A wide diversity of mammals, birds, insects, and reptiles can be found in a deciduous forest biome. A biome can be described as a large, naturally occurring community of plants and animals inhabiting a major habitat.
In India, Lion, tiger, pig, deer, and elephant are some of the animals that make these forests their homes.
Outside India, in the United States, mammals that are generally found in a deciduous forest include bears, raccoons, squirrels, skunks, wood mice and even deer.
In North America, birds like broad-winged hawks, cardinals, snowy owls, and pileated woodpeckers are found in this biome.
Mammals in the North American moderate deciduous forests include white-tailed deer, raccoons, opossums, porcupines and red foxes.