[Killietalk] wildlife West of Chad

["Al Anderson" <augustand at sbcglobal_net>]

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> You know another  area that has also intrigued me is the narrow strip of
> "West African Savahnna" (for lack of a better term)..I know just from 
> seeing
> wildlife data from that area, that it has been pretty much messed over
> ecologically speaking. I understand most of the major wildlife West of 
> Chad
> is supposedly near gone, but seems to me should/might still be some annual
> type fish north of The CAP & Nigeria, et... (I believe some <non-annual>
> scripts are from Mali or somewhere like like that)
>
> KC
>
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> to
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> modern
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> would Brian or anyone else out there have any suggestions?
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>
>
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> From: "Scott Davis" <unclescott at prodigy_net>
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> Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:32 PM
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>
>> Thank you Brian. KC, I may have gotten carried away in
>> a speculative sense. Armchair quarterbacks do that.
>>
>> I had written the following, got distracted and then
>> found Brians's much more authoritative observations.
>> The following items were why I made that speculation:
>> Killidata 2000 lists 4-5 Lampeyes for Angola and also
>> lists A. australe, presumably to the far north. More
>> recent lists would include the Nothobranchius from
>> Caprivi strip. That is a part of Namibia, which also
>> has three lampeyes listed. The Okavanga River cuts
>> through the strip and feeds the unique swamp to the
>> south.
>>
>> Brian has already described what was found in the
>> Caprivi Strip and pretty much answered my questions
>> about the area just north of the Okavanga Delta, which
>> seasonally expands and shrinks in a pretty dramatic
>> fashion. National Geographic has also run an article
>> on the area. While no killies were mentioned in the
>> article, seasonal waters certainly are.
>>
>> One of the Botswanan Parks - Makgadikgadi Pans
>> National Park (Game Reserve on one map) - is right in
>> the middle of the country. To the north of that is
>> Nxai Pan N.P. One may perk up at hearing about pans,
>> which are sometimes associated with Nothos. Three
>> species of lampeye are found in Botswana, though
>> obviously not in the driest desert. The latitude of
>> some of the Kalahari fringes are more northerly than
>> the southern most N. orthonotus and N. rachovii
>> locations.
>>
>> That is also neat, that N. neumanni are probably the
>> Notho seen in that Serengeti program. They really
>> showed their colors in the TV tape. As with the Holy
>> Land program, it is quite a kick to suddenly see
>> images and a brief discussion of killies in with the
>> discussion of better known things.
>>
>> All the best!
>> Scott
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