Pictures of African animals

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. Rock Mouse is generally herbivorous mammal. They usually feed on seeds, plants, vegetations, fruits, nuts and sometimes on insects and small vertebrates. Rock Mouse is a small-sized animal and has a very short breeding cycle. They have the ability to gnaw and eat vast variety of food items.

Pictures of African Animals Barbour’s Rock Mouse and Rock Mouse Informations

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Pictures of African Animals Vervet Monkey and Vervet Monkey Informations

Pictures of African Animals Vervet Monkey and Vervet Monkey Informations

Vervet monkey or simply Vervet is a small to large monkey that are found throughout most of the East and Southern Africa from Ethiopia and Somalia south to the South Africa. They are also found inhabiting Savanna lands and mountains even at height of up to 4000 meters from sea level.

Adult male Vervet Monkey ranges in size from 45-85 cm and weighs 3.5-7.5 kg. Females range from 40-60 cm in length and weigh 2.5-5.5 kg. Length of the tail of both males and females can range from 50-115 cm. Vervet Monkeys are mainly herbivorous and feed on variety of fruits, plants, leaves and seeds, sometimes on insects and small rodents. In Kenya and South Africa, they are classified as vermin, as they often destroy large amounts of crops. They live in a group of 15-20 animals. Vervet monkeys are grey or slightly greenish-grey in color with face, hands, feet and tip of the tail being black. A white band on their forehead make it easy to distinguish them from other monkeys.

Pictures of African Animals Vervet Monkey and Vervet Monkey Informations

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Pictures of African Animals Hairy Bat and Hairy Bat Informations

Pictures of African Animals Hairy Bat and Hairy Bat Informations

Hairy Bat is a species of Vesper Bats (largest and best known family of bats) that are endemic to Angola, Namibia and South Africa in the temperate regions and deserts. They have been designated as critically endangered species of bats. They are also found in the equatorial regions from Congo to West Africa. Angolan hairy bat is generally restricted to Northern Cape Province, West Namibia and southwestern Angola.

Upper parts of Angolan Bats have yellowish tinge unlike other hairy bats have light yellow or honey yellow tinge. Underparts are usually off-white or creamish with reddish-brown tinge. Hairy bats feed on insects; however, they are slow fliers and thus they usually hunt within 5 meters from ground. Hairy prefer to live in open woodlands and Savanna habitats. Angolan hairy bats favor arid and desert areas. Some of the species of hairy bats prefer to live in damp caves and also in hollow trees amongst leaves. Traditionally, hairy bats live in small colonies with tendencies to migrate locally.
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Pictures of African Animals Lion and Lion Informations

Pictures of African Animals Lion and Lion Informations

Sandy colored carnivorous animal Lion belongs to the family of four ‘big cats’. Lion is the second largest living cat after tiger. Wild lions can be found in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Asia. Northwestern India has critically endangered population of Lions whereas Lions have altogether disappeared from North Africa, Middle East and Western Asia. Lions typical inhabit at savanna and grasslands. The population of Lions has reduced by about 30-50 percent during the last two decades.

Lions are large animals with a weight of around 200-250 kg and a height of about 1.2 meters. Lions seldom live for more than eight years whereas lionesses in secure habitat can survive up to 12-14 years. In captivity, both the lions and lionesses can live up to 20 years. Lions hunt in groups with lionesses as the most active hunter, which are well known for their precise hunting skills and teamwork. They feed on large animals like zebras and giraffes. Lions generally do not selectively hunt humans however there have been several cases of man-eaters throughout the world.

Pictures of African Animals Lion and Lion Informations

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Pictures of African Animals Cheetah and Cheetah Informations

Pictures of African Animals Cheetah and Cheetah Informations

Cheetah is an amazing African animal that is an atypical member of cat family. Cheetah is unique in its speed while lacking the climbing abilities. Cheetah is the fastest land animal that can reach a speed up to 115-120 km/h and it can accelerate from 0 to 110 km/h in flat three seconds, which is greater than the fastest super cars in the world. They are commonly found in Saharan Africa, south of Sahara Deserts. The animal gets it name from Hindi word Cheetah that translates into ‘Spotted Animal’.

Whole body of Cheetah is covered in small round black spots measuring about 2-3 cm except the underside. They have a small head that is disproportionate to the body. They have high-set eyes with black tear marks running from corner of the eyes down the sides of the nose to the mouth. Tear marks help them to keep sunlight out of the eyes and to aid in hunting and seeing long distance. Tear marks act as the best visible distinguishing marks between a Cheetah and a Leopard. Cheetah is a carnivorous animal and feeds on small mammals weighing below 40 kg. Cheetahs can also hunt large animals like Zebra when they are in groups. Adult Cheetah weighs around 90 to 140 pounds, the height is about 30-35 inches, and the body length is around 45-55 inches.

Pictures of African Animals Cheetah and Cheetah Informations

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Pictures of African Animals Black Rhinoceros and Black Rhinoceros Informations

Pictures of African Animals Black Rhinoceros and Black Rhinoceros Informations

Black Rhinoceros or Rhinos are natives of eastern and central Africa including Kenya, Tanzania, Cameroon, South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe. As per 2006 census, the population of Rhinos all over the world stands at around 3600. West African Black Rhinoceros have been declared as an extinct species. Ina all, there are two species and five varieties of Rhinoceros. African species have black Rhinoceros and white Rhinoceros and Asian species have Indian Rhinoceros, Sumatran Rhinoceros and Javan Rhinoceros. Despite their hunting legally banned all over the world, Rhinos remain always remain in demand in Asia and Africa primarily for their valuable horn and also for skin and other parts of the body.

Black Rhinos are large animals with heavily armored body and very distinctive horn. Although the name is black Rhinoceros but actually they are grey or brown in color. Black Rhinoceros are almost hairless animals with hair growing only on their tail, eyelashes and ears. Their have two large horn made of keratins. Black Rhinos are herbivorous and feed on grass, leaves, shoots, thorny wood bushes, fruits and tree branches. They weigh around 1.5 ton and stand about 1.5 meters tall. Despite their huge weight, they can run at the speed of 45 km/h.