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  Tortoise Trust Web - The Spiny-Tailed Lizard at home
The fact that this is essentially a Saharan species should not mislead one into believing that it therefore typically inhabits a sandy environment; Uromastyx acanthinurus occurs most frequently in rocky hamada and reg environments.
In each of these substrates a favoured microhabitat comprises cliffs at the edges of dry rivers, or oueds, which are created after the infrequent but intense rainstorms which are typical of such regions.
Burrows are usually excavated in earthy dry river banks in full sun, often at the base of a bush.
www.tortoisetrust.org /articles/uromastyx.html   (2365 words)

  
 TheHistoryNet | Military History Quarterly | Rif War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Rather, it comprised a tortured sliver of mountainous, unmapped, austere topography stretching 225 miles along the coast from Larache on the Atlantic to the Moulouya River near the Algerian border, inhabited by murderously independent Berber tribes.
Tétouan, nestled beneath a sweep of somber granite mountains dominated by the majestic Gorgues on the banks of the Martn River, was occupied in February 1913 and promptly designated the protectorate's new capital.
The inevitable swarm of Iberian riffraff trailed in the wake of the ill-disciplined, infrequently paid Spanish army to populate this beckoning colonizadora.
www.thehistorynet.com /mhq/bl-rif-war   (1043 words)

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