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The impala or rooibok (Aepyceros melampus, lit. 'black-footed high-horn' in Ancient Greek) is a medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.The only extant member of the genus Aepyceros, and tribe Aepycerotini, it was first described to Europeans by German zoologist Hinrich Lichtenstein in 1812.
The infraorder name Isoptera is derived from the Greek words iso (equal) and ptera (winged), which refers to the nearly equal size of the fore and hind wings. [15] " Termite" derives from the Latin and Late Latin word termes ("woodworm, white ant"), altered by the influence of Latin terere ("to rub, wear, erode") from the earlier word tarmes.
Markus Alexej Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother, Ritva, [2] and a Swedish father, Birger, [3] on 1 June 1979. [4] [5] [2] He has one sister.[2] [6] He grew up in Edsbyn until he was seven years old, when his family moved back to Stockholm.
Game jams such as Ludum Dare and Game Off are often run on open source principles, frequently using free frameworks such as pygame, Arcade, [446] Wasabi2D, [447] and Ren'Py for Python, Ruby2D [448] and Gosu [449] for Ruby, GGEZ [450] for Rust, LibGDX for Java, MiniGDX [96] for Kotlin, LÖVE and Solar2D for Lua, Ebitengine [451] for Go, Phaser ...
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It does, however, migrate into tall grassland and dense woodland. [17] Gazelles are mixed feeders. [ 17 ] In the wet seasons, they eat mainly fresh grasses, [ 18 ] but during the dry seasons, they eat more browse , [ 18 ] particularly foliage from woody plants bushes and herbaceous forbs .
A single spotted hyena can eat at least 14.5 kg of meat per meal, [20] and although they act aggressively toward each other when feeding, they compete with each other mostly through speed of eating, rather than by fighting as lions do. [21]
The pigeye shark or Java shark (Carcharhinus amboinensis) is an uncommon species of requiem shark, in the family Carcharhinidae, found in the warm coastal waters of the eastern Atlantic and western Indo-Pacific. It prefers shallow, murky environments with soft bottoms, and tends to roam within a fairly localised area.