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
Animals by country
Afghanistan