Amazing Animals Eritrea

Eritrea is a country in East Africa located in a region called the Horn of Africa. It has an extensive coastline on the Red Sea and includes the Dahlak Archipelago. Eritrea’s landscape includes three distinct regions. It has the green highlands, the hot, dry western lowlands, and a long coastal plain. These areas are home to many unique animal and bird species.

Native Animals

Aardvarks are unique and odd creatures. They are a medium-sized species of nocturnal mammals that live in sub-Saharan Africa. These animals are insectivores, using their sharp claws to dig out ants and termites.

African bush elephants are among the most notorious animals from Africa. They are the largest living terrestrial mammals. Their habitats include grasslands, woodlands, forests, and wetlands. They dine on grasses, leaves, bark, roots, tubers, and fruits.

Mantled guerezas are also referred to as the eastern black-and-white colobuses. They are an Old World monkey species. These diurnal and arboreal animals live in evergreen and deciduous forests and are seen in groups of 3 to 15. Mantled guerezas are arboreal and often forage in the canopy of tropical forests. Their diet consists of leaves, insects, and fruit.

Northeast African cheetahs are carnivores and mostly feed on herbivorous animals, such as Grant's gazelles, Cape hares, guineafowl, and large animals like hartebeests, Plains zebras, and Barbary ostriches on a few occasions. The Soemmerring's gazelles are the most preferable prey.

Rock hyraxes are a small species of terrestrial mammals. These animals are native to Africa and the Middle East. They have short ears and tails. Rock hyraxes live in groups of about 10 to 80. Their diet consists of bark, leaves, flowers, and fruit.

Spotted hyenas, most notoriously known as the laughing hyenas, are a species of hyena native to sub-Saharan Africa.They are well adapted to live in savannas, semi-deserts, mountainous forests, and acacia bushes. Spotted hyenas are large carnivores that roam much of the African continent. They are able, opportunistic predators and successful scavengers.

Birds

African darters are a species of bird native to sub-Saharan Africa and Iraq. These unique birds swim with their necks above water and strike quickly to trap prey using their beaks like spears.

African fish eagles are a large species of eagles that live near water bodies in sub-Saharan Africa. They are the national bird of Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Namibia. Their diet consists mainly of fish.

Helmeted guineafowl are birds native to Africa. They are social and form flocks of about 25 birds. They are large birds with round bodies and small heads. Their plumage is gray-black spangled with white. Helmeted guineafowl are omnivores. Their diet consists of a variety of animal and plant foods; these birds eat seeds, fruits, greens, snails, spiders, worms and insects, frogs, lizards, small snakes, and small mammals.

Secretary birds are recognizable by their large size and standing on crane-like legs. They are mostly terrestrial, endemic to Africa, and can be found in open areas and savannas. Secretary birds are not generally gregarious aside from pairs and their offspring. They roost in trees and set off 1-2 hours after dawn, generally after spending some time preening. They are carnivores. Their diet consists of insects such as locusts and beetles; mammals ranging in size from mice to hares and mongoose; crabs; lizards; snakes; tortoises; small birds; bird eggs; and sometimes dead animals killed in grass or bushfires.

Aquatic Animals

Dugongs are mammals that live around the coastline of eastern Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Southeast Asia, and northern Australia. They graze on seagrass beds, often uprooting the plants to access the nutrient-rich parts, and are typically found in shallow coastal waters where seagrass is abundant.