Kalissaye Avifaunal Reserve ("Thalasseus maximus") and great white pelicans ("Pelecanus onocrotalus"). Several sea turtle species are quite populous, including loggerheads ("Caretta caretta") and green turtles ("Chelonia mydas"). The common dolphin ("Delphinus delphis") and the African manatee ("Trichechus senegalensis") are also observed in the area. Kalissaye Avifaunal Reserve Kalissaye Avifaunal Reserve (KAR) is a small nature reserve in Senegal, located at the mouth of Kalissaye Pond in the middle of the Casamance River. Like Basse Casamance National Park 35 km away, KAR is currently closed due to the Casamance Conflict. On the small sandy islands making up the reserve, vegetation consists mainly of "Ipomoea
Buru (legendary creature) a large Komodo dragon-like monitor lizard, and there are fossils of such a creature to be found in the Indian subcontinent. Heuvelmans notes similar reported creatures from Western India under the name of "jhoors" where they seem to merge into the Iranian traditional dragon or ahi (Azi Dahaka), which in Iranian art is basically a local stylistic adaptation of the Chinese dragon. George Eberhart notes rumors of a similar creature in the Tigris marshes of Iraq, called the afa, possibly the same thing as ahi. Heuvelmans also notes in his checklist of unknown animals that similar reports to the buru