Speaking of animals of Eurasia, it should be noted that this continent includes extremely vast territory.Therefore, Eurasia and fauna is very diverse.Its territory presents many geographical zones of the globe.
largest waist size - a taiga.It is home to such animals of Eurasia, as the brown bear and elk, wolverines and lynx, chipmunk and squirrel, fox and hares, wolves and moose, as well as a variety of small rodents.And this, of course, is not the whole list of animals living in the forest.
very high in the forest and the world of birds.This grouse and grouse and grouse, and crossbills, and crows and titmice.All of the above animals and birds are also common in the taiga plains and in the mountain regions of Europe and Asia.
in deciduous forests of the continent once lived large mammals, both predators and herbivores.Most of them were destroyed because of value to humans.Because of the fur and meat are actively hunted man.Today Eurasian animals that live in the forest area, most of them are protected by law.This brown bear and deer, bison and red deer, pine marten and wolverine, weasel and mink, wild cat and fox, hedgehog and elk, wild boar and wolf, hare and the hare, weasel and stoat.
But the forests have been cut down and the land - plowing.This fact led to the fact that the spread rodents, such as voles, shrews, ground squirrels, marmots, harmful to agriculture.
The birds live in forests and hazel grouse, partridge and grouse, as well as a great variety of songbirds.Blackbirds and orioles, warblers and warblers, nightingales and tits - all of them in large numbers inhabit the forest zone of the continent.
impossible not to mention a wide variety of waterfowl.Also near human habitation settle swallows, sparrows, rooks, crows, pigeons, cuckoos, rooks, storks.Many birds are migratory.Therefore, in strictly defined time, gathering in large flocks, flying south of geese and ducks, cranes and rooks, storks and swans, and to the north with the onset of heat fly bullfinches.
And how diverse underwater world!In rivers and lakes midland pikes and carp, carp and burbot, catfish and roach.It is also not uncommon representatives of the class of salmon.
There, in the rivers, can be found muskrat, otter and great worker - beaver.
Speaking of the northern regions of Eurasia, within the tundra zone, it may be noted that, despite the relatively low temperature, and there is a variety of live animals.The majority are predators that may eat the fish.Due to the fact that the land most of the year covered with snow, fauna is extremely poor.From herbivores in the tundra are widely represented only reindeer, having the ability to eat moss raking hooves snow and finding him there.
absolutely all the animals of Eurasia, living in the north of the continent, have a luxurious fur that protects them from the cold.And the color of winter coats these inhabitants are mainly white.
Note inhabitants of the tundra as the polar bear, arctic fox, red fox northern, northern wolf, hare, lemming, ermine, ptarmigan, white owls, eider ducks and loons.In the water are found walruses and seals.
interesting is the fact that the lemmings, which is home to a great variety of tundra, are food for almost all the inhabitants of this climate zone.Even reindeer, referring to herbivores not hesitate to eat these small rodents, if you suddenly discover it.
Eurasia Animals that live in the steppe and forest-steppe zone, are mostly herbivores.It antelopes, wild horses, different breeds, including the Asiatic wild ass and almost extinct species - Przewalski horse, deer.
Earlier in the steppes roamed vast herds of bison.But they were destroyed.Today bison - rare animals of Eurasia, which, like the Przewalski's horse, are listed as endangered and are protected.
hunt herbivores on the prairie and meadow wolves - coyotes.Widely represented in this region birds of prey such as the kestrel, steppe eagle, little bustard, the vulture.These birds feed on small animals and birds, rodents, do not disdain.
rodents are hamsters and marmots, ground squirrels, and jerboa, mice, voles and rats.
In the mountainous regions of Eurasia inhabited by mountain goats - argali, yaks, kukuyamany (mountain sheep), llamas, condors, snow leopards.A huge number of insects and birds completes the list of mountain dwellers of one of the major continents of the Earth.
