Editing Tehachapi Mountains (section)

===Fauna===
The [[Tehachapi slender salamander]] is [[endemism|endemic]] to the Tehachapi Mountains and a listed [[vulnerable species]]. The [[white-eared pocket mouse]] is [[endemism|endemic]] to the Tehachapis and [[San Bernardino Mountains]] and a listed [[endangered species]].

There are at least 107 bird species, including the [[Steller's jay]] and [[mountain chickadee]], found in the Tehachapis,<ref>{{cite web|title=Tehachapi Sightings|date=December 2010|first=Jean|last=Moore|work=Tehachapi Mountain Birding Club|url=http://www.tehachapibirdclub.com/sightings/monthly-sightings/296-tehachapi-sightings-dec-10.html}}</ref> many which consume acorns of the black oak (''Quercus kelloggii'') as part of their diet.<ref>{{cite web|first=C. Michael|last=Hogan|year=2008|title=Quercus kelloggii|work=Globaltwitcher|editor=N. Stromberg|url=http://www.globaltwitcher.com/artspec_information.asp?thingid=82385|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213134008/http://www.globaltwitcher.com/artspec_information.asp?thingid=82385|archive-date=2012-02-13}}</ref> Other flora found here include the [[Purshia tridentata|buckbrush]] and [[mountain mahogany]].  The notable [[Bird of prey|raptor]] is the [[California condor]], a [[critically endangered species]].  As in many California mountains, larger fauna includes: [[mule deer]], [[mountain lion]], [[coyote]], [[fox]], [[American black bear|black bear]], [[domestic pig|feral pig]], [[bobcat]] and [[raccoon]].

The Tehachapi Mountains are also the only known breeding site prior to 1860 of the [[jaguar]] in the United States. The big cats were found there as recently as the late 1800s.<ref name=Seton>{{cite journal |title=Is the Jaguar Entitled to a Place in the California Fauna? |author=Merriam, C. Hart |journal=Journal of Mammalogy |year=1919|volume=1|pages=38–40 |doi=10.1093/jmammal/1.1.38}}</ref>