Wildlife of Cameroon hawks and eagles. Elephants are also reported in small numbers. The grassy woodlands have baboons and many species of antelope. Prominent reptiles reported include the African rock python ("Python sebae"), the green bush viper ("Atheris squamigera") and the African slender-snouted crocodile ("Mecistops cataphractus"). Marine turtles reported near the coasts of Cameroon in the Atlantic Ocean are the loggerhead ("Caretta caretta"), Atlantic green ("Chelonias mydas"), leatherback ("Dermochelys coriacea"), hawksbill ("Eretmochelys imbricata"), and the olive ridley ("Lepidochelys olivacea"). Cameroon has enacted legislation to protect all these species of turtles. Olive ridley, leatherback, and green turtles are reported to nest on the sandy
Varieties of Chinese and traditions that are identifiable to all Chinese, regardless of dialect group. Works cited Varieties of Chinese Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local language varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible. The differences are similar to those within the Romance languages, with variation particularly strong in the more mountainous southeast. These varieties, often called "dialects", have been classified into seven to ten groups, the largest being Mandarin (e.g. Beijing dialect), Wu (e.g. Shanghainese), Min (e.g. Hokkien), and Yue (e.g. Cantonese). Chinese varieties differ most in their phonology,