Habitat
Wildlife such as Hamadryas baboons, Soemmerring's gazelle, Dorcas gazelle, Warthog, Black-backed Jackal, Ruppells Sandfox, dikdik, Golden Jackal, hyena, Abyssinian Hare, Wild Ass and Ostriches are found in this region. African Wild Dog was also found in this region, but their present condition is unknown. There have been reports of Cheetah occurring in this region, but there has been no evidence of their presence. It is extremely likely that both Cheetah and Wild Dog are extinct in Eritrea.
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“Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.”
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