Selous Scouts Personnel
Selous is the Anglicised form of the Dutch name Slous. It may refer to: People * Andrew Selous (born 1962), British politician * Edmund Selous (1857–1934), British ornithologist and writer * Frederick Selous (1851–1917), British explorer and big-game hunter * Henry Courtney Selous (1803–1890), British painter Other * Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania * Selous Scouts, the special forces of the Rhodesian Army * Selous, Zimbabwe * Selous' mongoose, (''Paracynictis selousi'') * Selous' zebra Selous' zebra (''Equus quagga selousi'') is a subspecies of the plains zebra distributed across southeastern Africa. It is found mostly in Mozambique. Taxonomy This subspecies is similar to the Burchell's zebra, but it can be distinguished by ...

Andrew Selous
Andrew Edmund Armstrong Selous (; born 27 April 1962) is a British politician who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for South West Bedfordshire since the 2001 general election. A member of the Conservative Party, he served as Minister of State for Prisons from 2014 to 2016 in the government of Prime Minister David Cameron. Since 2020, Selous has served as Second Church Estates Commissioner. Early life Selous was born in Marylebone to Gerald and Mary Selous (''née'' Casey). He was educated at West Downs School, Eton College and the London School of Economics, receiving a BSc in Industry and Trade in 1984. In 1981, Selous joined the Honourable Artillery Company. He served as a soldier until receiving a commission in the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in October 1989. Selous was then transferred to the London Regiment in April 1993. He moved to the Regular Army Reserve of Officers in January 1996, thereby ending his active service. From 1988 until 1994, he was a directo ...
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Edmund Selous
Edmund Selous (14 August 1857 – 25 March 1934) was a British ornithologist and writer. He was the younger brother of big-game hunter Frederick Selous. Born in London, the son of a wealthy stockbroker, Selous was educated privately and matriculated at Pembroke College, Cambridge in September 1877. He left without a degree and was admitted to the Middle Temple just over a year later and was called to the bar in 1881. He practised as a barrister only briefly before retiring to pursue the study of natural history and literature. Edmund married Fanny Margaret Maxwell (1863-1955) on 13 January 1886. Fanny was the eldest daughter of the novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915) and publisher John Maxwell (1824-1895). In 1888 they moved to Wiesbaden, Germany and then to Mildenhall in Suffolk in 1889. In the 1920s, they moved to the Weymouth village Wyke Regis in Dorset, where they lived in Wyke Castle. Career Selous started as a conventional naturalist, but developed a h ...
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Frederick Selous
Frederick Courteney Selous, DSO (; 31 December 1851 – 4 January 1917) was a British explorer, officer, professional hunter, and conservationist, famous for his exploits in Southeast Africa. His real-life adventures inspired Sir Henry Rider Haggard to create the fictional Allan Quatermain character. Selous was a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, Cecil Rhodes and Frederick Russell Burnham. He was pre-eminent within a group of big game hunters that included Abel Chapman and Arthur Henry Neumann. He was the older brother of the ornithologist and writer Edmund Selous. Early life and exploration Frederick Courteney Selous was born on 31 December 1851 at Regent's Park, London, as one of the five children of an aristocratic family, third generation of part-Huguenot heritage. His father, Frederick Lokes Slous (original spelling) (1802–1892), was Chairman of the London Stock Exchange and his mother, Ann Holgate Sherborn (1827–1913), was a published poet. One of his uncles was a pai ...
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Henry Courtney Selous
Henry Courtney Selous (b. Panton Street, Haymarket, London 1803; d. Beaworthy, Devon, 24 September 1890) was an English painter, illustrator and lithographer. Life He was the son of Gideon "George" Slous (1777–1839), a Flemish portrait and miniature painter, and a pupil of John Martin who was an important and influential English painter of the 19th century. He was an occupant of Keats House in Hampstead, from 1835 to 1838. Selous had two brothers, Frederick Lokes Slous (the father of Frederick Courteney Selous) and Angiolo Robson Slous, a playwright who wrote ''True to the Core: A Story of the Armada'' and whose daughter Alice married the novelist Morley Roberts. He married on 4 March 1837 Emily Elizabeth (d. 1879), daughter of the successful miniature painter Henry Pierce Boneat at St Pancras Parish Church and they had four daughters. He died on the 24th September 1890 and was buried on the eastern side of Highgate Cemetery. Career In 1818 Selous entered the Royal A ...
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Selous Game Reserve
The Selous Game Reserve, now renamed Nyerere National Park, is a protected area in southern Tanzania. It covers a total area of and has additional buffer zones. It was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1982 due to its wildlife diversity and undisturbed nature. Some of the diverse wildlife of the miombo include the African bush elephant, south-central black rhinoceros, hippopotamus, lion, African wild dog, African buffalo, Masai giraffe, Plains zebra and Nile crocodile. Permanent human habitation is not permitted within the reserve. All human entry and exit is controlled by the Wildlife Division of the Tanzanian Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism. History The area was first designated a protected area in 1896 by the German Governor of Tanganyika Hermann von Wissmann, and became a hunting reserve in 1905. The reserve was named after Frederick Selous, a famous big game hunter and early conservationist, who died at Beho Beho in this territory in 1917 while fighting ...
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Selous Scouts
The Selous Scouts was a special forces unit of the Rhodesian Army that operated during the Rhodesian Bush War from 1973 until the reconstitution of the country as Zimbabwe in 1980. It was mainly responsible for infiltrating the black majority population of Rhodesia and collecting intelligence on insurgents so that they could be attacked by regular elements of the security forces. The unit did this by forming small teams that posed as insurgents and usually included captured insurgents. Over time, the Selous Scouts increasingly attacked insurgents themselves and operated in the countries that neighboured Rhodesia. The unit developed a reputation for brutality, and was responsible for attacking and killing civilians. The Selous Scouts were also involved in the Rhodesian chemical and biological weapons program and used poisons and biological agents in some of its operations. The methods used by the unit led to the deaths of large numbers of insurgents but were counter-productive a ...
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Selous, Zimbabwe
Selous is a village in Mashonaland West province in Zimbabwe. It lies not far from Harare on the main Harare to Bulawayo road. It is named after the British explorer and hunter Frederick Selous. In 1985, novelist Tom Robbins wrote a column for ''Esquire Esquire (, ; abbreviated Esq.) is usually a courtesy title. In the United Kingdom, ''esquire'' historically was a title of respect accorded to men of higher social rank, particularly members of the landed gentry above the rank of gentlema ...'' detailing his tumultuous travels to reach the village entitled "The Day The Earth Spit Warthogs." Populated places in Mashonaland West Province {{Zimbabwe-geo-stub ...
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Selous' Mongoose
Selous's mongoose (''Paracynictis selousi'') is a mongoose species native to Southern Africa. It is the only member of the genus ''Paracynictis''. Taxonomy Four subspecies were described: *''Paracynictis selousi bechuanae'' *''Paracynictis selousi ngamiensis'' *''Paracynictis selousi selousi'' *''Paracynictis selousi sengaani'' Distribution and habitat Selous's mongoose is endemic to Southern Africa. Its range includes Angola, Zambia, Malawi, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and South Africa.Nowak, Ronald M. Walker’s Mammals of the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991 Physical description The Selous's mongoose has a total length of 63–90 cm and a tail length of 28–43 cm. It weighs about 1.4-2.0 kg.Stuart, Chris and Tilde. The Field Guide to Mammals of Southern Africa. Cape Town: Struik Publishers, 2007 The body of the mongoose ranges from pale speckled grey to tawny grey with a pale underside, while the legs are brown or black.Stu ...
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