The Red Maasai is a breed of sheep indigenous to East Africa. True to its name, the breed is kept by the Maasai, though both pastoralists and smallholder farmers in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda keep Red Maasai flocks.
The breed is a fat-tailed hair sheep, meaning they do not produce wool and are kept primarily for meat. Though less productive than some other breeds raised in East Africa, they are valued for their hardiness in arid conditions and their relatively stronger resistance to internal parasites.
The RedMaasai is a breed of sheep indigenous to East Africa. True to its name, the breed is kept by the Maasai, though both pastoralists and smallholder...
evidence that two sheep breeds, in particular Indonesian thin tail sheep and Redmaasaisheep, are resistant to F. gigantica. Most immunodiagnostic tests will...
This is a list of breeds of domestic sheep. Domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are partially derived from mouflon (Ovis gmelini) stock, and have diverged sufficiently...
(Giraffa tippelskirchi or Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi), also spelled Maasai giraffe, and sometimes called the Kilimanjaro giraffe, is a species or subspecies...
and 1927, no fewer than 1,272 lions were killed by park personnel. The Maasai people have traditionally viewed the killing of lions as a rite of passage...
spoken by other 22 sub tribes of the Maa community otherwise known as the Maasai. Many Western anthropologists[who?] tried to carve out and create the Samburu...
hoping that assistance in repelling the Maasai would come from the east in the form of the ‘red men.’ The ‘red men’ were said to be among the first settlers...
Assembly incurred a fine. In England, red ochre was also known as "raddle", "reddle", or "ruddle" and was used to mark sheep and can also be used as a waxy waterproof...
wherever possible their products, such as wool, eggs, milk and blood (by the Maasai) were harvested while the animal was still alive. In the traditional system...
Gishu Maasai. Similarly immigrants from their neighboring community (i.e. the Sekker mentioned by the Pokot elders) were known as the Segelai Maasai. Chok...
Research Center, Nebraska), Brian Magee (Cornell University, NY). DNA from RedMaasai was kindly provided by Dr. Alan Teale and Dr. Olivier Hanotte, the International...
wherever possible its products such as wool, eggs, milk and blood (by the Maasai) were harvested while the animal was still alive. In the traditional system...
the Maasai klipspringer, Stevenson's klipspringer and Zambian klipspringer. Cape klipspringer populations tend to have the largest males, while Maasai klipspringer...
the Maasai breed - whose milk yield though modest in volume is rich in quality. With herds of sufficient size and mobility, combined with sheep and goat...
predominantly red, though sometimes seen in blue and other colours. Shúkà were originally of painted (typically red) leather, but Maasai have had access...
estimated third of the human population of Ethiopia and two-thirds of the Maasai people of Tanzania. The famine and the massive decrease in cattle population...
belong to the family Bovidae, which includes true antelopes, cattle, goats, sheep, and other even-toed horned ungulates. There are two species of wildebeest:...
Shishigumi that operates in the black market. Ibuki is a clever and calm Maasai lion among its reckless members. He has a strong father/son-like relationship...
(Amudat, Nakapiripirit and Moroto districts) (George Magak Oguna, 2014). The Maasai are semi-nomadic people located primarily in Kenya and northern Tanzania...
forest. Today, they are most commonly found within Kenya, in parks such as Maasai Mara National Reserve, Meru National Park, Samburu National Reserve, and...
and Maasai Mara. One study stated that the mean weight of male kills was 744 g (1.640 lb) and that of females was 1.375 kg (3.03 lb). In Maasai Mara...
in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. Nilotic languages, such as Luo, Kalenjin, Maasai and Nuer, are spoken in lesser numbers, primarily in the African Great Lakes...
that it was adopted in imitation of certain African nations, such as the Maasai, Somalis, or Oromo, or that it was inspired by the hairstyles worn by some...
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