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    West African oyan (Poiana leightoni), also known as the West African linsang, is a linsang species native to the Upper Guinean forests in West Africa...
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    Central African oyan (Poiana richardsonii), also called Central African linsang, is a linsang species native to Central Africa. The Central African oyan's body...
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    Poiana (genus) (redirect from Oyan)
    The African linsangs also known as oyans are two species classified in the mammalian subfamily Viverrinae, in the family Viverridae. There is one genus...
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    viverrids. Animals of the subfamily Genettinae are known as genets and oyans. The word viverridae comes from the Latin viverra 'ferret', but ferrets...
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    The African leopard (Panthera pardus pardus) is the nominate subspecies of the leopard, native to many countries in Africa. It is widely distributed in...
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    The African wolf (see below for other names; Canis lupaster) is a canine native to North Africa, West Africa, the Sahel, northern East Africa, and the...
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    The African civet (Civettictis civetta) is a large viverrid native to sub-Saharan Africa, where it is considered common and widely distributed in woodlands...
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    000 years ago, with the North African/Near Eastern wildcat splitting from the Asiatic wildcat and the Southern African wildcat about 131,000 years ago...
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    Poiana (African linsangs) Central African oyan (P. richardsonii) West African oyan (P. leightoni) Genetta (genets) Abyssinian genet (G. abyssinica) Angolan...
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    The African palm civet's ear canal is not divided and cartilaginous at the end. The African palm civet ranges throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa from...
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