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The sjambok (/ ˈ ʃ æ m b ʌ k,-b ɒ k /), [1] or litupa, is a heavy leather whip.It is traditionally made from adult hippopotamus or rhinoceros hide, but it is also commonly made out of plastic.
The hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (/ ˌ h ɪ p ə ˈ p ɒ t ə m ə s /; pl.: hippopotamuses; often shortened to hippo (pl.: hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.
Glass as a bead material proved particularly suitable for exportation to Sub-Saharan Africa due to its durable quality and its extremely portable nature. [5] While we know that millions of glass beads have made their way through the African continent, the identification of origin and relative date is often difficult to determine.
A South African hippopotamus who has been featured in more than 100 documentaries has developed a taste for rooibos tea, as visitors to the nature preserve where she lives are invited to bottle ...
Hippopotamidae is a family of stout, naked-skinned, and semiaquatic artiodactyl mammals, possessing three-chambered stomachs and walking on four toes on each foot. While they resemble pigs physiologically, their closest living relatives are the cetaceans.
The Malagasy pygmy hippo was similarly less aquatic, with many of its fossils found in the forested highlands of Madagascar. [ 8 ] Fossils of both the Malagasy pygmy hippopotamus and H. lemerlei show a cursorial adaptation, distinct from the hippos on the African continent, and they would have been much better runners.
Krobo bead (fused glass fragments) Krobo powder glass beads are made in vertical molds fashioned out of a special, locally dug clay.Most molds have a number of depressions, designed to hold one bead each, and each of these depressions, in turn, has a small central depression to hold the stem of a cassava leaf.
Hippopotamus lemerlei bones have been mostly discovered in the rivers and lakes (riparian environments) of western Madagascar, suggesting a habitat very similar to that of the modern hippo of modern Africa. H. lemerlei also shared the high-placed eyes that make it easier to see while submerged. [5]