Pictures of African Animals
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 Springhare and Springhare Informations
Pictures of African Animals Springhare and Springhare Informations
Springhare is endemic to South Africa and currently it is listed as critically endangered species. Springhare is actually not a hare, rather it is a member of the rodents family. Snakes, men, jackals and weasels are the main predators of Springhare.
Pictures of African Animals Spotted Necked Otter and Spotted Necked Otter 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
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.
Pictures of African Animals Mole and Mole Informations
Pictures of African Animals Mole and Mole Informations
Moles are mammals, which range in behaviors depending upon the species. Majority of the moles are burrowing moles while some may be aquatic or semi-aquatic. Moles can be found in Africa, North America, Europe and Asia. Male moles are called boars while females are called sows. In some of the countries while few countries such as Germany consider them as protected animals. De Winton’s Golden Mole is a species that is endemic to South Africa.
Moles have cylindrical bodies covered in fur with small or covered eyes and ears are generally not visible. They feed on small invertebrates such as earthworms and other creatures living underground. Occasionally, they may also eat mice that try to enter their burrows. Moles often burrow in lawns, often creating mole-hills and thereby killing lawns. They can indirectly cause damage to plant roots; however, they never eat plants. In many countries, traps, smoke bombs or flooding in the burrows, or poisons like calcium carbide are used for controlling the menace of moles.
Pictures of African Animals Mole and Mole Informations
Pictures of African Animals Mole and Mole Informations
Pictures of African Animals Mole and Mole Informations
Pictures of African Animals Mole and Mole Informations
Pictures of African Animals Mole and Mole Informations
Pictures of African Animals Humpback Whale and Humpback Whale Informations
Pictures of African Animals Humpback Whale and Humpback Whale Informations
Humpback whale belongs to one of the larger whale families. They are often known as acrobatic animals due to their frequent breaching and slapping of sea waters. Humpbacks are found in oceans and seas across many regions in the world and are known to migrate more than 25,000 km every year. During summer they feed in polar waters and then migrate to tropical and subtropical areas in winter to breed and give birth. They can survive on their food reserves during the whole of winter season.
Adult humpbacks range in size from 12-16 meters long and about 36,000 kg in weight. They have a distinct body shape with unusually long pectoral fins and a knobby head. Adult males produce a typical whale song, that lasts for 10-20 minutes and may be repeated for hours together.
