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27/03/2024

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04/03/2024

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15/01/2024

Crocodiles can go through 4,000 teeth over a lifetime, ..having between 60-110 teeth.

✓ When a crocodile loses a tooth, there is a small replacement already on standby.

✓ They are able to replace each of their 80 teeth up to 50 times over their lifespan.

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13/01/2024

Crocodiles have acute senses, including very good night vision, and are mostly nocturnal hunters.

✓ They use the disadvantage of most prey animals’ poor nocturnal vision to their advantage.

✓ They are carnivores, which generally means they eat only meat, ..however, a recent study proved they enjoy eating fruit too!.

✓ It has been studied that, “there is little doubt that, on occasion, fruit is deliberately consumed, often in large quantities“, along with their normal meat-heavy diets of mammals, birds, and fish.

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13/01/2024

Crocodiles are fascinating creatures that have evolved to become successful predators.

✓ They are members of the order Crocodilia, which also includes alligators, caimans, and gharials.

✓ Crocodiles are semi-aquatic and live in wetland areas, freshwater rivers, lakes or saltwater.

✓ They prefer Sheltering in estuaries, lagoons, or mangrove swamps, rather than far out at sea.

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03/01/2024

Zebra stripes are factually confusing , ..in fact no one is completely sure why they have stripes.

✓ There have been lots of theories, including that the stripes help confuse predators.

✓ Some theories suggest that the stripes work to keep them cooler, while others show that biting flies don’t like to land on stripes.
..So, we can conclude that, it's likely to be a combination of all these things!

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02/01/2024

Studies have shown that the further south on the African plains you travel, the farther apart the stripes of zebras are.

Each species of zebra has different types of stripes, too.

✓ The grevy’s zebra has the thinnest stripes, while the moutain zebra has vertical stripes on its neck and torso.

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02/01/2024

Zebras are iconic for their stripes, which are actually unique to each individual zebra like a human’s fingerprint.

✓ Scientists have even developed a way to read their stripes like bar codes to be able to identify specific zebras in a heard.

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02/01/2024

Zebras are members of the group Equus, which contains horses and asses.

✓ There are three living species of Zebra: ...I. The plains zebra (Equus quagga), ...II. The grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi), and ...III. The mountain zebra (Equus zebra).

✓ Each zebra species has unique stripes, and they are native to the continent of Africa, specifically eastern and southern parts of Africa. ..i.e. Tanzania & Botswana.

✓ They are grazers, feeding mainly on grasses, and are the favourite prey of lions, ..and even hunted by leopards, cheetahs, spotted hyenas, brown hyenas, and Nile crocodiles.

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28/12/2023

Rhino horn is made up of "keratin" the very same protein which forms the basis of our hair and nails.

These horns grow continuously during their lifetime.

✓ White rhino's horn can grow 7cm every year and the record length is 150cm long!

✓Yes! Rhinos have poor vision, they’re unable to see a motionless person at a distance of 30m, ..they mainly rely on their strong sense of smell.

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28/12/2023

A group of rhinos is called a "crash" and there are "five" species of rhino in the world:

i.e. ..two African rhino species {black and white rhinos} & three Asian rhino species {greater one "horned", Sumatran, and Javan rhinos}.

✓ The Sumatran, Javan, and Black rhinos are listed as ‘critically endangered’ by the IUCN and there are thought to be only 66 Javan rhinos in the world.

✓ Sumatran rhinos left, are thought to be between 34-47 in number, which potentially makes them truly under threat of extinction in the wild.

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24/12/2023

Giraffes move in a distinctive pace, where both legs on one side move together.

✓ Their feet are as large as a dinner plate, with a diameter of 30 cm, and can gallop, reaching speeds of up to "35 miles per hour" over short distances

or maintain a cruising speed of "10 mph" over longer stretches.

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23/12/2023

By the age of four, giraffes nearly reach their full height, but they continue to gain weight until they are seven or eight years old.

✓ Males weigh up to 1,930 kg (4,250 pounds) while females can reach 1,180 kg (2,600 pounds).

✓ Their tails are about one meter long, adorned with a tuft of black hair at the end, and they sport a short black mane.

✓ Both sexes possess a pair of horns, with males having additional bony protuberances on their skulls.

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21/12/2023

Giraffes have only "seven elongated neck vertebrae" which support their impressive necks.

✓Their thick-walled arteries in the neck have extra valves to counteract gravity when the head is raised.

✓When giraffes lower their heads to the ground, special vessels at the base of their brains regulate blood pressure.

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21/12/2023

Giraffes are fascinating creatures that roam the grasslands and open woodlands of Africa.
..They are the *tallest land animals* ..

✓Male giraffes "bulls" can reach heights exceeding 5.5 meters i.e 18 feet, while the tallest females "cows" measure around 4.5 meters.

✓ With tongues nearly half a meter long, giraffes can deftly browse foliage up to 6meters above the ground.

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20/12/2023

Did you know, Lions are endangered animals that face many threats, such as habitat loss, poaching, human-wildlife conflict, and disease.

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