Figure 1 | A female Barbary sheep Ammotragus lervia at Khartoum zoo |
Figure 2 | Nubian ibex Capra ibex nubiana in captivity at Khartoum zoo |
Figure 3 | Ratios of goats to sheep in tropical Africa |
Figure 4 | Densities of small ruminants per unit area in tropical Africa |
Figure 5 | Relationships of total numbers of goats and sheep to the numbers of people in tropical African countries |
Figure 6 | The contribution of small ruminants to total domestic ruminant biomass in tropical Africa |
Figure 7 | A Sudan Desert ram in Southern Darfur with a 'kunan' to prevent breeding |
Figure 8 | Leather apron to restrict breeding on a Masai buck in a Kenya flock |
Figure 9 | Complementarity of biomass production curves in fodder species in the browse and field layers |
Figure 10 | Feeding times at different heights above ground level by three domestic ruminant species |
Figure 11 | Feeding behaviour of four domestic animal species in Kenya in relation to: a. number of species in diet; b. time spent at each feeding station; and c. feeding height |
Figure 12 | Dietary range of goats (?) and sheep (?) and relative overlap between the species in a low-bush savanna in Kenya |
Figure 13 | Seasonal variations in weight of domestic ruminants in two agro-pastoral sub-systems in central Mali |
Figure 14 | Contribution of domestic ruminant species to the meat supply of a central Mali town |
Figure 15 | Proportion of goat meat to all meat eaten in 60 Kenya pastoral households |
Figure 16 | The percentage of lactating females of three different species at different times of the year in Sudan |
Figure 17 | Comparative annual and seasonal productivity indices for cattle, goats and sheep in central Mali |
Figure 18 | Castrated West African Long-legged goat in Burkina Faso |
Figure 19 | Distribution of major goat types in tropical Africa |
Figure 20 | Distribution of major sheep types in tropical Africa |
Figure 21 | A Boer buck imported from South Africa to a private flock in Swaziland |
Figure 22 | A group of Boer females imported from South Africa to the Sunnyside Ranch of the Animal Production Research Unit in Botswana (note horn shape in doe on right) |
Figure 23 | Profile, horns and ears of a male Boer goat |
Figure 24 | Lactation curves of Boer goats with different litter sizes |
Figure 25 | A Tswana goat, owned by the Animal Production Research Institute |
Figure 26 | Birth distribution in a Tswana traditional flock with continuous buck presence from 1981 to 1983 |
Figure 27 | Swazi bucks in the traditional agro-pastoral system on Swazi Nation Land |
Figure 28 | Ndebele male goat at Matopos Research Station, Zimbabwe |
Figure 29 | A male Landim goat at Chobela Research Station, Mozambique |
Figure 30 | Female and young Nubian goats on the Nile bank Shendi, Sudan |
Figure 31 | Topknot, profile and prognathous jaw of male Damascus goat in Tunisia |
Figure 32 | Nubian female goat in Batn el-Haggar, Sudan, with udder bag to prevent suckling by kids |
Figure 33 | Sudan desert goats on transhumance in Southern Darfur |
Figure 34 | West African Long-legged goats of the Sahel type at Bamako market, Mali |
Figure 35 | Goat flock structures in different transhumant ethnic groups in Chad |
Figure 36 | Classification of goat holding sizes in a Mossi agro-pastoral system in northern Burkina Faso |
Figure 37 | Maure goats near Niafounke in northern Mali (note male and female horn types) |
Figure 38 | Red Sokoto buck or Chèvre rousse de Maradi at Zugu, Sokoto State, Nigeria |
Figure 39 | Female Chèvre rousse de Maradi at Maradi station, Niger |
Figure 40 | Distribution of parturitions and variations in litter size in Maradi goats in Niger |
Figure 41 | Lactation curves of Red Sokoto goats having given birth to single or twin kids (smooth curves represent Wood's gamma function) |
Figure 42 | Afar goats at a desert well in Djibouti |
Figure 43 | Afar goats showing (left) horns of female, immature and male; and (right) vestigial ears on a female |
Figure 44 | Male Mubende goat at Lweza station, Uganda (photograph by K.L. Okello) |
Figure 45 | Boran or Galla goats at Kiboko National Range Research Station, Kenya |
Figure 46 | A Masai goat of Small East African type in the west of Mara region in Kenya |
Figure 47 | A Rwanda goat at a picket in the agricultural system near Kigali |
Figure 48 | Frequency distribution of reproductive careers of Rwanda/ Burundi goats in traditional systems in highland east-central Africa |
Figure 49 |
A Zimbabwe goat in the high potential Mangwende area of east of Harare |
Figure 50 | West African Dwarf goat scavenging in Abomey market in Benin |
Figure 51 | West African Dwarf goats of (top) the Cameroon Grassland sub-type at Mankon station, Bamenda, of (centre) the Ghana forest sub-type in a house compound at Kumasi and of (bottom) the Cote d'Ivoire type near Abidjan |
Figure 52 | Distribution of parturitions in three traditionally managed populations of West African Dwarf goats in: a. Nigeria b. Togo and c. Senegal |
Figure 53 | A Lesotho coin attesting to the importance of the Angora goat to the country |
Figure 54 | An Angora buck, imported from South Africa, at a government stud farm in Lesotho |
Figure 55 | Fertility of Angora goats of different age groups in South Africa |
Figure 56 | Technical and financial productivity of Angora goats in Lesotho |
Figure 57 | Ram of Shugor tribal type in a traditional flock in the Sudan Gezira (note 'kunan' and charm tied to testicles) |
Figure 58 | Dubasi ewes on the Nile bank near Khartoum, Sudan (note plastic bag on teat to prevent suckling and compare Figure 32) |
Figure 59 | A Watish ram in the southern Gezira, Sudan |
Figure 60 | The distribution area of Macina sheep in Mali and Niger |
Figure 61 | A Macina flock in the Niger river inundation zone in central Mali |
Figure 62 | Lactation curves of Macina sheep under simulated traditional management |
Figure 63 | A Black Maure ram on stubble grazing in central Mali |
Figure 64 | Raw and spun hair (top) and hair tent with Black Maure flock (bottom) on dry season pasture in an agro-pastoral system in central Mali |
Figure 65 | Profile of a female Touabire sheep in a village flock in northern Senegal |
Figure 66 | A Touabire ram at Dahra station in northern Senegal (note the wall eye) |
Figure 67 | Toronké sheep of the Futanké (left) and Banamba (right) sub-types at Bamako market in Mali |
Figure 68 | Moutons de Case in the irrigated rice livestock system in central Mali |
Figure 69 | A ram of Touareg type (note 'kunan' to control breeding in the Air region in north Niger |
Figure 70 | Ram of Uda type at the Niamey research station of the Institut national de la recherche agronomique nigérienne |
Figure 71 | A "Sahel crossbred" showing Uda and forest type characters at Maroua, Cameroon |
Figure 72 | Seasonal variations in expression of oestrus in Uda ewes in Niger |
Figure 73 | Balami ram at Katsina station, northern Nigeria |
Figure 74 | Mossi sheep in the village of You, Yatenga, Burkina Faso being released from their night house |
Figure 75 | Kirdi sub-type of Djallonké sheep at Garoua station, northern Cameroon |
Figure 76 | Djallonké sheep of the Ghana forest sub-type (note mane and apron of long hair) |
Figure 77 | Distribution of ages at first lambing of Djallonké ewes under 3 systems of management in Côte d'Ivoire |
Figure 78 | Elite Djallonké rams selected on a weight for age basis at the National Sheep Programme station, Bouaké, Côte d'Ivoire |
Figure 79 | Afar sheep in Kala graben on the Tigray/Welo border in northern Ethiopia |
Figure 80 | Mixed hair and wool fleece on Menz type Ethiopian Highland sheep in Addis Ababa |
Figure 81 | Ethiopian Highland sheep near Debre Marcos, Gojam region |
Figure 82 | Arsi sub-type of Ethiopian Highland sheep |
Figure 83 | "Cottage" and industrial products from naturally coloured wool of Ethiopian Highland sheep |
Figure 84 | Masai sheep at Elangata Wuas group ranch in south-central Kenya (note leather apron on male) |
Figure 85 | Ram of the African long-fat-tailed type at Songa station, Rwanda |
Figure 86 | Ages at first lambing (top) and parturition intervals (bottom) of Rwanda sheep on station |
Figure 87 | Landim sheep at Chobela research station, Mozambique |
Figure 88 | Distribution of lambings by Landim sheep at Chobela showing effects of management policies |
Figure 89 | Sabi sheep with docked tail at Matopos research station, Zimbabwe |
Figure 90 | Vestigial ears on a Sabi ewe (note normal ears on her lamb) |
Figure 91 | Duration of gestation in Sabi sheep at Matopos, Zimbabwe |
Figure 92 | The Blackhead Persian ram flock at West Kilimanjaro ranch, Tanzania |
Figure 93 | A Blackhead Persian ram imported from Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) to Kongwa in central Tanzania in 1963 |
Figure 94 | Dorper ram, imported via Swaziland, on a commercial farm in Kenya |
Figure 95 | Dorper ewe and lamb at Lobo farm, Middlepits, southwest, Botswana |
Figure 96 | Changes in 100-day weight of registered Dorper sheep in South Africa |
Figure 97 | Karakul ram and ewe in a commercially managed flock near Bokspits in south-west Botswana |
Figure 98 | Karakul lambs showing variation in pelt types |
Figure 99 | A Karakul pelt drying on a jute frame |
Figure 100 | Hudson's Bay and Annings classification of Karakul pelts from southern Africa |
Figure 101 | An imported Merino ram in a producers' cooperative flock in Lesotho |
Figure 102 | The shearing and sorting shed in a Lesotho wool/ mohair producers' cooperative |
Figure 103 | Financial and technical productivity of Merino sheep in Lesotho |