Nile crocodile zebras and blue wildebeests ("Connochaetes taurinus"), picking off hundreds of these large ungulates annually. All domesticated ungulates and pet animals will on occasion be hunted by Nile crocodiles, up to the size of dromedary camels ("Camelus dromedarius") and cattle ("Bos taurus") In Tanzania, up to 54 head of cattle may be lost to crocodiles annually, increasing the human-crocodile conflict level. Goats ("Capra aegagrus hircus"), donkeys ("Equus africanus asinus") and dogs ("Canis lupus familiaris") may also rank amongst the most regularly recorded domesticated animals to be taken by Nile crocodiles. Particularly large adults, on occasion, take on even larger prey, such
Australopithecus africanus Australopithecus africanus Australopithecus africanus is an extinct ("fossil") species of the australopithecines, the first of an early ape-form species to be classified as hominin (in 1924). Recently it was dated as living between 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago, or in the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene times; it is debated as being a direct ancestor of modern humans. "A. africanus" was of slender, or gracile, build and has been found only in southern Africa at four sites: Taung (1924), Sterkfontein (1935), Makapansgat (1948) and Gladysvale (1992). Raymond Dart, then the head of the department of anatomy at the University