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Of the mammal species in Nigeria, one is critically endangered, thirteen are endangered, sixteen are vulnerable, and ten are near threatened. One of the species listed for Nigeria can no longer be found in the wild. [1] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for ...
The wildlife of Nigeria consists of the flora and fauna of this country in West Africa. Nigeria has a wide variety of habitats, ranging from mangrove swamps and tropical rainforest to savanna with scattered clumps of trees. About 290 mammal species and 940 bird species have been recorded in the country.
Over 50 subspecies and species are described, many of which are considered highly endangered. [42] The most recently identified species is Dendrohyrax interfluvialis , which is a tree hyrax living between the Volta and Niger rivers but makes a unique barking call that is distinct from the shrieking vocalizations of hyraxes inhabiting other ...
Lists of animals of Nigeria (1 C) A. Animal welfare and rights in Nigeria (1 C) C. Fauna of the Cameroonian Highlands forests (74 P) R. Reptiles of Nigeria (42 P)
A breeding program aims to create similar-looking animals, but these are not true quaggas. This list of African species extinct in the Holocene covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [a] and continues to the present. [1]
The biggest African mammal is the African bush elephant, the second largest being its smaller counterpart, the African forest elephant. Four species of pangolins can be found in Africa. [50] African fauna contains 216 species of primates. [51] Four species of great apes are endemic to Africa: both species of gorilla (western gorilla, Gorilla ...
The Nigerian mole-rat was first described by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1911. The species name "foxi" honours the Reverend George Fox who sent twelve specimens to the Natural History Museum in London where Thomas was the curator of mammals. Of these specimens, nine were of a similar size and appearance and two, a male and a female ...
This is a list of African type primates, containing all recent species of primates found in Africa including Madagascar. According to the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group there are currently 216 species (111 in the mainland while the 105 are found in Madagascar). [ 1 ]