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 Arabic sedentary varieties and the rural varieties within the Arabian peninsula are even more conservative than those elsewhere. Within the sedentary varieties, the western varieties (particularly, Moroccan Arabic) are less conservative than the eastern varieties. A number of cities in the Arabic world speak a "Bedouin" variety, which acquires prestige in that context. When it comes to phonetics the Arabic dialects differ in the pronunciation of the short vowels (, and ) and a number of selected consonants, mainly , and the interdental consonants , and , in addition to the dental . Emphasis spreading is a phenomenon where is backed