## Animals by Region

### Sharikba Area

Sharikba is located on a ocean and is a fairly year-round mild to hot and is usually very dry, dry to the extent palms trees are becoming naturalized in the region. The hot weather attracts hot-dwelling cryptids such as the blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi) which can be seen lounging on the sands and coastal parks of the city or burrowing under bushes and trees, they keep occupied by eating the many fruits, flowers and other shrubs of the city, much to the dismay of gardeners. Other commons seen by locals and visitors are spotted cucumber beetles, which are not native, they can be a great pest and can be seen in such great numbers in the summertime some refer to the month of July as "cucumber beetle season" because they breed, eat and come out in numbers as large as hundreds-to-thousands and eat upon crops, green stink bugs are common in green areas of the park and are also not native and they do stink up a lot which can be smelt by joggers and hikers on trails in parks and other green spaces. The majestic blue adonis butterfly soars through the city year-round with a very healthy population, but the caterpillars can be a real handful, red squirrels and fox squirrels leap up and around the trees in green spaces, often competing for nuts and other nutritious goodies, and some areas of the city can have wildlife parralel to that of the majestic continent of Pasia. Some include sahara frogs which are common in the coastal marshes and ponds in the city, giant locusts soar the trees and are a common fear to the city residents, and striped hawkmoths. Rarer sightings include; the rare and beautiful golden raccoon, the introduced and insect-devouring opossum, the leapy culpeo, and the apex praying mantis.

### Northern Mountains

The mountains of northern Kosna that run across the Hartnett border is home to tons and tons of trees, you'd think it'd be home to tons and tons of wildlife too, you are in fact correct! But some aren't indigenous to the region; like the common raccoon which rummage through the trash cans in the many mountain towns of the mountains. Other star animals include chamois, mouflons, kri-kri, brown bears, mountain hares, minks, polecats, brown hares, hedgehogs, wood mice, pine martens, vipers, alpine ibexes, golden eagles, ospreys and culpeos, more elusive dwellers include elk, red and silver foxes, long-haired cloudrats and cicadas. Planned introductions of bighorn sheep, barbary sheep, woodchucks, and reintroductions of more elk, more foxes, and the extirpated gray wolf are expected. The most commonly seen dwellers, however, are raccoons, chamois, mouflons, and kri-kri. Elk, red deer, fallow deer, and eastern black deer were once to be added to the four most common species but were overhunted or breeding populations or harems migrated west and north.

## Gallery

Blue iguana (Cyclura lewisi)Kosna raccoon (Procyon lotor kosna)Wild boar (Sus scrofa)Red slug (Arion rufus)Spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica undecimpunctata, introduced)Common earthworm (Lumbricus terrestris)Red fox (Vulpes vulpes)Discus (Symphysodon aequifasciatus, introduced)Green stink bug (Chinavia hilaris, introduced)Common green lizard (Lacerta viridis)Common gazelle (Gazella subgutturosa)Brown bear (Ursus arctos)Chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra)Fox squirrel (Sciurus niger, introduced)Blue Adonis (Polyommatus bellargus)Common opossum (Didelphis virginiana, introduced)Culpeo (Lycalopex culpaeus, introduced)Mountain hare (Lepus timidus)Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris)Common polecat (M. putorius)Common raccoon (Procyon lotor, introduced)Common mink (Mustela lutreola)Green whip snake (Hierophis viridiflavus)Seed gerbil (Meriones unguiculatus)Common mantis (Mantid religiosa)Common rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus)Brown hare (Lepus europaeus)Black rat (Rattus rattus, introduced)Common hedgehog (Erinaceus europaeus)Long-haired cloudrat (Phloeomys cordelliesa, introduced)Swift rat (Rattus rattus shiftayius)Wild donkey (Equus africanus asinus)Kosna cicada (Cicada orni)Silver fox (Vulpes vulpes, introduced)Common chameleon (C. chamaeleon)Common jackdaw (C. monedula)Alpine ibex (Capra ibex)Common pine marten (M. martes)Wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus)Common viper (V. berus)Black vulture (Coragyps atratus, introduced)White stork (C. ciconia)Lesser mole-rat (S. leucodon)Great jerboa (Allactaga major)Northern molevole (Ellobius talpinus)Common hamster (Cricetus cricetus)Golden hamster (Mesocricetus auratus, feral)Lesser bamboo rat (Cannomys badius, introduced)