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Animals such as elephants, rhinoceros, and hippopotami used to live in different parts of Egypt, however these animals do not exist in Egypt today. Animals were very much appreciated and important in Egyptian history; even some deities were represented as animals; as Hathor the goddess of fertility, love and beauty was represented as a cow. [1]
The wildlife of Egypt is composed of the flora and fauna of this country in northeastern Africa and southwestern Asia, and is substantial and varied. Apart from the fertile Nile Valley , which bisects the country from south to north, the majority of Egypt's landscape is desert, with a few scattered oases .
The Egyptian plover is found across equatorial Africa and along the Nile River. It has a mutualistic relationship with Nile crocodiles by eating food and parasites from their opened mouths. This is also reflected in the Ancient Egyptian name of the bird according to a Demotic dreambook (papyrus Vienna D 6104): b3k msh "servant of the crocodile".
These animals live in warm coastal waters from East Africa to Australia, including the Red Sea, Indian Ocean, and Pacific. ... Egyptian weasel, M. n. subpalmata LC ...
Lesser Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus jaculus) [1] Greater Egyptian jerboa (Jaculus orientalis) [1] Family: Spalacidae. Genus: Nannospalax. Middle East blind mole-rat Nannospalax ehrenbergi [2] Family: Muridae (mice, rats, voles, gerbils, hamsters etc.) Genus: Acomys. Cairo spiny mouse (Acomys cahirinus) [3] Golden spiny mouse (Acomys russatus) Genus ...
The ancient Egyptian corkscrew-horned sheep (Ovis longipes palaeoaegyptiacus) [1] is a type of the extinct wild barbary sheep found in the ancient southern Egypt and Nubia. The ovacaprines were domesticated and often depicted on the stone tomb murals of the pharaohs for religious or aesthetic purposes.
In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal, or sha, [citation needed] is the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek monster Typhon, the animal is also commonly known as the Typhonian animal or Typhonic beast. Unlike other totemic animals, the Set animal is not easily identifiable in the modern animal world.
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