Table of Contents
230 relations: Affinity (taxonomy), African wild dog, African Wildlife Foundation, Afrotropical realm, Agricultural expansion, Albert Günther, Alcelaphinae, Algeria, Amino acid, Angola, Animal coat, Antelope, Arthur Henry Neumann, Awash National Park, Azoospermia, Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Bafing National Park, Bamako, Bamingui-Bangoran National Park and Biosphere Reserve, Basal metabolic rate, Bénoué National Park, Benin, Binomial nomenclature, Blesbok, Blue Nile, Botswana, Bouba Njida National Park, Boucle du Baoulé National Park, Bougouni, Bovidae, Brain, Bubal hartebeest, Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Cestoda, Cheetah, Clade, Cladogram, Coke's hartebeest, Common tsessebe, Comoé National Park, Cornelia, South Africa, Critically Endangered, Culm (botany), Cytochrome b, D-loop, Damaliscus, Damalops, Deer, Democratic Republic of the Congo, ... Expand index (180 more) »
- Mammals described in 1766
Affinity (taxonomy)
Affinity (taxonomy) – mainly in life sciences or natural history – refers to resemblance suggesting a common descent, phylogenetic relationship, or type.
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African wild dog
The African wild dog (Lycaon pictus), also known as the painted dog or Cape hunting dog, is a wild canine native to sub-Saharan Africa.
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African Wildlife Foundation
The African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) is an international conservation organization created with the intent of preserving Africa's wildlife, wild lands, and natural resources.
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Afrotropical realm
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms.
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Agricultural expansion
Agricultural expansion describes the growth of agricultural land (arable land, pastures, etc.) especially in the 20th and 21st centuries.
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Albert Günther
Albert Karl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, also Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther (3October 18301February 1914), was a German-born British zoologist, ichthyologist, and herpetologist.
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Alcelaphinae
The subfamily Alcelaphinae (or tribe Alcelaphini), of the family Bovidae, contains the wildebeest, tsessebe, topi, hartebeest, blesbok and bontebok, and several other related species.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Amino acid
Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-central coast of Southern Africa.
Animal coat
Coat is the nature and quality of a mammal's fur.
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Antelope
The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa, India, the Middle East, Central Asia, and a small area of Eastern Europe.
Arthur Henry Neumann
Arthur Henry Neumann (12 June 1850 – 29 May 1907) was an English explorer, hunter, soldier, farmer and travel writer famous for his exploits in Equatorial East Africa.
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Awash National Park
Awash National Park is a national park in Ethiopia.
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Azoospermia
Azoospermia is the medical condition of a man whose semen contains no sperm.
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (15 April 177219 June 1844) was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition".
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Bafing National Park
The Bafing National Park (French: Parc national de Bafing) lies in southern Mali.
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Bamako
Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569.
Bamingui-Bangoran National Park and Biosphere Reserve
The Bamingui-Bangoran National Park complex is a national park and biosphere reserve located in the northern region of the Central African Republic.
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Basal metabolic rate
Basal metabolic rate (BMR) is the rate of energy expenditure per unit time by endothermic animals at rest.
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Bénoué National Park
Bénoué National Park is a national park of Cameroon and a UNESCO designated Biosphere Reserve.
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Benin
Benin (Bénin, Benɛ, Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (République du Bénin), and also known as Dahomey, is a country in West Africa.
Binomial nomenclature
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms, although they can be based on words from other languages.
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Blesbok
The blesbok or blesbuck (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) is a subspecies of the bontebok antelope endemic to South Africa, Eswatini and Namibia.
Blue Nile
The Blue Nile is a river originating at Lake Tana in Ethiopia.
Botswana
Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Bouba Njida National Park
Bouba Njida National Park is a national park of Cameroon.
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Boucle du Baoulé National Park
The Boucle du Baoulé National Park (French: Parc National de la Boucle du Baoulé) lies in western Mali, in Kayes Region and Koulikoro Region, set up in 1982.
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Bougouni
Bougouni is a commune and city in Mali, the administrative center of Bougouni Cercle, which is in turn found in the administrative region of Sikasso.
Bovidae
The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, yaks, bison, buffalo, antelopes (including goat-antelopes), sheep and goats.
Brain
The brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals.
Bubal hartebeest
The bubal hartebeest, also known as northern hartebeest or bubal antelope or simply bubal (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) is the extinct nominal (i.e., first described) subspecies of hartebeest. Hartebeest and bubal hartebeest are mammals described in 1766 and taxa named by Peter Simon Pallas.
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Burkina Faso
Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.
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Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire, also known as Ivory Coast and officially known as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa.
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Cestoda
Cestoda is a class of parasitic worms in the flatworm phylum (Platyhelminthes).
Cheetah
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat and the fastest land animal. Hartebeest and cheetah are mammals of Africa.
Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
Cladogram
A cladogram (from Greek clados "branch" and gramma "character") is a diagram used in cladistics to show relations among organisms.
Coke's hartebeest
Coke's hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus cokii) or Kongoni is a large migratory antelope that is native to Kenya and Tanzania.
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Common tsessebe
The common tsessebe or sassaby (Damaliscus lunatus lunatus) is the southern, nominate subspecies of Damaliscus lunatus, although some authorities have recognised it as an independent species.
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Comoé National Park
The Comoé National Park is a Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Zanzan and Savanes districts of northeastern Côte d'Ivoire.
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Cornelia, South Africa
Cornelia is a town on the R103 road in the Free State province of South Africa.
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Critically Endangered
An IUCN Red List Critically Endangered (CR or sometimes CE) species is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as facing an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.
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Culm (botany)
A culm is the aerial (above-ground) stem of a grass or sedge.
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Cytochrome b
Cytochrome b within both molecular and cell biology, is a protein found in the membranes of aerobic cells.
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D-loop
In molecular biology, a displacement loop or D-loop is a DNA structure where the two strands of a double-stranded DNA molecule are separated for a stretch and held apart by a third strand of DNA.
Damaliscus
Damaliscus, commonly known as damalisks, is a genus of antelope in the family Bovidae, subfamily Alcelaphinae, found in Africa.
Damalops
Damalops is an extinct genus of Alcelaphinae.
Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, Congo-Zaire, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country in Central Africa.
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Diefoula
Diefoula is a town in the Niangoloko Department of Comoé Province in south-western Burkina Faso.
Dinder National Park
Dinder National Park is a national park and biosphere reserve in eastern Sudan, and is connected to Ethiopia's Alitash National Park.
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Dominance hierarchy
In the zoological field of ethology, a dominance hierarchy (formerly and colloquially called a pecking order) is a type of social hierarchy that arises when members of animal social groups interact, creating a ranking system.
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Dutch Cape Colony
The Dutch Cape Colony (Kaapkolonie) was a Dutch United East India Company (VOC) colony in Southern Africa, centered on the Cape of Good Hope, from where it derived its name.
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Dutch language
Dutch (Nederlands.) is a West Germanic language, spoken by about 25 million people as a first language and 5 million as a second language and is the third most spoken Germanic language.
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East Coast fever
East Coast fever, also known as theileriosis, is a disease of cattle which occurs in Africa and is caused by the protozoan parasite Theileria parva.
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Eastern Cape
The Eastern Cape (iMpuma-Kapa; Oos-Kaap) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
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Edward Blyth
Edward Blyth (23 December 1810 – 27 December 1873) was an English zoologist who worked for most of his life in India as a curator of zoology at the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal in Calcutta.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
Elisabeth Vrba
Elisabeth S. Vrba (born May 17, 1942) is a paleontologist at Yale University who developed the turnover-pulse hypothesis.
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Encephalitis
Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Epigraphy
Epigraphy is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers.
Eritrea
Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.
Estrous cycle
The estrous cycle (originally) is a set of recurring physiological changes induced by reproductive hormones in females of mammalian subclass Theria.
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Eswatini
Eswatini (eSwatini), officially the Kingdom of Eswatini and also known by its former official name Swaziland and formerly the Kingdom of Swaziland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Etosha National Park
Etosha National Park is a national park in northwestern Namibia and one of the largest national parks in Africa.
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Evolutionary radiation
An evolutionary radiation is an increase in taxonomic diversity that is caused by elevated rates of speciation, that may or may not be associated with an increase in morphological disparity.
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Extinction
Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.
Faro National Park
Faro National Park is a national park in Cameroon's North Province.
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Fatty acid
In chemistry, particularly in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated.
Fauna of Africa
The Fauna of Africa, in its broader sense, is all the animals living in Africa and its surrounding seas and islands.
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Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site
The Florisbad archaeological and paleontological site is a provincial heritage site in Soutpan in the Free State province of South Africa.
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Free State (province)
The Free State (Freistata; Vrystaat; iFreyistata; Foreistata; iFuleyisitata), formerly known as the Orange Free State, is a province of South Africa.
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Game (hunting)
Game or quarry is any wild animal hunted for animal products (primarily meat), for recreation ("sporting"), or for trophies.
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Gauteng
Gauteng (Sotho-Tswana for 'place of gold'; eGoli or iGoli) is one of the nine provinces of South Africa.
Gazelle
A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus Gazella. Hartebeest and gazelle are mammals of Africa.
Genetic diversity
Genetic diversity is the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species.
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Genetic variation
Genetic variation is the difference in DNA among individuals or the differences between populations among the same species.
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Germ cell
A germ cell is any cell that gives rise to the gametes of an organism that reproduces sexually.
Gestation
Gestation is the period of development during the carrying of an embryo, and later fetus, inside viviparous animals (the embryo develops within the parent).
Ghana
Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a country in West Africa.
Gobabis
Gobabis (Epako, ǂKhoandabes) is a town in eastern Namibia.
Grazing (behaviour)
Grazing is a method of feeding in which a herbivore feeds on low-growing plants such as grasses or other multicellular organisms, such as algae.
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Great Rift Valley, Ethiopia
The Great Rift Valley of Ethiopia, (or Main Ethiopian Rift or Ethiopian Rift Valley) is a branch of the East African Rift that runs through Ethiopia in a southwest direction from the Afar Triple Junction.
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Guinea
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a coastal country in West Africa.
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau; script; Mandinka: ߖߌ߬ߣߍ߫ ߓߌߛߊߥߏ߫ Gine-Bisawo), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (República da Guiné-Bissau), is a country in West Africa that covers with an estimated population of 2,026,778.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss and habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species.
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Heinrich Barth
Johann Heinrich Barth (16 February 1821 – 25 November 1865) was a German explorer of Africa and scholar.
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Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville
Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (12 September 1777 – 1 May 1850) was a French zoologist and anatomist.
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Herd
A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic.
Hirola
The hirola (Beatragus hunteri), also called the Hunter's hartebeest or Hunter's antelope, is a critically endangered antelope species found as of now, only in Kenya along the border of Somalia.
Horn (anatomy)
A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone.
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Hyena
Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae. Hartebeest and Hyena are mammals of Africa.
Ibanda-Kyerwa National Park
The Ibanda-Kyerwa National Park, previously Ibanda Game Reserve, is a national park in Tanzania.
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In-situ conservation
In situ conservation is the on-site conservation or the conservation of genetic resources in natural populations of plant or animal species, such as forest genetic resources in natural populations of tree species.
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International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Introduced species
An introduced species, alien species, exotic species, adventive species, immigrant species, foreign species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species is a species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, directly or indirectly, and either deliberately or accidentally.
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Israel
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.
Jackal
Jackals are canids native to Africa and Eurasia.
Jan van Riebeeck
Johan Anthoniszoon "Jan" van Riebeeck (21 April 1619 – 18 January 1677) was a Dutch navigator, ambassador and colonial administrator of the Dutch East India Company.
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John Edward Gray
John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist.
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Jonathan Kingdon
Jonathan Kingdon (born 1935 in Tanzania) is a zoologist, science author, and artist; a research associate at the University of Oxford.
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Juvenile (organism)
A juvenile is an individual organism (especially an animal) that has not yet reached its adult form, sexual maturity or size.
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Kabwe
Kabwe is the capital of the Zambian Central Province and the Kabwe District, with a population estimated at 202,914 at the 2010 census.
Kenya
Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.
KwaZulu-Natal
KwaZulu-Natal (also referred to as KZN; nicknamed "the garden province") is a province of South Africa that was created in 1994 when the government merged the Zulu bantustan of KwaZulu ("Place of the Zulu" in Zulu) and Natal Province.
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Laikipia District
Laikipia District was a district of Kenya, located on the Equator in the Rift Valley Province of the country.
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Lake Chamo
Lake Chamo (Amharic: ቻሞ ሐይቅ) is a lake in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of southern Ethiopia.
Lake Chew Bahir
Lake Chew Bahir (Amharic: ጨው ባሕር č̣ew bāhir, "salty lake") or Lake Istifanos, also called Stefanie, Basso Naebor and Chuwaha, is a lake in southern Ethiopia, located on the southwestern end of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region, near the border with Oromia Region.
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Lake Turkana
Lake Turkana is a saline lake in the Kenyan Rift Valley, in northern Kenya, with its far northern end crossing into Ethiopia.
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Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.
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Larva
A larva (larvae) is a distinct juvenile form many animals undergo before metamorphosis into their next life stage.
Least-concern species
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of wildlife conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild.
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Lelwel hartebeest
The Lelwel hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lelwel), also known as Jackson's hartebeest, is an antelope native to Central African Republic, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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Leopard
The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.
Lesotho
Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa.
Levant
The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of West Asia and core territory of the political term ''Middle East''.
Lichtenstein's hartebeest
Lichtenstein's hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lichtensteinii)Wilson, Don E. & Reeder, DeeAnn M. (editors).
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Lipid
Lipids are a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others.
Malawi
Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.
Malolotja National Park
View on the national park Malolotja National Park covers of mountain wilderness on Eswatini's northwestern border with South Africa.
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Manovo-Gounda St. Floris National Park
Manovo-Gounda St.
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Mara Region
Mara Region (Mkoa wa Mara in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.
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Maze National Park
Maze National Park is a national park in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and People's Region of Ethiopia.
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Megalotragus
Megalotragus (from Greek mega (μέλα) 'great' and tragos (τράγος) 'goat') was a genus of very large extinct African alcelaphines that occurred from the Pliocene to early Holocene.
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Meiosis
Meiosis ((since it is a reductional division) is a special type of cell division of germ cells in sexually-reproducing organisms that produces the gametes, the sperm or egg cells. It involves two rounds of division that ultimately result in four cells, each with only one copy of each chromosome (haploid).
Mendelian inheritance
Mendelian inheritance (also known as Mendelism) is a type of biological inheritance following the principles originally proposed by Gregor Mendel in 1865 and 1866, re-discovered in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns, and later popularized by William Bateson.
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Microsatellite
A microsatellite is a tract of repetitive DNA in which certain DNA motifs (ranging in length from one to six or more base pairs) are repeated, typically 5–50 times.
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Mineral (nutrient)
In the context of nutrition, a mineral is a chemical element.
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Miombo
Miombo woodland is a tropical and subtropical grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome (in the World Wide Fund for Nature scheme) located in central and southern tropical Africa.
Missour
Missour (ميسور) is a town in Boulemane Province, Fès-Meknès, Morocco.
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Mount Kenya
Mount Kenya (Meru: Kĩrĩmaara, Kikuyu: Kĩrĩnyaga, Kamba: Ki Nyaa, Embu: Kirinyaa) is an extinct volcano in Kenya and the second-highest peak in Africa, after Kilimanjaro.
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Mozambique
Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique, is a country located in southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Eswatini and South Africa to the southwest.
MtDNA control region
The mtDNA control region is an area of the mitochondrial genome which is non-coding DNA.
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Murchison Falls National Park
Murchison Falls National Park (MFNP) is a national park in Uganda managed by the Ugandan Wildlife Authority.
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Nairobi National Park
Nairobi National Park is a national park in Kenya that was established in 1946 about south of Nairobi.
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Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa.
Natural History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum in London is a museum that exhibits a vast range of specimens from various segments of natural history.
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Nazinga Game Ranch
Nazinga Game Ranch is a game ranch in southern Burkina Faso.
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Near-threatened species
A near-threatened species is a species which has been categorized as "Near Threatened" (NT) by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as that may be vulnerable to endangerment in the near future, but it does not currently qualify for the threatened status.
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Nechisar National Park
Nechisar National Park (or Nech-Sar National Park) is a national park in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia.
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Negev
The Negev (hanNégev) or Negeb (an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel.
Nematode
The nematodes (or; Νηματώδη; Nematoda), roundworms or eelworms constitute the phylum Nematoda.
Neolithic
The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.
Neontology
Neontology is a part of biology that, in contrast to paleontology, deals with living (or, more generally, recent) organisms.
Niger
Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa.
Niokolo-Koba National Park
The Niokolo-Koba National Park (Parc National du Niokolo Koba, PNNK) is a World Heritage Site and natural protected area in south eastern Senegal near the Guinea border.
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North West (South African province)
North West (Bokone Bophirima; Noord-Wes) is a province of South Africa.
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Northern Cape
The Northern Cape (Noord-Kaap; Kapa Bokone; Mntla-Koloni) is the largest and most sparsely populated province of South Africa.
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Numidocapra
Numidocapra is an extinct genus of bovid from the Pleistocene of Africa.
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Omo River
The Omo River (also called Omo-Bottego) in southern Ethiopia is the largest Ethiopian river outside the Nile Basin.
Oromo people
The Oromo people (pron. Oromo: Oromoo) are a Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya.
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Paramphistomum
Paramphistomum is a genus of parasitic flatworms belonging to the digenetic trematodes.
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Paraphyly
Paraphyly is a taxonomic term describing a grouping that consists of the grouping's last common ancestor and some but not all of its descendant lineages.
Parasitism
Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life.
Pathogen
In biology, a pathogen (πάθος, "suffering", "passion" and -γενής, "producer of"), in the oldest and broadest sense, is any organism or agent that can produce disease.
Pendjari National Park
The Pendjari National Park (Parc National de la Pendjari) lies in north-western Benin, adjoining the Arli National Park in Burkina Faso.
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Perennial
In botany, a perennial plant or simply perennial is a plant that lives more than two years.
Peter Simon Pallas
Peter Simon Pallas FRS FRSE (22 September 1741 – 8 September 1811) was a Prussian zoologist, botanist, ethnographer, explorer, geographer, geologist, natural historian, and taxonomist.
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Philip Sclater
Philip Lutley Sclater (4 November 1829 – 27 June 1913) was an English lawyer and zoologist.
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Phylogenetics
In biology, phylogenetics is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups of organisms.
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Phylogeography
Phylogeography is the study of the historical processes that may be responsible for the past to present geographic distributions of genealogical lineages.
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Ploidy
Ploidy is the number of complete sets of chromosomes in a cell, and hence the number of possible alleles for autosomal and pseudoautosomal genes.
Polyunsaturated fat
In biochemistry and nutrition, a polyunsaturated fat is a fat that contains a polyunsaturated fatty acid (abbreviated PUFA), which is a subclass of fatty acid characterized by a backbone with two or more carbon–carbon double bonds.
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Prehistoric Egypt
Prehistoric Egypt and Predynastic Egypt was the period of time starting at the first human settlement and ending at the First Dynasty of Egypt around 3100 BC.
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Preorbital gland
The preorbital gland is a paired exocrine gland found in many species of artiodactyls, which is homologous to the lacrimal gland found in humans.
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Primary production
In ecology, primary production is the synthesis of organic compounds from atmospheric or aqueous carbon dioxide.
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Process (anatomy)
In anatomy, a process (processus) is a projection or outgrowth of tissue from a larger body.
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Red hartebeest
The red hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus caama), also called the Cape hartebeest or Caama, is a subspecies of the hartebeest found in Southern Africa.
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Refugium (population biology)
In biology, a refugium (plural: refugia) is a location which supports an isolated or relict population of a once more widespread species.
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Roan antelope
The roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) is a large savanna-dwelling antelope found in western, central, and southern Africa.
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Safari Club International
Safari Club International (SCI) is a US organization composed of hunters dedicated to protecting the “freedom to hunt.” SCI has more than 40,000 members and 180 local chapters.
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Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
Salamat (region)
Salamat is one of the 23 regions of Chad, located in the south-east of the country.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Selous Game Reserve
The Selous Game Reserve, now renamed as Nyerere National Park (in-part), is a protected nature reserve and wilderness area in southern Tanzania, East Africa.
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Seminiferous tubule
Seminiferous tubules are located within the testicles, and are the specific location of meiosis, and the subsequent creation of male gametes, namely spermatozoa.
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Senegal
Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.
Senkelle Swayne's Hartebeest Sanctuary
Senkelle Swayne's Hartebeest Sanctuary is a protected area in the Oromia Region (or kilil) of Ethiopia, dedicated especially to the protection of the Swayne's hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei).
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Sense of smell
The sense of smell, or olfaction, is the special sense through which smells (or odors) are perceived.
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Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where sexes of the same species exhibit different morphological characteristics, particularly characteristics not directly involved in reproduction.
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Sexual maturity
Sexual maturity is the capability of an organism to reproduce.
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Sharon plain
The Sharon plain (translit) is the central section of the Israeli coastal plain.
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Shephelah
The Shephelah (the Lowlands) or Shfela (label), or the Judaean Foothills (label), is a transitional region of soft-sloping rolling hills in south-central Israel stretching over between the Judaean Mountains and the Coastal Plain.
Sikasso
Sikasso (Bambara: ߛߌߞߊߛߏ tr. Sikaso) is a city in the south of Mali and the capital of the Sikasso Cercle and the Sikasso Region.
Snout
A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face, consisting of its nose, mouth, and jaw.
Sociality
Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.
Somalia
Somalia, officially the Federal Republic of Somalia, is the easternmost country in continental Africa.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
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Species description
A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, typically articulated through a scientific publication.
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Species translocation
Translocation is the human action of moving an organism from one area and releasing it in another.
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Sterility (physiology)
Sterility is the physiological inability to effect sexual reproduction in a living thing, members of whose kind have been produced sexually.
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Subspecies
In biological classification, subspecies (subspecies) is a rank below species, used for populations that live in different areas and vary in size, shape, or other physical characteristics (morphology), but that can successfully interbreed.
Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
Swahili language
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands).
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Swayne's hartebeest
Swayne's hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei) is an endangered antelope native to Ethiopia.
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Tamou Reserve
The Tamou Total Reserve is a nature reserve in the southwest of Niger.
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Tanzania
Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania's Manyara Region.
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Tel Lachish
Lachish (Lāḵîš; Λαχίς; Lachis) was an ancient Israelite city in the Shephelah ("lowlands of Judea") region of Canaan on the south bank of the Lakhish River mentioned several times in the Hebrew Bible.
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Termite
Termites are a group of detritophagous eusocial insects which consume a wide variety of decaying plant material, generally in the form of wood, leaf litter, and soil humus.
Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression.
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The Gambia
The Gambia, officially the Republic of The Gambia, is a country in West Africa.
Theileria
Theileria is a genus of parasites that belongs to the phylum Apicomplexa, and is closely related to Plasmodium.
Themeda triandra
Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.
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Theodor Haltenorth
Dr.
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Tora hartebeest
The tora hartebeest, or simply tora (Alcelaphus buselaphus tora), is an extremely endangered antelope, native to Eritrea and Ethiopia.
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Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Trondheim
Trondheim (Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros, and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway.
Trophy hunting
Trophy hunting is a form of hunting for sport in which parts of the hunted wild animals are kept and displayed as trophies.
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Tsavo East National Park
Tsavo East National Park is a national park in Kenya with an area of.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.
University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen (Københavns Universitet, KU) is a public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic (or Upper Palaeolithic) is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.
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Western Cape
The Western Cape (Wes-Kaap; iNtshona-Koloni) is a province of South Africa, situated on the south-western coast of the country.
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Western hartebeest
The western hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus major) is an antelope native to the medium to tall grassland plains of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, and Togo.
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Wildebeest
Wildebeest, also called gnu, are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa. Hartebeest and Wildebeest are mammals of Africa.
Wilhelm Peters
Wilhelm Karl Hartwich (or Hartwig) Peters (22 April 1815 – 20 April 1883) was a German naturalist and explorer.
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Zakouma National Park
Zakouma National Park (حديقة زاكوما الوطنية) is a national park in southeastern Chad, straddling the border of Guéra Region and Salamat Region.
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Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.
Zebra
Zebras (subgenus Hippotigris) are African equines with distinctive black-and-white striped coats. Hartebeest and Zebra are mammals of Africa.
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, relief map Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the southwest, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east.
See also
Mammals described in 1766
- Aardvark
- Arrow flying squirrel
- Asian house shrew
- Barbary striped grass mouse
- Black lemur
- Brazilian squirrel
- Bubal hartebeest
- Capybara
- Colombian red howler
- Common eland
- Crab-eating fox
- Dama gazelle
- Desert warthog
- Eurasian pygmy shrew
- European edible dormouse
- European ground squirrel
- Garden dormouse
- Golden lion tamarin
- Greater kudu
- Greater spot-nosed monkey
- Green monkey
- Harnessed bushbuck
- Hartebeest
- Indian palm squirrel
- Least weasel
- Long-tailed pangolin
- Lowland paca
- Mongoose lemur
- Mountain gazelle
- Muskrat
- Nilgai
- Northern common cuscus
- Pallas's long-tongued bat
- Red giant flying squirrel
- Red-handed howler
- Rock hyrax
- Saiga antelope
- Silvery marmoset
- South American coati
- Southern pig-tailed macaque
- West African potto
- White-faced saki
- White-nosed coati
- Yak
- Yellow baboon
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