This large bird was once found as far as the deserts of Arabia & Syria but is now confined to parts of Africa
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Great Rift Valley - New World Encyclopedia  The Great Rift Valley varies in width from twenty to sixty miles (thirty to one hundred ... and lakes that crossed Arabia and Africa was part of a continuous trough. ... to conclude that early hominids were confined to East Africa, but because the ... The African Rift Valley lakes include some of the oldest, largest, and deepest...
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Arabian Desert - Britannica.com  Jan 28, 2016 ... A large part of the Arabian Desert lies within the modern kingdom of Saudi ... Western Arabia formed part of the African landmass before a rift ... The northern Arabian Desert merges imperceptibly into Arab Asia through the Syrian ..... and the pestiferous locust that once plagued the landscape but has now...
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The fauna of Tell Nebi Mend (Syria) in the Bronze and Iron Agea ...  The diversity of wild mammals and birds remains excavated from Tell Nebi .... (G. dorcas) found today in the desert areas of the southern Levant, Arabia and North Africa. ... At Tell Nebi Mend (LB II, Trench II), the one male frontlet that survives is ..... but are now confined to remote areas of Iraq, Iran and Turkey (McLellan et al.
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Arabian Peninsula - Wikipedia  The Arabian Peninsula, simplified Arabia is a peninsula of Western Asia situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian plate. ... Southern Arabia consists of Yemen and some parts of Saudi Arabia and Oman (Dhofar). ... The northern portion of the peninsula merges with the Syrian Desert with no clear ...... Russian Far East.
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The Comparative Antiquity of Continents, As Indicated by the ...  The Palarctic, or North Temperate region of the Old World, is not only by far the most extensive of the zoological regions, but is the one which ... region in North-West America; camels, confined to the deserts of North Africa and Asia; .... The birds of the Oriental region are exceedingly numerous and varied, there being...
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our history: Africa,  Jan 18, 2014 ... The countries north of the Sahara make up the region of North Africa, while the ... For the purposes of this article, West Africa consists of Benin, Burkina ... from the tip of Cap Vert in Senegal, in the west, to Raas Xaafuun (Ras Hafun) in ...... thousand zebras or gnus (wildebeests) strong, can stretch for miles.
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Aoudad or Barbary Sheep - Africa | Big Game Hunting Records ...  Records 1 - 91 of 91 ... This is a preview of the Aoudad or Barbary Sheep - Africa species ... BEHAVIOR Usually lives in small family groups with an adult male. ... DISTRIBUTION Desert hills and mountains of northern Africa from ... Once you subscribe you'll be able to access photos and full socre sheets for all of these entries.
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rhinos - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  Two of these species are native to Africa and three to Southern Asia. .... any of five species of giant, horn-bearing herbivores that include some of the largest living land mammals. ... massive hoofed mammal of Africa, India, and southeastern Asia, ... from Greek rhinokers, literally, nose-horned from rhis (see "rhino-") + keras,...
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Saudi Aramco World : Arabia: Sand, Sea & Sky  Arabia. Sand, Sea & Sky. Written by John Lawton and Miranda McQuitty ... credit to the scientists of the Saudi wildlife commission who advised him. ... 30 million years, when the Arabian Peninsula broke away from the African ... The fleet-footed saluki is believed to have originated in southern Arabia 8000 years ago and has...
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Money, Trade and Trade Routes in Pre-Islamic North Africa  Trans-Saharan Long-distance Trade and the Helleno-Punic Mediterranean. 61. Michael ... persistent and continued interest in North Africa, and its ...... Gulf of Sidra) which runs from Euesperides in western. Cyrenaica to Misrata in eastern Tripolitania, and the Lesser .... modern Benghazi, present a serious challenge to the.
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The Sahara Desert: Location, Landscape, Water and Climate ...  ... Continent, or some 3.5 million square miles, the Sahara Desert extends eastward from the Atlantic Ocean some 3,000 miles to the Nile River and the Red Sea,...
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Ethiopia tourism: into the desert (Cond Nast Traveller)  Oct 21, 2015 ... The Afar lead Stanley Stewart through the deserts of the Danakil depression. ... piles of rectangular salt blocks gift-wrapped in white acacia bark. ... They got the worst cuts of meat and the others, Thesiger reports, would use them as .... Once used as currency throughout the Horn of Africa and beyond, these...
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jeopardy/1815_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  AFRICAN ANIMALS | Africa is home to both the "greater" & "lesser" types of these long-legged, curvy-necked pink wading birds | Flamingos. right: Lisa. Wrong:.
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Pin-tailed whydah - Wikipedia  The pin-tailed whydah (Vidua macroura) is a small songbird with a conspicuous pennant-like tail in breeding males. It is a resident breeding bird in most of Africa south of the Sahara Desert. ... The male pin-tailed whydah is territorial, and one male often has several females in his small group. He has an elaborate courtship...
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List of largest birds - Wikipedia  The largest living bird, a member of the Struthioniformes, is the ostrich (Struthio camelus), from the plains of Africa and Arabia. A large male ostrich can reach a height of 2.8 m (9.2 ft) and weigh over 156 kg (344 lb). A mass of 200 kg (440 lb) has been cited for the ostrich but no wild ostriches ... These species are almost all flightless, which allows for these particular birds...
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Ostrich - Wikipedia  The ostrich or common ostrich (Struthio camelus) is either one or two species of large flightless birds native to Africa, ... The ostrich is the largest living species of bird and lays the largest eggs of any living bird ..... Today ostriches prefer open land and are native to the savannas and Sahel of Africa, both north and south of the...
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ADW: Vulpes zerda: INFORMATION  The largest populations of Vulpes zerda occur in the central Sahara, though the species can ... The presence of desert grasses and/or light scrub vegetation is important, ... Not enough is known about fennecs to state conclusively whether they are ..... an animal that mainly eats all kinds of things, including plants and animals.
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Rare & Extinct Creatures - Moa & Elephant Bird - the messybeast  Madagascar was settled around 2000 years ago by African and Indonesian ... In all there are only about 12 species known; two, perhaps three species of ostrich in Africa, ... There were several species of moa, some taller than the elephant bird at 7 ft (2 ... The first Polynesians arrived in New Zealand around the 10th century,...
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Thar Desert - Topics  The Thar Desert , also known as the Great Indian Desert , is a large, arid region ... the coast and the alluvial plains of the Indus River in the west and north-west. ... It is considered as the home of birds and provides shelter for other desert wildlife. ..... It stretches along the border lowlands and hills between India and Pakistan...
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Wild African Animals in Southern Ethiopia & Northern Kenya  Africa has the largest selection of wild exotic animals and Ethiopia's Omo Valley is home to many species. The national ... The Eland is the world's largest antelope. It stands about 5 to 6 feet tall and can weigh around 1500 lbs. Even at it's size,...
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** Africam - Book (3) | Africam  LION - there seems to be a constant WAR between these two. gregarious .... African elephants are found in Africa south of the Sahara,. throughout ... meaning there is a preference to use one tusk over the other. As a result ... the largest single tusk ever found weighed 236 pounds and. was 11 feet and 6 inches long! Largest...