Interesting animal facts and information about African Elephants SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION COMMON NAME: African elephant, savannah elephant KINGDOM: Animalia PHYLUM: Chordata CLASS: Mammalia ORDER: Proboscidea FAMILY: Elephantidae GENUS SPECIES: Loxodonta (slanting tooth) africana (from Africa) INFORMATION DESCRIPTION: Largest of all land mammals, with large ears, a long trunk, and large tusks SIZE: 3-4 m (10-13 ft.) [...]
Rhinoceroses get their name from their most famous feature: their horns. The word rhinoceros comes from the Greek rhino (nose) and ceros (horn). For ages, rhino horn has been used to treat illnesses, especially fevers. Yet like our fingernails and hair, rhino horn is made of keratin and has no healing properties. In some countries, [...]
The Spotted Hyena (Crocuta crocuta) also known as Laughing Hyena, is a carnivorous mammal of the family Hyaenidae, of which it is the largest extant member. They only occurs in Africa south of the Sahara. Spotted hyenas live in large matriarchal communities called clans, which can consist of up to 80 individuals. Though often mislabeled [...]
A jackal is a member of any of three small to medium-sized species of the genus Canis, found in Africa, Asia, and south eastern Europe. Jackals fill a similar ecological niche to the coyote (sometimes called the American jackal in North America; both are omnivorous predators of small to medium-sized animals, as well as scavengers. [...]
Belligerent and numerous. I feel like I was mauled by Jesus. Dear God, they’ll be killed on our doorstep! And there’s no trash pickup until January 3rd. I’m sure those windmills will keep them cool. Switzerland is small and neutral! We are more like Germany, ambitious and misunderstood!
Oh yeah, good luck with that. Ask her how her day was. A true inspiration for the children.
The lion (Panthera leo), and a member of the family Felidae. With some males exceeding 250 kg in weight, it is the second-largest living cat after the tiger. Wild lions currently exist in Sub-Saharan Africa, having disappeared from North Africa. Lions live for ten to fourteen years in the wild, males seldom live longer than [...]
