The design of Nike's Air Jordan basketball shoe was reportedly inspired by which deadly African slithering creature?
"heel wrap) and Fine Italian dress shoes (bold stitching on the soles). The shoe was retro-ed in 2008. Released in 2004, this is the first Jordan release after his third, and final, retirement which came after the 2002–03 NBA season. The design was inspired by the black mamba snake, and two original colorways where released: white/flint grey and black/red. Three regional colorways and three special edition colorways were released. They consisted of the East, West, and Midwest edition for regular and West, East, and Olympic for the SE (special edition). The ""Air Jordan XIX"" used innovative materials. The upper section"
"the aardwolf, yellow baboon, bat, Cape buffalo, bushbaby, bushbuck, caracal, African wildcat, cheetah, civet, dik-dik, African hunting dog, African dormouse, blue duiker, bush duiker, red duiker, eland, African bush elephant, bat-eared fox, greater galago, gazelle, large-spotted genet, small-spotted genet, gerenuk, giraffe, African hare, springhare, Coke's hartebeest, East African hedgehog, spotted hyena, striped hyena, rock hyrax, tree hyrax, impala, black-backed jackal, side-striped jackal, klipspringer, lesser kudu, leopard, lion, banded mongoose, dwarf mongoose, Egyptian mongoose, marsh mongoose, slender mongoose, white-tailed mongoose, vervet monkey, Sykes' monkey, fringe-eared oryx, clawless otter, ground pangolin, crested porcupine, cane rat, giant rat, naked mole rat, ratel, bohor"
"Dingonek The dingonek is a scaly, saber-toothed creature allegedly seen in the rivers of Kenya. The sole description of this creature comes from the account of big game hunter John Alfred Jordan, related in Edgar Beecher Bronson's 1910 memoir, ""In Closed Territory"". The dingonek was described as long, scaly like a pangolin, covered in spots like a leopard, with a long tail ending in a fin. It was said to have feet the size of a hippo's but ending in reptilian claws, and a large head with long fangs. Jordan reportedly shot the creature with a .303, after which it"
"main predators in North Africa were the Barbary leopard, the Barbary lion, and caracal, but now only humans threaten their populations. The binomial name ""Ammotragus lervia"" derives from the Greek ""ammos"" (""sand"", referring to the sand-coloured coat) and ""tragos"" (""goat""). ""Lervia"" derives from the wild sheep of northern Africa described as ""lerwee"" by Rev. T. Shaw in his ""Travels and Observations"" about parts of Barbary and Levant. The Spanish named this sheep the ""arruis"", and the Spanish Legion even used it as a mascot for a time. ""Aoudad"" () is the name for this sheep used by the Berbers, a"
"a jury trial in November 2016. The African rock python is one of the five largest snake species in the world (along with the green anaconda, reticulated python, Burmese python and amethystine python). At least two other examples of humans killed by an African rock python have been reported. A ten-year-old boy was reportedly killed and swallowed in South Africa in 2002, and a three-year-old boy was reportedly strangled by a African rock python in Centralia, Illinois in 2000. A closely related species, a Burmese python, reportedly strangled a 28-year-old Brampton man in 1992. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)"
"mainly small ground mammals, but snakes, lizards, small ground birds, insects, and road-kill are also taken. Typically, the raptor drops on its prey from a perch or hover. The Seattle Seahawks of the National Football League currently use an augur buzzard named Taima as a live mascot at games. Augur buzzard The augur buzzard (""Buteo augur"") is a 55–60 cm long African bird of prey. The taxonomy on this species is confusing, with some taxonomists considering this species, the jackal buzzard, and the Archer's buzzard to be the same superspecies. Many taxonomists consider them all to be distinct, having different"
"and the freshwater crocodile. The Nile crocodile has a reputation as the biggest killer of large animals, including humans, on the African continent. It is widely distributed, found in many habitats and cryptically coloured. From a waiting position with only its eyes and nostrils above the water, it can lunge at drinking animals, fishermen, bathers, or people collecting water or washing clothes. Once seized and dragged into the water, there is little chance for the victim to escape. Analysis of attacks show that most take place during the breeding season or when crocodiles are guarding nests or newly hatched young."
"jackal. In this myth, it is named and damned but the narrative is still obscure: According to the legend of ""Ɓoxo-koƥ"" (dog of the forest or ""wild dog"" (figuritively) - ""jackal""), the jackal was the first living thing created by the supreme deity ""Roog"". The jackal circled the world in a day and two of its hands were transformed into paws. The supreme being gave it the ""ngud"" tree (guiera senegalensis) and thus ""ngud"" became the first tree and the second thing created by Roog. After the creation of ngud, the ""nalafun"" tree (combretum paniculatum) was created to whom the"
"by various animal, insect, and plant species. The Carpet snake is considered a form that the Rainbow Serpent can take by the Walmadjari people. Furthermore, four snakes may have served as inspiration for the Rainbow Serpent. These include the Scrub or Amethystine python, the Taipan, and the File snake, each of which possesses a characteristic that was associated with the Rainbow Serpent, however the most likely inspiration for the Rainbow Serpent is speculated to be the Water python (""Liasis fuscus"") In Queensland, a fossil of a snake was found, and they believe that it came from the prehistoric family of"
"Beelzebufo Beelzebufo ampinga ( or ) was a particularly large species of prehistoric frog described in 2008. Common names assigned by the popular media include Killer Bean, devil toad, and the frog from hell. Fossils of ""Beelzebufo"" have been recovered from strata of the Maevarano Formation in Madagascar, dating to the late Cretaceous period, some 70 million years ago (Mya). The generic name ""Beelzebufo"" is a portmanteau of ""Beelzebub"" (a Semitic deity whose name may be translated as ""Lord of the Flies"", sometimes identified either as one of the chief lieutenants, or alter ego of the Christian Devil) and ""bufo"""
"occurred in the dry season and the heavy grazing (once by wild animals and now by livestock). The Highveld is home to a number of endangered animals, including straw-coloured fruit bats; Africa's largest snake, the African rock python (""Python sebae""); mountain zebras; and South Africa's national bird, the blue crane (""Anthropoides paradiseus""). The only endemic bird species is Botha's lark (""Spizocorys fringillaris"") and the two endemic mammals - the Free State pygmy mouse (""Mus orangiae"") and the rough-haired golden mole (""Chrysospalax villosa""). As well as the python, other reptiles include the Nile crocodile (""Crocodylus niloticus""), Nile monitor (""Varanus niloticus""), rock"
"found. Researchers have been able to reconstruct parts of the frog's skeleton, including nearly the entire skull. Beelzebufo Beelzebufo ampinga ( or ) was a particularly large species of prehistoric frog described in 2008. Common names assigned by the popular media include Killer Bean, devil toad, and the frog from hell. Fossils of ""Beelzebufo"" have been recovered from strata of the Maevarano Formation in Madagascar, dating to the late Cretaceous period, some 70 million years ago (Mya). The generic name ""Beelzebufo"" is a portmanteau of ""Beelzebub"" (a Semitic deity whose name may be translated as ""Lord of the Flies"", sometimes"
"Catoblepas The catoblepas (pl. catoblepones; from the Greek καταβλέπω, (katablépō) ""to look downwards"") is a legendary creature from Ethiopia, first described by Pliny the Elder and later by Claudius Aelianus. It is said to have the body of a cape buffalo. Its head is always pointing downwards due to its head being heavy. Its stare or breath could either turn people into stone, or kill them. The catoblepas is often thought to be based on real-life encounters with wildebeest, such that some dictionaries say that the word is synonymous with ""gnu"". Also known as an African version of a Gorgon."
"Yale (mythical creature) The yale or centicore (Latin: ""eale"") is a mythical beast found in European mythology and heraldry. Most descriptions make it an antelope- or goat-like four-legged creature with the tusks of a boar and large horns that it can swivel in any direction. The name might be derived from Hebrew יָעֵל (""yael""), meaning ""Ibex"". The yale was first written about by Pliny the Elder in Book VIII of his ""Natural History"": he describes the ""eale"" as a creature found in Aethiopia ""the size of a hippopotamus, with an elephant's tail, of a black or tawny colour, with the"
"is also made of hippos and crocodiles. These numbers may be somewhat overestimated, for example in the country of Mozambique, attacks, especially fatal ones, were much less than frequent on humans than those by hippopotamuses and, especially, Nile crocodiles. In Uganda, on the other hand, large herbivores were found to attack more people on average than lions or leopards and have a higher rate of inflicting fatalities during attacks than the predators (the buffalo, in particular, killing humans in 49.5% of attacks on them), but hippos and even elephants may still kill more people per annum here than buffaloes. Buffaloes"
"Africa, reptiles were the main prey, with monitor lizards alone comprising just under half of the prey remains. The monitors attacked may include the rock monitor (""Varanus albigularis""), the nile monitor (""Varanus niloticus"") and the savannah monitor (""Varanus exanthematicus""). These monitors, the largest lizards in Africa, are formidable prey and almost all attacks are ambushes on adult monitors by mature female eagles. Sometimes a lengthy struggle will ensue as the eagles try to get a good grip into the tough back skin of the monitors while simultaneously trying to control their necks to avoid the prey's powerful jaws, however the"
"Gecko Argentine Black and White Tegu Asian Water Monitor Boa Constrictor Burmese Python Cane Toad Chinese Water Dragon Five-keeled Spiny-tailed Iguana Golden Dart Frog Madagascar Hissing Cockroach Salmon Pink Birdeater White's Tree Frog Woma Vinegaroon Miscalleneous Exhibits African Crested Porcupine African Crowned Crane African Leopard African Lion Aldabra Tortoise American Alligator American Elk Aoudad Bactrian Camel Bengal Tiger Bennett's Wallaby Black-and-White Ruffed Lemur Black-capped Capuchin Black Crested Mangabey Black Swan Blue and Gold Macaw Blue-throated Macaw Brazilian Tapir Capybara Cheetah Chilean Flamingo Chimpanzee Colobus Monkey Common Marmoset Cotton-top Tamarin De Brazza's Monkey Emu Eurasian Eagle-Owl Fallow Deer Golden Pheasant Grant's"
"even BBC News through Daily Nation. African rock python The African rock python (""Python sebae"") is a large, nonvenomous snake of sub-Saharan Africa. It is one of 11 living species in the genus ""Python"". It has two subspecies; one is found in Central and Western Africa, the other in Southern Africa. Africa's largest snake and one of the six largest snake species in the world (along with the green anaconda, reticulated python, Burmese python, Indian python, and amethystine python), specimens may approach or exceed . The southern subspecies is generally smaller than its northern relative. The snake is found in"
"name is ugallu."" Ugallu Ugallu, the ""Big Weather-Beast"", inscribed U/UD.GAL-˹""la""˺, Akkadian: ""ūmu rabû"", meaning ""big day"", was a lion-headed storm-demon and has the feet of a bird who is featured on protective amulets and apotropaic yellow clay or tamarisk figurines of the first millennium BC but had its origins in the early second millennium. The iconography changed over time, with the human feet morphing into an eagle's talons and dressing him in a short skirt. He was one of the class of ud-demons (day-demons), personifying moments of divine intervention in human life. Ugallu was one of the eleven mythical monsters"
"African sports teams, most famously by the national rugby union team. The springbok is the national animal of South Africa. Even after the decline of apartheid, Nelson Mandela intervened to keep the name of the animal for the reconciliation of rugby fans, the majority of whom were whites. The cap badge of The Royal Canadian Dragoons has featured a springbok since 1913, a reference to the unit's involvement in the Second Boer War. Springbok The springbok (; ""Antidorcas marsupialis"") is a medium-sized antelope found mainly in southern and southwestern Africa. The sole member of the genus ""Antidorcas"", this bovid was"
"better studied than the flora, not least because of interest in the larger mammals for the purpose of hunting and shooting. Birds and butterflies have also been studied, but less is known about other parts of the animal kingdom. Some of the larger mammals found here include the Dromedary camel, the Arabian tahr, the Arabian wolf, the Arabian red fox and fennec, the caracal, the striped hyena, the sand cat, the Rock hyrax, and the Cape hare. However habitat destruction, hunting, off-road driving and other human activities have led to the local extinction of the striped hyena, the golden jackal"
"(""Hippotragus niger variani""), a national symbol and a treasured animal in Angola. In Angola, this animal is found only in the Cangandala National Park in Malange Province. The official match ball for the tournament is the Adidas Jabulani Angola, a modified version of the Adidas Jabulani to be used at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with the colours of the flag of Angola. Tournament had seven sponsors, Doritos, MTN Group, NASUBA, Orange, Pepsi, Samsung and only African corporate sponsor Standard Bank. On 8 January 2010, the team bus of the Togo national football team was attacked by gunmen in Cabinda,"
"most likely leopards and fellow machairodont ""Megantereon"", whose carbon isotope ratios showed more indication of preying on hominids. ""Dinofelis"" fossils and bones have been found in South Africa near those of the baboons that it possibly had killed. Bones from several specimens of ""Dinofelis"" and baboons were found in a natural trap, where ""Dinofelis"" may have been lured to feed on trapped prey. Several sites from South Africa seem to show ""Dinofelis"" may have hunted and killed ""Australopithecus africanus"", since the finds mingle fossilized remains of ""Dinofelis"", hominids, and other large contemporary animals. In South Africa, ""Dinofelis"" remains have been"
"Morris County Superior Court alleging he was falsely accused on social media of being Pedals' killer, suffered death threats, and had his personal information published. Pedals (bear) Pedals (died October 2016, New Jersey, United States) was an American black bear (""Ursus americanus"") that walked upright on its hind legs due to injuries on his front paws. After videos of the bear were posted on the internet, more than 300,000 people signed a petition to move the bear to a wildlife sanctuary. Pedals appears to have been killed in October 2016 in New Jersey's first sanctioned bow and arrow hunt in"
"to have become an expensive item in the Ugandan black market, selling for more than US$175 each. Rock monitor The rock monitor (""Varanus albigularis""), also called commonly the black-throated monitor, is a species of monitor lizard in the family Varanidae. The species is endemic to Central, East, and southern Africa. It is the second-longest lizard found on the continent, and the heaviest-bodied; locally, it is called ""leguaan"" or ""likkewaan"". First described by François Marie Daudin in 1802, ""V. albigularis"" has been classified as a subspecies of ""V. exanthematicus"", but has since been declared a distinct species based upon differences in"
"Lightning bird The lightning bird or impundulu or the kwane (or izulu, inyoni yezulu) is a creature in the folklore of the tribes of South Africa including the Pondo, the Zulu and the Xhosa. The impundulu (which translates as ""lightning bird"") takes the form of a black and white bird, the size of a person, which is said to summon thunder and lightning with its wings and talons. It is a vampiric creature associated with witchcraft, often the servant or familiar of a witch or witch doctor, which attacks the witch's enemies. It is said to have an insatiable appetite"
"also extended to adults, to the point of being the bedrock of African wild dog social life. It has few natural predators, though lions are a major source of mortality and spotted hyenas are frequent kleptoparasites. Although not as prominent in African folklore or culture as other African carnivores, it has been respected in several hunter-gatherer societies, particularly those of the predynastic Egyptians and the San people. The earliest possible written reference to the species comes from Oppian, who wrote of the ""thoa"", a hybrid between the wolf and leopard, which resembles the former in shape and the latter in"
"Room Grey parrot African Spurred Tortoise Alexandrine Parakeet Argentine Black & White Tegu Ball Python Bare-eyed Cockatoo Bearded Dragon Blue-crowned Conure Blue-fronted Amazon Blue-headed Pionus Burmese Python Double Yellow-headed Amazon Eclectus Parrot Fire-bellied Toad Green Iguana Green-winged Macaw Guyana Toucanet Hyacinth Macaw Indonesian Red Toad Leopard Gecko Leopard Tortoise Mexican Red-kneed Tarantula Military Macaw Orange-wing Amazon Red-eared Slider Red-footed Tortoise Rose-hair Tarantula Three-toed Amphiuma Umbrella Cockatoo Yellow-naped Amazon Java Cuban Knight Anole Golden Gecko Pixie Frog Tokay Gecko White-lined Gecko Main Bird Aviary Black-capped Conure Black-throated Laughing Thrush Blue-breasted Kingfisher Blue-crowned Pigeon Chaco Chachalaca Collared Dove Eastern Rosella Edward's Lorikeet"
"Jersey Devil In New Jersey folklore, the Jersey Devil (a.k.a. the Leeds Devil) is a legendary creature said to inhabit the Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey. The creature is often described as a flying biped with hooves, but there are many variations. The common description is that of a kangaroo-like or wyvern-like creature with a goat- or horse-like head, leathery bat-like wings, horns, small arms with clawed hands, cloven hooves and a forked tail. It has been reported to move quickly and often is described as emitting a ""blood-curdling scream"". According to popular folklore, the Jersey Devil originated with"
"and Mozambique. The Cape wild dog plays a prominent role in the mythology of Southern Africa's San people. In one story, the wild dog is indirectly linked to the origin of death, as the hare is cursed by the moon to be forever hunted by wild dogs after the hare rebuffs the moon's promise to allow all living things to be reborn after death. Another story has the god Cagn taking revenge on the other gods by sending a group of men transformed into African wild dogs to attack them, though who won the battle is never revealed. The San"
"North African ostrich (""Struthio camelus camelus"", LC); ferruginous duck (""Aythya nyroca"", NT); lesser flamingo (""Phoenicopterus minor"", NT); white-backed vulture (""Gyps africanus"", NT); Rueppell's griffon (""Gyps rueppellii"", NT); pallid harrier (""Circus macrourus"", NT); red kite (""Milvus milvus"", NT); Stanley bustard (""Neotis denhami"", NT); Nubian bustard (""Neotis nuba"", NT); corn crake (""Crex crex"", NT); black crowned crane (""Balearica pavonina"", NT); Eurasian curlew (""Numenius arquata"", NT); black-tailed godwit (""Limosa limosa"", NT); great snipe (""Gallinago media"", NT); African skimmer (""Rynchops flavirostris"", NT); European roller (""Coracias garrulus"", NT); red-footed falcon (""Falco vespertinus"", NT); sooty falcon (""Falco concolor"", NT); white-headed vulture (""Trigonoceps occipitalis"", VU); Beaudouin's snake-eagle"
"the disease Chytridiomycosis, it does not appear to affect the African clawed frog, making it an effective carrier. African clawed frog The African clawed frog (""Xenopus laevis"", also known as the xenopus, African clawed toad, African claw-toed frog or the platanna) is a species of African aquatic frog of the family Pipidae. Its name is derived from the three short claws on each hind foot, which it uses to tear apart its food. The word ""Xenopus"" means ""strange foot"" and ""laevis"" means ""smooth"". The species is found throughout much of Sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria and Sudan to South Africa), and in"
"African cobras (for example the red spitting cobra), this species does not spit venom. The Egyptian cobra was represented in Egyptian mythology by the cobra-headed goddess Meretseger. A stylised Egyptian cobra — in the form of the uraeus representing the goddess Wadjet — was the symbol of sovereignty for the Pharaohs who incorporated it into their diadem. This iconography was continued through the end of the ancient Egyptian civilization (30 BC). Most ancient sources say that Cleopatra and her two attendants committed suicide by being bitten by an aspis, which translates into English as ""asp"". The snake was reportedly smuggled"