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was initially classified as a National Forest and partial Wildlife Reserve ... Pendjari River has an impressive gallery forest. The park includes both Sudan ...

ostriches, emus, rheas, kiwis, and elephant birds. The flightless penguins ... The African ostrich is the largest living ratite. A large member of ...

in the western mountains and the Nyungwe forest, near Lake Kivu. expanded its focus to the Nyungwe Forest. The largest known mid-altitude ...

it is home to one of the most intact forest ecosystems in the nation ... The endangered African Forest Elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is also ...

(1,600 ft) in the heartland of the West African savanna, has characteristic ... constituted as a Bauchi Native Authority Forest Reserve. ...

as Middle Africa, defines a portion of the African continent south of the Sahara ... *Central African Republic *Chad *Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

The term "Great Lakes" in the African context is a rather ... are included on most lists of the African Great Lakes: ...

it upside down. It is also cited in older African lore: after creation, each ... Saharan Africa and Australia. The mainland African species also occurs on ...

poaching that has reduced Kenya's elephant herds to 17,000 from 65 ... uplands of the park have highland dry forest with stands of Olea africana ...

elephant (Loxodonta africana), the African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis ... Loxodonta cyclotis, known as the African forest elephant. On the other hand ...

in 1959, emerging into Gabon, the Central African Republic, Congo, and Chad ... the north, Sudan to the east, the Central African Republic to the south, Cameroon ...

The Central African Republic is a landlocked country in Central Africa ... The Central African Republic that is one of the poorest countries ...

Afrosoricida is an order of small African mammals that contains two ... name that means "looking like African shrews," reflecting ...

These islands are believed to have once been part of the African continent ... have once been covered by dense evergreen forest, what remains are small patches ...

of species includes black rhinoceros, elephant, cheetah, lion, leopard ... is confined to narrow strips of matted forest that skirt the first few ...

kg (12 tons), more than twice the weight of an elephant. ... The African and the Asian rhinoceros have some distinct characteristics ...

above the tree line as well as the six forest corridors that extend downslope ... *dense cloud forest; *open moorland; *alpine desert; *moss and lichen ...

animals. Lions have been known to prey on African elephants, the world's ... **** African Golden Cat (Profelis aurata) *** Genus Catopuma ...

Examples: Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Arakan Forest Turtle ... * Asian Elephant (Elephas maximus) * Aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) ...

the higher plateaus and peaks have dense forest, and some plants found nowhere ... tamarind, and locust bean. There is rain forest along the border with Liberia. ...

became a republic and member of the Franco-African Community. Full independence ... In the aftermath of the coup, ECOWAS and African Union suspended Burkina ...

African dance occupies central place in cultures throughout the African ... African dance is connected to Africa’s rich musical traditions expressed ...

vital habitat for gorillas, chimpanzees, forest elephants and other wildlife ... WCS and National Geographic across the Congo Basin forest. ...

are dangerous to keep in captivity. The African buffalo has an unpredictable ... hierarchy, whilst antelopes and giant forest hogs are territorial when ...

both north and south of the equatorial forest zone (Donegan 2002). The ... the largest bird ever, the now-extinct Elephant Bird (Aepyornis). However ...

and can be described as a tropical rain forest for the eastern half of the ... It has been seen by many as a "white elephant." ...

the second largest country by area on the African continent and the richest ... Congo War (sometimes referred to as the African World War) described as ...

in the literary journal, The White Elephant. Baum never stayed away ... A completely new Tony Award-winning Broadway musical based on African ...

by around 80 million people in Southeast African lingua franca, making it ... inhabiting about 1,500 miles of the East African coastline, has become a ...

although they may take to bush and forest. Lions are unusually social ... percent over the past two decades in its African range. Lion populations ...

* Amaranthus gangeticus elephant head amaranth * Amaranthus graecizans ... * Amaranthus muricatus African amaranth * Amaranthus obcordatus Trans ...

together with many smaller groups of miners, such as African Americans ... Early American Writing, chapter 11: "African American Literature of the ...

of the independent states of the South African Republic and the Kingdom ... upon the affairs of the subjected African nations. The tension between ...

the sea receding was not reported on the African coast or any other western ... and few deaths as the wave broke up on a forest of 80,244 trees planted along ...

hosts the largest natural Lebanon cedar forest in Europe ... protected region together the Palm Beach Forest of Vai in the municipality ...

and demanded a triumph for his African victories, which Sulla at ... Pierce. The Annals of the World. Green Forest, AR: Master Books, 2006. ...

of modern naval power, he borrowed a West African proverb, "speak softly ... also received attention for seconding an African American for the position ...

the tsunami would have followed the South African coast from east to west ... temple and a relic depicting an elephant, belongs to what archaeologists ...

in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in ... the bones of Joseph Merrick (the "Elephant Man") and, although ...

bighorn sheep, caracara, zebras, African elephant, macaw, hippo, ... identified as Black, Afro-Mexican, or of African descent. ...