The Meerkat, also known as the Suricat, live in groups called mobs in South Africa. They live in mobs of about 20 to 50, mostly extended family, and live in underground burrows. Everyone in the mob is dependent on the others to cooperate and help survive in the Kalahari Desert. The Kalahari desert is a region of Africa that has much hotter temperatures and has little rainfall each year. The Meerkats scientific name is the “Suricata Suricatta”.
A typical full-grown adult giraffe will eat over 70 pounds of leaves, twigs, and fruit each day. Giraffes don't need to drink water very often because there is so much water in the leaves they eat. However, when they do drink water, they can drink several gallons at a time. This is good because a giraffe has to bend down and get into a vulnerable position when drinking. Not a good idea when there are lions sneaking around!
Llamas are members of the Camelid family, which now includes camels. Some other members of the Camelid family are alpacas, camas, grass mud horses, guard llamas, lamoids, and llamas for hiking. About ten million years ago, on the central plains of North America, the era of the Camelid began. About 2.5 million years ago, the llamas migrated to South America. 10,000-12,000 years ago, the end of the ice age occurred and the Camelid became extinct; but llamas, camels, alpacas, camas, grass mud horses, guard llamas, lamoids, and hiking llamas all survived.
Zebras eat only plants and grasses. They do not eat meat. Grass is the main part of their diet, but when it is scarce, zebras will eat shrubs, herbs, leaves, and even tree bark. Zebra herds will graze and roam where food is most plentiful, and can spend up to 20 hours a day grazing when food is scarce. Defense: A zebra can defend itself by being capable of running nearly 40 mph.
Firstly, camels were introduced in about 300c.e.. This was a big upgrade from the donkeys because camels could go up to ten days without drinking water. This made trade easier since camels could make the trek across the Sahara and didn’t need much in return as far as water goes. At one point there were up to 5,000 camels used in the transportation of goods across the Sahara. The camels made it so the Sahara was no longer a barrier for trade from north and south of the Sahara.
The undercoat is dense, from one to two inches in depth, oily and woolly which protects them from cold weather. The coarse guard coat and the undercoat can vary in length. They have a dense coat that should be brushed twice a week. This breed sheds very heavily and constantly. Aside for the steady shedding the undercoat comes out in large clumps twice a year.
The African species are the white and black Rhinos and the Asian Rhinos include the Indian, Javan, and the Sumatran Rhino (1). Today’s population consists of less than 24,000 Rhinos around the world. Nearly 90% of all remaining Rhinos live in South Africa. These beautiful creators weigh in weight on average from 750 pounds to 8,000 pounds and stand four and a half to six feet tall (1). Rhinos are also herbivores, meaning they are subject to grazing on grass, and some even prefer to eat the foliage of trees or even bushes.
For this reason nuclear families are the most common type of families in foraging societies. A nuclear family is described as being, “composed of a mother and father and their children,” (Nowak and Laird, 2010, section 3.7). According to section 3.7, “The nuclear family is most common because, in a foraging setting, it is adaptive to various situations,” (Nowak and Laird, 2010, section 3.7). Foragers called the San “Bushmen,” live in southwest Africa in the Kalahari Desert. Due to living in the desert, the San have to move frequently.
The fur is dense and wooly, to help them stay warm in their bitterly cold habitat. The fur on their bellies is up to nearly 5 inches long. They have large paws to help it walk on snow. The snow leopard has white, yellowish, or Smokey-gray to black spots and rosettes that are like camouflage to hide them from their prey. The average life span of the snow leopard is 21 years.
Of the eighty million acres of corn in the United States only about 380,000 acres of it is sweet corn. The world’s population is around seven billion. 5) Field corn, also called dent corn, is used to make many foodstuffs. Examples of these are cereals, tortillas, cornmeal, and cornbread. Field corn is used to make High Fructose corn syrup, which is found in many different, often unhealthy, foods such as soda and icecream.