Why do they keep on breeding in Africa?
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Stupidity. Just like here.
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The majority of the animals featured in this section are the larger land mammals that can be found in eastern and southern Africa. There are approximately 40 species featured which have been studied by scientists over the past 30 years. The majority of the mammals listed below can be seen and heard on safaris in parks and reserves in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa and Namibia.\n\nSince 'the Living Africa' is a spotlight site, we chose some of the most interesting species we could find along with some of the most common to present a nice balance of information on fauna in Africa.\n\nthe Bovid family\nThe Bovid Family (hollow-horned ruminants) includes 120 species, 84 of which are antelopes. Africa is home to 72 antelope species. Cattle, sheep, and goats originated in Eurasia and as a result, very few species were able to travel down beyond the Sahara Desert.\n\nThe diverse family of African bovids came into existence 24 million years ago and reached its evolutionary peak over the last several million years of the ice age.\n\nFamily Traits\n\nSize\nBovids range in size from the largest antelopes, oxen and buffalos weighing over one ton to the 4 lb royal antelope.\n\n\n[an error occurred while processing this directive] Horns\nAll bovid males and 2/3 of females have horns. The horn consists of an outer shell covering an inner core of bone. In some cases the horns of the female are longer than those of the male. The texture and wear of horns, together with the sharpness, surface texture and width of groves, can indicate the age of the animal. Characteristically, younger bovids have sharp and smooth horns with fairly wide groves.\n\nColor\nThe colors range from black to white, with brown being the most common color. Sociable species tend to have distinct markings which enable members of a herd to tell each other apart. Antelopes, which rely on camouflage, often have stripes or large blotches on their hides to protect them from predators.\n\nHabitat\nWherever there is vegetation, from deserts to swamplands and lowland plains to high mountaintops, there are always antelopes ready to graze. Each species of African antelope has adapted to a particular environment based on size, feeding technique, digestive system, and social and reproductive systems. Inevitably, two or more species share the same areas and to some degree compete for territory and resources. In one case, over 12 different species of antelope have been spotted in one area.\n\n\n[an error occurred while processing this directive] Water Dependence & Independence\nAntelopes that are water-independent have the freedom to explore vast areas, an advantage that water-dependent antelopes do not have. In most cases, pure grazers are water-dependent, which means that they must drink water every day or every two days. Browsers, however, can obtain their water needs by eating leaves, herbs, and other plants that store water.\n\nAntelopes that live in dry areas have numerous strategies for minimizing the amount of water required. To avoid overheating, some rest in the shade during the heat of the day. Most antelopes feed during the coolest hours of the day when the vegetation has collected water from the air. Some antelopes allow their body heat to rise by 10* F (6* C) and simply store the heat instead of panting or sweating which uses up a lot of energy.\n\nAn antelope's ability to adapt to dry conditions varies from tribe to tribe. This ability is not limited to desert species.\n\nSocial/Mating Systems\nWhether or not antelopes live in herds or lead solitary lives depends solely on their environment. Generally speaking, antelopes must see each other in order to stay together. In most cases, the larger the habitat, the larger the herd. One will find the smallest herds where there are small patches of grass and the largest herds on expansive plains.\n\nBovid social/mating systems are either territorial or non-territorial, solitar
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It's really mainly a matter of climate. Climate determines the food we can grow, the animals we can raise and breed.\nSub Tropical countries, don't have this luxury, and their food requires much more time to grow, unlike wheat, barley rice, or any other grain crops. The food they are able to grow, tend to be labor intensive. If you are spending all that time and effort just to feed yourselves, where will you find the time to improve your lot in life.\nThey don't have access to draft animals either, as in horses, oxen, etc. So they can raise beef cattle, sheep, or others, perhaps goats, but they are small, and can't feed that many, and you need a great number of them. Also goats eat anything, and turn a garden into a desert in a short time.\nAll people have the same intelligence, and ability. In those countries, that are third world that are in the temperate zone, their problems are basically, one of Politics.\nMexico is a prime example, they have everything it takes to become a first nation, with Oil and other resources. But the leaders of that country, take everything, and leave little for the mass of their population. It doesn't take much to see why they leave their country for better lives in the U.S.A. and many have become very successful here. If not in the first generation, definitely in the second.
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There is only one continent in the world where giraffes live. It is Africa. Giraffes choose to live on the flat, grassy areas with some trees and bushes. In Africa these areas are called savannas. We can also call them grasslands or woodlands.\n       Africa is very hot and its savannas have tropical or subtropical climate. There is a period of rain in summer and a very dry winter. \nSome savannas are located in the deserts. For example there are some of them in the Sahara Desert, which covers a large part of North Africa. \n        Savannas provide everything giraffes need to live. They like hot\nweather, trees provide some shade, and their leaves are food for giraffes.There is not much water, especially during dry periods of the year, but giraffes can manage without water for a long time. That is why African savannas are a great habitat for giraffes. \n       There are many African countries where you can see giraffes. They are most popular in Niger, located mostly on the area of Sahara Desert in North Africa. There are also many of them in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania on the east of the continent, and South Africa, and Botswana in the very south. \n\ns
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We are designed to make sure that we produce enough offspring to keep our species going. It takes a pretty big carrot on the end of the stick to willingly risk having to take on all that is required of parents.
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they have too much money and dont know where to spend it so they think "hey i want a kid", because hey its not like they take care of them anyways right? so they go to africa to be trendy like angelina jolie and adopt a poor innocent child. This child will grow up to be mentally fucked up because...\n1. they were adopted\nand\n2. there adopted parents never spend time with them \nthis will lead the child to feel super unwanted beause their real parents gave them away and the ones that adopted them in an attemp to give them a good home are too busy filming movies to pay them any mind.....
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A beautiful bird, the corncrake breed across Europe and western Asia, migrating to Africa in winter. They are in steep decline across most of their range because modern farming practices mean that nests and birds are destroyed by mowing or harvesting before breeding is finished. The best place to look for or listen for them in the UK is in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
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to keep the race growing
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Because they are perfectly designed for their environment as it is. It's amazing how animals are built with everything they need to survive where they are.
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because they dont need it to win the world cup\nthey have a very good fighting spirit,and displayed a very good performance so far.\nwhat they lack is concentration but african teams can be the dark horse in the tournament.
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they come out of Nigeria a lot too ... I hope they aren't the same place lol
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Way to play the undeserving victim.  Maybe if Africa could pull its head out of its ass long enough to form some sort of stable government and quit raping and pillaging their entire populations, then maybe you would actually have a reason to be proud to be an African.
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Africans have more rhythm.
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If all humans started in Africa a very long time ago, they did not all stay there.  They wandered.  And as they wandered, tribal groups formed which were isolated one from another.  The characteristics of a given tribe were selected out in response to different environments.  Thus, for example, northern Europeans store fat on their bodies efficiently (way too efficiently for modern times!) to protect them from the cold winters.  The closer to the equator a tribe is, the darker skin is more valuable, and selection brings it to the forefront.  \n\nSo that's how we separated.  Now, with world wide transportation, we are coming together once more.  And as people from different gene pools breed, they produce the healthy children who have fewer matching of recessive traits.  Recessive traits are more likely to be the ones that cause problems.  So yes, it is better for us to mix, for the evolution of the species as a whole, and for the beauty and good health of the individual children thus created.
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Because they are natural carriers.  Their immune system is designed to deal with it.
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Think of it this way (VERY simplified example here):\n\nIn Africa, the jungle borders on the plains. There's a population of ape-like primates that live in the jungle. The population gets too big, so another population branches off after a few thousand years, and lives on the plains. Thep lains are a whole diffeent story compared to the jungle. Different predators, different fod supply, different enviroment. It's very tough out there. Only the apes who have adaptations to living on the plains survive. These keep getting better and better at it, and eventually become humans.\n\nMeanwhile, th apes that stayed in the jungle also face changing conditions, though obviously not as big a change as jungle-grasslands. But, they keep getting better t what they do in more subtle ways (subtle since they don't have as ig a change to deal with). These eventually become modern apes. They look more like the original apes than humans do because they stayed in the ame environment, but eventually even those original apes all died out or became chimps, gorillas, etc.\n\nIt's possible that someday, some chimps might move out onto the plains. Maybe they'll evole some of the same adaptations that humans did, but they wn't BE humans any more than dolphins are sharks (just becasue they evolved in a similar environment and ended up looking sorta like sharks).
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We can all trace our ancestry to Africa. We are an African species.