Watch your Steppe
Outside the desert is where it all happens.....
Steppe Info
The steppe is typically less dry than a desert. A steppe usually borders a desert. It usually gets 10-20 inches of rain a year. Some common plants are tall dry grass, lots of flowers, and Fringed Sagebrush which is just woody shrub. It is usually -40 degrees fahrenheit in the winter and 100 degrees fahrenheit in the summer.
Some animals in a steppe
American Bison (Buffalo)
Roams the North American Steppe. During the 1800s, the buffalo population dropped from over 60 million to below 2,000. Mainly they were hunted by settlers from the East Coast. Conservation efforts have helped bring the buffalo population to over 350,000
Corsac Fox
Originally from the steppes of Mongolia, these foxes like to live in burrows on steppes and semi-deserts. They are omnivorous and having some competition in getting food, but are pretty good hunters. More social than other foxes, Corsac Foxes live in packs. Migrate to food and run slowly; a slow dog could catch them. Hunting and farming has reduced the number of these foxes, and they have disappeared over the range.
Przewalski Horse
By the late 1960s, the wild Przewalski horse had disappeared from Mongolia’s steppes. These animals originally inhabited the country’s grasslands and arid plains, where they foraged for fruit, grass and other plants and occasionally dined on tree bark and leaves. In 1990, the Mongolian government began reintroducing captive-bred Przewalski horses into Hustai National Park, a 200-square-mile area of steppe set aside for the animals.
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