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    The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central...
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    with the African Pygmies, the hunter-gatherers of the Congo Basin (comprising the Bambenga, Bambuti and Batwa). The terms "Asiatic pygmies" and "Oceanic...
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    historically called pygmies, a term that is now considered derogatory. Baka people are all hunter-gatherers, formerly referred to as pygmies, located in the...
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  • The African pygmy hedgehog is either of two closely related hedgehogs: Domesticated hedgehog Four-toed hedgehog This page is an index of articles on animal...
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    The African forest elephant (Loxodonta cyclotis) is one of the two living species of African elephant. It is native to humid tropical forests in West Africa...
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    : 355 : 40  It may also be known as the Pygmy or African Pygmy. It is quite different and separate from the British Pygmy breed. Between about 1930 and 1960...
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    Mbuti people (redirect from Mbuti pygmies)
    uconn.edu African Pygmies Hunter-Gatherers of Central Africa, with photos and soundscapes Stephanie McCrummen, "Lured Toward Modern Life, Pygmy Families...
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    Ota Benga (category African Pygmies)
    Phillips Verner traveled to Africa, under contract from the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to bring back an assortment of pygmies to be part of an exhibition...
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    The African pygmy goose (Nettapus auritus) is a perching duck from sub-Saharan Africa. It is the smallest of Africa's waterfowl, and one of the smallest...
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    The African pygmy falcon (Polihierax semitorquatus)—or simply pygmy falcon—is a diminutive raptor native to eastern and southern Africa. It is the sole...
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    Aka people (redirect from Aka pygmies)
    the Forest: Music of the Central African Pygmies (Ellipsis Arts, 1995), BOYOBI: Ritual Music of the Rainforest Pygmies (Louis Sarno, 2000), and Bayaka:...
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    The African pygmy mouse (Mus minutoides) is one of the smallest rodents. It is widespread within sub-Saharan Africa, and is kept as a pet in other parts...
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    Pygmy music refers to the sub-Saharan African music traditions of the Central African foragers (or "Pygmies"), predominantly in the Congo, the Central...
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    Great Lakes Twa (category African Pygmies)
    speaking group native to the African Great Lakes region on the border of Central and East Africa. As an indigenous pygmy people, the Twa are generally...
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    The African pygmy squirrel (Myosciurus pumilio) is a species of rodent in the family Sciuridae. It is monotypic within the genus Myosciurus. It is found...
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    Twa (category African Pygmies)
    Mutwa—singular) are a group of indigenous Central African forager tribes. These cultural groups were formerly called Pygmies by European writers, but the term is no...
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    The term Congo Pygmies (African Pygmies) refers to "forest people" who have, or recently had, a hunter-gatherer economy and a simple, non-hierarchical...
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    West African hunter-gatherers, West African foragers, or West African pygmies dwelled in western Central Africa earlier than 32,000 BP and dwelled in West...
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    flight. The African pygmy kingfisher is distributed widely in Africa south of the Sahara, where it is a common resident and intra-African migrant. It...
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    species, though comparable in size to the pygmy hippopotamus, are considered dwarf hippopotamuses, rather than pygmies. They are likely descended from a full-sized...
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    Negrito (redirect from Asian pygmies)
    complexion. (Historically, the label Negrito has also been used to refer to African pygmies.) The appropriateness of bundling peoples of different ethnicities...
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    slate') was the operational name given to the genocide of the Bambuti pygmies by rebel forces in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In 2002...
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  • the Efé (Bambuti) pygmies of the Ituri Rainforest. He wrote the 1964 autobiographical book, Congo Kitabu, the 1973 ethnologic book Pygmy Kitabu (a more detailed...
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  • also participated in a study on the adaptive evolution of Western African Pygmies and three neighboring Bantu-speaking agricultural populations with...
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  • "Children of the Forest: Africa’s Mbuti Pygmies", page 120, by Kevin Duffy African Pygmies Culture and mythology of Pygmies, with photos and ethnographic...
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  • Efé people (redirect from Efe pygmies)
    semi-nomadic pygmies to continue living in the protected Okapi Wildlife Reserve in the Ituri Forest. The Efe are one of three groups of pygmies, collectively...
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    media related to Central Africa. Afrique Centrale.org Africa Interactive Map from the United States Army Africa African Pygmies—Among the earliest inhabitants...
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    society in the various African countries that they live in and are seen as untouchables. Racially-motivated attacks occur on Pygmies including rape and cannibalization...
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  • short-statured, black skinned hominids. Some depictions resemble stereotypical African pygmies, while others resemble monstruous, hairy beasts. They are often naked...
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    native to southern and eastern Africa and is also known as the African dormouse, African dwarf dormouse, African pygmy dormouse, or colloquially as micro...
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