Africa or the black continent is the second largest continent and population, second only to Asia, and its fauna is the richest in the world. Africa is also a member of the so-called. The old world, but to this day carries the epithet wild continent. Vast areas where man has not permanently put down roots, allow animals to feel safe, but here they are in danger of extinction. Africa is a continent which varies with the temperature during the day. From high to very low. Africa is a continent that allow animal species to exist in a very large and diversified number. Including mammals, birds, reptiles, fish and insects. There are about 70 species of carnivores, 40 primate species about 1500 different species of birds and a wide range of ungulates. Africa is a continent that is really interesting and can boast of rare species of interest. Certain animals, such as the fastest land animal - the cheetah, the largest bird - ostrich, the largest primate - the gorilla, the largest land mammal - the African elephant. live only on the African continent. How can be so good and bad, because it represents the death of the plant world.Animal world is in Africa used to be a very rich and varied. But thanks to a white man, many species are on the brink of extinction. We will list some of the many.
The African wild Donkey - Equus africanus is a species of the horse family , and zoologists him jokingly referred to as a real donkey because of it over time developed a domestic donkey . The average body length is about 2 meters height up to 130 cm , a weight of 250 kg , gray-brown paint, but their belly is lighter , and their feet can often be colorful , like a zebra . They used to live throughout North Africa , but because of poachers , domestication by the local population and disease , their number has long been in decline. With their natural habitats are long gone , and more recently lived in Ethiopia , Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. Eighties of the last century, the total number of wild donkeys is estimated at up to 1,000 animals , but since then the number has drastically smaller. In Somalia are probably extinct during the civil war in Ethiopia and Sudan are facing extinction . Only in Eritrea how much stable population of these animals , and it is estimated that there are about 400 in several herds .
Rhinoceros Rhinocerotidae is the largest land animal after the elephant in Africa, two of the five living species , and all five are categorized as critically endangered . In Africa live White Ceratotherium simum and black rhinoceros Diceros bicornis , but they are the same color , the only difference is in their form lips which is wider in the white rhinoceros . When the English first saw these animals wrongly understood African word wilde and understand the White, black white. Otherwise , both types of rhinos are similar in length up to 4 meters in height up to 180 cm and weighing about 4 tons . Rhinos are usually solitary , and can be seen up to 3 animals in mating season , mostly female one and possibly two males fighting for her. At the beginning of the twentieth century, it is believed that there were hundreds of thousands of these animals in the whole of Africa , but the excessive hunting for their ornaments on the muzzle led to a few tens of thousands of middle of the same century . Today, it is estimated that there are about 10 thousand whites and only 2,000 black rhinos in the wild .
Bonobos Pan paniscus is a type of chimpanzee, the smallest of all, and is also called the dwarf chimpanzee. Noticeably smaller than their cousins, fragile items, and more like a man. Females are smaller than males, and breast have protruding, unlike other apes. Bonobo almost 25% of the movement on the ground they walk upright. All these features, and keeping them, give them much more human look over ordinary chimp. Moreover, bonobos are highly individualized facial appearance, as well as people, and individually from each other significantly. Their number is now estimated at below 10 thousand, and only on the territory of the Congo. The greatest threat to these animals represent people from the area who love their meat and claims that there is nothing delicious. For now there is no law that would prevent the hunting of bonobos.
Mountain gorillas - Gorilla beringei beringei is a subspecies of gorilla, which lives only in two small regions in the world, in the Virunga Mountains on the border of Uganda, Rwanda and Congo, and Bwindi impenetrable National Park in Uganda, Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. From its relative distinguished by fur that is generally longer and silkier hair than the others. All gorillas are the same proportion, to 1.80 meters in height, although in fact more, because when they stand upright knees always bent, hand spacing to 3 meters, and the weight of them is different between the sexes. Females are difficult to 100 pounds and males can be three times as heavy. It is estimated to be in the wild is around 700 copies, and the greatest danger they are poachers and expansion of human settlements, as forests are cut for the sake of obtaining arable land.
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