Himalaya Mountains

Types of plants in the Himalayans

There are thousands of beautiful plants in the Himalayas.

Mushrooms, grasslands, tropical forests and evergreens grow in the mountain range.

More species of plants grow in the subalpine evergreens than anywhere else.

People have destroyed much of the exotic forests. Above everything is snow covered mountains where

nothing grows.

Animals

There are also lots of animals that live in the Himalayas.

Black bear, tigers, elephant, deer, red pandas, shrews, and giant pandas all live in parts of the Himalayas.

Birds such as golden eagles and an alpine cough also live there.

Reptiles, amphibians, and fish live in the lower part of the Himalayas .

Weasels, squirrels and other animals live in montane zone.

Animal Adaptations

Animals adapt in lots of different ways, some even adapt in the same way.

Birds adapt by migrating somewhere warmer for the winter and a couple others.

Bears and other types of animals hibernate in the winter and come out in spring.

Mountain goats, mountain sheep, bears, and mountain lions all grow thick fur. Then when spring comes they shed some of it off.

Endangered Species

Animals in the Himalayas are endangered like snow leopards because of their beautiful thick fur. Pandas are also endangered.

Himalayan black bears are also endangered because of their gall bladder. That provides a very good type of medicine.

Some others are rhinoceros, buffalos, gharial crocodiles and lots of others.

Food Chain

If little fish went missing that would do a lot of harm. because fish are small you may think they aren’t important, but they are.

If that happened that would effect bears because that is their main food.

The bears would then have no food to eat and they would all go exciented. Then that would effect humans because they hunt bears.

Extreme Conditions

Some extreme conditions are ~ shortage of oxygen ~ varying weather and temperature ~difficult terrain

Natural and Human Interference

Human interferences in this habitat are hikers climbing up the mountain and walking through animals homes.

Logging in the forests is also a huge interference.Human interference is causing shortage of butterflies. It

is showing a 50 percent decline. Rock slides in the Himalayas because it destroys animals

homes.

Other InfoIf these mountains were not there, the rain clouds sweeping up from the Indian Ocean would

have passed over India then into central Asia and leaving it as a burning desert. The Himalayas are 2,400 in length and varying in width. They are made up of three parts the Greater Himalaya, the Lesser Himalaya, and the Outer

Himalaya. The largest mountain in the Himalaya is Mt. Everest. This mountain range was created when two plates moved together from India and Eurasia. The Himalayas have many great rivers flowing through the mountains. The Himalayas are also known as Him van, Him vat, Himachal, and Himadri. Mountains are

important because it provides a good source of water

Pictures

Pictures

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BY ASHLEY KIMLER