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    Animals from Africa
    Animals from Africa
    Animals from Africa
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    Animals from Africa

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    This encyclopedia is full of fascinating information and amazing colour photographs that can answers to thousands of intriguing questions about the animal kingdom. It offers informative descriptions and interesting facts of animals that live in Africa. From okapi to lions, rhinoceros, giraffes and many more. Each entry describes the animal's characteristics and behavior.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMy Ebook Publishing House
    Release dateMar 25, 2015
    ISBN9781311298744
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      Animals from Africa - My Ebook Publishing House

      Animals from Africa

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      Published by My Ebook Publishing House at Smashwords

      Copyright 2015 My Ebook Publishing House

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

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      Contents

      The Okapi

      The African Grey Parrot

      The Hippopotamus

      The Western Chimpanzee

      The Shoebill

      The Spotted Hyena

      The Black Rhinoceros

      The Marabou Stork

      The Nile Crocodile

      The Cheetah

      The Lion

      The Giraffe

      The Imperial Zebra

      The Secretary Bird

      The African Bush Elephant

      The Leopard

      The Ostrich

      The Western Gorilla

      Animals from Africa (Ethiopian Region)

      The Okapi

      (Okapia johnstoni)

      Until the year 1901, the fact that the well-known giraffe has a close relative that also lives in Africa was unknown. The Congo natives were telling about the existence of a mysterious animal through the dark and difficult to penetrate forests, but nobody proved the firmness of these statements yet. Only in the beginning of our century, detailed researches have led to the discovery of this animal, which has proven to be part of the giraffe lineage and whose ancestors were long ago extinct from the surface of Earth. The okapi name was given by the natives that knew her. The okapi lives in the secular, humid and hard to enter forests of Congo and Kenya, resembling a large sized antelope. His color is red on the forehead, wherefrom a black stripe begins to the snout; the neck, the chest, the flanks and the back are of a reddish brown color. In their superior side, the feet are striped with white, and from the knee downward, they are of a whitish-yellow. Viewed, the animal seems to stand near a fence, through which the sun hurls, in the upper side of the feet, light and shadow stripes. These drawings have indeed the role of protecting the okapi in the penumbra of the forest in which it lives and where the light that pervades leaves similar shadows on the stems of the arbors. Its length is of 2 m, and his back height exceeds 1,5 m. he has a large head

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