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>Search Results for 'Africa Mammals Guide'
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FAQ on Lion
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The best answer to this question would be that the most aggressive animal will win and survive. When more than one Lion is present at a kill, the aggression and noise will rise...
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FAQ on Buffalo
Africa Mammals Guide Information: A bull matures at the age of eight years. By then their horns are massive. They can weigh up to 900kg (1984 pounds) and grown bulls can stand up to a height of 1.7m and can reach a length of 3.4m...
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FAQ on Rhino
Africa Mammals Guide Information: A rhino can be found dozing under a tree during a hot day, but when they take a deep sleep, they lie down with their feet curled up slightly to the one side...
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FAQ on Elephant
Africa Mammals Guide Information: No, Elephant sacred burial grounds do not really exist. The belief arose from a variety of reasons. Tribal people collected ivory from dead elephants or by killing them...
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FAQ on Primates
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Baboons probably developed features like big muzzles because of their food intake and as a way to defend themselves. The large canines help them attack...
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FAQ on Africa Antelope
Africa Mammals Guide Information: When certain antelope is excited, they will flex the lower joints of all four their legs. This will propel the animal to an unusual height with their legs totally straightened...
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FAQ on Africa Cats
Africa Mammals Guide Information: This action by cats enables them to keep their claws sharp and clean. Cats also use this action to stretch the tendons that flex the claws in order to remove the build-up from the sheath area...
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Wild Cat facts
Africa Mammals Guide Information: 65-day gestation period. Female gives birth to two or three kittens. The young suckle for approximately one month and accompany their mother on hunting trips from around three months...
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Cape Clawless Otter
Africa Mammals Guide Information: This Otter is larger than the only other species which occurs in southern Africa, the Spotted-Necked Otter. It is long-necked, sleek-furred and short-legged with a long, flattened but pointed-tipped tail which it uses as a rudder. The Cape Clawless ...
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Black Backed Jackal
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Light reddish brown. The 'saddle' on its back is black with white speckles. The tail is moderately bushy, fairly long, and sandy, marked with darker hairs, and usually with a dark tip. The eyes are very keen in expression and yellowish in colou
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Springhare
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The fore-legs of the Springhare are short, the hind-legs very long and powerful. The colour varies from a light fawnish-brown to yellow-brown. The chin is white and the lower parts off-white. The long tail is reddish ending in a broad black tip. T ...
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Spotted Hyaena
Africa Mammals Guide Information: It's about as big as a large, powerfully built dog, but with a back that slopes fairly sharply from the exceptionally strong shoulders towards the more lightly built hindquarters. It is greyish-drab to rufous in body colour and is covered with large, ...
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Sable Antelope
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Both males and females have horns which curve backwards. The colour is dark brown which becomes darker with age. The belly and backside of the buttocks below the tail are white. The female is dark brown in colour; the calf is light brown. The fac ...
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Honey Badger
Africa Mammals Guide Information: This thick-set, badger-like animal is unmistakable with its silvery-grey saddle which runs from above the eyes to the base of the tail, which contrasts with the black lower parts of the body. It is armed with stout knife-like claws with which it digs ...
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Common Duiker
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The colour of this antelope varies from yellowish-grey-brown to reddish-yellow-brown with fine speckles. The belly and the inner sides of the limbs are white. The male has a tuft of long hair between the horns. An outstanding characteristic is the ...
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Bushpig
Africa Mammals Guide Information: They are covered in coarse, wiry bristles which form a mane-like erectile crest along the top of the head, neck and shoulders. This crest is usually dirty white in colour, contrasting with the reddish- to greyish-brown of the flanks and rump. The ea ...
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African Civet
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The colour of this cat-like animal is whitish-grey with indistinct spots on the front quarters and regular black spots, which merge to stripes, on the hindquarters. There is a black stripe down the back starting from between the ears and extending to ...
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Zebra
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Three Zebra endemic to Southern Africa are the Cape Mountain Zebra, which is very rare; Hartman's Mountain Zebra, found mostly in Namibia and Burchells Zebra which is the most common of the three...
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Forest Shrew
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Forest Shrew is a mottled, medium-sized shrew. Colouration is grey-brown to dark grey-brown. Head and body length is about 83 mm, with a relative short tail of about 45 mm...
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White-Tailed Rat
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The White-Tailed Rat is a thickset, mouse-like rodent with soft wooly fur. The body is coated with a buffy-grey coloured fur...
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