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These Big Five Baby African Animals Are Just Too Cute
These Big Five Baby African Animals Are Just Too Cute
Kruger National Park was established in 1898 to protect the wildlife of the South African Lowveld, this national park sits on over 2 million hectares of geographically diverse land. The term Big Five in Kruger National Park now refers to Africa's most popular sightseeing wildlife animals; buffalos, elephants, rhinos, lions, and leopards.
These Big Five Baby African Animals Are Just Too Cute
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Mommies cute baby Cape Buffalo by Belgian chocolate |
Baby African or Cape Buffalo
Cape buffalos are known to have exceptional memory and strength. The Cape buffalo is the only
member of the buffalo and cattle tribe Bovini that occurs naturally in Africa. The
Cape buffalo is not very tall it stands only 130–150 cm or 51–59 inches tall
and has relatively short legs but it is enormous, weighing between 425–870 kg
or 935–1,910 pounds. Bulls are about 100 kg or 220 pounds heavier than female cows,
and their horns are thicker and usually wider, up to 100 cm or 40 inches across,
with a broad shield covering the forehead. The coat is thin and black, except
in young calves, whose coats may be either black or brown. One of the most
successful of Africa’s wild ruminants, the Cape buffalo thrives in virtually
all types of grassland habitat in sub-Saharan Africa, from dry savanna to swamp
and from lowland floodplains to montane mixed forest and glades, as long as it
is within commuting distance of water up to 20 km or 12 miles.
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The cutest baby elephant calf ever by color blindness |
Baby Elephant Calf
Elephants have a nimble trunk composed of 100,000 muscles with two finger-like features on the end of their trunk that they use to grab small items. When an elephant drinks, it
sucks as much as 7.5 liters or 2 gallons of water into its trunk at a time. Then
it curls its trunk under, sticks the tip of its trunk into its mouth, and
blows. Out comes the water, right down the elephant's throat. When an elephant
gets a whiff of something interesting, it sniffs the air with its trunk raised
up like a submarine periscope. If threatened, an elephant will also use its
trunk to make loud trumpeting noises as a warning. Since African elephants live
where the sun is usually blazing hot, they use their trunks to help them keep
cool. First, they squirt a trunkful of cool water over their bodies. Then they
often follow that with a sprinkling of dust to create a protective layer of
dirt on their skin. Elephants pick up and spray dust the same way they do water
with their trunks. The African elephant is the largest animal walking on Earth; it eats roots, grasses, fruits, and bark of trees, up to 300 pounds in a single day.
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Baby Black Rhino calf walking with mom |
Baby Rhino Calf
Today very few rhinos survive
outside national parks and reserves due to persistent poaching and habitat loss
over many decades. The African rhino is divided into two species, the black
rhino and the white rhino. White rhinos mainly live in South Africa, but they
have also been reintroduced to Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland, and Zimbabwe.
Southern white rhinos have been introduced to Kenya, Zambia, and Cote d’Ivoire.
The majority of the black rhino population 98%, is concentrated in four
countries: South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, and Kenya. South Africa houses 40%
of the total black rhino population. There are some black rhinos in the region
spread between Cameroon and Kenya.
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Playful lion cub by Tambako the Jaguar |
Baby Lion Cub
Young cubs display a pattern of brown spots and rosettes that is similar to the patterning on the coat of leopard and may be useful as camouflage. For all of their roaring,
growling, and ferociousness, lions are family animals and truly social in their
own communities. They usually live in groups of 15 or more animals called
prides. Prides can be as small as 3 or as big as 40 animals. In a pride, lions
hunt prey, raise cubs, and defend their territory together. In prides, the
females do most of the hunting and cub rearing. Usually, all the lionesses in
the pride are related mothers, daughters, grandmothers, and sisters. Many of
the females in the pride give birth at about the same time. A cub may nurse
from other females as well as its mother. Each pride generally will have no
more than two adult males.
Baby Leopard Cub
Leopards are primarily nocturnal ground-dwelling animals climbing trees to escape from danger. The leopard is so strong and
comfortable in trees that it often hauls its kills into the branches. By
dragging the bodies of large animals aloft it hopes to keep them safe from
scavengers such as hyenas. Leopards can also hunt from trees, where their
spotted coats allow them to blend with the leaves until they spring with a
deadly pounce. Leopards are graceful and powerful big cats closely related to
lions, tigers, and jaguars. They live in sub-Saharan Africa, northeast Africa,
Central Asia, India, and China. However, many of their populations are
endangered, especially outside of Africa.
Africa is surrounded by water but is not an island, here are a few African Island facts.
Madagascar is the 4th large island in the world and is located in the Indian Ocean supporting a unique biology, about 90% of its plants and animals are found nowhere else on earth.
Composed of 155 islands, Seychelles is Africa's smallest country. By far the largest island is Mahe, home to about 90% of the population and the site of its capital city of Victoria.
Cabo Verde has a strategic location 310 miles or 500 km from the west coast of Africa near major north-south sea routes; important communications station; important sea and air refueling site.
Africa is surrounded by water but by definition Africa is not an island because Africa is a continent. Continents can not be considered islands because of their size and also by historic definition since many people who study geography define islands and continents as two different things.
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