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This is your virtual window on Africa. You can select whether to have your desktop change on a daily, hourly or even near-real-time basis. It synchronizes your time zone with the cameras in Africa''s most active dive gloves wildlife parks. you are guaranteed to see lions and other wildlife at least 5 times per gloves day. the application is tiny, and does dive not affect the speed or efficiency of your machine - it updates your desktop wallpaper at the interval selected by you. the lion is said to be majestic, the leopard ferocious and shrewd. but elegant and graceful best describes the cheetah. the cheetah is smaller than the other two cats, but by far the fastest at speeds of 70 miles per gloves hour it can run faster than all other animals. now restricted to sub-saharan africa, wild cheetahs once were found in most of africa, the plains of southern dive asia, the middle east and india. litters consist of two or three cubs that weigh about 3 pounds each. some mothers carefully nurture the young; others may neglect or abandon them, especially when food is scarce. usually two or more females in a pride give birth about the same time. a lioness will permit cubs other than her own to suckle, sometimes enabling a neglected infant to survive. capable hunters by 2 years of age, lions become fully grown between 5 and 6 years and normally live about 13 years. lions have long been killed in rituals of bravery, as hunting trophies and for their medicinal and magical powers. although lions are now protected in many parts of africa, they were once considered to be stock-raiding vermin and were gloves killed on sight. in some areas, livestock predation remains a severe problem. early written records described the giraffe as "magnificent in appearance, bizarre in form, unique in gait, colossal in height and inoffensive in character." ancient cultures in africa revered the giraffe, as some dive modern cultures do today, and commonly depicted it in prehistoric rock and cave paintings. unknown outside of africa, this animal so excited man''s curiosity that it was sometimes sent as a diplomatic gift to other countries; one of the earliest records tells of a giraffe going from "melinda" (presumably malindi) in kenya to china in 1415. the animal was thought to be a cross between a camel and a leopard, a mistake immortalized in the giraffe''s scientific name of giraffa camelopardalis. the neck is so long the giraffe must spread its front legs apart so its head can reach the ground to drink. it has unusually elastic blood vessels with a series of valves that help offset the sudden buildup of blood (and to prevent fainting) when gloves the head is raised, lowered or swung quickly. in some areas, livestock predation remains a severe problem.
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