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Ep. 5

Africa

Sahara

30 Jan 2013

Species features in each Sequence

Barbary macaque

Grévy's zebra

Naked mole-rat

Barn swallow

Dromedary camel

Dung-beetle sp., Lizard sp.

Nile tilapia, Nile crocodile

Barn swallow, Fly sp., Western yellow wagtail

Fringe-toed lizard sp., Saharan silver ant

# Species by IUCN Conservation Status

Barbary macaque

Macaca sylvanus

Atlas Mountains, Morocco

Grévy's zebra

Equus grevyi

Naked mole-rat

Heterocephalus glaber

Barn swallow

Hirundo rustica

Nigeria

Dromedary camel

Camelus dromedarius

Sahara Desert,

Dung-beetle sp.

White Desert, Egypt

Lizard sp.

White Desert, Egypt

Likely some sort of agamid, e.g. yellow-spotted agama (Trapelus flavimaculatus)

Nile tilapia

Oreochromis niloticus filoa

Awash, Ethiopia

The only tilapiine cichlid known to be in the waters of the Awash River and Ethiopian rift lakes... is a subspecies of Oreochromis niloticus, O. n. cancellatus. Although three other tilapiines, Oreochromis spilurus, Tilapia zillii and Sarotherodon galilaeus, are found in the systems near the Awash, they are not found in the same waters as O. n. cancellatus... Oreochromis spilurus is found on the eastern side of the Ethiopian-Somali watershed. A unique subspecies, O. n. filoa, is found only in hot springs near Addis Ababa. Source: A New Species of Tilapiine Cichlid from the Pliocene, Middle Awash, Ethiopia (Alison M. Murray and Kathlyn M. Stewart, Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Vol. 19, No. 2 (Jun. 14, 1999), pp. 293-301)
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Nile crocodile

Crocodylus niloticus

Awash, Ethiopia

Narration suggests this is at Waw an Namus in Libya

Barn swallow

Hirundo rustica

Umm al-Maa, Ubari Sand Sea, Libya

"Cameraman Rod Clarke waits by the saline lake at Um El Ma in the Libyan Sahara for the swallows to arrive during their migration from Nigeria to Europe. "

Fly sp.