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  • Riparian species include Typha capensis which is common, Juncus buffonius, Scirpus holoschoenus, Phragmites australis and Adiantum sp.

    Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria 2008

  • It turns out that the billions of A. m. capensis workers now parasitizing South African honeybee colonies are all descendants of a single worker that was buzzing around during 1990.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • The video showed footage, shot mostly in Africa, of Mellivora capensis, a small carnivore better known as the honey badger.

    Honey Badger Stalks the Heisman Rachel Bachman 2011

  • "Tico-tico" is a little bird (Zonotrichia capensis) and "fubá" is maize flour.

    Two Musicians One Guitar » E-Mail 2009

  • "Tico-tico" is a little bird (Zonotrichia capensis) and "fubá" is maize flour.

    Two Musicians One Guitar 2009

  • There are also is an isolated population of the Cape dassie Procavia capensis, also tree hyrax Dendrohyrax dorsalis; and bush pig Potamochoerus porcus, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus, bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, Maxwell's duiker Cephalophus maxwelli and black duiker C. niger, bay duiker C. dorsalis and forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus.

    Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire 2008

  • Birds include the Adean condor (Vultur gryphus), Rufous-collared sparrow (Zonotrichia capensis), Fuegian Snipe (Gallinago stricklandii), and frailejón (Libanothamnus glossophyllus).

    Santa Marta páramo 2008

  • Forty-two percent of the diet of the black-footed penguin is small shoaling fish, with 25 species of fish, including anchovies (Engraulis capensis) and sardines (Sardinops sagax) being recorded, as well as 18 species of crustaceans, three species of squid, and one species of polychaete worm.

    Black-footed penguin 2010

  • In rocky areas there are colonies of rock hyrax Procavia capensis and there are stable unthreatened populations of smaller mammals: burrowing rodents, insectivores and bats.

    Aïr and Ténéré Natural Reserves, Niger 2008

  • Mammals which occur in the region and probably exist in the vicinity of Bandiagara escarpment include rock hyrax Procavia capensis, porcupine Hystrix spp, common jackal Canis aureus and pale fox Vulpes pallida.

    Cliffs of Bandiagara (Land of the Dogons), Mali 2009

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