Monthly Archives: June 2024

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Wildlife of Botswana

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Botswana is a landlocked country in southern Africa. The country includes a mix of woodlands, grasslands, and the Kalahari Desert. It has seven game resorts and three national parks.

Official National Animal

Burchell’s zebra

Official National Bird

Eastern cattle egret

Botswana’s best national parks for wildlife are:

Central Kalahari Game Reserve is located in one of the largest deserts in the world.

Desert-adapted animals here include lions, hyenas, aardvarks, aardwolves, bat-eared foxes, meerkats, and porcupines

Chobe National Park is among the best wildlife destinations in Africa

Here around the Chobe Riverfront area, you can find some of the largest elephants in Africa

Moremi Game Reserve is a Big Five reserve

It has the largest population of red lechwe in Africa as well as a large African wild dog population

Lions are the largest and most sociable of Africa’s cats

African elephants are the largest land mammals and the heaviest land animals in the world

Rhinoceroses are among the Big Five animals to spot in the wild

African buffalo are bad-tempered and dangerous

Leopards are the shyest and least social of animals

Hyenas have learned to adapt to most African ecosystems

Hippos are semi-aquatic safari animals

Giraffes are among the most popular animals in the African savannah

Meerkats are desert animals and live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert

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Not Smelling Like a Rose

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The smelliest flowers and animals in the world

Many will remember the Disney cartoon “Bambi” in it Bambi the deer meets up with a skunk. Bambi is trying to learn what everything around him is called. He learns that the colorful blooms he sees are flowers and when a skunk emerges from the flowers he looks at it and says “Flower.” Unfortunately, it was not a flower; if it had been, it would have been a very smelly flower, but the skunk accepts being called Flower. So remembering that from my childhood I decided to write about the smelliest flowers and the smelliest animals in the world in one article.

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Wildlife of Benin

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Benin is a country located in West Africa. It is mostly tropical with a northern desert capstone. Benin is home to approximately 188 animal species.

Official National Animal

Leopard which is also depicted on the Coat of Arms

Cheetahs are among the most iconic animals of the African wilderness

Lions can be looked upon as the symbols of Africa

White-tailed mongooses are one of the nocturnal predators of sub-Saharan Africa

Olive baboons are a very important part of the wildlife of Africa

Leopard tortoises inhabit East and South African savannas

African buffalos always live in herds with a linear dominance hierarchy

Sitatungas are a species of antelopes found throughout Central Africa and inhabit swamps

Common patas monkeys are a terrestrial species of monkeys inhabiting semi-arid areas of Central and West Africa

Red-headed rock agamas are a colorful species of lizards native to sub-Saharan Africa

Hippopotamuses are among the largest land mammals on the planet. They’re herbivorous, semi-aquatic, and native to sub-Saharan Africa

Caracals are a medium-sized species of wild cats native to Africa

Birds

Black-crowned cranes are a species of birds that are famous for their golden crowns

Marine Animals

Nile crocodiles are the second-largest living reptiles in the world. They inhabit aquatic areas like rivers, lakes, swamps, and marshlands and usually prefer freshwater

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Meet Some Amazing Animals

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A variety of different animals from around the world

On the Land

Five Species of Baboons

There are five different species of baboons and they all live in Arabia or Africa. Some baboons are the world’s largest moneys. They prefer savanna and semi-arid habitats. There are a few baboons that live in tropical forests.

Baboons are adept at climbing trees in which they eat and sleep. Much of their time is spent on the ground. They love to eat crops so the African farmers are not their friends, They enjoy fruits, grasses, seeds, roots, and bark. When they have an appetite for meat they eat rodents, birds, and some larger mammals such as sheep and antelope.

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Wildlife of Angola

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Angola is a coastal country located in southwestern Africa. The country has nearly 2,000 species of flora and fauna with hundreds of animals that are indigenous to Angola.

National Animal

Royal sable antelope

National Bird

Red-crested turaco

Native Animals

Giant otter shrews can be seen in northern Angola

Aardvarks are spread throughout most of the continent, from sub-Saharan Africa all the way to South Africa

Red-tailed monkeys are small primates that make their homes in Central African countries

Plains zebras are the most common zebra species, They live in several southern African countries

African bush elephants are one of two African elephant species, the other being the African forest elephant

Chacma baboons originated in South Africa and slowly spread northward

Typical striped grass mice

African leopards make their home in most of sub-Saharan Africa

Spotted hyenas are typical African animals

Bat-eared foxes live in the African savanna

Birds

Greater flamingos are the most famous flamingos and the largest

Kori bustards are the largest flying birds native to Africa

Marine Animals

Byde’s whales live off the coastline in the Atlantic Ocean

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Leaping Lizards

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Some of the most amazing lizards in the world

Just like sunbathers on beaches all over the world lizards love to lie in the sun all day. At night they hide near rocks and other vegetation. They are reptiles with characteristic traits of snakes forked tongues and scales. Lizards have claws to help them climb, dig, and defend themselves. Often their tails are longer than their bodies and they use them to balance, climb, and for protection. There are 4,675 species of lizards and they can live up to 50 years.

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