American coots often feed in the company of other waterfowl species, and occasionally will rob diving ducks & mdash; including ring-necked ducks, African pygmy geese.
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It is also possible, he said, that their resemblance to African Pygmies is a human adaptation to living in forests that the two populations developed independently.
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A large tree will have several of their nests, which other birds, such as the African pygmy-falcon, are known to use instead of building their own.
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"They're not, like, super-intelligent, " adds Sue Bream, a Seattle homemaker and hobby breeder who owns a dozen African pygmy hedgehogs, including a show hog called Lucy.
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"They're so cute, " said Tammy Olson, 22, of Arlington, who bought her 1-year-old African pygmy hedgehog from a local pet store last weekend, on an impulse.
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A study of human blood group systems and proteins in the 1950s suggested that the Andamanese peoples were more closely related to Oceanic peoples than African Pygmy peoples.
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"Zoos don't even know that much about hedgehogs, and pet stores certainly don't, " said Lisa Bottcher-Law, a keeper at the Nocturnal House, which has three African pygmy hedgehogs.
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This belief was, however, discarded by anthropologists who noted that apart from dark skin, peppercorn hair, and steatopygia, the Andamanese had little in common with any African population, including the African pygmies.
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In early editions of the novel, the Oompa-Loompas ( originally called " Whipple-Scrumpets " before publication ) are shown as African pygmies before Dahl rewrote them to be white-skinned and golden haired.
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The African pygmy elephant, formerly described as " " Loxodonta pumilio " ", is currently considered to be a tiny morph of the African forest elephant ( " L . cyclotis " ).
