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The Nafud desert or simply The Nafud (Arabic: صحراء النفود, romanized: ṣahrā' an-nafūd) is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at , occupying a great oval depression. It is 290 kilometres (180 mi) long and 225 kilometres (140 mi) wide, with an area of 103,600 square kilometres (40,000 sq mi).
"Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-ṣughrá" (The Lesser Life of Animals) is another work by al-Damiri, which is a shorter version of this more comprehensive "Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-kubrā." While the larger work covers a wide range of animals in great detail, the "Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān al-ṣughrá" focuses on a more concise collection of animals ...
Hamadryas baboons in the Hijaz Mountains near Al Hada, Makkah Province, Hejaz. The fauna of Saudi Arabia has been better studied than the flora, not least because of interest in the larger mammals for the purpose of hunting and shooting. Birds and butterflies have also been studied, but less is known about other parts of the animal kingdom. [6]
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 ]
Nafud al-ʽUrayq Natural Reserve is a protected area in Saudi Arabia managed by the Saudi Wildlife Authority. [1] Overview. The natural reserve is located in Najd in ...
[1] [2] His name, Qitmir, in Arabic is the name of a small membrane on separating a date from its seed. He is sometimes called Ar-Raqim (Arabic: الرقيم), although narrations identify that Ar-Raqim was the name of the cave, or the name of a "brass plate, or stone table". [3] [4] He is regarded as one of the most important animals of Islam.
Gilf Kebir Plateau lies in the heart of the eastern part of the vast Sahara Desert, and, thus, gets some of the most extreme climates on Earth.This is the driest place on the planet, not only because the area is totally rainless (the annual average rainfall amount hardly reaches 0.1 mm) but also because the geological aridity index/dryness ratio is over 200, which means that the solar energy ...
The order Primates consists of 505 extant species belonging to 81 genera. This does not include hybrid species or extinct prehistoric species. Modern molecular studies indicate that the 81 genera can be grouped into 16 families; these families are divided between two named suborders and are grouped in those suborders into named clades, and some of these families are subdivided into named ...