Welcome to ๐Africa! Jambo means "Hello" in Swahili!
Springbok is African National animal.
Disney's Animal Kingdom is a zoological theme park.
The Savanna in Africa Disney is a completely natural habitat, carefully crafted to resemble closely Africa's ecosystem. It is 800 square miles of natural terrain, including forests, wetlands of the Safi River valley, and the open bush country of the Serengeti Savanna. To create the 110-acre Serengeti, Imagineers moved 1.5 million cubic yards of earth and planted some 2.3 million exotic plants. Over 300 grasses (75 African) were seeded so that there would be ever-flowering grass.
Giraffes sleep less than two hours a day. In general, they sleep with their feet tucked under them and their head resting on their hindquarters, but they can also sleep for short periods of time standing up.
Elephants are large mammals and can be found in Africa and Asia. Male African elephants are the largest extant terrestrial animals and can reach a height of 4 m (13 ft) and weigh 7,000 kg (15,000 lb).Elephants have a long trunk or proboscis, used for breathing, lifting water, and grasping objects. Their incisors grow into tusks, which can serve as weapons and as tools for moving objects and digging. Elephants' large ear flaps help to control their body temperature. Their pillar-like legs can carry their great weight. African elephants have larger ears and concave backs while Asian elephants have smaller ears and convex or level backs.
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Elephants are ๐ฟherbivorous and can be found in different habitats including savannahs, forests, deserts, and marshes. They prefer to stay near ๐ฆwater. They are considered to be keystone species due to their impact on their environments. Other animals tend to keep their distance from elephants while predators, such as ๐ฆlions, ๐ฏtigers, hyenas, and wild dogs, usually target only young elephants ("calves"). Females ("cows") tend to live in family groups, which can consist of one female with her calves or several related females with offspring. The groups are led by an individual known as the matriarch, often the oldest cow. Elephants have a fissionโfusion society in which multiple family groups come together to socialize. Calves are the centre of attention in their family groups and rely on their mothers for as long as 3 years. Elephants can live up to 70 years in the wild. They communicate by touch, sight, smell, and sound; elephants use infrasound, and seismic communication over long distances. Elephant intelligence has been compared with that of primates and cetaceans. They appear to have self-awareness and show ๐empathy for dying or dead individuals of their kind.
Cheetah are the fastest land animal, which has a recorded speed of 109.4โ120.7 km/h (68.0โ75.0 mph). But they sprint only for short intervals, resting in between to cool their body temperature.
It was previously believed that zebras were white animals with black stripes, since zebras have white underbellies. However, embryological evidence shows that the animal' skin color is actually black, and the white stripes and bellies are additions.
With a wingspan reaching up to nice feet, the African Lappet-Faced Vulture is the largest vulture in Africa. They eat the meat of dead animals, such as carrion and carcasses, which reduces the spread of diseases to humans and other creatures. Vulture's bold head is constantly infested with bacteria which decompose a dead body it eats, but the sun quickly burns off all the deadly microbes of vulture's bold head, preventing vultures succumbing to diseases. Besides vultures' faces, their large intestines are covered with bacteria that is toxic to most other creatures, but these birds of prey have evolved a strong gut that helps them not get sick from feasting on rotting flesh.
The vultureโs bald head prevents bacteria from sticking to its body, and its powerful beak can tear open the tough hides of antelope and buffalo.
Native African animals living in African Savanna are: Antelope, Mandrill, Black Rhino, Cheetah, Crocodile, Elephant, Flamingo, Gazelle, Giraffe, Hippopotamus, Lion, Okapis, Ostrich, Warthog, White Rhino, Wildebeest, and Zebra. Overall, there are over 200 different species of birds and animals found throughout this preserve. Notably, many species are endangered or are on the brink of extinction, such as African elephants, American crocodiles, tigers, gorillas, white rhinoceros, and lapped- faced vultures, just to name a few, but thanks to Disney Imagineers, those species might be saved!
p.s. Read here a post African Animals Language Objects Matching Cards and African Savanna Animals at Animal Kingdom Disney, pictures we took during our last trip to Disney.
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