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The western or lowland bongo, T. e. eurycerus, faces an ongoing population decline, and the IUCN Antelope Specialist Group considers it to be Near Threatened on the conservation status scale. [2] The eastern or mountain bongo, T. e. isaaci, of Kenya, has a coat even more vibrant than that of T. e. eurycerus. The mountain bongo is only found in ...
The typical habitat for the mountain nyala is composed of montane woodlands at an altitude of 3,000–3,400 m (9,800–11,200 ft). The vegetation generally includes African juniper ( Juniperus procera ), Afrocarpus gracilior , and Olea at lower levels and Hagenia abyssinica , juniper, and Hypericum revolutum in the upper reaches.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is the only country in the world in which bonobos are found in the wild. Bas-Congo landscape. The wildlife of the Democratic Republic of the Congo includes its flora and fauna, comprising a large biodiversity in rainforests, seasonally flooded forests and grasslands.
The endangered eastern bongo species, a type of antelope, became one calf safer from extinction after a recent Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens birth. The endangered eastern bongo species, a type of ...
The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. Location of the Central African Republic. The wildlife of the Central African Republic is in the vast natural habitat in the Central African Republic (CAR) located between the Congo Basin's rain forests and large savannas, where the human density was smaller than 0.5 per km 2 prior to 1850.
Nyota, a 2-year-old Eastern bongo, arrived at the Milwaukee County Zoo in October 2023. Now, all three Eastern bongos can be seen by visitors in the African Forest habitat.
The Congo forest is home to the okapi, African forest elephant, pygmy hippopotamus, bongo (antelope), chimpanzee, bonobo and the Congo peafowl. Its apex predator is the Leopard, which are larger than their savannah counterparts due to lack of competition from other large predators. The basin is home to the endangered western lowland gorilla. In ...
The scientific name of the giant eland is Taurotragus derbianus, derived from three words: tauros, tragos, and derbianus.Tauros is Greek for a bull or bullock. [3] [4] Tragos is Greek for a male goat, and refers to the tuft of hair that grows in the eland's ear which resembles a goat's beard.