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The impala or rooibok (Aepyceros melampus) 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.
Aepyceros is a genus of African antelope that contains a single living species, the impala. It is the only known member of the tribe Aepycerotini. [1] Two extinct species are known, Aepyceros datoadeni [2] and Aepyceros shungurae. [3] A third species, Aepyceros premelampus has been transferred to a new genus, Afrotragus. [4]
An Atlas Impala Mk.2 of the South African Air Force. The South African Defence Force employed Impalas during campaigns against the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and Cuban expeditionary troops in Angola between 1975 and 1989. Impala pilots typically flew at 550–650 km/h at a height of 15 m to avoid Angolan air ...
In actuality, the impala was used by a cheetah mother to teach her cubs how to hunt prey. The baby cheetahs, however, were more preoccupied with playing with the impala. Buttigieg figured that the ...
During dry seasons, both black and white rhinoceros, warthog, greater kudu, impala, Burchell's zebra, blue wildebeest and a herd of elephants are seen. During rain seasons, the rich birdlife of 450 species is represented. Prides of lions, hyenas, zebras or more rarely Southeast African cheetahs are sighted as well. This region is reputed for ...
Oxpeckers are endemic to the savanna of Sub-Saharan Africa. Both the English and scientific names arise from their habit of perching on large mammals (both wild and domesticated) such as cattle, zebras, impalas, hippopotamuses, rhinoceroses, and giraffes, eating ticks, small insects, botfly larvae, and other parasites, as well as the animals ...
The order Afrosoricida contains the golden moles of southern Africa and the tenrecs of Madagascar and Africa, two families of small mammals that were traditionally part of the order Insectivora. Family: Tenrecidae (tenrecs) Subfamily: Potamogalinae. Genus: Micropotamogale. Ruwenzori otter shrew, Micropotamogale ruwenzorii NT; Genus: Potamogale
Impala's shares in Johannesburg declined 6.74% at 0847 GMT. South Africa has some of the world's deepest, oldest and most costly platinum and gold mining shafts.