**AFRICA**

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People Taking into account history and language, South Africa's Rainbow Nation of over 40 million people can be defined by various groups. These include the Xhosa, Zulu, Ndebele, South Sotho , North Sotho, Tswana, Venda, Shangaan, Tsonga, Swazi, Indian, the Cape Colourdes, English and Afrikaans. There are also large Portuguese, Greek, Chinese and Jewish communities which contributes to making South Africa a truly cosmopolitan country.

Language Afrikaans and English; Ndebele, Northern Sotho, Southern Sotho, Swati, Tsonga, Tswana, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu, and many other vernacular languages are spoken.

Religion Christian (most whites and Coloreds and about 60 % of blacks), Hindu 60 % of Indians), Muslim 2 %

Lions live most of the time in male groups consisting of two or three animals, and sleeping 22 hours out of 24. The lioness raises two to three small cubs, that will eventually become adults lions. There is no other predator than can match the power, the force, the speed of the lioness. It is certainly the most harmful predator of Africa even against man ! personally, I do not know what could stop a lioness that was intent on defending its cubs.

The Leopard is a rare animal and very difficult to observe. It lives mainly in the bush (forest) and in trees. It is an excellent climber, it possesses sharp claws that retract like domestic cats in order that it can grasp prey and climb. It is the wildlife photographer¹s dream before each trip to meet a leopard and he knows that even with great knowledge of wildlife, an encounter is very much a matter of chance and being in the right place at the right time. It could take many years to see a leopard and not just weeks or months !

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Zebras are confusing animals. They owe much of their survival to confusing their predators. No two zebras have exactly the same stripes. But in the confusing array of stripes that each zebra presents, we can learn to differentiate what are individual characteristics, and what characteristics are jointly found in each zebra belonging to one of the 3 species of zebra. Before identifying which kind (sub-species) a zebra belongs to , we must determine which species it is. There are 3 zebra species. Each zebra species has a specific rump striping pattern. It is upon identification of the rump pattern that one can correctly identify which species a zebra belongs to )

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