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The fastest bird in the world lives in Tunisia in the rocky cliffs of the Tunisian mountains.
It is the peregrine falcon (falco peregrinus).
It has a cruising speed of 110 km/h and can reach 300 km/h when he is diving to its prey.

  
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The Gabes gulf alone shelters in winter half the amount of birds hibernating in the Mediterranean, something like 350.000 pieces, waders, limicoles, ducks and other water birds.
A paradise for bird lovers.

  
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The moussier's redstart,
a close parent
of the robin, does not exist
else where in africa.
  
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In the National park of Chaambi, the striped hyena, sole species in north africa shares the place with the mouflon a manchettes and the mountain gazelle.
  
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Unless the inhospitality of the desert, it remains rich in fauna and flora.
One of its examples is the fouette queue, a lizard well adapted, as he is exclusively vegetarian.
  
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The short distance between the south and north of the country is no obstacle to its multitude of ecosystems. You go from desert to forests, containing very diversified flora like the orchids, those plants situated at the summit of mimetism and plant evolution, who colonize the whole north of the conuntry.
  
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The smallest mammal in the world hidess in the Tunisian mountains. Weighing 2 to 3 g and with a length of 7 cm he lives in holes and is named Estruscan shrew.
  
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The royal eagle, lord of the Tunisian cliffs, is one of the biggest eagles in Africa.
He surveys the migrating birds leaving the Sahara for Europe.
  
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The saying "Tunisia, gazelles' paradise" is proven by the existence of 4 different species of gazelles on his territory, in the different ecosystems, the Dorcas, Mohr, Rym and mountain gazelles.
  
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The biggest grotto known in north Africa is situated in the chalky mountains.
  
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In the region of Medenine, Tunisia possesses a geological marvel : the only outcrop of a geological layer, dating from the permien primary age (250 million years of age).