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Mount Elgon, the Glossary

Mount Elgon is an extinct shield volcano on the border of Uganda and Kenya, north of Kisumu and west of Kitale.^[1]

African bush elephant

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is one of two extant African elephant species and one of three extant elephant species.

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Breast-shaped hill

A breast-shaped hill is a hill in the shape of a breast.

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Caldera

A caldera is a large cauldron-like hollow that forms shortly after the emptying of a magma chamber in a volcanic eruption.

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Cape bushbuck

The Cape bushbuck (Tragelaphus sylvaticus), also known as imbabala is a common, medium-sized bushland-dwelling, and a widespread species of antelope in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Disjunct distribution

In biology, a taxon with a disjunct distribution is one that has two or more groups that are related but considerably separated from each other geographically.

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Dorobo peoples

Dorobo (or Ndorobo, Wadorobo, dorobo, Torobo) is a derogatory umbrella term for several unrelated hunter-gatherer groups of Kenya and Tanzania.

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Du Toit's torrent frog

Du Toit's torrent frog, the Mt.

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East Africa

East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.

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Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) species are animal species which have a high 'EDGE score', a metric combining endangered conservation status with the genetic distinctiveness of the particular taxon.

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Elephant

Elephants are the largest living land animals.

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Elgon francolin

The Elgon francolin (Scleroptila elgonensis) is a francolin found in moorland at altitudes above from eastern Uganda (Mount Elgon) to central Kenya.

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Elgon languages

The Elgon languages are languages of the Southern Nilotic Kalenjin family spoken in the Mount Elgon area in western Kenya and eastern Uganda.

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Elgon shrew

The Elgon shrew (Crocidura elgonius) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Extinction

Extinction is the termination of a taxon by the death of its last member.

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Gisu people

The Gisu people, or Bamasaba people of Elgon, are a Bantu tribe and Bantu-speaking ethnic group of the Masaba people in eastern Uganda, closely related to the Bukusu people of Kenya.

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Great Rift Valley, Kenya

The Great Rift Valley is part of an intra-continental ridge system that runs through Kenya from north to south.

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Hunter's cisticola

Hunter's cisticola (Cisticola hunteri) is a species of bird in the family Cisticolidae.

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Jackson's spurfowl

Jackson's spurfowl or Jackson's francolin (Pternistis jacksoni) is a species of bird in the family Phasianidae.

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Kakamega

Kakamega is a town in western Kenya lying about 30 km north of the Equator.

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Kakapel Rockshelter

Kakapel Rockshelter is a Kenyan national monument and archeological site named after the village where it is located on the western slopes of Mt. Elgon in Kenya.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya (Jamhuri ya Kenya), is a country in East Africa.

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Kisumu

Kisumu is the third-largest city in Kenya after the capital, Nairobi, and Mombasa.

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Kitale

Kitale is a town in the north west of Kenya, in the old Rift Valley province.

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Kitum Cave

Kitum Cave is located in Mount Elgon National Park, Kenya.

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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. Mount Elgon and Lake Victoria are Kenya–Uganda border.

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Laterite

Laterite is a soil type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas.

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List of highest mountain peaks of Africa

This is a list of the highest mountain peaks of Africa with a prominence of at least.

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List of ultras of Africa

This is a list of all the ultra prominent peaks (with topographic prominence greater than 1,500 metres) in Africa.

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List of volcanoes in Kenya

This is a short list of active and extinct volcanoes in Kenya. Mount Elgon and list of volcanoes in Kenya are volcanoes of Kenya.

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Maasai language

Maasai (previously spelled Masai) or Maa (autonym: ɔl Maa) is an Eastern Nilotic language spoken in Southern Kenya and Northern Tanzania by the Maasai people, numbering about 1.5 million.

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Marburg virus

Marburg virus (MARV) is a hemorrhagic fever virus of the Filoviridae family of viruses and a member of the species Marburg marburgvirus, genus Marburgvirus.

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Mineral lick

A mineral lick (also known as a salt lick) is a place where animals can go to lick essential mineral nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals.

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Miocene

The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).

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Mount Elgon insurgency

The Mount Elgon insurgency was a conflict that started in 2005 when the Sabaot Land Defence Force militia revolted in the Mount Elgon area, Western Kenya. Mount Elgon and Mount Elgon insurgency are Bungoma County.

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Mount Elgon National Park

Mount Elgon National Park is a national park in Kenya and Uganda that lies northeast of Lake Victoria. Mount Elgon and Mount Elgon National Park are Bungoma County, east African montane forests and Trans-Nzoia County.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government responsible for the civil space program, aeronautics research, and space research.

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Nzoia River

The Nzoia River is a Kenyan river, rising from Cherangany hills.

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Okiek people

The Okiek (Ogiek), sometimes called the Ogiek or Akiek, are a Southern Nilotic ethnic group native to Tanzania and Southern Kenya (in the Mau Forest), and Western Kenya (in the Mount Elgon Forest).

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Rudd's African mole-rat

Rudd's mole-rat (Tachyoryctes ruddi) is a species of rodent in the family Spalacidae.

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Sabaot people

The Sabaot are one of the nine sub-tribes of the Kalenjin of Kenya and Uganda.

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Scrambling

Scrambling is a mountaineering term for ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.

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Sharpe's longclaw

Sharpe's longclaw (Macronyx sharpei) is a passerine bird in the longclaw family Motacillidae, which also includes the pipits and wagtails.

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Shield volcano

A shield volcano is a type of volcano named for its low profile, resembling a shield lying on the ground.

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The Hot Zone

The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story is a best-selling 1994 nonfiction thriller by Richard Preston about the origins and incidents involving viral hemorrhagic fevers, particularly ebolaviruses and marburgviruses.

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Thomas's pygmy mouse

The Thomas's pygmy mouse (Mus sorella) is a species of rodent in the family Muridae.

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Turkwel River

The Turkwel River (sometimes spelled Turkwell River) is a river flowing from Mount Elgon on the border of Kenya and Uganda to Lake Turkana.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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Ultra-prominent peak

An ultra-prominent peak, or ultra for short, is a mountain summit with a topographic prominence of or more; it is also called a P1500.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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