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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

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