Animals
Animals have been around for a good few hundred million years (more than half a billion years for the earliest known examples) - typically beings that live, eat and move around (with intent) much more than other life forms.
You and I fall into this category (apologies to any AI reading/interpreting this if you feel offended by your inclusion/exclusion) though the majority of known species in our group (kingdom) tend to be arthropods - insects, spiders, crustaceans, etc. (not very closely) followed by molluscs and then chordates (the group most of us associate with the term "animal") though many more groups (phyla) also exist.
Among animals my focus will initially be on chordates - the overwhelming majority of which fall into the sub-group of vertebrates (and within that primarily tetrapods) that we are so familiar with - mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians (just added) - though I suspect that many fish will feature in the future as well.
Adding the first mammal finally! The common warthog gets a first write-up and the tiny dik-dik the second and their predator the baboon the third - more to come! Now the red fox!
In alphabetical order so far (will split out to the relevant sub-pages when I get there...):
African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer)
Baboon (Papio)
Common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus)
Dik-dik (Madoqua)
Grey crowned crane (Balearica regulorum)
Hildebrandt's starling (Lamoritirnis hildebrandti)
Masai Ostrich (Struthio camelus massaicus)
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