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The wildlife of Morocco is composed of its flora and fauna. The country has a wide range of terrains and climate types and a correspondingly large diversity of plants and animals. The coastal areas have a Mediterranean climate and vegetation while inland the Atlas Mountains is forested. Further south, the borders of the Sahara Desert are ...
The striped hyena (Hyaena hyaena) is a species of hyena native to North and East Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Indian subcontinent. It is the only extant species in the genus Hyaena. It is listed by the IUCN as near-threatened, as the global population is estimated to be under 10,000 mature individuals which ...
Although it is known to kill animals up to three times its own weight, the African wolf targets mammalian prey much less frequently than the black-backed jackal overall. [4] On capturing large prey, the African wolf makes no attempt to kill it; instead it rips open the belly and eats the entrails.
Order: Rodentia (rodents) Crested porcupine. Barbary ground squirrel. Asian garden dormouse. Sand rat. Common gundi. Rodents make up the largest order of mammals, with over 40% of mammalian species. They have two incisors in the upper and lower jaw which grow continually and must be kept short by gnawing.
The big five. In Africa, the Big five game animals are the lion, leopard, rhinoceros, elephant, and African buffalo. [1] The term was coined by big-game hunters to refer to the five most difficult animals in Africa to hunt on foot, [2][3][4] but is now more widely used by game viewing tourists and safari tour operators. [5][2][6] They are ...
Tarentola mauritanica. Moorish wall gecko. Tarentola boehmei. Böhme's gecko. Tarentola deserti. Desert wall gecko. Tarentola annularis. Ringed wall gecko. Tarentola ephippiata hoggarensis.
Rallidae is a large family of small to medium-sized birds which includes the rails, crakes, coots, and gallinules. Water rail, Rallus aquaticus. Corn crake, Crex crex. African crake, Crex egregia (A) Sora, Porzana carolina (A) Spotted crake, Porzana porzana. Eurasian moorhen, Gallinula chloropus.
Description. The Atlas bear was brownish-black in colour and lacked a white mark on the muzzle. The fur on the underparts was reddish-orange. [5] The fur was 4–5 inches (102–127 mm) long. The muzzle and claws were shorter than those of the American black bear, though it was stouter and thicker in body. The Atlas bear was said to have been 9 ...