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Pictures of African Animals Okapi and Okapi Informations

The Okapi is an African animal that lives in the Ikupi Rainforest near the Congo River Basin.  It is also otherwise known as the African Unicorn or the Rainforest Zebra. In the 1900s, a British explorer named Sir Harry Johnston discovered the Okapi.

Scientific studies of the Okapi’s anatomy reveal that it is a cross between a horse, a zebra, and a giraffe. It has a coat that is dark brown to purple in color with the sides of its face colored red. Their notable feature is found in its buttocks, things, and forelegs, where you fill find horizontal white and black rings

The Okapi can live as long as 30 years in captivity. When left in the wild, the life expectancy is shorter, but is still unknown until this present day. It is a grazing animal that thrives on eating leaves, fruits, seeds, ferns and young shoots of forest plants.

Pictures of African Animals Okapi and Okapi 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  weight and 15-20 meters in length. They primarily feed on krills, zooplanktons and copepods, often consuming around 900-1000 kg of food every day. Females are generally larger than males. Their body is dark steel grey with irregular grey to white markings on the ventral surface. They have a tall tickle-shaped dorsal fin, measuring about 25-61 cm high. Tail of Sei Whale is thick and lobe is relatively small in comparison to the overall body size.

Pictures of African Animals Sei Whale and Sei Whale Informations

Pictures of African Animals Sei Whale and Sei Whale Informations

Pictures of African Animals Sei Whale and Sei Whale Informations

Pictures of African Animals Sei Whale and Sei Whale 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  or quills, similar to the one on hedgehogs. African Porcupines exist in Sub-Saharan Africa, North Africa, Italy and Sicily. African Porcupines are also known as Crested Porcupines. They are terrestrial and nocturnal mammals and rarely climb trees but they can swim.

Porcupines are a rounded, slow-moving and large animals with a size of 12-35 pounds in weight, 25-35 inches in length excluding tail that measures about 8-10 inches. Porcupines come in various shades of brown, grey and an unusual white. They are fairly large animals with quills in clusters. Their quills or spines are nothing but modified hair that have been thickened by plates of keratins. Depending upon the species, quills may take different forms and shapes. They are mostly herbivorous animals and feed on roots, bulbs, crops, plants and other vegetations. Sometimes, they also east insects and small vertebrates.

Pictures of African Animals Porcupine and Porcupine Informations

Pictures of African Animals Porcupine and Porcupine Informations

Pictures of African Animals Porcupine and Porcupine Informations

Pictures of African Animals Porcupine and Porcupine Informations

Pictures of African Animals Spotted Necked Otter and Spotted Necked Otter Informations

Spotted-Necked Otter or Speckle-Throated Otter, is an otter native to Sub-Saharan Africa. They are large animals, which can be found in large rivers, lakes and ponds. It is an extremely clever animal capable of using rocks to break open shells. They are very vocal animals, which can make high-pitched thin whistles. They rely on vision for hunting and thus prefer to remain in clear water. Species of spotted-necked otters is vulnerable and critically endangered due to habitat destructions and pollutions.

Like other otters, they are sleek animals with powerful webbed paws that are used for swimming. They have deep brown fur with light colored spotted markings on its throat. The average length of spotted-necked otters is one meter and it weighs around 3-4 kg. They feed on fish, crustaceans and  other aquatic creatures such as frogs. Crocodiles are their natural predators in water while on land, large pythons, eagles and men are their predators. Most of the time, they prefer to remain in water.

Pictures of African Animals Spotted Necked Otter and Spotted Necked Otter Informations

Pictures of African Animals Spotted Necked Otter and Spotted Necked Otter Informations

Pictures of African Animals Spotted Necked Otter and Spotted Necked Otter Informations

Pictures of African Animals Spotted Necked Otter and Spotted Necked Otter Informations

Pictures of African Animals Spotted Necked Otter and Spotted Necked Otter Informations

Pictures of African Animals Elephant and Elephant Informations

Elephants are the largest land mammals with three living species African Bush Elephant, African Forest Elephant and Asian Elephant or Indian Elephant. Elephants have appeared in cultures across the world. They are famed for their memory and intelligence. In Asian cultures, elephants are considered as symbol of wisdom. Once numbering in the millions, population of African elephants has dwindled to around 500,000 to 700,000 owing to the increasing human poaching. African elephants are currently found in 37 countries in Africa.

African elephants can be easily distinguished from Asian elephants with their much larger ears. African elephants are typically larger than Asian counterparts are and have a concave back. Elephants typically live for 50-70 years. Largest elephant ever recorded weighed 12,000 kg with a shoulder height of 4.2 meters (14 feet). Healthy and adult elephants have no natural predators. However, lions may take calves or weak animals. Elephants are herbivorous animals, spending 16 hours per day in collecting their food. They feed on plants, grasses, leaves, twigs, barks, roots, fruits, seeds and flowers.

Pictures of African Animals Elephant and Elephant Informations

Pictures of African Animals Elephant and Elephant Informations

Pictures of African Animals Elephant and Elephant Informations

Pictures of African Animals Elephant and Elephant Informations

Pictures of African Animals Elephant and Elephant Informations

Pictures of African Animals Elephant and Elephant Informations