Mountain viper
The mountain viper is a color-blind snake that can change its body color according to each living situation. The mountain viper, whose scientific name is Ovophis monticola, is a color-blind snake, capable of changing its body color according to each living situation. Because they are color blind, they often hide during the day and search for food at night. This snake is extremely poisonous to warm-blooded animals.
Their name comes from the striking color characteristics on the body of the green cobra. Their back is covered with green scales. The abdomen is light green or yellow. The body of this snake is large in the middle and gradually becomes smaller towards the tail and neck. This snake is also special because it has a triangular, green head that is much larger than its neck. The red eyes always look forward to look for prey and avoid threats.
Green vipers usually live on trees or on the ground in forests, bushes, grasslands or bamboo forests. With their green bodies, when hunting and running away from enemies, they can easily hide and camouflage in the foliage.
Mountain vipers usually hunt at night, and during the day they burrow into caves or tree hollows. This snake's food is small mammals, lizards, and birds. This snake species is mainly distributed in India, Myanmar, China, Thailand, Vietnam and some other countries in South Asia. In Vietnam, green snakes are found widely in the Northern, Central and Central Highlands mountainous provinces.
Pakistani mountain serow
Chamois fur changes color and length depending on the season. In summer, the fur is light brown, gray, or gray with a reddish tinge, smooth and short. In the cold winter, the fur turns grayer, grows denser and longer. The underbelly fur is white. The fur on the shins is black and white. The Pakistani mountain serow is a sexually dimorphic species, males have a white or dark mane (like that of a horse or lion), growing long and hanging down on the chin, neck, chest and shins. Females have short, red fur, appear slender, have short black whiskers and no mane.
Like many other wild goats, Pakistani mountain markhor are very skillful and agile climbers, they can stand on steep cliffs; You can even jump over rocky terrain easily. The Pakistani mountain serow is adapted to mountainous terrain, found between 600 and 3,600 meters above sea level, depending on the season, living at higher altitudes in summer, lower in winter. This species often lives in scrub forests, growing mainly on oak (Quercus ilex), pine (Pinus gerardiana), and juniper (Juniperus macropoda). The serow is also adapted to the arid, steep canyons of the sparsely wooded mountains of the western Himalayas in Central Asia.
In summer, Pakistani mountain markhors usually lie in open places, in the shade of mountains or under small bushes, they never lie on rocks or flat places. Chamois often rest on hot days. In winter, Pakistani mountain markhor often move about 2–5 km daily, to the southern slopes or warm areas of the mountain. To avoid deep, dense snowfall, avoid glaciers at high altitudes. Chamois will take shelter under rock arches near the base of cliffs, shelters that often have good visibility.
This is a diurnal species, active all day, peaking in the early morning and evening.