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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Chapters: Alder Creek Grove, Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, Arcata Community Forest, Atwell Mill Grove, Black Mountain Grove, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California chaparral and woodlands, California interior chaparral and woodlands, California mixed evergreen forest, California oak woodland, Cedar hemlock douglas-fir forest, Closed-cone pine forest, Converse Basin, Eastern Cascades Slopes and Foothills (ecoregion), Elfin forest, Elfin Forest Natural Area, Evans Grove, Freeman Creek, Garcia River Forest, Garfield Grove, Giant Forest, Giant Sequoia National Monument, Headwaters Forest Reserve, Kennedy Grove, King Range Wilderness, Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, List of California state forests, List of giant sequoia groves, Long Meadow Grove, Mariposa Grove, Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forests, McIntyre Grove, Mediterranean California Lower Montane Black Oak-Conifer Forest, Merced Grove, Mesquite Bosque, Monterey County reforestation, Mountain Home Grove, Muir Grove, Muir Woods National Monument, Nelder Grove, Northern California coastal forests (WWF ecoregion), Pacific temperate rain forest (WWF ecoregion), Packsaddle Grove, Ponderosa shrub forest, Redwood Grove, Redwood Mountain Grove, Sanctuary Forest, Sequoia National Forest, Sierra Nevada lower montane forest, Teakettle Experimental Forest, Tuolumne Grove. Excerpt: The following is a list of giant sequoia groves. All naturally occurring groves of giant sequoias are located in moist, unglaciated ridges and valleys of the west slope of the Sierra Nevada range in California, United States. They occur between 1370 ¿ 2000 meters (4500¿6500 ft) elevation in the northern half of the range, and 1700¿2250 m (5500¿7500 ft) in the south. Groves in the northern half of the range (north of the Kings River) are widely scattered and mostly small, while those south of the Kings River are more numerous. The total area of all the groves combined is approximately 14,416 ha (35,607 acres). The groves are listed from north to south in the list below. This list is based on five different sources, with slightly varying views on what constitutes a discrete grove; the differing interpretations are noted in italics. The lists of groves were compiled by Rundel (1972; recognizing 75 groves), Flint (1987; recognizing 65 groves), Willard (1994; recognizing 65 groves), the Giant Sequoia National Monument Visitor's Guide (2003) and the Draft Giant Sequoia National Monument Plan 2010. Currently, the U.S. National Park Service cites Rundel's total of 75 groves in its visitor publications. The updated lists from Willard and Flint are now known to be more accurate, therefore some of Rundel's 75 groves have been removed from this list. Below compiles a list of 68 sequoia groves. The 16 groves in the Kings River watershed are in Kings Canyon National Park (KCNP), the northern section of Giant Sequoia National Monument (GSNM), or Sequoia National Forest (SeNF), in southernmost Fresno County and Tulare County: The 23 groves in the Kaweah River watershed are all in Sequoia National Park or in private ownership, except the northernmost in Sequoia National Forest & Kings Canyon National Park: The 21 groves in the Tule River and Kern River watersheds are mostly in Giant Sequoia National Monument, with some areas in Sequoia National Park, Mountain Home Demonstration Stat

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 99. Chapters: Abyssinian Grass Rat, African buffalo, African bush elephant, African wild ass, Ammodile, Asian house shrew, Awash Multimammate Mouse, Bailey's shrew, Bale Mountains vervet, Bale shrew, Banded mongoose, Bat-eared fox, Big-headed mole rat, Black-clawed Brush-furred Rat, Blick's Grass Rat, Bohor reedbuck, Bushbuck, Common duiker, Common eland, Common tsessebe, Dibatag, Dorcas gazelle, East African mole rat, Ethiopian Amphibious Rat, Ethiopian Big-eared Bat, Ethiopian Forest Brush-furred Rat, Ethiopian highland hare, Ethiopian Mylomys, Ethiopian Narrow-headed Rat, Ethiopian striped mouse, Ethiopian Thicket Rat, Ethiopian White-footed Mouse, Ethiopian wolf, Ethiopian Woolly Bat, Gelada, Gerenuk, Giant forest hog, Glass's shrew, Grant's gazelle, Gray-tailed Narrow-headed Rat, Greater kudu, Grévy's zebra, Grivet, Ground pangolin, Guramba shrew, Hamadryas baboon, Harenna shrew, Harrington's Rat, Hartebeest, Kéwel, Klipspringer, Kob, Lesser kudu, List of mammals of Ethiopia, Lovat's Climbing Mouse, Lucina's shrew, MacMillan's shrew, Mantled guereza, Mountain Nyala, Mountain reedbuck, Nikolaus's mouse, Nile lechwe, Nubian ibex, Olive baboon, Oribi, Petra Fruit Bat, Red-fronted gazelle, Reticulated Giraffe, Roan antelope, Rupp's mouse, Salt's dik-dik, Scott's mouse-eared bat, Short-tailed Brush-furred Rat, Swayne's Hartebeest, Thalia's Shrew, Typical Vlei Rat, Walia ibex, Warthog, Waterbuck, White rhinoceros, Yalden's Rat. Excerpt: The white rhinoceros or square-lipped rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum) is one of the five species of rhinoceros that exist. It has a wide mouth used for grazing and is the most social of all rhino species. The white rhinoceros consists of two subspecies: the southern white rhinoceros, with an estimated 17,460 wild-living animals at the end of 2007 (IUCN 2008), and the much rarer northern white rhinoceros. The northern subspecies has very few remaining, with seven confirmed individuals left (including those in captivity). White rhino in Murchison Falls National Park, UgandaA popular theory of the origins of the name "white rhinoceros" is a mistranslation from Dutch to English. The English word "white" is said to have been derived by mistranslation of the Dutch word "wijd", which means "wide" in English. The word "wide" refers to the width of the rhinoceros' mouth. So early English-speaking settlers in South Africa misinterpreted the "wijd" for "white" and the rhino with the wide mouth ended up being called the white rhino and the other one, with the narrow pointed mouth, was called the black rhinoceros. Ironically, Dutch (and Afrikaans) later used a calque of the English word, and now also call it a white rhino. This suggests the origin of the word was before codification by Dutch writers. A review of Dutch and Afrikaans literature about the rhinoceros has failed to produce any evidence that the word wijd was ever used to describe the rhino outside of oral use. Other popular theories suggest the name comes from its wide appearance throughout Africa, its color due to wallowing in calcareous soil or bird droppings or because of the lighter colour of its horn. An alternative name for the white rhinoceros, more accurate but rarely used, is the square-lipped rhinoceros. The white rhinoceros' generic name, Ceratotherium, given by the zoologist John Edward Gray in 1868, is derived from the Greek terms keras (¿¿¿¿¿) "horn" and therion (¿¿¿¿¿¿) "beast". Simum, is derived from