Mountain Animals: Big List of 115+ Names of Animals Live in the High Mountains

Mountain animals! What animals live in the high mountains? In this lesson, we show a list of names of wild mountain animals with infographics and example sentences.

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Mountain Animals

Mountain ranges are found all around the world and are the result of plate movement beneath the Earth’s crust. Animals that live in the high mountains not only have to withstand dramatic temperature changes but also lower oxygen levels.

Names of Mountain Animals

Brown Bear
Cotton Rat
Flea
Hyrax
Rhinoceros
Trogon
Accentor
Cougar
Chamois
Deer
Flowerpecker
Iguana
Himalayan Tahr
Snow Leopard
Tyrant Flycatcher
African Buffalo
Coyote
Ibex
Chinchilla
Degu
Fox
Jackal
Spectacled Bear
Vicuna
Lammergeier
Crow
American Black Bear
Bison
Chough
Dhole
Frog
Squirrel
Viper
African Wild Dog
Blue Sheep
Civet
Gorilla
Dipper
Geoffroy’s Cat
Klipspringer
Starling
Vulture
Tibetan sand fox
Crane Fly
Weasel
Andean Mountain Cat
Boa
Clouded Leopard
Dove
Giant Panda
Bird
Leopard
Stick Bug
Warbler
Alpaca
Bulbul
Coati
Drongo
Grouse
Markhor
Takin
Whistler
Ant
Butterfly
Colugo
Duck
Himalayan Marmot
Monkey
Tamarin
White-eye
Asian Black Bear
Buzzard
Cotinga
Duiker
Guinea Pig
Newt
Whydah
Tapir
Kiang
Baboon
Caracal
Chiru
Eagle
Hawaiian Honeycreeper
Owl
Thrush
Wolf
Badger
Cardinal
Echidna
Himalayan Tahr
Ptarmigan
Tibetan gazelle
Alpine Salamander
Wombat
Beaver
Caribou
Elephant
Hawk
Rabbit
Worm
Tiger
Yak
Bee
Caterpillar
Falcon
Hyena
Raven
Tit
Wren
Alpine Chough
Beetle
Chameleon
Finch
Hyrax
Red Panda
Toad
Zebra

Mountain Animals Examples

An Alaskan brown bear nods off in the river after catching some salmon.
They like to use an elephant gun to stun a flea.
I thought it was a rhinoceros coming for me in the dark.
As soon as it went underneath the light, I saw that it was a cougar.
Downhill skiing requires ski lifts that frighten the chamois and clutter the mountains with pylons and cables.
The deer population has increased substantially in recent years.
Not surprisingly, when a person comes too close, an iguana will make a quick get away.
An endangered snow leopard sits inside its enclosure at a zoo in Darjeeling, India.
A herd of about 100 African buffalo meanders quietly along a riverbank.
We spin around to see a coyote in hot pursuit of a panicked rabbit.
For, the romantic, the bird of paradise is much more exciting than the humble house sparrow.
The ibex is a distant relative of the mountain goat.
Degu rats are biparental animals, which means parenting duties are split between the mother and father.
The cutest of the weird babies has to be the cub of the spectacled bear, the most primitive of all living bear species.
The vicuna is the smallest member of the camel family.
Among the 5 communities, magpie, red-billed chough and jungle crow are wide distributed species.
We had to dissect a worm and a frog in our biology practical today.
A jackal is a kind of animal that scavenges rotten meat.
The grey squirrel was introduced into Britain from North America.
This civet lives in Indonesia and eats insects, fruit, and berries—including the raw red coffee berry.
It extensively overlaps the gorilla in its forest range but generally shows adaptations to lighter drier woodlands.
I can’t remember ever bolting a weasel from a rabbit warren.
The clouded leopard is the largest predator on the Borneo and Sumatra Islands.
The book cover had a picture of a dove superimposed on a battle scene.
The giant panda is one of the world’s rarest animals. The government set up nature reserves to protect them.
The leopard gave a snarl of fury, as it realized that it had lost the element of surprise.