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76 relations: African leopard, Algeria, Allopatric speciation, Aridity, Australia, Barbary Coast, Barbary lion, Berber languages, Berbers, Binomial nomenclature, Browsing (herbivory), Canary Islands, Capra (genus), Caprinae, Caracal, Chad, Crepuscular animal, Cross section (geometry), Edward Blyth, Egypt, Endemism, Europe, Extinct in the wild, Flora, Game (hunting), Genus, Grazing (behaviour), Greek language, Horn (anatomy), Iberian Peninsula, Introduced species, Itbay, La Palma, Levant, Libya, Lichen, Mali, Mauritania, Metabolic water, Monotypic taxon, Morocco, Mosor, Museum of Osteology, Niger, Nile, North Africa, North America, Ovis, Peter Simon Pallas, Poaceae, ... Expand index (26 more) »
- Caprids
- Fauna of the Sahara
- Mammals described in 1777
African leopard
The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the nominate subspecies of the leopard, native to many countries in Africa.
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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.
Allopatric speciation
Allopatric speciation – also referred to as geographic speciation, vicariant speciation, or its earlier name the dumbbell model – is a mode of speciation that occurs when biological populations become geographically isolated from each other to an extent that prevents or interferes with gene flow.
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Aridity
Aridity is the condition of a region that severely lacks available water, to the extent of hindering or preventing the growth and development of plant and animal life.
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.
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Barbary Coast
The Barbary Coast (also Barbary, Berbery, or Berber Coast) was the name given to the coastal regions of central and western North Africa or more specifically the Maghreb and the Ottoman borderlands consisting of the regencies in Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli, as well as the Sultanate of Morocco from the 16th to 19th centuries.
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Barbary lion
The Barbary lion was a population of the lion subspecies Panthera leo leo. Barbary sheep and Barbary lion are mammals of North Africa.
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Berber languages
The Berber languages, also known as the Amazigh languages or Tamazight, are a branch of the Afroasiatic language family.
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Berbers
Berbers, or the Berber peoples, also called by their endonym Amazigh or Imazighen, are a diverse grouping of distinct ethnic groups indigenous to North Africa who predate the arrival of Arabs in the Arab migrations to the Maghreb.
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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Browsing (herbivory)
Browsing is a type of herbivory in which a herbivore (or, more narrowly defined, a folivore) feeds on leaves, soft shoots, or fruits of high-growing, generally woody plants such as shrubs.
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Canary Islands
The Canary Islands (Canarias), also known informally as the Canaries, are a Spanish region, autonomous community and archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Capra (genus)
Capra is a genus of mammals, the goats, comprising ten species, including the markhor and several species known as ibexes. Barbary sheep and Capra (genus) are Caprids and mammals of Africa.
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Caprinae
The subfamily Caprinae, also sometimes referred to as the tribe Caprini, is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids. Barbary sheep and Caprinae are Caprids.
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Caracal
The caracal (Caracal caracal) is a medium-sized wild cat native to Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, and arid areas of Pakistan and northwestern India. Barbary sheep and caracal are mammals of Africa and mammals of the Middle East.
Chad
Chad, officially the Republic of Chad, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of North and Central Africa.
Crepuscular animal
In zoology, a crepuscular animal is one that is active primarily during the twilight period, being matutinal, vespertine/vespertinal, or both.
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Cross section (geometry)
In geometry and science, a cross section is the non-empty intersection of a solid body in three-dimensional space with a plane, or the analog in higher-dimensional spaces.
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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.
Endemism
Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Extinct in the wild
A species that is extinct in the wild (EW) is one that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as only consisting of living members kept in captivity or as a naturalized population outside its historic range.
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Flora
Flora (floras or florae) is all the plant life present in a particular region or time, generally the naturally occurring (indigenous) native plants. The corresponding term for animals is fauna, and for fungi, it is funga.
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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Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
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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Greek language
Greek (Elliniká,; Hellēnikḗ) is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean.
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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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Iberian Peninsula
The Iberian Peninsula (IPA), also known as Iberia, is a peninsula in south-western Europe, defining the westernmost edge of Eurasia.
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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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Itbay
Itbāy (اطبيه) or ʿAtbāy is a region of southeastern Egypt and northeastern Sudan.
La Palma
La Palma, also known as La isla bonita and historically San Miguel de La Palma, is the most northwesterly island of the Canary Islands, Spain, which is a Spanish autonomous community and archipelago in Macaronesia in the North Atlantic Ocean.
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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''.
Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Lichen
A lichen is a symbiosis of algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi species, along with a yeast embedded in the cortex or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship.
Mali
Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.
Mauritania
Mauritania, officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a sovereign country in Northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west, Western Sahara to the north and northwest, Algeria to the northeast, Mali to the east and southeast, and Senegal to the southwest. By land area Mauritania is the 11th-largest country in Africa and 28th-largest in the world; 90% of its territory is in the Sahara.
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Metabolic water
Metabolic water refers to water created inside a living organism through metabolism, by oxidizing energy-containing substances in food and adipose tissue.
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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.
Mosor
Mosor (Massarus), or Mount Mosor (Massarus Mons; Monte Massaro), is a mountain range in Croatia located near the city of Split on the Adriatic coast.
Museum of Osteology
The Museum of Osteology, located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S., is a private museum devoted to the study of bones and skeletons (osteology).
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Niger
Niger or the Niger, officially the Republic of the Niger, is a country in West Africa.
Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
North Africa
North Africa (sometimes Northern Africa) is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of the Western Sahara in the west, to Egypt and Sudan's Red Sea coast in the east.
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North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Ovis
Ovis is a genus of mammals, part of the Caprinae subfamily of the ruminant family Bovidae. Barbary sheep and Ovis are Caprids.
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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Poaceae
Poaceae, also called Gramineae, is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses.
Predation
Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.
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Province of Alicante
Alicante (Alacant) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community.
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Province of Almería
Almería (also) is a province of the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain.
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Province of Granada
Granada is a province of southern Spain, in the eastern part of the autonomous community of Andalusia.
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Queensland
Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.
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Region of Murcia
The Region of Murcia (Región de Murcia; Regió de Múrcia) is an autonomous community of Spain located in the southeastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, on the Mediterranean coast.
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Safari West
Safari West is a private wildlife preserve located 12 miles north of the city of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California, United States, owned and operated by Nancy and Peter Lang.
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Sahara
The Sahara is a desert spanning across North Africa.
San Antonio
San Antonio (Spanish for "Saint Anthony"), officially the City of San Antonio, is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 US census.
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Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa (Spanish for "Saint Rose") is a city in and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California.
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Shrub
A shrub or bush is a small-to-medium-sized perennial woody plant.
Sierra Espuña
The Sierra Espuña is a mountain range in the Region of Murcia, Spain.
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Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
Spanish Legion
For centuries, Spain recruited foreign soldiers to its army, forming the foreign regiments (Infantería de línea extranjera) such as the Regiment of Hibernia (formed in 1709 from Irishmen who fled their own country in the wake of the Flight of the Earls and the penal laws).
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Species
A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.
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.
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Sudan
Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.
Tennōji Zoo
is a 11-hectare (27-acre) zoo located at Tennōji Park in Tennōji-ku, Osaka, Japan, opened on January 1, 1915.
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Throat
In vertebrate anatomy, the throat is the front part of the neck, internally positioned in front of the vertebrae.
Tierpark Hagenbeck
The Tierpark Hagenbeck is a zoo in Stellingen, Hamburg, Germany.
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Triangle
A triangle is a polygon with three corners and three sides, one of the basic shapes in geometry.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Ungulate
Ungulates are members of the diverse clade Euungulata ("true ungulates"), which primarily consists of large mammals with hooves.
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United States
The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.
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Western Sahara
Western Sahara is a disputed territory in North-western Africa.
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Zoo
A zoo (short for zoological garden; also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which animals are kept within enclosures for public exhibition and often bred for conservation purposes.
See also
Caprids
- Arabian tahr
- Balearean boc
- Barbary sheep
- Bharal
- Budorcas
- Cantabrian chamois
- Capra (genus)
- Caprinae
- Chamois
- Chinese goral
- Domestication of the goat
- Goral
- Hemitragus
- Himalayan goral
- Himalayan tahr
- Long-tailed goral
- Mountain goat
- Muskox
- Nilgiri tahr
- Oreamnos
- Ovicaprid
- Ovis
- Pyrenean chamois
- Radical 123
- Red goral
- Rupicapra
- Sulaiman markhor
- Tahr
- Takin
- Takins
- Tatra chamois
Fauna of the Sahara
- Addax
- African desert warbler
- African wild dog
- Apis mellifera sahariensis
- Barbary sheep
- Cairo spiny mouse
- Cape hare
- Cerastes cerastes
- Cerastes vipera
- Dama gazelle
- Desert elephant
- Desert lark
- Desert long-eared bat
- Desert monitor
- Desert sparrow
- Dorcas gazelle
- Dromedary
- Fat-tailed gerbil
- Fennec fox
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
- Greater hoopoe-lark
- House bunting
- Lesser Egyptian jerboa
- Miomantis abyssinica
- Mzab gundi
- North African gerbil
- Northwest African cheetah
- Olive baboon
- Pale crag martin
- Pale fox
- Rüppell's fox
- Rhim gazelle
- Saharan shrew
- Saharan striped polecat
- Scimitar oryx
- Small-spotted lizard
- Sooty falcon
- Striped hyena
- Trumpeter finch
- West African crocodile
Mammals described in 1777
- American badger
- American mink
- American red squirrel
- Arabian oryx
- Asian palm civet
- Barbary sheep
- Bearded seal
- Beech marten
- Bezoar ibex
- Bobcat
- Brazilian guinea pig
- Chital
- Corsican red deer
- Desmana
- Elk
- European wildcat
- Fisher (animal)
- Gray mouse lemur
- Greater Egyptian jerboa
- Harp seal
- Hooded seal
- Indian giant squirrel
- Iranian edible dormouse
- Jungle cat
- Kob
- Mexican ground squirrel
- Mongolian gazelle
- North American river otter
- Northern red-sided opossum
- Pig
- Podolsk blind mole-rat
- Purple-faced langur
- Red acouchi
- Red brocket
- Rock squirrel
- Snowshoe hare
- Spectral tarsier
- Spotted hyena
- Sri Lankan spotted chevrotain
- Wild goat
- Wildcat
References
Also known as African Aoudad Sheep, African aouodad sheep, Ammotragus, Ammotragus lervia, Ammotragus lervia angusi, Ammotragus lervia blainei, Ammotragus lervia fassini, Ammotragus lervia lervia, Ammotragus lervia ornata, Ammotragus lervia ornatus, Ammotragus lervia sahariensis, Aoudad, Aoudad sheep, Arruis, Egyptian Barbary, Egyptian Barbary Sheep, Ovis lervia, Udad.