Animals in Eritrea / Mammals native to Eritrea

Mammals native to Eritrea

Even-toed ungulates

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

Carnivores

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

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales

Pacific pilot whale
Long-beaked dolphin

Bats

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
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
Yellow-winged bat
Trident bat
Asian barbastelle
Heart-nosed bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Spotted free-tailed bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Little free-tailed bat

Hyraxes

Rock dassie
Bush hyrax

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs

Primates

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

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

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

Dugongs, manatees, and sea cows

Aardvark

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