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Pages in category "Lists of animals of Africa" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. ... List of African dinosaurs; List of African animals ...
The heaviest land mammal is the African bush elephant, which has a weight of up to 10.1 t (11.1 short tons).It measures 10–13 ft at the shoulder and consumes around 230 kg (500 lb) of vegetation a day.
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.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Africa.The area covered by this list is the Africa region defined by the American Birding Association's listing rules. [1] In addition to the continent itself, the area includes Madagascar, Mauritius, Rodrigues, Seychelles, Cape Verde, the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar and the Canary Islands, São Tomé and Príncipe and Annobón in the Gulf of Guinea.
North America, Eurasia, Africa: research, animal feed 6c Other arthropods: African (Xenopus laevis) and western clawed frogs (X. tropicalis) the 1950s (uncertain for X. tropicalis) Southern Africa, West Africa: research, pets Captive-bred 4a Anura: Sea-monkey (Artemia nyos) the 1950s the United States: pets, research Captive-bred 6c Other ...
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 blue wildebeest was first known to westerners in the northern part of South Africa a century later, in the 1800s. [9] Some sources claim the name gnu originates from the Khoekhoe name for these animals, t'gnu. [10] Others contend the name and its pronunciation in English go back to the word !nu: used for the black wildebeest by the San people.
East African black mud turtle: Pelusios subniger: East Africa Geometric tortoise: Psammobates geometricus: Cape area of South Africa Leopard tortoise: Stigmochelys pardalis: savannah from Sudan to South Africa [2] Lobatse hinge-back tortoise: Kinixys lobatsiana: Southern Africa: African softshell turtle: Trionyx triunguis: parts of East, West ...