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Animals of Mauritania
3 animals on this site have a range that includes Mauritania. Each fact file has a map with the whole range.
Status
Class
Diet
Location
3 profiles
LCBirds
Common ostrich
Struthio camelus
The common ostrich is the largest and heaviest living bird and lays the largest egg.
Living
LCMammals
Fennec fox
Vulpes zerda
The fennec fox is the smallest canid, a cream-coloured fox of the Sahara with enormous ears that shed heat and hear prey under the sand.
Living
LCBirds
Greater flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo.
Living
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- Chad (10)
- Democratic Republic of the Congo (5)
- Djibouti (1)
- Egypt (8)
- Eritrea (1)
- Eswatini (1)
- Ethiopia (13)
- Gabon (4)
- Ghana (2)
- Ivory Coast (1)
- Kenya (24)
- Lesotho (1)
- Madagascar (5)
- Malawi (7)
- Mali (1)
- Morocco (10)
- Mozambique (11)
- Namibia (21)
- Niger (12)
- Nigeria (2)
- Republic of the Congo (2)
- Rwanda (5)
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- Somalia (1)
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- Uganda (11)
- Western Sahara (3)
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- Zimbabwe (17)