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The Fauna of Asia is incredibly diverse, with the southern tundra of northern Siberia containing reindeer, the taiga forest of Russian Asia being home to small fur-bearing animals, such as sables and foxes. Antelope and rodents including Marmots make their home in the grasslands, tiny musk deer inhabit the mountains of Central Asia. Tigers, which also live in northern Siberia, inhabit the tropical rainforests of South and Southeast Asia. The rainforests are also home to the rhinocerous, monkeys, and several subspecies of elephants.
Several species are also unique to the continent. Orangutans live on Borneo and Sumatra. These apes are the tallest of the ape family after gorillas. The Giant Panda makes its home in southwestern China and snow leopards inhabit the plateaus and mountains of Central Asia. China's Yangtze River is the home of the freshwater Chinese River Dolphin, threatened by water pollution, fishing and larger amounts of motorized river vessels. [1] The largest lizard in the world, the Komodo dragon, lives on a small island in eastern Indonesia.
Many of Asia's species are threatened by extinction from human activity such as agriculture, hunting and forestry, most notably, China's giant panda, Sumatra's rhinocerous, and Southeast Asia's orangutan. [2]