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Wildlife: Mammals
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Wildlife
Welcome to the mammal section.
 Here
in the mammal section you can find out about many of the mammals living inside
the Kruger National Park.
Mammal, common name applied to any warm-blooded animal belonging to the class
that includes humans and all other animals that nourish their young with milk,
that are covered with varying amounts of hair, and that possess a muscular
diaphragm. Mammals have the most highly developed nervous systems of all
animals. Most members of the group have four appendages, usually legs. These may
be adapted for use as swimming appendages, as in seals, or as wings, as in bats.
Some types, however, have two limbs that have been reduced to small vestiges
beneath the skin, as in whales, or have been lost altogether, as in sea cows.
All mammals, except the egg-laying monotremes, produce live young that undergo
the early stages of development within the body cavity of the mother. Some
mammals are helpless at birth; others are able to walk and even run immediately,
and may be born fully furred and with their eyes and ears open. The range in
size of mammals is extraordinarily wide; the largest mammal, the blue whale,
often exceeds 30 metres in length, and the smallest shrews, mice, and bats are
often less than 5 centimetres in length, excluding the tail.
Many of the worlds largest mammals living on land are to be
found in the Kruger National Park. Many of the populations
existing in the Kruger National Park today are the largest
single populations of species in the world. Such as wild dogs,
elephants and impala.
Please feel welcome to explore this mammal section by selecting
one of the species below for information.
Baboon |
Buffalo |
Cheetah |
Elephant |
Hippopotamus
Hyaena |
Impala |
Leopard |
Lion
Warthog |
Wild Dog |
Zebra
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