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Mobile Design and Development | "Fling, Brian" | 2009-01-01 | [
"Mobile computing",
"Mobile computing -- Programming"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9780596806231/ | true | 12-Wired Bird of Paradise | 12-Wired Bird of Paradise | species of bird | Seleucidis melanoleucus | null | Seleucidis | melanoleucus | null | (Daudin, 1800) | *S. m. auripennis
*S. m. melanoleucus | null | null | null | null | null | Male | null | null | null | null | Twelve-wired bird-of-paradise | Q795568 | null | null | bird | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | PASSERIFORMES | PARADISAEIDAE | LC | null | 2018 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22706233/130413197 | Decreasing | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland"] | null | null | null | The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is reported to be uncommon to common (Frith and Beehler 1998). | null | null | null | This species has a very large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation). Des... | null | null | |||
Windows PowerShell for Developers | "Douglas Finke" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449322694/ | true | 3-Banded Armadillo | 3-Banded Armadillo | species of mammal | Dasypus novemcinctus | null | Dasypus | novemcinctus | null | Linnaeus, 1758 | null | null | null | null | null | null | Nine-banded armadillo | null | null | null | null | Nine-banded armadillo | Q649549 | null | null | mammal | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | CINGULATA | DASYPODIDAE | LC | null | 2026 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/268513068/268516717 | Stable | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Shrubland - Temperate", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations", "Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetati... | [{"threat": "Intentional use (species is the target)", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Increase in fire frequency/intensity", "severity": "Causing/Could cause fluctuations", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Named species", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}] | null | Dasypus novemcintus ranges from the eastern slopes of the Andes from Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela, to Peru, Bolivia, northern Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil (Barthe et al. 2025). It is also present in Trinidad and Tobago (Barthe et al. 2025). In eastern Venezuela and northern Brazil (Amazonas and Roraima s... | The Nine-banded Armadillo is a common species (see e.g. Andrade-Nuñez and Aide 2010, Amaru-Castelo et al. 2023). | This armadillo is present in a variety of primary habitats (Voss and Fleck 2017, Morán et al. 2018) and disturbed landscapes (Naughton-Treves et al. 2002, Andrade-Núñez and Aide 2010). Nine-banded armadillos are mainly nocturnal (Blake et al. 2012, Moran et al. 2018). They are omnivores-insectivores (Serrón-Lacassie et... | There are no major threats to this species. It is hunted throughout its range, but given its high rate of reproduction, the species seems able to withstand a reasonably high degree of offtake. In the last seven years (2017-2024), several forest fires have destroyed millions of hectares in Bolivia, Brazil, and Ecua... | Dasypus novemcinctus occurs in many protected areas (see e.g. Naughton-Teves et al. 2002, Blake et al. 2012, Moran et al. 2018). | Dasypus novemcinctus is listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, tolerance of habitat alteration, and because there is no evidence of a major population decline. | 210 | null | |||
Augmented Analytics | "Tobias Zwingmann, Willi Weber" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781098151713/ | true | Aardvarks | Aardvarks | species of mammal | Orycteropus afer | null | Orycteropus | afer | null | (Pallas, 1766) | See text | null | null | null | null | null | In the Bushveld, Limpopo | At Royal Burgers' Zoo, Arnhem, Netherlands | null | Aardvark | Q46212 | null | null | mammal | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | TUBULIDENTATA | ORYCTEROPODIDAE | LC | null | 2015 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41504/21286437 | Unknown | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Grassland - Temperate", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Savanna - Dry", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland"] | [{"threat": "Small-holder grazing, ranching or farming", "severity": "Causing/Could cause fluctuations", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Intentional use (species is the target)", "severity": "Causing/Could cause fluctuations", "timing": "Ongoing"}] | null | The Aardvark is widely distributed south of the Sahara from Senegal to Ethiopia to South Africa, being absent from the Sahara and Namib deserts. It is also present in the Congo Basin, although its distribution in West African rainforests is poorly known (Taylor 2013). The distribution of the Aardvark is largely determi... | Current population trends are not known. In southern Africa there is little reason to believe that they are decreasing or increasing significantly due to any factors other than natural variations due to the variable nature of the habitats they occupy. However, in eastern, central, and western Africa, numbers may be dec... | Aardvarks occur in a broad range of habitats, including the semi-arid Karoo areas of southern Africa, grasslands, all savanna types, rainforests (but not swamp forests; F. Maisels pers. comm.), woodlands and thickets (Shoshani et al. 1988, Taylor 2013). They are absent from hyper-arid habitats and avoid very rocky terr... | Potential threats to the species have not been quantified. However, the bushmeat trade in African savannas may pose a genuine threat to Aardvark populations in some countries (e.g. Zambia, Mozambique). Localized threats include habitat loss due to agriculture and subsistence hunting. Hatt (1934) recorded indigenous hun... | The severity of the threat of bushmeat hunting and habitat loss to the conservation of Aardvark populations is unknown, but Aardvarks are present in a number of large and well-managed protected areas across their range. No targeted conservation measures are recommended at present, but this should be revisited if furthe... | Although Aardvarks are not commonly seen, they are often relatively common in suitable habitats. However, their numbers in some countries are undoubtedly reduced by the bushmeat trade and by habitat alteration, and this is something that should be monitored if possible. Despite this, given their widespread, nearly pan-... | null | null | |||||
Clojure Cookbook | "VanderHart, Luke" | 2014-01-01 | [
"Clojure (Computer program language)",
"Functional programming (Computer science)",
"Functional programming languages"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449366384/ | true | Aardwolf | Aardwolf | species of mammal | Proteles cristata | null | Proteles | cristatus | null | (Sparrman, 1783) | null | null | null | null | null | null | An aardwolf in Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Kenya | null | null | null | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ | Aardwolf | Q185295 | null | null | mammal | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |||
Social eCommerce | null | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449366940/ | true | Adjutant (Storks) | Adjutant | species of bird | Leptoptilos dubius | null | Leptoptilos | dubius | null | (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | null | null | null | null | null | null | Two adults, on the right with breeding plumage, at a garbage dump in Assam | null | null | null | Greater adjutant | Q644012 | null | null | bird | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | CICONIIFORMES | CICONIIDAE | NT | D1 | 2023 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22697721/229597779 | Increasing | ["Terrestrial", "Freshwater (=Inland waters)"] | ["Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Urban Areas", "Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded", "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)", "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)", "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater ... | [{"threat": "Unintentional effects: (subsistence/small scale) [harvest]", "severity": "No decline", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Herbicides and pesticides", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Past, Likely to Return"}, {"threat": "Small-holder grazing, ranching or farming", "severity": "No decline", "tim... | ["Species recovery", "Awareness & communications"] | This species has undergone a catastrophic range contraction since the 19th century, with extant breeding populations in only India and Cambodia. Historically, it had a distribution that spanned much of continental South and South-East Asia, from Pakistan (where it was a non-breeding, but regular, visitor), th... | Although historically widespread across the South and South-East Asian subcontinents, Leptoptilos dubius is now confined to two isolated subpopulations: (1) in north-east India; and (2) in Cambodia.
In Assam, India, birds were accurately counted across eight known areas in 2022-2023, yielding a total of 380 breeding p... | While breeding in the dry season (October-April/May) it inhabits wetlands, nesting in tall trees with closed canopies and bamboo clumps around nesting trees, and historically on cliffs. Breeding is thought to coincide with the dry season in order to take advantage of abundant prey as water levels recede (Singha et al. ... | The chief cause of this species' catastrophic decline over the past 200 years has been the destruction and disturbance of its breeding and feeding sites. Hunting of adults and the collection of eggs and chicks have caused (rapid) declines in parts of the range also, and this threat would have likely been the proximate ... | Conservation Actions Underway
Both subpopulations for this species are conservation dependent and the persistence of this species is therefore reliant on well-funded community-based conservation; if this ceases, the species is very likely to decline and its extinction risk will increase once more. In India, the communi... | This species was, at one time, considered Endangered because of rapid population declines, but since the early-to-mid-2000s, dedicated conservation action in its two remaining subpopulations (north-east India and Cambodia) has reversed this trend. The population trend is now increasing, and likely has been for more tha... | null | null | ||||
Building Machine Learning Powered Applications | "Emmanuel Ameisen" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781492045106/ | true | Admiral Poplar Butterfly | Admiral Poplar Butterfly | species of insect | Limenitis populi | null | null | null | null | (Linnaeus, 1758) | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Poplar admiral | Q531946 | null | null | insect | ANIMALIA | ARTHROPODA | INSECTA | LEPIDOPTERA | NYMPHALIDAE | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 260 | null | |||
BioBuilder | "Natalie Kuldell, Rachel Bernstein, Karen Ingram, Kathryn M. Hart" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781491907504/ | true | Aegina Citrea, narcomedusae, jellyfish | Aegina Citrea, narcomedusae, jellyfish | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | List of marine cnidarians of South Africa | Q65076261 | null | null | cnidarian | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 238 | null | |||
Reinforcement Learning | "Phil Winder Ph D." | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781492072386/ | true | African Black-footed Penguins | African Black-footed Penguins | species of bird | Spheniscus demersus | null | Spheniscus | demersus | null | (Linnaeus, 1758) | null | null | null | null | null | null | At Boulders Beach in Simon's Town, South Africa | null | null | null | African penguin | Q244813 | null | null | bird | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | SPHENISCIFORMES | SPHENISCIDAE | CR | A3bce+4bce | 2024 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22697810/256021744 | Decreasing | ["Terrestrial", "Marine"] | ["Shrubland - Temperate", "Marine Neritic - Pelagic", "Marine Oceanic - Epipelagic (0-200m)", "Marine Intertidal - Rocky Shoreline", "Marine Intertidal - Shingle and/or Pebble Shoreline and/or Beaches", "Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Sea Cliffs and Rocky Offshore Islands"] | [{"threat": "Intentional use (species is the target)", "severity": "No decline", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Named species", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Named species", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Work & other activities", "severity... | ["Species recovery", "Reintroduction", "Site/area protection", "Awareness & communications", "National level", "Resource & habitat protection", "International level", "Site/area management", "Invasive/problematic species control"] | Spheniscus demersus is endemic to southern Africa, where it breeds at 26 localities in Namibia and South Africa (Crawford et al. 2013, Kemper 2015, Makhado et al. 2024). It has been recorded as far north as Gabon and Mozambique (Crawford et al. 2013). In Namibia, Neglectus Islet and Penguin Island were recolonise... | In 2023, the overall number of pairs was about 9,900 pairs, or 19,800 mature individuals (Sherley et al. 2024). This roughly equates to about 31,680 individuals in adult plumage based on the conversion factor of 3.2 for pairs to individuals (Crawford and Boonstra 1994). This compares to historic estimates of 141,000 pa... | Behaviour Adults are largely resident, but some movements occur in response to prey movements (Hockey et al. 2005). Adults generally remain within 400 km of their breeding locality, although they have been recorded up to 900 km away (Hockey et al. 2005, Carpenter-Kling et al. 2022). They breed and moult on land before ... | Population declines have been attributed to food shortages resulting from shifts in the distributions of prey species, competition with commercial purse-seine fisheries and environmental fluctuations (e.g. Crawford et al. 2011, 2019, 2022). A decrease in foraging effort at St Croix Island (Pichegru et al. 2010, 2012; S... | Conservation Actions Underway
CITES Appendix II. CMS Appendix II. US Endangered Species Act. In South Africa, all breeding localities are under formal protection status. Collection of guano and eggs is prohibited within penguin colonies (Harrison et al. 1997, Currie et al. 2009). The Namibian Island... | African Penguin is assessed as Critically Endangered because it is undergoing an extremely rapid population decline, probably principally because of the impacts of competition with commercial fisheries and climate-mediated shifts in prey populations. Recent, near-complete count data for the number of breeding pairs sho... | 405 | null | ||||
AI Value Creators | "Rob Thomas, Paul Zikopoulos, Kate Soule, Dario Gil" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781098168339/ | true | African chameleon | African chameleon | species of reptile | Chamaeleo africanus | null | Chamaeleo | africanus | null | Laurenti, 1768 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | African chameleon | Q810152 | null | null | reptile | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | REPTILIA | SQUAMATA | CHAMAELEONIDAE | LC | null | 2014 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/157273/747133 | Stable | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land", "Marine Intertidal - Salt Marshes (Emergent Grasses)", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens", "Savanna - Dry", "Wetlands (inland) - Freshwater Springs and Oases"] | [{"threat": "Roads & railroads", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Tourism & recreation areas", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}] | ["National level"] | This species has been recorded from Egypt (where it is restricted to the Nile delta and lower Nile valley), Sudan, and eastwards to Mauritania (Trape et al. 2012). Following Largen (1997), C. africanus does not occur in Djibouti or Somalia, and records from these countries are consequently understood to refer to C... | Where this species occurs it appears to be locally very common (Tilbury 2010). In Greece, the single population fluctuates, with estimates of between 150 and 600 individuals over the last decade (Dimaki 2008). It is relatively common in the northern Nile delta, Egypt (Flower 1933, S. Baha El Din pers. comm.).... | In the Mediterranean, this species has been recorded from salt marshes, sand dunes and maquis shrubland. In the major part of its African range this species is found around oases in the Sahara, and in the dry savannah of the Sahel, habitually in Acacia trees (Trape et al. 2012). Animals are found climbing in vegetation... | This species is not considered to be subject to major threats at a global level due to its wide distribution, local abundance and occurrence in a range of both natural and modified environments. In Greece, the main threats to the species are loss of sand dune breeding habitat to developing tourism, and illegal collecti... | No conservation measures are thought to be required throughout most of this species' range, and given its large distribution it undoubtedly occurs in a number of protected areas. In Greece and Egypt, where localized threats to the species exist, it is present in the Yalova Pilos (Greece) and Burullus (Egypt) protected ... | Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, and because any declines are likely to be localized. | 300 | null | ||||
JRuby Cookbook | [
"Edelson, Justin",
"Liu, Henry"
] | 2008-01-01 | [
"Ruby on rails (Electronic resource)",
"Java (Computer program language)",
"Ruby (Computer program language)",
"Web site development",
"Application software"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9780596155063/ | true | African Civet | African Civet | largest representative of the African Viverridae | Civettictis civetta | null | Civettictis | civetta | null | (Schreber, 1776) | C. c. civetta (Schreber, 1776)
C. c. congica Cabrera, 1929
C. c. schwarzi Cabrera, 1929
C. c. australis Lundholm, 1955
C. c. volkmanni Lundholm, 1955
C. c. pauli Kock, Künzel and Rayaleh, 2000 | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | African civet | Q241256 | null | null | mammal | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | CARNIVORA | VIVERRIDAE | LC | null | 2019 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41695/147992107 | Unknown | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Plantations", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded ... | [{"threat": "Intentional use (species is the target)", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}] | null | African Civet is widely distributed in Africa from Senegal and Mauritania to southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, and southern Somalia southwards in all countries to northeastern Namibia, north and east Botswana, and northeastern South Africa (Ray 2013). It is present on Zanzibar Island (Pakenham 1984, Stuart and Stuart... | This species is generally common. In South Africa, Amiard (2014) reported densities of 7.5–14.2 individuals/100 km²) in three game reserves located in the Limpopo and Mpumalanga provinces, respectively; these estimates were based on camera-trapping and individual identification (using natural markings on... | African Civets occupy a wide variety of habitats including secondary forest, woodland, and bush habitats, as well as aquatic environments. They are generally absent from arid regions, with the exception of riverine systems therein. They are apparently uncommon in mature interior forest habitats, but will infiltrate dee... | There are no major threats to the species. However, African Civets are commonly found for sale as bushmeat, for example in Gabon (Bahaa-el-din et al. 2013) as well as in SE Nigeria, where they are used for both food and skin (Angelici et al. 1999). They are frequently found trapped for meat in other countries, includin... | They are present in numerous protected areas across their range. The population of Botswana is listed on CITES Appendix III. Detailed recommendations to ensure the sustainable use African Civets for musk production can be found in Abebe (2003). | African Civet is listed as Least Concern because the species has a wide distribution range, is present in a variety of habitats, is relatively common across its range, is present in numerous protected areas, and has a total population believed to be relatively stable. It may, however, be undergoing some localised ... | null | null | ||||
Programming C# 4.0 | "Griffiths, Ian, 1973-" | 2010-01-01 | [
"C# (Computer program language)",
"Microsoft .NET Framework"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449392192/ | true | African Crowned Crane aka Grey Crowned Crane | African Crowned Crane | species of bird in the crane family Gruidae | Balearica regulorum | null | Balearica | regulorum | null | (Bennett, 1834) | null | null | null | null | null | null | A grey crowned crane in Uganda | null | null | null | null | Grey crowned crane | Q335992 | null | null | bird | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | GRUIFORMES | GRUIDAE | EN | A2bcd+4bcd | 2024 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22692046/240198049 | Decreasing | ["Terrestrial", "Freshwater (=Inland waters)"] | ["Artificial/Aquatic - Seasonally Flooded Agricultural Land", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Pastureland", "Wetlands (inland) - Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland", "Artificial/Aquatic - Water Storage Areas (over 8... | [{"threat": "Small-holder grazing, ranching or farming", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Scale Unknown/Unrecorded", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Unintentional effects: (subsistence/small scale) [harvest]", "severity": "Slow, Sign... | ["Captive breeding/artificial propagation", "Awareness & communications", "International level", "Site/area protection", "Resource & habitat protection", "Habitat & natural process restoration", "National level", "Sub-national level", "International level", "National level", "Sub-national level"] | Balearica regulorum occurs in eastern and southern Africa, with B. r. gibbericeps occurring from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya south through Tanzania and Zambia to northern Mozambique, with small numbers in Angola, Burundi, Malawi and very small numbers in South Sudan. Nominat... | The current population size was estimated at 26,500-33,500 individuals in 2014 (Morrison 2015). However, more recent population sizes censuses show a population size of 900 individuals in Rwanda in 2023 (with an additional 166 individuals having been released) (Nsengimana et al. 2023) compared to 50-500 in 2014 (M... | Behaviour This species is not migratory although it may make variable local and seasonal movements depending on the abundance and distribution of food, nest-sites and rainfall (Archibald et al. 2020). The timing of breeding varies in relation to the rains, with the breeding of East African populations peaking... | The species is threatened by the loss and degradation of wetland breeding areas through drought-related changes in land-use, such as for cultivation (T. Fakarayi in litt. 2016) and tree plantations (e.g., Eucalyptus spp. [Morrison and Dodman 2019]), drainage and overgrazing (Archibald et al. 2020) (... | Conservation Actions Underway
CITES Appendix II. Community-based wetland conservation projects have been undertaken in Kenya, with some captive breeding populations established (ARKive 2010, Morrison 2014). The international single species action plan was revised by Wetlands International / IUCN Crane Specialist Group,... | This species faces important threats, particularly habitat loss, fragmentation and degradation, disturbance from human activities, and the illegal removal of birds and eggs from the wild for domestication and/or illegal trade. These have caused very rapid reductions since at least the mid-1980s which, due to the long g... | null | Annotation | |||
Hadoop: The Definitive Guide | "White, Tom (Tom E.), author" | 2015-01-01 | [
"Apache Hadoop",
"File organization (Computer science)",
"Hadoop"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781491901687/ | true | African Elephant, young | African Elephant | genus comprising two living elephant species | Loxodonta | null | null | null | null | Anonymous, 1827 | *L. africana
*L. cyclotis
*†L. adaurora
::†L. a. adaurora
::†L. a. kararae
*†L. atlantica
::†L. a. angammensis
::†L. a. atlantica
*†L. exoptata
*†L. cookei | null | null | null | null | null | African bush elephant bull in Kruger National Park | Adult African forest elephant with calf in Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park | null | African elephant | Q185038 | null | null | mammal | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 310 | This practical book provides everything you need to know about the Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP). This open technology for real-time communication is used in many diverse applications such as instant messaging, Voice over IP, real-time collaboration, social networking, microblogging, lightweight mid... | |||||
Kubernetes Security and Observability | "Alex Pollitt, Manish Sampat" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781098107093/ | true | African Fish Eagle bird | African Fish Eagle bird | species of bird | Haliaeetus vocifer | null | Icthyophaga | vocifer | null | (Daudin, 1800) | null | null | null | null | null | null | At Chobe National Park, Botswana | null | null | null | African fish eagle | Q217497 | null | null | bird | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | ACCIPITRIFORMES | ACCIPITRIDAE | LC | null | 2020 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22695115/174556979 | Stable | ["Terrestrial", "Freshwater (=Inland waters)", "Marine"] | ["Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)", "Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Brackish/Saline Lagoons/Marine Lakes", "Marine Coastal/Supratidal - Coastal Freshwater Lakes", "Wetlands (inland) - Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands", "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes ... | [{"threat": "Housing & urban areas", "severity": "Unknown", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Unintentional effects: (subsistence/small scale) [harvest]", "severity": "Unknown", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Type Unknown/Unrecorded", "severity": "Unknown", "timing": "Ongoing"}] | null | null | The global population for this species has not been directly quantified, but evidence from across its range suggests populations are stable to increasing. In Tanzania, surveys in 1995 found African Fish-eagles at a density of 4 birds/km along the shoreline of the south west corner of Lake Victoria, with an additional 6... | Behaviour This is an afrotropical species (17°N to 35°S), common to abundant throughout its range except in waterless areas. It is generally sedentary but can be nomadic in response to resource shortages (e.g., drought, flood or prey scarcity), and has been recorded traveling up to 200km from the natal site (Ferguson- ... | The species is not known to be directly persecuted by humans, even though it is very numerous and probably a direct competitor for fish. Neither is it particularly affected by habitat loss. In some regions a build-up of organochlorine pesticides in water bodies and therefore in their fish prey, could result in eggshell... | null | This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation... | 165 | null | ||||
Semantic Software Design | "Eben Hewitt" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781492045946/ | true | African Forest Buffalo | African Forest Buffalo | subspecies of mammal | Syncerus caffer nanus | null | Syncerus | caffer | null | (Boddaert, 1785) | null | null | null | null | null | null | At the San Diego Zoo | null | null | null | African forest buffalo | Q382977 | null | null | mammal | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | 250 | null | ||||
UX Research | "Nunnally, Brad, author" | 2016-01-01 | [
"Research -- Methodology",
"Technology -- Research",
"Industrial design",
"New products"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781491951286/ | true | African Green Pigeon | African Green Pigeon | species of bird | Treron calvus | null | Treron | calvus | null | (Temminck, 1811) | null | null | null | null | null | null | T. c. sharpei, Ghana | T. c. delalandii, South Africa | null | null | African green pigeon | Q512566 | null | null | bird | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | COLUMBIFORMES | COLUMBIDAE | LC | null | 2024 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/45433492/263955732 | Decreasing | ["Terrestrial", "Freshwater (=Inland waters)"] | ["Savanna - Dry", "Savanna - Dry", "Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Rural Gardens", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Arable Land", "Artificial/Terrestrial -... | null | null | null | The global population size has not been quantified, but the species is reported to be frequent to locally abundant (del Hoyo et al. 1997). This species is considered to have a medium dependency on forest habitat, and tree cover is estimated to have declined by 10.2% within its mapped range over the past three generatio... | null | null | null | This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (Extent of Occurrence under 20,000 km² combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentati... | null | null | ||||
Reactive Systems in Java | "Clement Escoffier, Ken Finnigan" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781492091714/ | true | African Leopard | African Leopard | subspecies of mammal | Panthera pardus pardus | null | Panthera | pardus | null | (Linnaeus, 1758) | null | null | null | null | null | null | Leopard in Kruger National Park | null | null | null | null | African leopard | Q39153 | null | null | mammal | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |||
CSS Refactoring | "Steve Lindstrom" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781491978528/ | true | African Palm Civet | African Palm Civet | species of mammal | Nandinia binotata | null | Nandinia | binotata | null | (Gray, 1830) | null | null | null | null | null | null | N. b. arborea in tree canopy, Western Kenya | null | null | null | African palm civet | Q513081 | null | null | mammal | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | CARNIVORA | NANDINIIDAE | LC | null | 2015 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/41589/45204645 | Unknown | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Moist", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland", "Savanna - Dry", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Montane", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Artificial/Terrestrial - Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest"] | null | null | This species is widely distributed from Gambia to southwest South Sudan, southern Uganda and western Kenya, and from northern Angola, and northwestern Zambia to DR Congo and western Tanzania. It is then discontinuously distributed in eastern and southern Africa in montane and lowland forests of Tanzania, Malawi, parts ... | This species is widespread and locally abundant, and probably the most common African forest small carnivoran (Van Rompaey and Ray 2013). This might be related to its frugivorous habits, thus reducing dietary interspecific competition with other sympatric small carnivores and allowing for high densities. In Gabon minim... | It occurs in deciduous forests, lowland rainforests and mountain, gallery and riverine forests, savanna woodlands, and logged and second-growth forests. In a set of recent surveys carried out in Gabon, this species was found country-wide in rainforest, forest–savanna mosaics and dense woodland (Bahaa-el-din et al. ... | There are no major threats, although it may be undergoing some localised declines because of habitat loss. It is also commonly trapped or hunted for bushmeat and for traditional medicine. African Palm Civets were the most common carnivore recorded in two markets in Equatorial Guinea (Juste et al. 1995) as well as in G... | It is present in many protected areas across the range. | It is listed as Least Concern because this species has a wide distribution range, is present in a variety of habitats, is common across its range, and is present in numerous protected areas. However, it is probably undergoing some localised declines because of habitat loss, hunting and pest control. | 160 | null | ||||
Programming Python | "Mark Lutz" | 2001-01-01 | [
"Python (Computer program language)"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449398712/ | true | African Rock Python | African Rock Python | species of reptile | Python sebae | null | Python | sebae | null | (Gmelin, 1789) | null | null | null | null | null | null | Central African rock python after hunting a cormorant, Lake Naivasha, Kenya | null | null | null | Central African rock python | Q764797 | null | null | reptile | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | REPTILIA | SQUAMATA | PYTHONIDAE | NT | null | 2021 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/13300572/13300582 | Decreasing | ["Terrestrial", "Freshwater (=Inland waters)"] | ["Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp", "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)", "Savanna - Dry", "Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level"] | [{"threat": "Housing & urban areas", "severity": "Unknown", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Scale Unknown/Unrecorded", "severity": "Unknown", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Intentional use (species is the target)", "severity": "Rapid Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Persecution/control", "severity": "U... | ["Harvest management", "Trade management", "Site/area management"] | This species occurs throughout northern and central sub-Saharan Africa, from the fringes of the Sahara in Mauritania, Mali and Chad east to Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, western Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania, with apparently isolated records from central areas of Tanzania (Largen and Spawls 2010, Spawls et al. 201... | This species is described as being ubiquitous in forest below the Sahel (Chippaux 2006); however although widespread, it occurs at population densities of approximately 0.2-0.4 individuals per km2 in Nigeria, and 0.1 individuals per km2 in Cameroon, Ghana and Togo (Luiselli et al. 2012). This low density puts... | This snake is closely-associated with swampy areas and the banks of permanent watercourses (Trape and Mané 2006). In Togo it ranges into the littoral zone, characterized by marshland and mangroves (Segniagbeto et al. 2011). In West Africa it is also known from the moderately dry to arid areas of the Sahelian and Sudan ... | Exports of this species from Togo have risen rapidly in recent years, but it is not known whether harvesting for the pet trade has yet reached or is likely to reach a level that is unsustainable in this country, or whether this reflects trends throughout the snake's very wide range. Most of the pet trade specimens appe... | This species is listed on CITES Appendix II. Further research into the impacts of harvesting of this species is recommended for West and Central Africa. It occurs in a number of protected areas. | This species is heavily-exploited throughout its West African range, particularly for bushmeat and leather, and high rates of decline have been reported within West Africa.  Where quantifiable, in West Africa these declines appear to exceed 60% over three generations (a generation estimated as likely to be in exce... | 1,596 | Accompanying CD-ROM has examples from the book, Python 2.0 interpreter and standard documentation manuals, Python-related software packages, and the full Python 2.0 source code for PC, Macintosh, and Unix platforms. | ||||
Google Analytics | "Justin Cutroni" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449394608/ | true | African Sacred Ibis | African Sacred Ibis | species of bird | Threskiornis aethiopicus | null | null | null | null | (Latham, 1790) | null | null | null | null | null | null | in Ethiopia | null | null | null | African sacred ibis | Q208763 | null | null | bird | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | AVES | PELECANIFORMES | THRESKIORNITHIDAE | LC | null | 2018 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22697510/132068562 | Stable | ["Terrestrial", "Freshwater (=Inland waters)"] | ["Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls)", "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha)", "Artificial/Aquatic - Ponds (below 8ha)", "Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)", "Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded", "Wetlands ... | [{"threat": "Work & other activities", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Named species", "severity": "Rapid Declines", "timing": "Future"}, {"threat": "Intentional use (species is the target)", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}] | null | null | null | Behaviour This species is an intra-African migrant, making nomadic or partially migratory movements of several hundred kilometres to breed during the rains (Brown et al. 1982, del Hoyo et al. 1992). Populations north of the equator migrate northwards and those south of the equator migrate southwards (Brown et al. 1982,... | The population on Aldabra Island has declined due to hunting and disturbance by temporary workers (del Hoyo et al. 1992). The species is also susceptible to avian botulism, so may be threatened by future outbreaks of the disease (van Heerden 1974).
Utilisation The eggs and young of this species are collected by local ... | null | This species has an extremely large range, and hence does not approach the thresholds for Vulnerable under the range size criterion (extent of occurrence <20,000 km2 combined with a declining or fluctuating range size, habitat extent/quality, or population size and a small number of locations or severe fragmentation... | null | null | ||||
Developing with Couchbase Server | "M. C. Brown" | null | [] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449331153/ | true | African Soft Shell Turtle | African Soft Shell Turtle | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | Turtle shell | Q13486671 | null | null | reptile | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | null | |||
Classic Shell Scripting | "Robbins, Arnold" | 2005-01-01 | [
"Operating systems (Computers)",
"Programming languages (Electronic computers)"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/0596005954/ | true | African Tent Tortoise | African Tent Tortoise | species of reptile | Psammobates tentorius | null | Psammobates | tentorius | null | (Kuhl, 1820) | null | null | null | null | null | null | Western 'Namaqualand' tent tortoise (P. t. trimeni) | Northern tent tortoise (P. t. verroxii) | null | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/ | Tent tortoise | Q2104559 | null | null | reptile | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | REPTILIA | TESTUDINES | TESTUDINIDAE | NT | A4ce | 2018 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/170524/115656793 | Decreasing | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation", "Shrubland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry"] | [{"threat": "Scale Unknown/Unrecorded", "severity": "Causing/Could cause fluctuations", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Mining & quarrying", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Housing & urban areas", "severity": "Negligible declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Intentio... | ["Site/area protection", "Formal education", "Resource & habitat protection"] | Psammobates tentorius is restricted to South Africa and Namibia. The distribution ranges of the three recognized subspecies overlap, and there remains some uncertainty about their exact limits. Of the three subspecies, P. t. tentorius occurs furthest to the south, and is morphologically most distinctive in the southeas... | Although Psammobates tentorius is widespread, population density is generally low throughout its range (Branch 2008), and populations appear to be declining slowly. Populations of the restricted subspecies P. t. trimeni appear to be declining more rapidly than the other subspecies (M.D. Hofmeyr pers. obs.). | Psammobates tentorius occurs in arid regions under varying temperature regimes, from sea level to at least 1,500 m. Psammobates t. tentorius occurs in regions with winter, summer and all-year rainfall, and dwarf shrubland with succulents, annuals, grasses and geophytes. Psammobates t. trimeni i... | Known threats for Psammobates tentorius include road mortality, veld fires, electrocution by livestock/game fences, and overgrazing from domestic livestock (Cunningham and Strauss 2005, Cunningham 2006) as well as predation by small carnivores, eagles, honey badgers, goshawks, crows, monitor lizards, and ostr... | Psammobates tentorius is included in CITES Appendix II and is protected in South Africa by provincial nature conservation ordinances and biodiversity laws at regional level. In Namibia, the Tent Tortoise is protected under the 1975 Nature Conservation Ordinance and the recent Parks and Wildlife Management Act as Vulner... | The species Psammobates tentorius is widespread and still relatively common, but populations are scattered and few and declining at approximately 10-20% on average over three generations, and therefore considered to be Near Threatened under criterion A4ce; it was previously assessed in 2013 (and published in 2017) as L... | null | null | ||||
PayPal APIs: Up and Running | "Balderas, Michael" | 2011-01-01 | [
"PayPal (Firm)",
"Electronic funds transfers",
"Electronic commerce",
"Application program interfaces (Computer software)"
] | https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/~/9781449321666/ | true | African Wild Cat | African Wild Cat | African wildcat as its own species | Felis lybica | null | Felis | lybica | null | Forster, 1780 | *F. l. lybica
*F. l. cafra
*F. l. ornata | null | null | null | null | null | A captive female Southern African wildcat | null | null | null | African wildcat | Q47482585 | null | null | mammal | ANIMALIA | CHORDATA | MAMMALIA | CARNIVORA | FELIDAE | LC | null | 2022 | https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/131299383/154907281 | Unknown | ["Terrestrial"] | ["Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Desert - Temperate", "Forest - Temperate", "Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical High Altitude", "Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded", "Grassland - Subtropical/Tropical Dry", "Grassland - Temperate", "Shrubland - Mediterranean-type Shrubby Vegetation", "Artificial... | [{"threat": "Persecution/control", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Housing & urban areas", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Oil & gas drilling", "severity": "Slow, Significant Declines", "timing": "Ongoing"}, {"threat": "Mining & qua... | ["Habitat & natural process restoration", "Harvest management", "Trade management", "Genome resource bank", "Site/area protection", "Awareness & communications", "National level", "Resource & habitat protection", "International level", "National level", "Sub-national level", "Substitution", "Invasive/problematic specie... | Felis lybica has a very broad distribution, found in most of Africa, southwest and central Asia into India, China, and Mongolia (Yamaguchi et al. 2015). The distribution of the three subspecies of F. lybica (following Kitchener et al. 2017) is as follows:
In Africa, F. l. lybica occurs from northern to eastern parts... | There is no population assessment for Felis lybica at global, national or subpopulation levels. However, the population is considered to be stable in much of its range but possibly declining due to ongoing land-use change and the risk of hybridization with domestic cat in some regions, such as reported declines in Sout... | Afro-Asiatic wildcats are found in a wide variety of habitats, from deserts and scrub grassland to dry and mixed forest; absent only from rainforest and sandy desert (Yamaguchi et al. 2015). They can range up to 2,000–3,000 m in mountainous areas with sufficient vegetation but are most typically associated with scrub d... | Afro-Asiatic wildcats are considered to be threatened by domestic cats and hybridization is widespread across their range (Yamaguchi et al. 2015, Yu et al. 2021). However, a recent study (Le Roux et al. 2015), showed that wildcat populations in South Africa appear to be genetically pure, with low levels of hybridiza... | The species is included on CITES Appendix II since 1977. The Afro-Asiatic wildcat is fully protected across some of its African and Asian range countries (Nowell and Jackson 1996), although effective implementation of protection on the ground may be a different issue. Included on the Regional Red List Status of Car... | The Afro-Asiatic Wildcat, one of the most common felid species, widely distributed in Africa and Asia with stable or possibly declining populations, and thus listed as Least Concern. The available information on trends in population and range of Afro-Asiatic wildcats is insufficient to merit Near Threatened status.... | 152 | null |
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The O'Reilly Animal Menagerie
A dataset of animals from the book covers of O'Reilly Media.
Read Edie Freedman's fantastic piece on the history of the O'Reilly animals here: https://www.oreilly.com/content/a-short-history-of-the-oreilly-animals/
Dataset
The dataset has 1414 rows, all sourced from the O'Reilly Menagerie and enriched with metadata.
A JSON-ified row of the dataset:
{
"animal_name": "Flat-Headed Cat, kitten",
"scientific_name": "Prionailurus planiceps",
"book_title": "Essential Blogging",
"author": "Doctorow, Cory",
"animal_class": "mammal",
"kingdom": "ANIMALIA",
"phylum": "CHORDATA",
"class_name": "MAMMALIA",
"order": "CARNIVORA",
"family": "FELIDAE",
"iucn_code": "EN",
"iucn_criteria": "C1",
"iucn_year": "2015",
"iucn_url": "https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/18148/50662095",
"population_trend": "Decreasing",
"systems": [
"Terrestrial",
"Freshwater (=Inland waters)"
],
"habitats": [
"Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha)",
"Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Mangrove Vegetation Above High Tide Level",
"Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Swamp"
],
"threats": [
{
"threat": "Motivation Unknown/Unrecorded",
"severity": null,
"timing": "Ongoing"
},
{
"threat": "Shifting agriculture",
"severity": null,
"timing": "Ongoing"
},
{
"threat": "Unintentional effects: (large scale) [harvest]",
"severity": null,
"timing": "Ongoing"
}
],
"conservation_actions": [
"Site/area management",
"Training",
"Site/area protection"
],
"doc_range": "The Flat-headed Cat has a restricted distribution, found only on Sumatra, Borneo and the Malayan Peninsula (Malaysia and extreme southern Thailand). I...",
"doc_threats": "Wetland and lowland forest destruction and degradation is the primary threat faced by the species (Nowell and Jackson 1996, Wilting et al. 2010). Caus...",
"wiki_title": "Flat-headed cat",
"qid": "Q274177",
"commons_photo_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flat-headed_cat_1_Jim_Sanderson.JPG",
"commons_range_map_url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Flat-headedCat_distribution2015.jpg"
}
License
This dataset is provided for research and educational purposes. The book cover images and animal engravings are property of O'Reilly Media, Inc. Metadata is sourced from Wikimedia projects (the CC BY-SA 4.0 license only covers that part of the dataset) and book metadata from the Internet Archive. This dataset is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by O’Reilly Media, Inc.
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