Jackal – Thriving, Vocal Canine That Can Run
Tagged: Middle East
Cheetah – World’s Fastest Runner
Nature’s best sprinter, the cheetah is a large feline that can be found in the grasslands, plains, savannahs, and deserts of Africa and parts of the Middle East. The cheetah is recognizable by its spotted fur, a trait which thanks to generations of inbreeding, has very little variation from specimen to specimen (in fact, cheetah to cheetah skin-grafts are almost never rejected because of the near non-existent genetic variation).
Hyrax – Semi-bulky Unique Mammal
A hyrax is the name of any one of the four species of small, semi-bulky mammals in the order hyracoidea; the four different species are the rock hyrax, the yellow-spotted hyrax, the western tree and the southern tree hyrax. They can be extremely noisy at times uttering all kinds of screams, grunts and squeals.
Hyenas – Scavenger Mammals of Africa and Asia
Brown hyena – Parahyaena brunnea – has stripes on the legs only
