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Nyika Plateau, the Glossary

Index Nyika Plateau

The Nyika Plateau lies in northern Malawi, with a small portion in north eastern Zambia.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 35 relations: Bird, Butterfly, Cape bushbuck, Chameleon, Chilumba, Common eland, Crawshay's zebra, Delphinium, Duiker, Endemism, Frog, Gladiolus, Hyena, Jackal, Klipspringer, Kniphofia, Lake Malawi, Leopard, Livingstonia, Malawi, Lobelia, Luangwa River, Malawi, Mertensophryne nyikae, Nyika National Park, Nyika National Park, Zambia, Orchid, Pine, Plateau, Reedbuck, Roan antelope, South Rukuru River, Toad, Warthog, Wildlife, Zambia.

  2. Afromontane
  3. Landforms of Zambia
  4. Plateaus of Malawi
  5. Southern Rift montane forest–grassland mosaic

Bird

Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Butterfly

Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran suborder Rhopalocera, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, fluttering flight.

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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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Chameleon

Chameleons or chamaeleons (family Chamaeleonidae) are a distinctive and highly specialized clade of Old World lizards with 200 species described as of June 2015.

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Chilumba

Chilumba is a town in Malawi.

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Common eland

The common eland (Taurotragus oryx), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a large-sized savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa.

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Crawshay's zebra

Crawshay's zebra (Equus quagga crawshayi) is a subspecies of the plains zebra native to eastern Zambia, east of the Luangwa River, Malawi, southeastern Tanzania, and northern Mozambique south to the Gorongoza District.

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Delphinium

Delphinium is a genus of about 300 species of annual and perennial flowering plants in the family Ranunculaceae, native throughout the Northern Hemisphere and also on the high mountains of tropical Africa.

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Duiker

A duiker is a small to medium-sized brown antelope native to sub-Saharan Africa, found in heavily wooded areas.

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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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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail').

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Gladiolus

Gladiolus (from Latin, the diminutive of gladius, a sword) is a genus of perennial cormous flowering plants in the iris family (Iridaceae).

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Hyena

Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae.

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Jackal

Jackals are canids native to Africa and Eurasia.

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Klipspringer

The klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus) is a small antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.

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Kniphofia

Kniphofia is a genus of perennial flowering plants in the family Asphodelaceae, first described as a genus in 1794.

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Lake Malawi

Lake Malawi, also known as Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, (Ziwa Nyasa) is an African Great Lake and the southernmost lake in the East African Rift system, located between Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania.

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Leopard

The leopard (Panthera pardus) is one of the five extant species in the genus Panthera.

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Livingstonia, Malawi

Livingstonia or Kondowe is a town located in the Northern Region district of Rumphi in Malawi.

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Lobelia

Lobelia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Campanulaceae comprising 415 species, with a subcosmopolitan distribution primarily in tropical to warm temperate regions of the world, a few species extending into cooler temperate regions.

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Luangwa River

The Luangwa River is one of the major tributaries of the Zambezi River, and one of the four biggest rivers of Zambia.

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Malawi

Malawi (in Chichewa and Chitumbuka), officially the Republic of Malawi and formerly known as Nyasaland, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa.

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Mertensophryne nyikae

Mertensophryne nyikae (common name: Nyika dwarf toad) is a species of toad in the family Bufonidae.

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Nyika National Park

Nyika National Park is Malawi’s largest national park, with an area of 3200 km2 (1250 mile2). Nyika Plateau and Nyika National Park are southern Rift montane forest–grassland mosaic.

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Nyika National Park, Zambia

Nyika National Park lies in the northeast of Zambia, on the western edge of the Nyika Plateau, which is one of the highest parts of the country and most of which lies in neighbouring Malawi. Nyika Plateau and Nyika National Park, Zambia are southern Rift montane forest–grassland mosaic.

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Orchid

Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography, a plateau (plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.

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Reedbuck

Reedbuck is a common name for African antelopes from the genus Redunca.

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Roan antelope

The roan antelope (Hippotragus equinus) is a large savanna-dwelling antelope found in western, central, and southern Africa.

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South Rukuru River

The South Rukuru River is a river of northern Malawi.

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Toad

Toad is a common name for certain frogs, especially of the family Bufonidae, that are characterized by dry, leathery skin, short legs, and large bumps covering the parotoid glands.

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Warthog

Phacochoerus is a genus in the family Suidae, commonly known as warthogs (pronounced wart-hog).

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Wildlife

Wildlife refers to undomesticated animal species, but has come to include all organisms that grow or live wild in an area without being introduced by humans.

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Zambia

Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central, Southern and East Africa.

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See also

Afromontane

Landforms of Zambia

Plateaus of Malawi

Southern Rift montane forest–grassland mosaic

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyika_Plateau

Also known as Nyika Uplands.