List of Regional distribution of the Wild Animals around the World

Region

Wildlife

Tropical Rain-forests (6 % of land area)

Apes, cockatoos, gorillas, leopards, macaw, monkeys, parakeet, parrots, peacock, peafowl, sunbird, tigers and millions of insects.

Tropical Grassland

African elephant, antelopes, bateleur bird (Africa), bison (North America), buffalo, cheetah, gazelles, giraffe, gnu, hartebeest (Africa), kangaroos (Australia), jaguars (South America), lions, rhinoceros, zebra. This is the richest native wildlife at present in the world.

Arid Lands

Camels, fox, gemsbok, goshawk, jackals, lizards, lynx, lions, meercats, porcupines, scorpions, springbok, warthog, wild dogs, wolf, and numerous birds.

Temperate Forests / Grassland

Badger, eagle, hoopoe, Koala, raccoon, red-deer, red-fox, sapsucker, stag-beetle, wood packer and numerous birds.

Boreal Forests

Beever, black-gouse, Canadian-horned-owl, Canadian-lynx,

coyotes, moose, pole-cat, mule-deer, nut-cracker, red-squirrel,

Timber-wolf, wolverine.

Polar Regions

Arctic-fox, blue-whale, eagles, elephant-seals. Killer-whale, krill, musk-ox, polar-bear, (world's heaviest terrestrial carnivores), penguins, pigeons/pentads-petrels, seals, snow- geese, spotted-seal, trumpeter-swan, walrus.

Folded Mountains

Andean candor (the largest bird of the world with wing-span of 3.7 metres), Andean-geese, dall-sheep, golden-eagle, lammergeyer or bearded-vulture, mountain-goat, mountain-gorilla, mountain-lion, pandas, snow-leopard, yaks.

Islands

Dodo-bird (Mauritius), frigate-bird, ground-iguana, king-penguins, komodo-dragon, lemurs and tenrees (Madagascar), marine-iguana, moa-bird (New Zealand) sole nodous (Caribbean),southern-sea-lion, tomato-red-frog (Madagascar), tortoise (Galapagos Islands-Ecuador-South America), tuatara-lizard (New Zealand).

Oceans

Angler, dolphins, fishes, killer-whale, mollusks, reptiles, seal, sea-lion (California), spotted-eal, tortoise, whales, insects.

Freshwaters (2 % of the planet’s total area )

Amphibians, birds, cormorants, eagles, fishing-owl, flamingo, hippopotamus, jacana, pelican, king-fisher, planktons, piranhas (Amazon Basin), mammals, snake-bird, swan, water- buffalo, etc.

Wildlife in India

Antelopes, black-bear, black-buck, bustard (the second heaviest terrestrial bird in the world), cobra, elephant, gazelles, gibbon, goat, hyenas, Kashmiri-stag, leopard, lions, snakes, tiger, vultures, wolf.