Images Western Mongolia 2003: Animals
Impressions of a field trip to Western Mongolia. Selected photos of animals and their habitat.
The excursions during which the pictures on this site were taken, were made possible by the help of funding by the Volkswagen foundation.
 Phrynocephalus versicolor Lizards in a artemisia-dominated semidesert, fixed, somewhat loamy sand |
 Habitat: stony Anabasis desert, fixed soil with pebble and many stones |
 Locust in plain rubblefield with stony Anabasis desert |
 Butterfly at Trifolium lupinaster in light larch forest |
 Locust (?) in chenopodiaceae-dominated vegetation, around a broken well, stony soil |
 grazing cattle in Zhargalant-Khayrkhan-Uul mountains, sparse Caragana bungei shrubs |
 Habitat: rather dry alpine meadow in Zhargalant-Khayrkhan-Uul mountains |
 Wasp in plain rubblefield with stony Anabasis desert |
 Parnassius mnemosyne in alpine meadows, Zhargalant-Khayrkhan-Uul mountains |
(photos by M. Schnittler)