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Often called sengi, the elephant shrews or jumping shrews are native to southern Africa. Their common English name derives from their elongated flexible snout and their resemblance to the true shrews. Family: Macroscelididae (elephant shrews) Genus: Elephantulus. Short-snouted elephant shrew, Elephantulus brachyrhynchus LC
In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
The Fauna of Angola comprises more than 2000 species of animals [1] and about 1300 fossil species [2 Wikimedia Commons has media related to Animals of Angola . ^ Huntley, Brian J.; Russo, Vladimir; Lages, Fernanda; Ferrand, Nuno (2019).
An atlas of the amphibians and reptiles of Angola was published in 2018, and reported 117 species of amphibians and 278 of reptiles. [1] A major book on the biodiversity of Angola was published in 2019, and reported more than 2,000 species of organisms (plants, invertebrates and vertebrate animals), [2] and 1,313 fossil species. [3]
The specific name is another Tupi name for the animal, from pé ("path"), caa ("wood"), and ri ("many"), because of the paths through the forest that the animal creates. [79] Tayra (Eira barbara) weasel: Tupi and Guarani: The common name is from the Tupi name of the animal, eîrara, via Spanish or Portuguese, while the generic name is from the ...
Because most of the food elephants eat goes undigested, their dung can provide food for other animals, such as dung beetles and monkeys. [91] Elephants can have a negative impact on ecosystems. At Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda, elephant numbers have threatened several species of small birds that depend on woodlands.
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The forests have been home to a variety of mammals including the African forest elephant, lion and cheetah, but uncontrolled hunting may have completely removed these.. Remaining mammals include the yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus sylvicultor), black-fronted duiker (Cephalophus nigrifrons), blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola), and smaller species such as the tree pangolin (Phataginus ...