El-Kouf National Park lupaster"), wild boar ("Sus scrofa"), fallow deer ("Dama dama"), the red fox ("Vulpes vulpes"), the small-spotted genet ("Genetta genetta"), the African wildcat ("Felis silvestris lybica") and the crested porcupine ("Hystrix cristata") and the Barbary macaque ("Macaca sylvanus"). The short-beaked common dolphin ("Delphinus delphis") and the common bottlenose dolphin ("Tursiops truncatus") are found off-shore and in the brackish lagoons, and the loggerhead sea turtle ("Caretta caretta") lays its eggs on the beaches. The national park lies within the Jabal al Akhdar Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International. Birds recorded from the park include golden eagles, Egyptian vulture, Barbary
Scientific temper to waste, of a rich country inhabited by starving people." The genesis and development of the idea of the scientific temper is connected to ideas expressed earlier by Charles Darwin when he said, "[F]reedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, which follows from the advance of science," and by Karl Marx when he said, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the