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  2. Category:Fauna of East Africa - Wikipedia

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    Gerenuk. Gilled lungfish. Gland-tailed free-tailed bat. Grant's bushbaby. Grant's gazelle. Greater kudu. Grévy's zebra. Grivet. Ground pangolin.

  3. Fauna of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Male Hyrax. The Fauna of Africa, in its broader sense, is all the animals living in Africa and its surrounding seas and islands. The more characteristic African fauna is found in the Afro-tropical realm. [1] Lying almost entirely within the tropics, and equally to north and south of the equator creates favorable conditions for rich wildlife.

  4. Naked mole-rat - Wikipedia

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    The naked mole-rat is native to the drier parts of the tropical grasslands of East Africa, predominantly southern Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia. [55] Clusters averaging 75 to 80 individuals live together in complex systems of burrows in arid African deserts. The tunnel systems built by naked mole-rats can stretch up to three to five kilometres ...

  5. East African oryx - Wikipedia

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    The East African oryx (Oryx beisa), also known as the beisa, is a species of medium-sized antelope from East Africa.It has two subspecies: the common beisa oryx (Oryx beisa beisa) found in steppe and semidesert throughout the Horn of Africa and north of the Tana River, and the fringe-eared oryx (Oryx beisa callotis) south of the Tana River in southern Kenya and parts of Tanzania.

  6. East African cheetah - Wikipedia

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    Acinonyx jubatus raineyi ( Heller, 1913), A. j. ngorongorensis (Hilzheimer, 1913) [1] The East African cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus jubatus ), is a cheetah population in East Africa. [2] It lives in grasslands and savannas of Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and Somalia. The cheetah inhabits mainly the Serengeti ecosystem, including Maasai Mara, and the ...

  7. Impala - Wikipedia

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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. Two subspecies are recognised—the grassland-dwelling common impala (sometimes ...

  8. Common eland - Wikipedia

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    The common eland ( Taurotragus oryx ), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a large-sized savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa. An adult male is around 1.6 m (5.2 ft) tall at the shoulder (females are 20 cm (7.9 in) shorter) and can weigh up to 942 kg (2,077 lb) with a typical range of 500–600 kg ...

  9. Bongo (antelope) - Wikipedia

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    Bongo (antelope) The bongo ( Tragelaphus eurycerus) is a large, mostly nocturnal, forest -dwelling antelope, native to sub-Saharan Africa. Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes, and long slightly spiralled horns. It is the only tragelaphid in which both sexes have horns.

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