-•) Fauna : Mammals 



and the white-necked crow is seen occasionallv. Crocodiles of 

 no great size lie on the mud-banks, and a few colobus and 

 mangabey monkeys swish through the tangle of mangrove roots 



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and branches. But all along the coast it is the same story : 

 a marked absence of wild life from native towns, gardens, 



I plantations, uncultivated bush, and dense forest. One reason 

 for this scarcity of life is the perpetual hunger that seems to 

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