West African Rainforest Animals

So rich in fact that identifying them all is a mind-boggling task for biologists. A native of equatorial Africa gorillas can be found in rainforests stretching from Cameroon in the west to Congo and Rwanda in the east.

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This animal is like the cross breeding between zebra and antelope.

West african rainforest animals. Much of the present-day. A large portion of rainforest animal species are made up of insects arachnids reptiles and amphibians whilst there are. And of course chimpanzees Pan troglodytesThese intelligent primates have 984 of their DNA common with humans.

Other classic animals found in Africa are giraffes zebras and lions. Gaboon Vipers will usually find a nesting place in a dark place near or on the ground. Giraffes all belong to the same species - Giraffa camelopardalis.

None is a real rainforest dweller but they are all hard to ignore on a page about wild animals in Africa. They spend most of their time to eat on the Central African rainforest. In almost every major town or city in West Africa market stalls can be found where parts of plants and animals are retailed for medicinal purposes.

My first video on the CongoAfrican rainforest was made when i was 13 years old. 45 Some 114 of them are threatened species. There are four species of crocodile found in Africa.

Western African Rainforest The rainforests of Sierra Leone contain wildlife like leopards forest buffaloes forest elephants duiker antelopes colobus monkeys white-breated guineafowls and rufous fishing owls. But there are different subspecies in countries like Chad Sudan Ethiopia Uganda Kenya Somalia. It is one of the largest birds in its range and inhabits the forest canopies and rarely feeds on the ground.

Their population is usually estimated through dung. The Congo rainforest is famous for its gorillas chimpanzees and elephants as well as its native population of forest dwellers known as pygmies. The yellow-casqued hornbill Ceratogymna elata lives in the rainforests of West Africa.

Keharo and Adam 1974 provide scientific analyses of the therapeutic uses and chemistry of 550 plant species used in Senegal and surrounding West African countries. A resident of the West African. They are often found in rainforests but are not limited to them.

In Africa by contrast there is strong evidence of rainforest retreat during dry periods that leaves a legacy in the current distribution of African vegetation species with slow-dispersed species eg. Large intact connected West African watersheds remain only in one region in Cote d Ivoire and along the border between Nigeria s Cross River State and Cameroon. Rainforests are incredibly rich biomes in terms of life forms its thought that rainforest animals and plants make up over 50 of all of the worlds species and around 80 of land animalsThis despite rainforests making up just 2 of the earths total surface.

Those that are dispersed ballistically rather than by animals or wind still expanding slowly out of refugia. The slender-snouted crocodile Nile crocodile West African crocodile and the dwarf crocodile. These birds live in small family groups of an adult pair and a few immature birds.

Their preference for dense forest habitat prohibits traditional counting methods such as visual identification. Here are 11 amazing rainforest species we are helping to protect with our innovative approach to conservation. They use tools treat injuries and illnesses with medical plants.

They can get various leaves and fruits with their long tongue. The grey parrot is native to West-African rainforests. The Rainforest Alliance works hard to protect rainforests and the biodiversity within them through the sustainable management of tropical forests restoring degraded land surrounding forests and protecting rivers and streams.

These elephants are smaller than savannah elephants and have straighter and downward-pointing tusks and more oval-shaped ears than their savannah counterparts. These fragments contain an extremely high number of West Africa s indigenous plant and animal species including such endangered primates as drill monkeys gorillas and chimpanzees. Okapi is still closely related with giraffe.

Their main diets are consisting of grass fruits and roots. They will also do most of their hunting close to the ground. The largest African crocodile is the Nile crocodile.

An elusive subspecies of the African elephant the forest elephants are found in the densely wooded forests of the Congo Basin and some other parts of Central and West Africa. And an incredible array of migratory and resident birds. Forest elephants are an elusive subspecies of African elephants and inhabit the densely wooded rainforests of west and central Africa.

The Gaboon Viper is located in the tropical rainforests and other moist areas of East and West Central Africa. The diversity of plant and animal life here is impressive and visitors to these special forests have unparalleled opportunities to see large deeply wild creatures such as elephants and gorillas. There live temporarily or permanently more than 2600 bird species in Africa about 1500 of them passerines.

Animals The rainforests have Africas richest assortment of animals. The sound quality isnt Great but will be doing an updated version in 2016. Most of Africas remaining rainforests are found in the Congo river basin on the Atlantic Ocean side of the continent.

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