Category: Environment – Wildlife
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The African Pygmy Mouse, Mus minutoides, is counted among the world’s smallest mammals. Adults can weigh from 3-12 g. Being social creatures, they will live in colonies preferably around water in grassy areas. They are able to mate at six to eight weeks of age. Lifespan vary between 1 and 3 years. These very active…
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African Palm Civet, Nandinia binotata, is a solitary, nocturnal, arboreal mammal, also commonly known as the Two-Spotted Palm Civet. Unlike the other Civet species which are all very closely related to one another, the African Palm Civet is in a genetic group of it’s own, making it the most distinctive among the Civet species. Civets…
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African Civet, Civettictis civetta, called Eta in Yoruba, is a small, semi-aquatic, lithe-bodied, mostly nocturnal mammal, distributed all over Nigeria as is found in the whole of sub-Saharan Africa, except in the continent’s core southern region. Its large hindquarters, which hold the rump high and the head low in an unusual posture characteristic of civets,…