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Northern Highlands (Eritrea) - Africa
Eritrea, Sudan
Area
30151 km²
Elevation
107 - 2700 m
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Artiodactyla
Dorcas gazelle
Gazella dorcas
Salt's dik-dik
Madoqua saltiana
Soemmerring's gazelle
Nanger soemmerringii
Klipspringer
Oreotragus oreotragus
Greater kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Carnivora
African wolf
Canis lupaster
Caracal
Caracal caracal
Spotted hyena
Crocuta crocuta
Eucyon
Eucyon khoikhoi
Common genet
Genetta genetta
Egyptian mongoose
Herpestes ichneumon
Striped hyena
Hyaena hyaena
White-tailed mongoose
Ichneumia albicauda
Saharan striped polecat
Ictonyx libycus
Striped polecat
Ictonyx striatus
Honey badger
Mellivora capensis
Leopard
Panthera pardus
Aardwolf
Proteles cristata
Rüppell's fox
Vulpes rueppellii
Chiroptera
Trident bat
Asellia tridens
Heart-nosed bat
Cardioderma cor
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Nycteris thebaica
Nycticeinops schlieffenii
Nycticeinops schlieffenii
Lesser horseshoe bat
Rhinolophus hipposideros
Egyptian mouse-tailed bat
Rhinopoma cystops
Greater mouse-tailed bat
Rhinopoma microphyllum
Naked-rumped tomb bat
Taphozous nudiventris
Hyracoidea
Yellow-spotted rock hyrax
Heterohyrax brucei
Rock hyrax
Procavia capensis
Lagomorpha
Cape hare
Lepus capensis
Abyssinian hare
Lepus habessinicus
Primates
Rodentia
Cairo spiny mouse
Acomys cahirinus
African grass rat
Arvicanthis niloticus
Fringe-tailed gerbil
Gerbilliscus robustus
Maned rat
Lophiomys imhausi
Black rat
Rattus rattus
African striped ground squirrel
Xerus erythropus
Unstriped ground squirrel
Xerus rutilus
Tubulidentata
Aardvark
Orycteropus afer