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African manatee

Index African manatee

The African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis), also known as the West African manatee or sea cow, is a species of manatee that is mostly herbivorous. [1]

79 relations: Akwayafe River, Amazonian manatee, Angola, Aquatic plant, Bandama River, Bani River, Benin, Benue River, Bia River, Brackish water, Cameroon, Casamance River, Cavalla River, Chad, Chari River, Congo River, Cuanza River, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Flora, Gabon, Gabon Estuary, Gambia River, Geba River, Genus, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Herbaceous plant, Herbivore, Inner Niger Delta, Ivory Coast, Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link, Katsina Ala River, Kouilou-Niari River, Lake Volta, Léré Lake, Liberia, Little Scarcies River, Logone River, Mali, Mami Wata, Manatee, Mangrove, Mauritania, Mékrou River, Mitimele River, Mollusca, Mono River, Niger, ..., Niger River, Nigeria, Nocturnality, Ouémé River, Pliocene, Republic of the Congo, Rheumatism, Saint John River (Liberia), Saint Paul River, Saloum River, Sanaga River, Sassandra River, Senegal, Senegal River, Serer creation myth, Serer people, Sierra Leone, Sierra Leone River, Sirenia, Species, Subspecies, Tano River, Taxon, The Gambia, Togo, Volta River, West Indian manatee, Wetlands International, Wouri River. Expand index (29 more) »

Akwayafe River

The Akwayafe River (also known as the Akpakorum River) is a river in Africa that empties into the Gulf of Guinea.

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Amazonian manatee

The Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis) is a species of manatee that lives in the Amazon Basin in Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.

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Aquatic plant

Aquatic plants are plants that have adapted to living in aquatic environments (saltwater or freshwater).

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Bandama River

The Bandama River is the longest river in Côte d'Ivoire with a length of some 800 kilometers.

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Bani River

The Bani River is the principal tributary of the Niger River in Mali.

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Benin

Benin (Bénin), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin) and formerly Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.

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Benue River

The Benue River (la Bénoué), previously known as the Chadda River or Tchadda, is the major tributary of the Niger River.

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Bia River

The Bia is a river that is situated primarily in Ghana and flows through Ghana and Ivory Coast, emptying into Aby Lagoon.

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Brackish water

Brackish water is water that has more salinity than fresh water, but not as much as seawater.

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Cameroon

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Casamance River

The Casamance River flows westward for the most part into the Atlantic Ocean along a path about 200 miles (320 km) in length.

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Cavalla River

The Cavalla River (also known as the Cavally, the Youbou and the Diougou) is a river in West Africa running from north of Mont Nimba in Guinea, through Côte d'Ivoire, to Zwedru in Liberia, and back to the border with Côte d'Ivoire.

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Chad

Chad (تشاد; Tchad), officially the Republic of Chad ("Republic of the Chad"), is a landlocked country in Central Africa.

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Chari River

The Chari River, or Shari River, is a long stream, flowing in Central Africa.

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Congo River

The Congo River (also spelled Kongo River and known as the Zaire River) is the second longest river in Africa after the Nile and the second largest river in the world by discharge volume of water (after the Amazon), and the world's deepest river with measured depths in excess of.

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Cuanza River

The Cuanza River, also known as the Coanza, the Quanza, and the Kwanza, is a river in Angola.

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Democratic Republic of the Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.

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Equatorial Guinea

Equatorial Guinea (Guinea Ecuatorial, Guinée équatoriale, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea (República de Guinea Ecuatorial, République de Guinée équatoriale, República da Guiné Equatorial), is a country located in Central Africa, with an area of.

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Flora

Flora is the plant life occurring in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring or indigenous—native plant life.

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Gabon

Gabon, officially the Gabonese Republic (République gabonaise), is a sovereign state on the west coast of Central Africa.

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Gabon Estuary

The Gabon River or Gabon Estuary is a short wide estuary in the west of Gabon.

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Gambia River

The Gambia River (formerly known as the River Gambra) is a major river in West Africa, running from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea westward through Senegal and the Gambia to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul.

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Geba River

The Geba is a river of West Africa that rises in the northernmost area of Guinea in the Fouta Djallon highlands, passes through southern Senegal, and reaches the Atlantic Ocean in Guinea-Bissau.

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Genus

A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a sovereign state in West Africa.

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Herbaceous plant

Herbaceous plants (in botanical use frequently simply herbs) are plants that have no persistent woody stem above ground.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.

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Inner Niger Delta

The Inner Niger Delta, also known as the Macina or Masina, is the inland delta of the Niger River.

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Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.

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Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link

Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (2 February 1767 – 1 January 1851) was a German naturalist and botanist.

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Katsina Ala River

The Katsina Ala (or Katsina-Ala) is a river in central Nigeria, located within its Middle Belt.

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Kouilou-Niari River

The Kouilou-Niari River — also spelled Kwilu, Kwila, or Kwil — is the most important river flowing to the Atlantic Ocean of the Republic of the Congo coast.

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Lake Volta

Lake Volta is the largest reservoir, man-made lake, in terms of surface area contained behind the Akosombo Dam.

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Léré Lake

Lake Léré is a lake in the Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Region in southwestern Chad about 6 km east of the border with Cameroon.

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Liberia

Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.

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Little Scarcies River

The Little Scarcies River is a river in west Africa that begins in Guinea and flows into Sierra Leone, after which it empties into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Logone River

The Logon or Logone River is a major tributary of the Chari River.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.

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Mami Wata

Mami Wata (Mammy Water) is a water deity venerated in West, Central, and Southern Africa, and in the African diaspora in the Americas.

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Manatee

Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. There are three accepted living species of Trichechidae, representing three of the four living species in the order Sirenia: the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis), the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), and the West African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis).

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Mauritania

Mauritania (موريتانيا; Gànnaar; Soninke: Murutaane; Pulaar: Moritani; Mauritanie), officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwestern Africa.

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Mékrou River

The Mékrou River is a river of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger.

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Mitimele River

The Mitimele is a river of southwestern mainland Equatorial Guinea.

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Mollusca

Mollusca is a large phylum of invertebrate animals whose members are known as molluscs or mollusksThe formerly dominant spelling mollusk is still used in the U.S. — see the reasons given in Gary Rosenberg's.

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Mono River

The Mono River is the major river of eastern Togo.

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Niger

Niger, also called the Niger officially the Republic of the Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa named after the Niger River.

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Niger River

The Niger River is the principal river of West Africa, extending about.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Nocturnality

Nocturnality is an animal behavior characterized by being active during the night and sleeping during the day.

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Ouémé River

The Ouémé River, also known as the Weme River, is a river in Benin.

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Pliocene

The Pliocene (also Pleiocene) Epoch is the epoch in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.333 million to 2.58 million years BP.

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Republic of the Congo

The Republic of the Congo (République du Congo), also known as the Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.

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Rheumatism

Rheumatism or rheumatic disorder is an umbrella term for conditions causing chronic, often intermittent pain affecting the joints and/or connective tissue.

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Saint John River (Liberia)

The Saint John River is one of the six main rivers in the West African nation of Liberia.

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Saint Paul River

The Saint Paul River is a river of western Africa.

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Saloum River

The Saloum River rises about 105 kilometers east of Kaolack, Senegal, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Sanaga River

The Sanaga River (formerly Zannaga) is a river of South Region, Centre Region and West Region of Cameroon.

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Sassandra River

The Sassandra River is a river of western Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Senegal River

The Senegal River (نهر السنغال, Fleuve Sénégal) is a long river in West Africa that forms the border between Senegal and Mauritania.

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Serer creation myth

The Serer creation myth is the traditional creation myth of the Serer people of Senegal, the Gambia and Mauritania.

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Serer people

The Serer people are a West African ethnoreligious group.

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Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country in West Africa.

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Sierra Leone River

The Sierra Leone River is a river estuary on the Atlantic Ocean in Western Sierra Leone.

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Sirenia

The Sirenia, commonly referred to as sea cows or sirenians, are an order of fully aquatic, herbivorous mammals that inhabit swamps, rivers, estuaries, marine wetlands, and coastal marine waters.

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Species

In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank, as well as a unit of biodiversity, but it has proven difficult to find a satisfactory definition.

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Subspecies

In biological classification, the term subspecies refers to a unity of populations of a species living in a subdivision of the species’s global range and varies from other populations of the same species by morphological characteristics.

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Tano River

The Tano or Tanoé River is a river in Ghana.

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Taxon

In biology, a taxon (plural taxa; back-formation from taxonomy) is a group of one or more populations of an organism or organisms seen by taxonomists to form a unit.

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The Gambia

No description.

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Togo

Togo, officially the Togolese Republic (République Togolaise), is a sovereign state in West Africa bordered by Ghana to the west, Benin to the east and Burkina Faso to the north.

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Volta River

The Volta River is the main river system in the West African country of Ghana.

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West Indian manatee

The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) or "sea cow", also known as American manatee, is the largest surviving member of the aquatic mammal order Sirenia (which also includes the dugong and the extinct Steller's sea cow).

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Wetlands International

Wetlands International is a global organisation that works to sustain and restore wetlands and their resources for people and biodiversity.

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Wouri River

The Wouri (also Vouri or Vuri) is a river in Cameroon.

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African Manatee, Ayu (mammal), Ayu (manatee), Trichechus senegalensis, West African Manatee, West African manatee.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_manatee

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