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Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures North African elephant: Loxodonta africana pharaoensis: North Africa: Neolithic rock art indicates that the African bush elephant inhabited much of the Sahara desert and North Africa at the beginning of the Holocene, and Ancient authors wrote that it was present in the Atlas Mountains, the Red Sea coast, and Nubia until the first few ...
This is a list of African type primates, containing all recent species of primates found in Africa including Madagascar. According to the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group there are currently 216 species (111 in the mainland while the 105 are found in Madagascar). [ 1 ]
Pages in category "Lists of animals of Africa" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Wild African elephants may address each other using individualized calls that resemble the personal names used by humans, a new study suggests.. While dolphins are known to call one another by ...
African elephants call each other and respond to individual names — something that few wild animals do, according to new research published Monday. Scientists believe that animals with complex ...
The fauna of Africa are all the animals living in Africa and its surrounding seas and islands. The more characteristic African fauna are found in the Afro-tropical realm . [ 1 ] Lying almost entirely within the tropics , and stretching equally north and south of the equator creates favorable conditions for variety and abundance of wildlife.
The name "giraffe" has its earliest known origins in the Arabic word zirāfah (زِرَافَةْ), of an ultimately unclear Sub-Saharan African language origin. [2] The Middle English and early Modern English spellings, jarraf and ziraph, derive from the Arabic form-based Spanish and Portuguese girafa. [3]
‘The fear of humans is ingrained and pervasive,’ study co-author says Human voices are scarier for animals in African savannah than a lion’s growl Skip to main content