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Bird
House Sparrow
Birds (class Aves) are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic (warm-blooded), egg-laying, vertebrate animals. There are around 10,000 living species, making them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They ...
Mongolian Ground Jay
Mongolian Ground Jay is 30cm long, an inhabitant in desert, steppe with bushes and shrubs and wild area with knobs and hills in the south of the country. It eats small insects, plants’ seeds and lizards. In Marc...
Bohemian waxwing
Bohemian waxwing is 20 cm long. It can be seen in the mountains of Khangai and Khentii mountain- ranges, around the lake Buir and the river Khalkh, Khyangan territory, and Gobi beyond Altai. It builds own nest on tree...
Fish
Taimen
It is the biggest fish in Mongolia, and it is 65-150 cm long. It weighs up to 30-50 kg. Nowadays the number of taimen is decreasing, so it is one the rare fishes. That’s why a foundation to protect the fish has ...
Sturgeon
Catching sturgeon is prohibited by the law in Mongolia. It is one of the rarest fishes in the world. Sturgeons live only in 3 rivers in Mongolia.
Flower
Saussurea dorogostaiskii Palib
It grows in binate and mass on high rocks and cliffs. It is called “A flower of the Sky”. So, to pick up the flower, there is a special custom, making up a tent over the flower to hide from the Sky and ge...
Edelweiss
Mongolia is rich with edelweiss. There are 2-3 species of edelweiss in Mongolia. Because of its popularity people don’t know its features well. Field, where edelweiss has grown in mass is avoided to use as pastu...
Mining
Oyu Tolgoi
Oyu tolgoi is a mine which is located in Khanbogd, Umnugobi province. It is rich with minerals’ deposit of 16 million tons of copper and over 600 tons of gold. 34% of the mining is owned by the Government of Mon...
Tavan Tolgoi
Tavan Tolgoi is a mine which is located in Tsogttsetsii, Umnugobi province. It has 6 billion tons of coal deposit. And over a ton of them is as coking goal. It is owned by “Tavan Tolgoi” shareholding comp...
The other
Mongolian death worm
The Mongolian death worm (Mongolian: олгой-хорхой, olgoi-khorkhoi, "large intestine worm") is a creature purported to exist in the Gobi Desert. It is generally considered a cryptozoological creature (cryptid): one who...
Currency
In the history of Mongolia coin was used during the VI-VIII (Tureg Dinasty), VIII-XI (Uigur dynasty), X-XI (Kidan) and XIII-XIV (Mongolian Great Imperia) centuries. Great Khaan Chinggis ordered to cast the first coin ...
Eggs of Dinosaur
Dinosaur petrified eggs are found mostly in Mongolian Gobi. Some people want to sell them and gain illegal profit. It is no odd today local people ask for us to buy dinosaur eggs, when we take tourists on tours in Gob...
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