What animals inhabit the Baikal coasts?
Brown bear. It often occurs only in the Khamar-Daban, Baikalsk, Barguzin ranges. May be observed and hunted. Noble deer. Around Baikal there is its subspecies Manchurian deer. Noble deer is abundant only in the Khamar-Daban range and along the slopes of the western coast of Baikal. May be observed and hunted. Forest northern deer. It is often met on elevations of the Baikalsk and Barguzin ranges may be observed and hunted. Musk deer. It is the smallest deer, the sole representative of the family Moschidae in Russia. It is very abundant in the Khamar-Daban Range, in other mountainous regions is scarce. The number of game mammals has dramatically decreased lately due to uncontrolled hunting.
