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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 ...
The African forest turtle is a side-necked turtle; unable to fully withdraw their heads into their shells, they draw them to the side and fold them beneath the upper edge of their shells. This species is characterized by a flattened, brown carapace with a black dorsal line. The plastron hinge is located in rear position.
African Walnut (Lovoa trichilioides): This hardwood is prized for its use in furniture making and cabinetry and is also available in Nigerian lowland forests. [27] The Non-timber forest products from Nigerian lowland forests include: Medicinal Plants: The forests are rich in medicinal plants with cultural and economic value.
Amazing Animals (sometimes marketed as Henry's Amazing Animals for home video) is an educational children's animated TV show series nature program produced by Dorling Kindersley Vision and Partridge Films in association with the Disney Channel. [1] It was originally broadcast on the service in 1996. It also aired on Family Channel in Canada. It ...
The African millipede Archispirostreptus gigas is one of the largest in the world. 20 genera of freshwater crabs are present. [23] The soil animal communities tropical Africa are poorly known. A few ecological studies have been undertaken on macrofauna, mainly in West Africa. [24] Earthworms are being extensively studied in West and South ...
In the adjoining rainforest, specialties include western square-tailed drongo and glossy-backed drongo, the African oriole and black-headed orioles, painted-snipe, several species of dove, Klaas' and diederik cuckoos, as well as kingfishers, bee-eaters, rollers, and bushshrikes, including the fiery-breasted bushshrike, flocks of iridescent ...
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.
Sapo National Park is a national park in Sinoe County, Liberia.It is the country's largest protected area of rainforest, [1] was the first national park established in the country, [2] [3] and contains the second-largest area of primary tropical rainforest in West Africa after Taï National Park in neighbouring Côte d'Ivoire. [4]