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The scales on the tails are capable of a cutting action to inflict serious wounds. [7] Pangolins are also capable of emitting noxious acid from glands near the anus, similar to a skunk, to ward off predators. [11] The ground pangolin's main predators are leopards, hyenas, and humans. [7] Pangolins roll in herbivore dung. [12]
Average evaporation on the lake is between 2.0 and 2.2 metres (6.6 and 7.2 ft) per year, almost double the precipitation of riparian areas. [24] Lake Victoria receives its water additionally from rivers, and thousands of small streams. The Kagera River is the largest river flowing into this lake, with its mouth on the lake's western shore.
The channel went live on 17 July 2013. Melloul stated that it would battle prejudice and ignorance about Israel with "facts and diversity". [8] [9]Arab Israeli journalist Lucy Aharish was the lead anchor of the English-language branch of the channel from July 2013 until she left in January 2016.
Banded mongoose (M. m. colonus) at Maasai Mara in western KenyaThe banded mongoose (Mungos mungo) is a mongoose species native from the Sahel to Southern Africa.It lives in savannas, open forests and grasslands and feeds primarily on beetles and millipedes.
Length up to 1.52 m (5.0 ft), wingspan 2.48 m (8.1 ft), [24] average weight 7 kg (15 lb). ... Pelicans live for 15 to 25 years in the wild, although one reached an ...
The black rhinoceros can also be considered a more challenging herbivore to feed in captivity compared to its grazing relatives. [53] They can live up to 5 days without water during drought. Black rhinos live in several habitats including bushlands, Riverine woodland, marshes, and their least favorable, grasslands.
The second smallest of Tanzania's national parks is Gombe Stream National Park is located in Kigoma District of Kigoma Region, covering an area of only 52 square kilometres (20 sq mi). [13] Its natural topography consists of steep hill slopes, river valleys, and the sandy northern shores of Lake Tanganyika . [ 13 ]
The diversity of other invertebrate groups in Lake Tanganyika is often not well-known, but there are at least 20 described species of leeches (12 endemics), [85] 9 sponges (7 endemic), 6 bryozoa (2 endemic), 11 flatworms (7 endemic), 20 nematodes (7 endemic), 28 annelids (17 endemic) [27] and the small hydrozoan jellyfish Limnocnida tanganyicae.