Animals in Botswana / Mammals native to Botswana

Mammals native to Botswana

Even-toed ungulates

Sharpe's grysbok
Blue & white-bearded wildebeest
Steenbok
Southern reedbuck
Mountain reedbuck
Tsessebe
Giraffe
Klipspringer
Grey duiker
Impala
Gemsbok
Common hippopotamus
African buffalo
Common hartebeest
Roan antelope
Springbok
Oribi
Sable antelope
Common warthog
Bushpig
Lechwe
Common rhebok
Waterbuck
Puku
Marshbuck
Bushbuck
Greater kudu

Carnivores

Serval
Cape fox
Speckle-throated otter
Spotted hyaena
African wild dog
Marsh mongoose
Yellow mongoose
Slender mongoose
Common dwarf mongoose
Black-footed cat
Egyptian mongoose
Wild cat
White-tailed mongoose
Banded mongoose
Selous' mongoose
Cheetah
Meerkat
Honey badger
Striped polecat
Bat-eared fox
African striped weasel
African civet
Common genet
Panther genet
African clawless otter
African lion
Leopard
Side-striped jackal
Black-backed jackal
African caracal
Aardwolf

Bats

Blasius's horseshoe bat
Darling's horseshoe bat
Dent's horseshoe bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
Bushveld horseshoe bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Midas free-tailed bat
African yellow bat
White-bellied yellow bat
Greenish yellow bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
Large-eared slit-faced bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Egyptian free-tailed bat
Mauritian tomb bat
Egyptian tomb bat
Lesser woolly bat
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Nigerian free-tailed bat
Rusty pipistrelle
Botswanan long-eared bat
Little free-tailed bat
Percival's trident bat

Hyraxes

Bush hyrax
Rock dassie

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Cape hare
Jameson's red rockhare

Elephant-shrews

Round-eared elephant shrew
Short-snouted elephant shrew
Bushveld elephant shrew
Eastern rock elephant shrew

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs

Burchell's zebra
Black rhinoceros
Square-lipped rhinoceros

Pangolins

Primates

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

Gambian rat
South african ground squirrel
Woosnam's broad-headed mouse
Damara mole rat
Four-striped grass mouse
Angolan marsh rat
Gerbil mouse
Gray glimbing mouse
Brant's climbing mouse
Southern multimammate mouse
Cape short-eared gerbil
Natal multimammate mouse
Shortridge's multimammate mouse
Pouched mouse
Desert pygmy mouse
Setzer's pygmy mouse
Hairy-footed gerbil
Kreb's fat mouse
Tiny fat mouse
Small-eared dormouse
Fat mouse
Spiny mouse
Rock dormouse
Red rock rat
Namaqua rock rat
Angoni vlei rat
Large vlei rat
Highveld gerbil
Cape porcupine
Bushveld gerbil
Smith's bush squirrel
Black-tailed tree rat
Brants's whistling rat
Acacia rat
Greater cane rat
Single-striped grass mouse

Aardvark

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