Category: Wild Animals of Pakistan

The Kashmir Gray Langur is a leaf-eating monkey and lives in several types of forests at altitudes between 2200 and 4000 meters. The Kashmir Gray Langur is considered to be endangered. This is due to its restricted range, fragmented population, and threats from human agriculture and development activities. These langurs…

The distribution of leopard is from the Indus River in the west, and the Himalayas in the north. In the Himalayas they are sympatric with snow leopards up to 5,200 metres (17,100 ft) above sea level. The trend of the population is decreasing. They are becoming increasingly rare outside protected…

The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) is a medium-sized species of bear seen across the Himalayas and the northern parts of Pakistan. They rarely live in elevations of more than 12,000 feet (3,700 m). They usually inhabit elevations around 11,480 feet (3,500 m) in the Himalayas in the summer, and…

In Pakistan, The snow leopard’s geographic distribution runs from the Hindu Kush through the Pamir Mountains, Karakoram, Kashmir and the Himalaya. The estimated population of snow leopards in Pakistan is around 400 to 500. Snow leopards generally weighing between 27 and 55 kg with an occasional large male reaching 75…

Commonly associated with the Deosai Plateau in Pakistan, the Himalayan Brown Bears are the largest animals in the Himalayas and are usually sandy or reddish-brown in colour. Himalayan Brown Bears males range from 1.5m up to 2.2m (4 ft 11in – 7 ft 3in) long, while females are 1.37m to…