The cane toad ( Bufo marinus ), also known as the giant neotropical toad or marine toad, is a large, terrestrial true toad which is native to Central and South America, but has been introduced to various islands throughout Oceania and the Caribbean.

In addition, there are between 350, 000 and 400, 000 native African adherents in East, Central and South Africa.

Most grapes come from cultivars of Vitis vinifera, the European grapevine native to the Mediterranean and Central Asia.

Non-native speakers of Hausa number around 25 million, and in some areas live close to native Hausa. Hausa has replaced many other languages especially in the North Central and North Eastern part of Nigeria, and continue gaining popularity in other parts of Africa as a result of Hausa movies and musics which spread out throughout the region.

Ceiba pentandra is a tropical tree of the order Malvales and the family Malvaceae ( previously separated in the family Bombacaceae ), native to Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, northern South America, and ( as the variety C. pentandra var.

In the early colonial history of the Americas, " native gold and silver was quickly expropriated and sent back to Spain in fleets of gold-and silver-laden galleons " mostly from mines in Central and South America.

It is native to southern Central and South America but is widely cultivated elsewhere for its curiosity value, both as a houseplant in temperate areas, and outdoors in the tropics.

The okapi (), Okapia johnstoni, is a giraffid artiodactyl mammal native to the Ituri Rainforest, located in the northeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Central Africa.

Today these areas remain practically unscathed by human interference and are one of the few accessible areas on earth where various native Central American animal and plant species can be observed undisturbed in their natural habitat.

In those two languages, the name flauta is ambiguous, as it can mean any kind of transverse flutes, a recorder, or different other types of wind blown instruments, like the pan flute and some instruments used by the descendants of native peoples of the Central and South Americas ( with varied degrees of influence of European instruments ).

The genus Stevia consists of 240 species of plants native to South America, Central America, and Mexico, with several species found as far north as Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.

In Central Asia, The Secret History of Mongols is regarded as the single significant native Mongolian account of Genghis Khan.

It is native to an area of North and Central America stretching from Veracruz, Mexico, to northern Belize.

* Gossypium hirsutum – upland cotton, native to Central America, Mexico, the Caribbean and southern Florida, ( 90 % of world production )

Iranian languages have been and are still widely used in Central Asia both by native speakers and as trade languages.

Interestingly, the species in New Guinea are native to subalpine moist grasslands at around 3000 metres above sea level in the Central Highlands.

All the Turkic peoples native to Central Asia are of mixed Caucasoid and Mongoloid origin.

Thai ( Phasa Thai ), more precisely Central Thai or Siamese, is the national and official language of Thailand and the native language of the Thai people, Thailand's dominant ethnic group.

: A native of Mexico and Central Americas, considered one of the most colorful of all Central American trees.

Wild boar are native across much of Northern and Central Europe, the Mediterranean Region ( including North Africa's Atlas Mountains ) and much of Asia as far south as Indonesia.

Brave leadership, unwavering loyalty, and clever schemes for the extortion of native villages for their captured chiefs became de Soto's hallmark during the Conquest of Central America.

Acerola is native to South America, Southern Mexico and Central America, but is now also being grown as far north as Texas and in subtropical areas of Asia, like India.

The genus Tropaeolum, native to South and Central America, includes several very popular garden plants, the most commonly grown being T. majus, T. peregrinum and T. speciosum.

Thomas Douglas, fifth Earl of Selkirk, a noble humanitarian Scot concerned with the plight of the crofters of his native Highlands, conceived a plan to settle them in the valley of the Red River of the North.

His own contribution to the reinvention of Scottish culture was enormous, even though his re-creations of the customs of the Highlands were fanciful at times, his extensive travels around his native country, notwithstanding.

E. coracana is native to the Ethiopian Highlands.

Eragrostis tef, known as Xaafii, ( Oromiffa ), teff, taf ( Amharic ጤፍ ṭēff, Tigrinya ጣፍ ṭaff ), is an annual grass, a species of lovegrass native to the northern Ethiopian Highlands of Northeast Africa.

From Hartford, it ran into the Eastern Upper Highlands, an area with large native Indian populations.

A prosecution, however, having been instituted against him by Lady Lovat's family, Simon retired first to his native strongholds in the Highlands, and afterwards to France, where he found his way in July 1702 to the court of St Germain.

San Cristóbal de las Casas, also known by its native Tzotzil name, Jovel ( Pronunciation: ħɤ ̞' ve ̞ l ), is a city and municipality located in the Central Highlands region of the Mexican state of Chiapas.

Highlands are known as a hardy breed due to the rugged nature of their native Scottish Highlands, with high rainfall and strong winds.

Wild haggis ( Haggis scoticus ) is a fictional creature said to be native to the Scottish Highlands.

The Scottish Crossbill breeds in the native Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ), Caledonian forests of the Scottish Highlands, but ( perhaps surprisingly ), often also in forestry plantations of exotic conifers, notably Larch ( Larix decidua and L. kaempferi ) and Lodgepole pine ( Pinus contorta ).

All Cervus species can crossbreed and produce hybrids in areas where they coexist ( for example, introduced sika hybridize with native red deer in the Scottish Highlands, where this is a serious threat to the gene pool of the red deer population ).

Reflecting the tragedy that gradually befell the Highlands as a whole, the population has gradually fallen to around 50, the last native dying in 2000.

MacCaig was born in Edinburgh and divided his time, for the rest of his life, between his native city and Assynt in the Scottish Highlands.

The Highland Pony is one of the three native breeds of the Scottish Highlands and Islands, the others are the Shetland pony and the Eriskay pony.

Koplik is the starting point for hikers wishing to explore the literary famous Malsia e Madhe translated in English as the ' Great Highlands ' which receive much literary attention most famously in the travels of the early female anthropologist Edith Durham in her book High Albania as well as many other including Lord Byron, Margaret Hasluck and not to mention many native figures.

The Ozark cavefish is native to the Springfield Plateau of the ( Ozark Highlands ) ( southwestern Missouri ), northwestern ( Arkansas ), and northeastern ( Oklahoma ).

His political opponent and lifetime friend, Thomas Jefferson, achieved immortality through his authorship of the Declaration of Independence, but equally notable were the legal and constitutional reforms he instituted in his native Virginia, his role as father of our territorial system, and his acquisition of the Louisiana Territory during his first term as President.

They had other topics of conversation, besides their news from courts and fairs, which were of interest to Othon, the builder of castles in Wales and churches in his native country.

Few of the native Jews who had lived in Lublin were still in the ghetto.

Because of the authentic homogeneity of his early Nationalistic materials, and his flair for orchestrations -- his brilliant Petruchka, his savage Sacre Du Printemps, his incisive Les Noces -- the world kept hoping that he could recapture the historical direction for which his native talents were predisposed.

In the process, his native endowments were stretched, strengthened and disciplined to serve their human purpose.

This let me in for a lot of kidding from the rest of the company, two members of which were native Chicagoans.

From the luggage, they learned that the two air pirates, far from being Cubans, were native Americans, subsequently identified as Leon Bearden, 50-year-old ex-convict from Coolidge, Ariz., and his son, Cody, 16, a high-school junior.

Songs from China and Japan were reserved exclusively for Miss Mao, who is a native of China, and those of the British Isles were sung by Mr. Fuller, who is English by birth.

More traditional adobe roofs were often flatter than the familiar steeped roof as the native climate yielded more sun and heat than mass amounts of snow or rain that would find use in precipitous roofs.

The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).

Selkirk proved resourceful in using equipment from the ship as well as materials that were native to the island.

In his native village he began to make preparations for erecting a temple which was to contain, not only the above statue, but other works of his own ; within its precincts were to repose also the ashes of the founder.

By 150 BC, Assyria was under the control of the Parthian Empire as Athura ( the Parthian word for Assyria ) where the Assyrian city of Ashur seems to have gained a degree of autonomy, and temples to the native gods of Assyria were resurrected.

( Musseli told friends she had not wanted to sell her home, but that Lerner urged her to cut her ties with her native city and that she entrusted Lerner with the proceeds of the sale, for investment in the U. S .) The daughter of a World War One French war hero and herself an unsung heroine of the Resistance, whose Corsican forebears were intimates of Napoleon Bonaparte, she later made Lerner the gift of a chateau in France after he declared to her that he wanted a French rural retreat where he could write.

He probably spoke only his native language, Coptic, but his sayings were spread in a Greek translation.

Most of Bede's informants for information after Augustine's mission came from the eastern part of Britain, leaving significant gaps in the knowledge of the western areas, which were those areas likely to have a native Briton presence.

After the Partitions of Poland, most of the Baltic lands were under the rule of the Russian Empire, where the native languages were sometimes prohibited from being written down, or used publicly.

Because of this superstition, bongos were less harmed in their native ranges than expected.

Moreover in the 19th century, the Dutch admitted the founding of district kingdoms with native leaders who were under the power of the Dutch ( Indirect Bestuur ).

" To quell any uprising among the native inhabitants, Egyptians overheard discussing the battle were threatened with having their tongues cut out.

The first of the modern review articles on the subject ( MacKie 1965 ) did not, as is commonly believed, propose that brochs were built by immigrants, but rather that a hybrid culture of a small number of immigrants with the native population of the Hebrides produced them in the first century BC, basing them on earlier, simpler promontory forts.

However, when observing the native bees in the Canterbury province in the South Island, the scientists were astonished to see the bees biting the top off the buds, then pushing with their legs, occasionally popping open the buds to allow the bees to harvest the nectar and pollen, and therefore aid in the pollination of the mistletoe which is in decline in New Zealand.

Their primary motivations for leaving the Cape were to escape British rule and extract themselves from the constant border wars between the British imperial government and the native tribes on the eastern frontier.