Africa
Africa, with its turbid and magnificent wildlife wonders, in the center of the continent, is a lush tropical rainforest, a wilderness covering more than 2 million square kilometers, most of which is a primeval forest that has not been set footed so far. It is the place with the most species and diversity of wildlife. Wildlife also faces many serious challenges in this fertile land. Let's take a look at the survival of Africa's wildlife.
See seven worlds, one planet and learn about African geography
Africa is known as a "tropical continent", it has the world's largest desert called the Sahara Desert, the Congo Basin, and the Ethiopian Plateau. It is divided into 5 regions: North Africa, Central Africa, East Africa, West Africa, South Africa.
African terrain
1, Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa: rich in forest resources, there are more than 1500 kinds of plants, but some are difficult to obtain, even some of the most intelligent and clever animals, can only look at the world. Chimpanzees, for example, stone nuts, and only a few chimpanzees can master this skill.
2, the Great Rift Valley of East Africa: the geographical wonder that runs through the north and south of East Africa, with a total length of nearly 6500 kilometers, was formed 30 million years ago, due to the movement of the earth's crust, a huge lava, gushing out from the depths of the ground, resulting in a fracture, and fresh water gathered in large quantities at the location of the Great Rift Valley. This forms a chain of large and small lakes. These lakes provide habitat for a variety of animals. The diao fish evolved here, and the young fish were easily eaten by others, so the cichlid mothers used their mouths as their nursery. But sometimes another species of fish is secretly pointing out the whiskers to make trouble.
Great Rift Valley Volcano: Lungei Volcano, in northern Tanzania, is the only active volcano in the world to erupt sodium carbonate lava. For the past 400,000 years, this giant active volcano has continuously erupted volcanic ash and landed on the Syringai grassland, nourishing the soil here.
3, the African savannah: The cypriot grassland is inhabited by large herbivores, including zebras, cheetahs, giraffes, and wildebeest. Cheetahs prey on horned wildebeests that are three times larger than themselves. There is also a unique bird called the starling (liang) bird, which eats parasites such as fleas and ticks. Even risk eating the blood from hippos' wounds.
4. The Namib Desert in southwest Africa: on the border between Namibia and Angola. It is the harshest desert in the environment. There are animal inhabitants: the brown mane (lie) dog, who travels more than 30 kilometers a day to forage for food, comes to the sea to eat young South African fur seals, and sometimes encounters jackals to grab food with him.
5, Kalahari desert animals: pangolins, tongue is 30 cm long, can eat ants and termites that live deep underground. The aardvark, the largest burrowing animal with a keen sense of smell, digs a cave five or six meters deep with shovel-like grips and powerful limbs, and eats 50,000 tons of termites every day.
6. Zimbabwe in East Africa: Very dry, 6 months without rain, food shortage. The African elephant, which eats 90 kilograms of vegetation a day, develops a unique predation technique, tiptoeing up and eating the fruit of the branches on its long nose. In the past, 20 million elephants have been badly injured, ivory has been used for ornaments, and rhino horn has been used to make medicines. The northern white rhino is on the brink of extinction.
Across the continent, human activities have had a devastating impact on all animals, cheetahs are declining, pangolins hunt scales to make medicines, and it is the most illegally smuggled animal. Chimpanzees in West Africa are in jeopardy because of the massive loss of habitat. Three quarters of Côte d'Ivoire's forests have been deforested for crop production.
Today, climate change is changing global weather patterns, and rainfall is becoming difficult to predict. Global warming is unstoppable, and average temperatures are soaring. Extreme weather phenomena are frequent, affecting all wildlife on all seven continents. Many scientists claim that we are at the beginning of a mass extinction, and it all comes down to human activity.
How we treat and protect wildlife determines the future of all life on Earth. So it's imperative to know the situation of these animals and then protect them.