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NATURE
General information
Natural Emirates
Key animals
Captive breeding
of rare breeds
Watching whales and
dolphins in the UAE
Scorpions and snakes
The coasts
Desert
The Mountains
Ornithological importance
of UAE
Environmental agencies
Fossil hunting
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THE MOUNTAINS
Towards the mountains, the gravel plains are
thick with stands of Prosopsis juliflora. The most conspicuous plants
of the higher plains are the thorny Astragalus spinosus bushes, the Arabian
almond Amygdalus arabicus and the graceful pink-flowering Moringa peregrina
tree. Down in the gravel plains on the East Coast Acacia tortilis trees
spread their flat-topped umbrellas.
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Populations of mountain predators such as the Arabian leopard, the caracal
lynx, the Arabian wolf and the striped hyena have all been decimated,
to the point of extinction in the case of the wolf and hyena. Wild mammalian
herbivores such as ibex, wild goat, mountain gazelle, Arabian tahr and
rock hyrax also suffered. Today only a few leopard and the notoriously
elusive tahr survive.
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