Wild life wonders from southern Africa.

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Lanaria lanata is the only species in the family Lanariaceae and is found in southern South Africa.

They are especially numerous in tropical and subtropical regions ( notably Central America, eastern Brazil, the Andes, the Mediterranean, southern Africa, central Asia, and southwestern China ).

One of the largest global amethyst producers is Zambia in southern Africa with an annual production of about 1000 tonnes.

The ornithology of northern Africa presents a close resemblance to that of southern Europe, scarcely a species being found which does not also occur in the other countries bordering the Mediterranean.

Africa is thus mainly composed of two segments at right angles, the northern running from east to west, and the southern from north to south.

The northern territory remained under direct administration as the Bechuanaland Protectorate and is today's Botswana, while the southern territory became part of the Cape Colony and is now part of the northwest province of South Africa ; the majority of Setswana-speaking people today live in South Africa.

Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.

The 2001 census was the first census in Botswana to comply with the SADC 2000 Census Project, the guidelines of which unify the demographic statistics in southern Africa.

Botswana has put a premium on economic and political integration in southern Africa.

* Map of railways in southern Africa

Bantu languages are spoken largely east and south of the present day country of Cameroon ; i. e., in the regions commonly known as central Africa, east Africa, and southern Africa.

The majority of the remaining population is in eastern and southern South Africa, with a small and separate population in the Etosha Pan of northern Namibia.

Tropical grasslands are known as savanna in Australia, whereas in southern Africa it is known as certain kinds of veld ( from Afrikaans ).

Located in north-central Africa, Chad stretches for about 1, 800 kilometers from its northernmost point to its southern boundary.

Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) is a sub-Saharan nation in southern West Africa located at 8 00 ° N, 5 00 ° W.

Untapped chromite deposits are plentiful, but geographically concentrated in Kazakhstan and southern Africa.

A total of 33 percent of the Earth's landmass is considered either arid of semi-arid, including southwest North America, southwest South America, most of northern and a small part of southern Africa, southwest and portions of eastern Asia, as well as much of Australia.

A live specimen was caught in 1938 off southern Africa ; other coelacanths have since been found in the vicinity of the Comoro Islands.

The Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa also have a class system, where the Watta, an acculturated Bantu group, represent the poorest class.

Clicks are speech sounds found as consonants in many languages of southern Africa, and in three languages of East Africa.

The Chinese, North Vietnamese and North Koreans, on the other hand, feel that, militarily, Russia is strong enough to support them in the `` just wars of liberation '' they would like to embark on before long: with China attacking Formosa and the North Koreans and North Vietnamese liberating the southern half of their respective countries.

He concluded that in the southern species, which are rapidly growing types, females mate at the age of two and a half and bear the first young when they are three.

There, they are concentrated primarily on the southern and eastern coasts of the island of Hokkaidō.

The Almoravids veiled themselves below the eyes ( see tagelmust ), a custom they adapted from southern Sanhaja Berbers ( as can still be seen among the modern Tuareg people ), but unusual further north.

After winning over the Sanhaja Berber tribe, they quickly took control of the entire desert trade route, seizing Sijilmasa at the northern end in 1054, and Aoudaghost at the southern end in 1055.

While in the southern colonies, they could farm almost year round, in the northern colonies, the growing seasons were very restricted.

Bayer did not always follow this rule ; he sometimes assigned letters to stars according to their location within a constellation ( for example: the northern, southern, eastern, or western part of a constellation ), according to either the order in which they rise in the east, to historical or mythological information on specific stars within a constellation, or to his own random choosing.

" In 1009, during the reign of the sixth Fatimid Caliph, al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Nativity was ordered to be demolished, but was spared by local Muslims, because they had been permitted to worship in the structure's southern transept.

The Peucini branch of the Bastarnae first came into conflict with the Romans in the 1st century BC, when they resisted, ultimately unsuccessfully, Roman expansion into Moesia, the region on the southern bank of the Danube.

The Bastarnae were also a target because they had recently subjugated the Triballi, whose territory lay on the southern bank of the Danube between the tributary rivers Utus ( Vit ) and Ciabrus ( Tsibritsa ), with their chief town at Oescus ( Gigen, Bulgaria ).

Since Rimbert mentions them to have crossed the seas by ship " where it was possible " they clearly had the alternative of going around them as well, meaning that the seas were probably the numerous lakes in southern Sweden.

All states were militaristic ( or they did not survive long ), but none was able to expand far into southern Chad, where forests and the tsetse fly complicated the use of cavalry.

In Cantonese they are called " Gwat Pai " ( 骨牌 ), which literally means " bone tiles ", it is also the name of a northern Chinese game, where the rules are quite different from the southern Chinese game Tien Gow.

When they came to possess the whole of southern Mesopotamia, the name " Chaldean " became synonymous with " Babylonian ", particularly to the Greeks and Jews.

Genetic distance calculations have indicated red wolves are intermediate between coyotes and gray wolves, and they bear great similarity to wolf / coyote hybrids in southern Quebec and Minnesota.

In one study, a detailed analysis of historical fire data concluded that fire suppression activities have failed to exclude fire from southern California chaparral, as they have in Ponderosa Pine forests.

Clicks occur in all three Khoisan language families of southern Africa, where they may be the most numerous consonants.

In the southeast, in eastern South Africa, Swaziland, Lesotho, Zimbabwe, and southern Mozambique, they were adopted from a Tuu language or languages by the languages of the Nguni cluster ( especially Zulu, Xhosa, and Phuthi, but also to a lesser extent Swazi and Ndebele ), and spread from them in a reduced fashion to the Zulu-based pidgin Fanagalo, Sesotho, Tsonga, Ronga, the Mzimba dialect of Tumbuka, and more recently to Ndau and urban varieties of Pedi, where the spread of clicks is an ongoing process.

At the end of the 17th century ( 1697 ) the Shihabs succeeded the Ma ' ans in the feudal leadership of Druze southern Lebanon, although they reportedly professed Sunni Islam, they showed sympathy with Druzism, the religion of the majority of their subjects.

These permanent villages and towns predate those of southern Eritrea and northern Ethiopia suggesting, according to Peter Schmidt, "... it is they, not sites in Arabia that were the vital precursors to urban developments ... likewise students of evolution and distribution of languages now believe that Semitic and Cushitic languages are of African origin.

Residents of Nanwalek, located on southern part of the Kenai Peninsula near Seldovia, speak what they call Sugpiaq and are able to understand those who speak Yupik in Bethel.

" In this case they showed that the woman in the casket had spent the first years of her life drinking water that came from springs on the chalk hills of southern England.

Mythic records in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki describe how Jimmu's brothers were born in Takachiho, the southern part of Kyūshū ( in modern day Miyazaki prefecture ), and decided to move eastward, as they found the location inappropriate for reigning over the entire country.

Other indications of their presence are the thousands of lakes they helped to form in the southern part of the country.