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African Elephant

• POPULATION
  Approximately 415,000 in the wild                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          SCIENTIFIC NAME
  Loxodonta african                                                                                                                                                                                                  
• HEIGHT
  Shoulder height is 11 feet                                                                                                                                                                                      
• WEIGHT
  6 tons                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

LENGTH

• 19-24 feet                                                                                                                                                                                                                 
• HABITATS
  Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests, Flooded Grasslands and Savannahs, Miombo woodlands, Acacia savannahs                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      African elephants are the largest animals walking the Earth. Their herds wander through 37 countries in Africa. They are easily recognized by their trunk that is used for communication and handling objects. And their large ears allow them to radiate excess heat. Upper incisor teeth develop into tusks in African elephants and grow throughout their lifetime. There are two species of African elephants—the savanna (or bush) elephant and the forest elephant. Savanna elephants are larger than forest elephants, and their tusks curve outwards. In addition to being smaller, forest elephants are darker and their tusks are straighter and point downward. There are also differences in the size and shape of the skull and skeleton between the two species.

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  black cobra

  
  
  Scientific name: Naja nigricollis
            Family: Elapidae
  Kingdom: Animalia
  Order: Squamata
  Phylum: Chordata
  Suborder: Serpentes                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 The forest cobra (Naja melanoleuca), also commonly called the black cobra and the black and white-lipped cobra, is a species of venomous snake in the family Elapidae. The species is native to Africa, mostly the central and western parts of the continent.

  

  Bear

  
  

  Speed: Polar bear: 40 km/h, Brown bear: 56 km/h

  Scientific name: Ursidae

  Height: Polar bear: 1.8 – 2.4 m, Giant panda: 60 – 90 cm, Brown bear: 70 – 150 cm

  Lifespan: Giant panda: 20 years, Brown bear: 20 – 30 years

  Family: Ursidae; G. Fischer de Waldheim, 1817

  Infraorder: Arctoidea                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Bears are mammals that belong to the family Ursidae. They can be as small as four feet long and about 60 pounds (the sun bear) to as big as eight feet long and more than a thousand pounds (the polar bear). They’re found throughout North America, South America, Europe, and Asia.

  They have nonretractable claws, short tails, and excellent sense of smell. They’re typically solitary, except for mothers with cubs. There are eight species: Asiatic black bears (also called moon bears), brown bears (which include grizzly bears), giant pandas, North American black bears, polar bears, sloth bears, spectacled bears (also called Andean bears), and sun bears.

  On average, bears can live up to 25 years in the wild and 50 in captivity. Six species, including the polar bear and the giant panda, are included on the IUCN Red List as threatened or vulnerable.

  
  

  

  Tiger

  Conservation status: Endangered (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life

  Mass: 90 – 310 kg (Male, Adult), 65 – 170 kg (Female, Adult)

  Speed: 49 – 65 km/h (In Short Bursts)

  Eats: Wild boar, Sambar deer

  Lifespan: 10 – 15 years (In the wild)

  Height: 80 – 110 cm (At Shoulder)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           The tiger is the largest living cat species and a member of the genus Panthera. It is most recognisable for its dark vertical stripes on orange fur with a white underside. An apex predator, it primarily preys on ungulates, such as deer and wild boar

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  Hippopotamus

  
     Speed: 30 km/h (Galloping)
  Mass: 1,500 – 1,800 kg (Male, Adult), 1,300 – 1,500 kg (Female, Adult)
  Trophic level: Omnivorous Encyclopedia of Life
  Gestation period: 243 days
  Conservation status: Vulnerable (Population decreasing) Encyclopedia of Life
  Lifespan: 40 – 50 years
  Class: Mammalia                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    The hippopotamus or hippo, further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus

  

  black panther

  Speed: Leopard: 58 km/h, Jaguar: 80 km/h, Tiger: 49 – 65 km/h

  Lifespan: Leopard: 12 – 17 years, Jaguar: 12 – 15 years, Tiger: 10 – 15 years

  Height: Leopard: 60 – 70 cm, Jaguar: 68 – 75 cm, Tiger: 80 – 110 cm                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          A black panther is the melanistic colour variant of the leopard and the jaguar. Black panthers of both species have excess black pigments, but their typical rosettes are also present. They have been documented mostly in tropical forests, with black leopards in Africa and Asia, and black jaguars in South America

  

  LION

  Mass: 190 kg (Male, Adult), 130 kg (Female, Adult)

  Speed: 80 km/h (Maximum, In Short Bursts)

  Lifespan: 15 – 16 years (Female, Adult, In the wild), 8 – 10 years (Male, Adult, In the wild)

  Trophic level: Carnivorous Encyclopedia of Life

  Scientific name: Panthera leo

  Conservation status: Vulnerable (Population decreasing)      

                                                                                                                                                                       The lion is a large cat of the genus Panthera native to Africa and India. It has a muscular, broad-chested body; short, rounded head; round ears; and a hairy tuft at the end of its tail. It is sexually dimorphic; adult male lions are larger than females and have a prominent mane..

  

  Saltwater crocodile

  
  
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• Mass: 200 – 1,100 kg (Male, Adult), 76 – 100 kg (Female, Adult)
  Scientific name: Crocodylus porosus
  Speed: 24 – 29 km/h (In The Water, In Short Bursts)
  Conservation status: Least Concern Encyclopedia of Life
  Length: 3.5 – 6 m (Male, Adult), 2.7 – 3.4 m (Female, Adult)
  Family: Crocodylidae
  Kingdom: Animalia        
•  The saltwater crocodile is a crocodilian native to saltwater habitats, brackish wetlands and freshwater rivers from India's east coast across Southeast Asia and the Sundaic region to northern Australia and Micronesia. It has been listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List since 1996.
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  Great white shark

  Eats: Sea otter

  Mass: 680 – 1,100 kg (Female, Mature)

  Scientific name: Carcharodon carcharias

  Speed: 56 km/h (Maximum, In Short Bursts)

  Length: 4.6 – 4.9 m (Female), 3.4 – 4 m (Male)

  Conservation status: Vulnerable Encyclopedia of Life

  Family: Lamnidae
• The great white shark, also known as the white shark, white pointer, or simply great white, is a species of large mackerel shark which can be found in the coastal surface waters of all the major oceans 

  

  Deathstalker Scorpion

  Scientific name: Leiurus quinquestriatus

  Family: Buthidae

  Kingdom: Animalia

  Order: Scorpiones

  Phylum: Arthropoda

  Subphylum: Chelicerata                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               The deathstalker is a species of scorpion, a member of the family Buthidae. It is also known as the Palestine yellow scorpion, Omdurman scorpion, Naqab desert scorpion and by many other colloquial names, which generally originate from the commercial captive trade of the animal.