Need the English Name for this Wild Cat in Somalia

Postby **MujahidAishah** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 2:37 am

What is a isgara-nuug in English???

I know that's endangered back home but I have no Idea what it is

Is it a gazelle :lupe:

gegiroor · Postby **gegiroor** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 3:23 am

What is a isgara-nuug in English???

I know that's endangered back home but I have no Idea what it is

Is it a gazelle

Aisha, it is Garanuug (Geranuk) and native to Somali inhabited regions. Yes, it is endangered since forests are dwindling, and in 2011 and I saw them twice near to a mountain and on the top of a mountain. The surviving wild life are retreating to mountains once the tree cutting for charcoal has started.

It is part of the antelope family, but not a gazelle. Gazelle is an antelope as well.

Postby **MujahidAishah** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:28 am

Cheers Ilen odayga was a antelope smuggler heey :lupe:

AwRastaale · Postby **AwRastaale** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 4:43 am

Garanuug/Garinuug is Garanuk in English. The English didn't have a word for it so they adopted the Somali name. Gara comes from gari, which is giraffe in Somali. Since Garanuug has long neck that's where it got its Somali name.

There's plenty of garanuug in Haud, many parts of Somalia, Somaliland...

Gazelle is deero (that's the one with big eyes, so ma maqal indho deerolay).

The one that extinct or almost extinct is called Goodar/goodiir. I remember a place near Daroor called Goodiirgalka. There's a lot of caucuses of that animal. I heard it was over hunted by the British.

Postby **Thuganomics** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 5:35 am

I saw plenty of garanuk in the waqooyi region
So they can't be that endangered.

Postby **MujahidAishah** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 5:51 am

I saw plenty of garanuk in the waqooyi region
So they can't be that endangered.

They are illegal to trade in apprently

AwRastaale · Postby **AwRastaale** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:01 am

I saw plenty of garanuk in the waqooyi region
So they can't be that endangered.

Man in early 1900s, the entire SL, Haud and Ogaden had lions, zebras, all kinds of antelopes in abundance.

One British officer accounts camping near what is now Dhagahbur and that night he could not sleep because of the lions roaring madness.

In what's now Daroor, he says it was full of antelopes and zebras. Just northwest of that they hunted elephants.

It is amazing how fast they disappeared.

Postby **Thuganomics** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:16 am

^
I read of similar accounts in the book Lion Hunting In Somaliland.I wonder what happened to all that wild life though.And why the sand didn't happen to Kenya or Tanzania

AwRastaale · Postby **AwRastaale** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:31 am

Thuga,

Before 1900s, there won't as many guns in the hands of Somalis especially nomads. As of 1920s, a lot of things changed. There were endless wars. There were wars between tribes, Somalis and Abyssinians, Sayid Abdulle's dervishes, Italians, British....it was chaos and there were now so many guns.

The Somalis just being violent people hunted all the animals for money. They sold the skin and anything valuable. They ate the antelopes that they struggled to catch before.

The rest of the animals fled south into Kenya and Oromia.

The Kenyans lived in townships and the nomadics such as the Masai stayed within their premises amongst the animals always but Somalis moved around a lot so they always followed the animals to new territory.

Somalis covered more land than Kenyas. There was Somali foot print all over the land despite being less people.

Then the droughts accelerated the process. The wars have not stopped either to this day.

Postby **Thuganomics** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 6:45 am

That makes sense,you're right there has been no wars in those countries other than a brief melee' during their independence struggle.Whereas we had almost non stop wars.Do you think it would be a good idea to reintroduce some wild life such elephants and rhino back to the northern plains.I we already have ostriches and some antelope and gazelle in the Ban Giriad and Banka Hadhla plains and also some in the Haud plains.

MRnutritionist · Postby **MRnutritionist** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 7:20 am

What is a isgara-nuug in English???

I know that's endangered back home but I have no Idea what it is

Is it a gazelle

Aisha, it is Garanuug (Geranuk) and native to Somali inhabited regions. Yes, it is endangered since forests are dwindling, and in 2011 and I saw them twice near to a mountain and on the top of a mountain. The surviving wild life are retreating to mountains once the tree cutting for charcoal has started.

It is part of the antelope family, but not a gazelle. Gazelle is an antelope as well.

First time i heard Garanuk, its good every day we learn something new.
this animal in Central/South Somalia its called Dibataag Dib " the tail and taag " Stretch"

the nick name comes from the "long black tail " I thought that was the name given in English language and adopted. they called it Dibatag

Siciid85 · Postby **Siciid85** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 9:28 am

Bisad dabadeed

LiquidHYDROGEN · Postby **LiquidHYDROGEN** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:05 am

Guduudane - Caracal/African Lynx

Harimacad - Cheetah

Shabeel - Leopard

Bisad dibadeed - African Wild Cat

gegiroor · Postby **gegiroor** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:32 am

Cheers Ilen odayga was a antelope smuggler heey

Odayga aa? Oo miyaynu kala weynahay? Still gotta laugh @ your story of getting married in Dhuulcad in late 1980s.

gegiroor · Postby **gegiroor** » Mon Dec 21, 2015 10:38 am

Bisad dabadeed

Kaasi waa Jiifaa. Bisad Dibadeed is much smaller than Dhulukh Dhalakh.

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