“ Wild-type ” African Clawed Frogs are also frequently sold as pets, and often incorrectly labeled as a Congo Frog or African Dwarf Frog because of similar colorings.

They are easily distinguished from African Dwarf Frogs because African Clawed Frogs have webbing only on their hind feet while African Dwarf Frogs have webbing on all four feet.

African Clawed Frogs are frequently mislabeled as African Dwarf Frogs in pet stores.

African Clawed Frogs have webbed hind feet while their front feet have autonomous digits.

* African Dwarf Frogs have eyes positioned on the side of their head, while African Clawed Frogs have eyes on the top of their heads

* African Clawed Frogs have curved, flat snouts.

Due to incidences in which these frogs were released and allowed to escape into the wild, African Clawed Frogs are illegal to own, transport or sell without a permit in the following US states: Arizona, California, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Virginia, Hawaii, Nevada, and Washington state.

* 1958 — John Gurdon used nuclear transplantation to clone an African Clawed Frog ; first cloning of a vertebrate using a nucleus from a fully differentiated adult cell.

Holodactylus is a genus of small geckos, collectively known as African Clawed Geckos.

* African Clawed Gecko, Holodactylus africanus

* East African Clawed Gecko, Holodactylus cornii

These include Pygmy Marmosets, Leafcutter Ants, Praying Mantises, Lake Malawi Cichlids, Salmon-Pink Bird-eating Spiders, Locusts, Burmese Pythons, Plumed Basilisks, West African Dwarf Crocodiles, Yemen Chameleons, Green Tree Pythons and Poison Dart Frogs.

* African Tree Frogs Herpetology ( images )

The probable answer is that it will do so just as long as Russia can exercise a veto in favor of chaos and until young African nations wake up to the truth that out of false pride they are visiting ruin on Central Africa.

We are just beginning the task of trying to win or maintain the friendship of the new African nations against the ruthless competition of the Communist bloc.

An African knife and battle-ax are at this moment being sharpened by McKinley and Green.

Roughly 26 % are followers of traditional forms of Protestantism ( Congregationals, Methodists, Baptista, Lutherans, Reformed ), but over the last decades there has in addition been a growth of Pentecostal communities and African Initiated Churches.

International and domestic services are maintained by TAAG Angola Airlines, Aeroflot, British Airways, Brussels Airlines, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Namibia, Cubana, Ethiopian Airlines, Emirates, Delta Air Lines, Royal Air Maroc, Iberia, Hainan Airlines, Kenya Airways, South African Airways, TAP Air Portugal and several regional carriers.

Both are members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, the African Union and other multilateral organizations.

Angola-South Africa relations are quite strong as the ruling parties in both nations, the African National Congress in South Africa and the MPLA in Angola, fought together during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War.

* 1831 – Nat Turner's slave rebellion commences just after midnight in Southampton County, Virginia, leading to the deaths of more than 50 whites and several hundred African Americans who are killed in retaliation for the uprising.

Anthony Heilbut, author of The Gospel Sound, states that the " dangers, toils, and snares " of Newton's words are a " universal testimony " of the African American experience.

The more humid regions have a richer vegetation ; dense forest where the rainfall is greatest and variations of temperature least, conditions found chiefly on the tropical coasts, and in the west African equatorial basin with its extension towards the upper Nile ; and savanna interspersed with trees on the greater part of the plateaus, passing as the desert regions are approached into a scrub vegetation consisting of thorny acacias, etc.

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

Most African Americans are of West and Central African descent and are descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States.

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

Regional chefs are emerging as localized celebrity chefs with growing broader appeal, such as Peter Merriman ( Hawaii Regional Cuisine ), Jerry Traunfeld, Alan Wong ( Pacific Rim cuisine ), Norman Van Aken ( New World Cuisine-fusion Latin, Caribbean, Asian, African and American ), and Mark Miller ( American Southwest cuisine ).

There are some youth players from Ajax Cape Town that have been drafted into the Eredivisie squad, such as South African international Steven Pienaar ( on loan to Everton ) and Cameroonian international Eyong Enoh.

For example, there are differences between African, East Asian and Indo-racial groups in how they metabolize alcohol.

Prevalent in his and Lagbaja's music are native African harmonies and rhythms, taking different elements and combining, modernizing and improvising upon them.

The westernmost islands of the archipelago ( Corvo and Flores ) are located in the North American Plate, while the remaining islands are located within the boundary that divides the Eurasian and African Plates.

* the southern and southwestern regions, which are the driest of all, are drained by the Molopo river along the South African border and the Nossob river through the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park, and are technically part of the basin of the Orange river.

Jordania suggested that battle trance and associated loss of fear and pain ( known as analgesia ) were designed in the course of evolution by forces of natural selection as a survival mechanism, as individual hominids were too weak to stand against the formidable African ground predators after they descended from the relatively safe trees to the ground.

Leopards must compete for food and shelter with other large predators such as lions, tigers, spotted hyenas, striped hyena, up to 5 species of bear and both African and Asiatic wild dogs.

Due to the reduction in habitat in Africa, cheetahs in recent years have faced greater pressure from other native African predators as available range declines.

Many of the characteristic African species, large mammals as the elephant, rhinoceros, giraffe, zebra, and antelope and predators such as lions and leopards, do not exist in Madagascar.

Its main predators are the African varieties of eagle owl.

The fennec fox's main predators are the various African varieties of eagle owl.

The Sahel was formerly home to large populations of grazing mammals, including the Scimitar-horned Oryx ( Oryx dammah ), Dama Gazelle ( Gazella dama ), Dorcas Gazelle ( Gazella dorcas ) and Red-fronted Gazelle ( Gazella rufifrons ), and Bubal Hartebeest ( Alcelaphus busephalus buselaphus ), along with large predators like the African Wild Dog ( Lycaon pictus ), Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ), and Lion ( Panthera leo ).

While grasslands in general support diverse wildlife, given the lack of hiding places for predators, the African savanna regions support a much greater diversity in wildlife than do temperate grasslands.

However, the African Penguin may often fall to predators.

The legend of the roc could also have originated from sightings of such a giant subfossil eagle related to the African Crowned Eagle, which has been described in the genus Stephanoaetus from Madagascar, being large enough to carry off large primates ; today, lemurs still retain a fear of aerial predators such as these.

Other than humans, African Cape buffaloes have few predators and are capable of defending themselves against ( and killing ) lions.

In the Kalahari desert, brown hyenas are often the dominant mammalian carnivores present because of their dominance over the other predators listed above, and because of the scarcity of lions, spotted hyenas, and packs of African wild dogs.

Other predators include South African and Antarctic Fur Seals.

Due to its slow movements, the addax is an easy target for predators such as lions, humans, African hunting dogs, cheetahs and leopards.

According to Joseph Jordania rhythmically organized loud group singing / shouting in dissonant harmonies, together with threatening body movements, drumming on external objects, body painting and object throwing were developed by the forces of natural selection in the early stages of hominid evolution, in order to defend hominids against the big African predators ( big cats, sabretooth tigers ) after they descended from the relatively safe tree branches to the predator-infested ground.

African manatees are extremely slow, moving at between 4. 8 and 8 kilometers ( only 3 – 5 miles ) an hour, unless they fear predators, at which time the manatee can travel at speeds of approximately 32 kilometers ( 20 miles ) an hour.

One reason for the African manatee living in small groups is that it has very few natural predators, two of which are sharks and crocodiles.

The external function of the loud rhythmic group singing ( together with vigorous body movements, drumming, stone hitting and stone throwing ) was to intimidate large African predators ( or competitors ).

* African buffalo will rescue a member of the herd captured by predators.

Many predators, including lion, leopard, spotted hyena, African wild dog and Nile crocodile, prey on these reedbucks.

In June and July of 2005 the avian and mammal predators included Bryde ’ s whale Balaenoptera edeni, African

These African fish are found in many rivers and lakes on the continent and are fierce predators with distinctive, proportionally large teeth.