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Black Mambas : Males in combat : Article by Adrian Warren page1
Akagera, which he called the Alexandra Nile, filled with lakes and papyrus swamps. Beyond the valley he could see " ridge after ridge, separated from each other by deep ... valley with its lakes and papyrus swamps are home for sitatunga (aquatic antelopes) and the rare shoebill stork. In 1987 we discovered lions on the floating islands of papyrus where they preyed on ...
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Cyperus papyrus
Distribution The papyrus reeds form vast stands in swamps, in shallow lakes, and along stream banks throughout Africa. It is considered a ... African swamps known as the Sudd in Central Africa, are dominated by papyrus thickets, which totally block navigation. It is estimated that the Sudd areas of the White Nile, and the "Papyrus Swamps" around ...
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Africa Safari Specialists: OKAVANGO DELTA - Botswana - Safaris.com
Thick papyrus grows everywhere and, in the northern parts of the delta, chokes the waterways so that ... ,000 acres. COUNTRY: Botswana PARK SIZE: 6,200 sq. miles - 10,000 sq. kilometers ECOSYSTEMS: Swamps, grassy plains, islands WILDLIFE: Elephant, lion, wild dog, and hyena, leopard, buffalo, antelope, shy sitatunga ...
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Wetlands Habitat - Defenders of Wildlife
Swamps Swamps are slow moving streams, rivers or isolated low areas with more open and deeper water ... Swamps have trees (for example, cypress tress in freshwater and mangrove trees in salty water) and woody shrubs rather than grasses and herbs. [Papyrus can be the main plant in African swamps.] Location Swamps ...
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East African Research Sites
This includes areas of permanent swamps (primarily Cyperus papyrus), and around Ngogo, some hilltop-grassland (Pennisetum purpuresum). Around Kanyawara Parinari excelsa is typical ...
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Minerals Move People
What is perhaps the first map ever made is a papyrus map of the Rammessides, which shows a route to the Coptos gold mines along the ... in the world that are even today very sparsely inhabited. These regions are largely lakes, swamps, flat, low-lying tundra plains, and some slightly more upland areas with forests of small ...
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Minerals Move People
What is perhaps the first map ever made is a papyrus map of the Rammessides, which shows a route to the Coptos gold mines along the ... in the world that are even today very sparsely inhabited. These regions are largely lakes, swamps, flat, low-lying tundra plains, and some slightly more upland areas with forests of small ...
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