Animals in Eritrea / Mammals native to Eritrea

Mammals native to Eritrea

Even-toed ungulates

Common hartebeest
Greater kudu
Salt's dik-dik
Klipspringer
Gemsbok
Oribi
Common warthog
Dorcas gazelle
Red-fronted gazelle
Giraffe

Carnivores

Cheetah
African clawless otter
Striped hyaena
African sand fox
Serval
Asiatic jackal
Black-backed jackal
African caracal
Speckle-throated otter
African wild dog
Honey badger
Striped polecat
Spotted hyaena
African lion
Leopard
Aardwolf
Wild cat

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales

Pacific pilot whale
Long-beaked dolphin

Bats

African yellow bat
African giant free-tailed bat
Naked-rumped tomb bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Ethiopian large-eared roundleaf bat
Patrizi's trident leaf-nosed bat
Trident bat
Yellow-winged bat
Asian barbastelle
Heart-nosed bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Spotted free-tailed bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Little free-tailed bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
Blasius's horseshoe bat
Lesser horseshoe bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Lesser mouse-tailed bat
Greater mouse-tailed bat

Hyraxes

Bush hyrax
Rock dassie

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs

Primates

Gelada baboon
Eastern black-and-white colobus
Hamadryas baboon
Lesser bushbaby

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

Small-eared dormouse
Gambian sun squirrel
Mullah spiny mouse
Fring-tailed gerbil
Abyssinian grass rat
African grass rat
Crested porcupine
Striped ground squirrel
Lesser egyptian jerboa
Unstriped ground squirrel
Crested rat
Speke's pectinator
Somalia gerbil

Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows

Aardvark

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