| 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 |
