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Animals in Rwanda
Perhaps the most diverse wildlife is the native bird population which consists of 670 species of birds. Twenty-six of the bird species are endemic to the western part of Africa's Great Rift Valley, an enormous trench that includes Lake Victoria and reaches into Rwanda.
Much of Rwanda's biodiversity is concentrated into the three national parks which have been designated as conservation areas. Although Nyungwe Forest has numerous amphibian, mammal, bird, and reptile species, it is best known for its thirteen different species of monkeys. One quarter of the continent's monkey species are represented there.
Volcanoes National Park, carpeted in rainforest vegetation and bamboo groves, is a haven for the Mountain Gorilla. This park is where naturalist Diane Fossey studied these great apes. Her life and work was portrayed in the Hollywood movie 'Gorillas in the Mist.' Near the research center where she spent nearly twenty years studying the gorillas lays her grave.
Visit the Akagera National Park and you might see Topis prancing and locking their horns together. A Topi is a species of antelope with a dark coat and a distinctive hump above the shoulder. Their slightly curved horns are ringed, but thicker and shorter than a gazelle's horns.
Sadly, some of this nation's wildlife has suffered as result of political turmoil. Human refugees have at times occupied conservation areas, temporarily or permanently displacing animals from wildlife refuges.
Click here for a list of endangered animals in Rwanda.
Even-toed ungulates in Rwanda
Bohar reedbuck Impala Peter's duiker Blue duiker Black-fronted duiker Grey duiker Yellow-backed duiker African buffalo Weyn's duiker Common warthog Giant forest hog Bushpig Klipspringer Common hippopotamus Marshbuck Bushbuck Oribi Roan antelope Water chevrotain Tsessebe WaterbuckCarnivores in Rwanda
African palm civet Marsh mongoose Speckle-throated otter African clawless otter Slender mongoose African wild dog Side-striped jackal Egyptian mongoose Banded mongoose Wild cat Honey badger Striped polecat African striped weasel African civet African lion Leopard Spotted hyaena African golden cat ServalBats in Rwanda
Angolan free-tailed bat Midas free-tailed bat Geoffroy's horseshoe bat Railer bat Eloquent horseshoe bat Straw-coloured fruit bat Rüppell's horseshoe bat Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat Lander's horseshoe bat Dobson's fruit bat Long-haired rousette Little collared fruit bat Franquet's epauletted fruit bat African yellow bat Nut-colored yellow bat Cape hairy bat Welwitch's bat Bate's slit-faced bat Hairy slit-faced bat Madagascan large free-tailed bat Large-eared slit-faced bat Dwarf slit-faced bat Egyptian slit-faced bat Gland-tailed free-tailed bat Sundevall's roundleaf bat Spotted free-tailed bat Large-eared free-tailed bat Cyclops roundleaf bat Little free-tailed bat Noack's roundleaf bat Rüppel's pipistrelle Yellow-winged bat Peter's dwarf epauletted fruit bat Lesser long-fingered bat Greater long-fingered batHyraxes in Rwanda
Bush hyrax Western tree dassieHares, pikas, and rabbits in Rwanda
Cape hare Bunyoro rabbitHorses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs in Rwanda
Black rhinoceros Burchell's zebraPangolins in Rwanda
Giant ground pangolin Cape pangolinPrimates in Rwanda
Gray-cheeked mangabey Mohol galago Lesser bushbaby Black-cheeked white-nosed monkey Owl-faced guenon L'hoest's guenon Blue monkey Garnett's greater galago Angolan black-and-white colobus Eastern black-and-white colobus Chimpanzee Potto gibbonElephants in Rwanda
African elephantRodents in Rwanda
Forest giant squirrel Chestnut climbing mouse Medium-tailed brush-furred rat Congo forest mouse Rahm's brush-furred rat Woosnam's brush-furred rat Toad mouse Hinde's rock rat Pygmy mouse Kaiser's rock rat Thomas's pygmy mouse Gray-bellied pygmy mouse Carruther's mountain squirrel Ruanda mole rat Woodland thicket rat Shining thicket rat Boehm's gerbil Red-legged sun squirrel Kemp's gerbil Ruwenzori sun squirrel Savanna gerbil Rufous-nosed rats African groove-toothed rat Charming thicket rat Kemp's thicket rat Greater cane rat Tropical vlei rat African wading rat Moon striped mouse Giant rat Striped ground squirrel Peters' hybomys Gambian rat Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse Boehm's bush squirrel Montane hylomyscus Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat Stella hylomyscus Dwarf multimammate mouse Creek groove-toothed swamp rat Cape porcupine Guinea multimammate mouse Delany's mouse Natal multimammate mouse Remarkable climbing mouse Jackson's praomys Typical lemniscomys Kivu climbing mouse Gray glimbing mouseAardvark in Rwanda
Aardvark
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