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Pictures of African Animals Sperm Whale and Sperm Whale Informations
Pictures of African Animals Sperm Whale and Sperm Whale Informations
Sperm Whale is the largest living toothed animal and the largest of all toothed whales. The name was derived from milky-white waxy substance found on its head, which was originally mistaken for sperm or semen. Sperm whale is among the most cosmopolitan species in the world. They can be found from polar waters to the equator across all the oceans and the Mediterranean Sea. Sperm whales can be found at a depth of over 1000 meters in the waters that are not covered with ice., with the exception of Black Sea and probably Red Sea. Significant populations of Sperm Whales are found in Azores (Portuguese Archipelago in Atlantic Ocean) and the Caribbean Island of Dominica.
Bull sperm whales can grow up to 20.5 meters in length. They have a very large head that takes up almost one third of the total length of the animal. Their brain is the largest in all the animals. Sperm whales feed on squids and fish, often diving more than 3 km deep to catch their prey. It is the deepest diving mammal. They produce the largest sound (clicking) among all the animals. Sperm Whales can live for more than 70 years.
Pictures of African Animals Sperm Whale and Sperm Whale Informations
Pictures of African Animals Sperm Whale and Sperm Whale Informations
Pictures of African Animals Sperm Whale and Sperm Whale Informations
Pictures of African Animals Sperm Whale and Sperm Whale Informations
Pictures of African Animals Sperm Whale and Sperm Whale Informations
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Pictures of African Animals Thomson Gazelle and Thomson Gazelle Informations
Pictures of African Animals Thomson Gazelle and Thomson Gazelle Informations
Thomson’s Gazelle is one of he best known gazelle that has been named after Joesph Thomson, a famous wild life explorer. They inhabit Africa’s Savannah and grasslands. They can b found in the Serengeti Regions of Kenya and Tanzania and Ethiopia, Somalia and Sudan. Despite being one of the most common gazelles in its range, their population is very limited due to its range.
Thomson’s Gazelle weigh around 13-22 kg and stand tall 60-90 cm. They have light brown coat with white underparts and a distinctive black stripe. They have long and pointed horn with a slight curvature. They have a white patch on their rump that extends below the tail. Thomson’ Gazelle feed on
Pictures of African Animals Spectacled Dormouse and Spectacled Dormouse Informations
Pictures of African Animals Spectacled Dormouse and Spectacled Dormouse Informations
Spectacled Dormouse is a species of rodents endemic to South Africa. They have their natural habitats in tropical or subtropical dry shrub lands. Dormice are well known for their long periods of hibernation.
Dormice are generally small rodents with a size of 2.5-7.5 inches in length and 15-200 grams in weight, size varying with the particular species. Overall appearance of spectacled dormice is mouse-like except that they are furred animals and they have scaly tails. They tend to spend their larger time in trees or bushes. However, they are also very agile and well-adapted to climbing. Dormice are nocturnal and omnivorous mammals and they have excellent sense of hearing. They are very vocal, often signaling others with a wide range of vocalizations. They primarily feed
Pictures of African Animals Sei Whale and Sei Whale Informations
Pictures of African Animals Sei Whale and Sei Whale Informations
Sei Whale is the third largest living whale after Blue Whale and Fin Whale. Sei Whales can be found throughout the world in all oceans and adjoining seas. They prefer to habitat in off-shore deep waters. They avoid polar and tropical waters and semi-enclosed water bodies. Sei Whale is one of the fastest among all the species and can reach up to a speed of 50 kmph over short distances. Due to large scale commercial hunting and habitat loss, Sei Whales have been declared internationally as Legally Protected Species.
Sei Whales can grow up to 20 meters in length and weight up to 45 tonnes. Size of average adult males is typically 20-30 tonnes in
Pictures of African Animals Riverine Rabbit and Riverine Rabbit Informations
Pictures of African Animals Riverine Rabbit and Riverine Rabbit Informations
Riverine Rabbit, also known as Bushman Rabbit or Bushman Hare, is one of the rarest and most critically endangered mammal, number of living animals being not more than 200.
Pictures of African Animals Red Bush Squirrel and Red Bush Squirrel Informations
Pictures of African Animals Red Bush Squirrel and Red Bush Squirrel Informations
Red Bush Squirrel is a species of rodents in squirrel family, which are found abundantly in Mozambique, Malawi, Somalia, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Their natural habitats are in tropical or subtropical dry forests, tropical or subtropical moist lowland forests and tropical or subtropical dry shrub lands.
Red bush squirrels have a beautiful red bushy appendage. Squirrels are generally very small animals ranging in size from African Pygmy Squirrels, which are
Pictures of African Animals Porcupine and Porcupine Informations
Pictures of African Animals Porcupine and Porcupine Informations
Porcupine is a rodent endemic to both Old World and New World. They are the third largest living rodents in the world, after capybara and beaver. They are well known for their distinctive coat of spines
Pictures of African Animals Barbour’s Rock Mouse and Rock Mouse Informations
Pictures of African Animals Barbour’s Rock Mouse and Rock Mouse Informations
Barbour’s Rock Mouse is a genus of rodents that are native to Southwestern Africa. Their natural habitats subtropical or tropical dry shrub lands and rocky areas. The species is endangered by habitat loss. Other species, known as Pygmy Rock Mouse, are endemic to Angola, Namibia and South Africa. They make their habitats in rocky canyons, cliffs and other areas where there are numerous cracks, fissures and overhanging ledges.
Rock Mouse have a sharp lower point to their V-Shaped infra-orbital canal. Their molar teeth are intermediate between the ancestral cricetid style tooth and dendromurine style tooth. With their sharp incisors, rock mouse can gnaw wood, break into food and bite their predators.
Pictures of African Animals Zebra and Zebra Informations
Pictures of African Animals Zebra and Zebra Informations
Zebra is an African Equids (family of horses) that are well-known for their distinctive white and black stripes. Zebra is usually a social animal that can be seen in small harems to large herds. Besides their unique black and white stripes, they have erect mohawk-like manes. Their closest relatives are donkeys and horses; however, unlike horses and donkeys, zebras have rarely been domesticated. With their distinctive stripes and unique behaviors, zebras remain as one of the most familiar animals among people.
Zebras generally measure 2.3 meter in length, 1.25-1.5 meter height and a weight of about 300 kg. Zebra is a black or dark animal with white and black stripes.
Pictures of African White Rhinoceros and White Rhinoceros Informations
Pictures of African White Rhinoceros and White Rhinoceros Informations
White Rhinoceros, one of the five species of rhinoceros, is one of the few existing animals from giant fauna species. It is also called as ‘square-lipped’ rhinoceros. They are the most social of all the rhinoceros. Out of the two subspecies Southern White Rhinoceros and Northern White Rhinoceros, the population of southern species stands at around 18,000 animals but the population of northern species is just about 13. Critically Endangered Species, Northern White Rhinoceros were formerly abundant in
