Animals in Malawi / Mammals native to Malawi

Mammals native to Malawi

Even-toed ungulates

Bushpig
Bushbuck
Nyala
Impala
Greater kudu
Sharpe's grysbok
Southern reedbuck
Suni
Common hippopotamus
Blue duiker
Natal duiker
Roan antelope
Klipspringer
Sable antelope
Waterbuck
Blue & white-bearded wildebeest
Oribi
Puku
Grey duiker
African buffalo
Common warthog

Carnivores

Speckle-throated otter
African wild dog
Cheetah
Wild cat
African clawless otter
Side-striped jackal
African caracal
African palm civet
Marsh mongoose
Bushy-tailed mongoose
Slender mongoose
Common dwarf mongoose
Egyptian mongoose
Banded mongoose
Selous' mongoose
Meller's mongoose
African lion
Honey badger
Spotted hyaena
Leopard
Striped polecat
African striped weasel
African civet
Angolan genet
Serval
Panther genet

Bats

Straw-coloured fruit bat
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
Rusty pipistrelle
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Lesser long-fingered bat
Dobson's fruit bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Long-tailed house bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Persian trident bat
Blasius's horseshoe bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Cape hairy bat
Darling's horseshoe bat
Welwitch's bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat
Large slit-faced bat
Lander's horseshoe bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
Bushveld horseshoe bat
Large-eared slit-faced bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Noack's roundleaf bat
Long-haired rousette
Wood's slit-faced bat
Light-winged lesser house bat
Dark-winged lesser house bat
Nigerian free-tailed bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Damara woolly bat
African yellow bat
Little free-tailed bat
Lesser woolly bat
Schreber's yellow bat
Greenish yellow bat
Botswanan long-eared bat
Yellow-winged bat
Madagascan large free-tailed bat
African giant free-tailed bat
Mauritian tomb bat

Hyraxes

Hares, pikas, and rabbits

Smith's red rockhare

Elephant-shrews

Short-snouted elephant shrew
Dusky elephant shrew
Four-toed elephant shrew
Checkered elephant shrew

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs

Black rhinoceros
Burchell's zebra

Pangolins

Primates

Mohol galago
Blue monkey
Garnett's greater galago
Angolan black-and-white colobus

Elephants

African elephant

Rodents

Acacia rat
Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
Lesser cane rat
Spiny mouse
African groove-toothed rat
Natal multimammate mouse
Delectable soft-furred mouse
Red rock rat
Kaiser's rock rat
Namaqua rock rat
Pygmy mouse
Rudd's bristle-furred rat
Four-striped grass mouse
Nyika rock rat
Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse
Woodland thicket rat
Lord derby's flying squirrel
Ruwenzori thicket rat
Small-eared dormouse
African grass rat
Silvery mole rat
Greater hamster-rat
Mutable sun squirrel
Pouched mouse
Cape porcupine
Angoni vlei rat
Dent's vlei rat
Fat mouse
Gambian rat
African mole rat
Single-striped grass mouse
African marsh rat
Typical lemniscomys
Gray glimbing mouse
Smith's bush squirrel
Brant's climbing mouse
Striped bush squirrel
Yellow-spotted brush-furred rat
Boehm's gerbil
Chestnut climbing mouse
Black and red bush squirrel
Bushveld gerbil
Nyika climbing mouse
Red bush squirrel

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