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Wildebeest is Dutch for 'wild beast', 'wild ox' or 'wild cattle' in Afrikaans (bees 'cattle'), [citation needed] The name was given by Dutch settlers who saw them on their way to the interior of South Africa in about 1700 because they resemble wild ox. The blue wildebeest was first known to westerners in the northern part of South Africa a ...
Namibia has 115 species of fish (five endemic). [1] There are about 50 species of frogs (six endemic) [2] but neither caecilians nor salamanders. [1] Namibia is home to 250 species of reptiles with 59 endemic. [2] There were 1331 recorded species of arachnids with 164 endemic [2] but there are potentially 5650 species. [2]
The age that blue wildebeest live to in the wild is debatable. Blue wildebeest have one of the most efficient locomotor muscles in terms of energy used for mechanical work and wasted as heat, with 62.6% of energy being converted into movement and the remainder in heat. [25]
The population is now trending upward (particularly on private land) and for this reason the International Union for Conservation of Nature, in its Red List of Threatened Species, rates the black wildebeest as being of least concern Its introduction into Namibia has been a success and numbers have increased substantially there from 150 in 1982 ...
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Namibia. Of the mammal species in Namibia, one is critically endangered, four are endangered, five are vulnerable, and seven are near threatened. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Namibia (/ n ə ˈ m ɪ b i ə / ⓘ, / n æ ˈ-/), [15] [16] officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean . It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the east and south.
Some of the animals tended are lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, caracals and baboons. The animals reported in the wild of the sanctuary are giraffe, zebra, kudu, hartebeest, springbok, eland, jackal and also wild cheetahs and leopards. [37] The sanctuary has developed a new method to identify cheetahs in the wild based on their paw prints.
Pages in category "Mammals of Namibia" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *