Animal world is spread on the territory of Kamchatka in accordance with peculiarities of the relief, climate, vegetation. In the northern districts there prevail animals of tundra zone, on the peninsula – taiga.
Animal world of each zone is various.
Sufficient part in the forming of animal world of the region plays its isolation in post-glacier period . Here live now brown bear, rein-deer, snow-ship, hare, wolverine, lynx.
On the other side Kamchatka isolation brought to appearance on new species of animals – Kamchatka sable and kamchatka marmot.
The special feature of animal world is lack of snails.
For the birds the surrounding seas are not an obstacle. There are more than 200 species of them here, mostly sea-ones. Main of them come to Kamchatka for nestling.
From sea-mammals there are different types of seals in shore waters. Numerous of them fur-seals and sea-lions. Fur-seals have big rookeries on Komandorkiye islands and come there only in summer period. Sea-lions live by small groups almost everywhere in Kamchatka. On Komandorkiye islands live sea-otters.
The main wealth of Kamchatka is salmon - humpbacked salmon, sock-eye (red salmon), silver salmon, king salmon, masu, rainbow trout. Also herring, cod, navaga, halibut, flounder, etc.
