Animals in Benin

Animals in Benin

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Even-toed ungulates in Benin

Common hartebeest
Common warthog
Red river hog
Bay duiker
Maxwell's duiker
Grey duiker
Blue duiker
African buffalo
Red-flanked duiker
Common hippopotamus
Yellow-backed duiker
Roan antelope
Marshbuck
Bushbuck
Oribi
Waterbuck
Kob
Tsessebe
Bohar reedbuck

Carnivores in Benin

Cheetah
Haussa genet
Wild cat
African clawless otter
African caracal
African lion
African sand fox
Leopard
Serval
Spotted hyaena
African golden cat
Speckle-throated otter
African palm civet
African wild dog
Slender mongoose
Honey badger
Striped polecat
African civet
Common genet

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales in Benin

Bunch
Atlantic hump-backed dolphin
Pygmy killer whale
Atlantic spinner dolphin
Fraser's dolphin

Bats in Benin

Schreber's yellow bat
Greenish yellow bat
Peter's dwarf epauletted fruit bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Veldkamp's bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Mauritian tomb bat
Gambian slit-faced bat
Cyclops roundleaf bat
Egyptian tomb bat
Large slit-faced bat
Noack's roundleaf bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
Large-eared slit-faced bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Hammer-headed fruit bat
Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
Nigerian free-tailed bat
Little free-tailed bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Yellow-winged bat
Aellen's pipistrelle
Tiny pipistrelle
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Lander's horseshoe bat
Light-winged lesser house bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
African yellow bat
Gambian epauletted fruit bat
White-bellied yellow bat
Woermann's bat
Franquet's epauletted fruit bat

Hyraxes in Benin

Rock dassie
Western tree dassie

Hares, pikas, and rabbits in Benin

Pangolins in Benin

Giant ground pangolin
Three-cusped pangolin

Primates in Benin

Patas monkey
Lesser bushbaby
Red-bellied guenon
Mona guenon
Lesser spot-nosed guenon
Chimpanzee
King colobus
Potto gibbon

Elephants in Benin

African elephant

Rodents in Benin

African grass rat
Thomas's rope squirrel
Northwestern fat mouse
African brush-tailed porcupine
Baoule's mouse
Red-cheeked rope squirrel
Dainty fat mouse
Hausa mouse
Kintampo rope squirrel
Pygmy mouse
Target rat
Peter's mouse
Gambian sun squirrel
Red-legged sun squirrel
Kemp's gerbil
Greater cane rat
Allen's hylomyscus
Crested porcupine
Rudd's bristle-furred rat
Striped ground squirrel
Green bush squirrel
Typical lemniscomys
Giant rat
Gambian rat
Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
Tullberg's praomys
West african shaggy rat
Forest giant squirrel
Gray glimbing mouse
Banana climbing mouse
Guinea multimammate mouse
Natal multimammate mouse

Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows in Benin

African manatee

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