Ngong Forest is home to which sole member of the genus Crocuta?
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Ngong Forest Ngong Forest is one of the few natural forests located in a capital city. Located in Nairobi, Kenya, the forest of indigenous trees is managed by the Ngong Road Forest Sanctuaries. The forest, in Ngong Hills along Ngong Road and 6 km from the central business district of Nairobi, it has been a home of many wild animals, like leopards, Spotted hyenas, and Bush Bucks. Other residents include Crowned eagles, owls, snakes, and other reptiles and birds.
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Spotted hyena The spotted hyena ("Crocuta crocuta"), also known as the laughing hyena, is a species of hyena, currently classed as the sole member of the genus "Crocuta", native to Sub-Saharan Africa. It is listed as being of least concern by the IUCN on account of its widespread range and large numbers estimated between 27,000 and 47,000 individuals. The species is, however, experiencing declines outside of protected areas due to habitat loss and poaching. The species may have originated in Asia, and once ranged throughout Europe for at least one million years until the end of the Late Pleistocene. The spotted hyena is the largest known member of the Hyaenidae, and is further physically distinguished from other species by its vaguely bear-like build, its rounded ears, its less prominent mane, its spotted pelt, its more dual purposed dentition, its fewer nipples and the presence of a pseudo-penis in the female. It is the only mammalian species to lack an external vaginal opening.
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Wat Aranyawiwake Wat Aranyawiwake (Thai script: วัดอรัญญวิเวก, RTGS: Wat Aranyawiwek), also known as Wat Ban Pong (Thai script: วัดบ้านปง) is a monastery ("wat") in the Thai Forest Tradition of the Theravada lineage of Buddhism. It is in Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai Province, northern Thailand. Phra Ajahn Plien Panyapatipo is the current abbot of Wat Aranyawiwake, where he has resided since 1966. Wat Aranyawiwake was established and named by Luang Pho Mun Bhuridatta, the "father" of the current tradition of forest meditation monastics.
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Pouteria myrsinoides Pouteria myrsinoides is an Australian tree in the Sapotaceae family. The common names include Yellow Plumwood, Axe-handle Wood and Blunt-leaved Coondoo. It occurs in seaside rainforests and drier rainforests from the Forster, New South Wales to the Lakeland Downs in tropical Queensland. The subspecies "reticulata" occurs on Lord Howe Island and in New Caledonia.
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African dusky shrew The African dusky shrew or African foggy shrew ("Crocidura caliginea") is a species of shrew. It is native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it lives in forests.
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Negros forest frog The Negros forest frog (Platymantis negrosensis) is a species of frog in the Ceratobatrachidae family.
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Ugandan lowland shrew The Ugandan lowland shrew ("Crocidura selina") is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Kenya and Uganda. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical swamps and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.
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Ponginae Ponginae is a subfamily in the family Hominidae. Once a diverse lineage of Eurasian apes, pongines are now represented by two species of orangutans: the Sumatran orangutan ("Pongo abelii"), and the Bornean orangutan ("Pongo pygmaeus"). Both species of orangutan are now listed as critically endangered by the IUCN.
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Western lowland gorilla The western lowland gorilla ("Gorilla gorilla gorilla") is one of two subspecies of the western gorilla ("Gorilla gorilla") that lives in montane, primary and secondary forests and lowland swamps in central Africa in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon. It is the nominate subspecies of the western gorilla.
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Jouvenet's shrew Jouvenet's shrew ("Crocidura jouvenetae") is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Côte d'Ivoire, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. This species is present in lowland tropical moist forest and possibly in montane forest.
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Moonshine shrew The moonshine shrew ("Crocidura luna") is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
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Nyonga forest tree frog The Nyonga forest tree frog, "Leptopelis lebeaui", is a species of frog in the Arthroleptidae family endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests The Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests are a tropical moist broadleaf forest ecoregion of central Africa, covering hills, plains, and mountains of the Atlantic coast of Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, Angola, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Community forestry Community forestry is an evolving branch of forestry whereby the local community plays a significant role in forest management and land use decision making by themselves in the facilitating support of government as well as change agents. It involves the participation and collaboration of various stakeholders including community, government and non-government organisations (NGOs). The level of involvement of each of these groups is dependent on the specific community forest project, the management system in use and the region. It gained prominence in the mid-1970s and examples of community forestry can now be seen in many countries including Nepal, Indonesia, Korea, Brazil, India and North America.
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Monito del monte The monito del monte (Spanish for "little monkey of the mount") or colocolo opossum, "Dromiciops gliroides", also called "chumaihuén" in Mapudungun, is a diminutive marsupial native only to southwestern South America (Argentina and Chile). It is the only extant species in the ancient order Microbiotheria, and the sole New World representative of the superorder Australidelphia (all other New World marsupials are members of the paraphyletic "Ameridelphia"). The species is nocturnal and arboreal, and lives in thickets of South American mountain bamboo in the Valdivian temperate rain forests of the southern Andes, aided by its partially prehensile tail. It eats primarily insects and other small invertebrates, supplemented with fruit.
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ONgoye Forest oNgoye Forest, also known as Ngoye or Ngoya Forest, is an ancient coastal scarp forest, protected by the oNgoye Forest Reserve in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal province. The forest of almost 4,000 ha covers an extensive granite ridge that rises from 200 to 460 metres above sea level. It is found some 10 km inland, or 16 km by road, from the coastal town of Mtunzini, and adjoins smaller forest reserves on its periphery, namely Impeshulu in the west, Ezigwayini in the north, and Dengweni in the south.
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Bale Mountains vervet The Bale Mountains vervet ("Chlorocebus djamdjamensis") is a terrestrial Old World monkey endemic to Ethiopia, found in the bamboo forests of the Bale Mountains. It was originally described as a subspecies of the grivet ("Chlorocebus aethiops"). All species in "Chlorocebus" were formerly in the genus "Cercopithecus".
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Allophylus decipiens Allophylus decipiens (E.Mey.) Radlk. is a multi- or single stemmed, small, evergreen tree about 3-4 m in height occurring in coastal forest, fringe forest and thickets, and wooded ravines and streams. Found up to 800 m in the southern coastal regions of the Cape Province, KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland, along the escarpment forest of Mpumalanga, including Soutpansberg and in Mozambique. There are some 219 species in the genus of "Allophylus".
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Red-billed curassow The red-billed curassow or red-knobbed curassow ("Crax blumenbachii") is an endangered species of Cracid that is endemic to lowland Atlantic Forest in the states of Espírito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. Its population is decreasing due to hunting and deforestation, and it has possibly been extirpated from Minas Gerais. It is currently being reintroduced to Rio de Janeiro by means of individuals bred in captivity. As suggested by its common name, the male has a largely red bill, but this is lacking in the female.
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Afrocrocus Afrocrocus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Iridaceae. This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Afrocrocus unifolius. The genus name alludes to the African distribution and its resemblance to the genus "Crocus".
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Sulawesi tiny shrew The Sulawesi tiny shrew ("Crocidura levicula") is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae. It is endemic to Indonesia.
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Kouprey A kouprey ("Bos sauveli", from Khmer: គោព្រៃ , ] , "forest ox"; also known as "kouproh", "grey ox"), is a little-known, forest-dwelling, wild bovine species from Southeast Asia. A young male was sent to the Vincennes Zoo in 1937 where it was described by the French zoologist Achille Urbain and was declared the holotype. The kouprey has a tall, narrow body, long legs, a humped back and long horns.