Animals in South Africa

Animals in South Africa

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Even-toed ungulates in South Africa

Cape grysbok
Sharpe's grysbok
Giraffe
Steenbok
Klipspringer
Impala
Southern reedbuck
Gemsbok
Black wildebeest
Mountain reedbuck
Blue & white-bearded wildebeest
Common hartebeest
Springbok
Tsessebe
Bushbuck
Nyala
Greater kudu
Common hippopotamus
Oribi
Roan antelope
Blue buck
Sable antelope
Desert warthog
Blesbok
Common warthog
Bushpig
Common rhebok
Waterbuck
Blue duiker
Natal duiker
Grey duiker
African buffalo
Suni

Carnivores in South Africa

Serval
Cheetah
Slender mongoose
Common dwarf mongoose
Egyptian mongoose
White-tailed mongoose
Speckle-throated otter
Banded mongoose
Bat-eared fox
African wild dog
Selous' mongoose
Spotted hyaena
Meller's mongoose
Meerkat
Honey badger
African clawless otter
Striped polecat
Antarctic fur seal
African striped weasel
Afro-australian fur seal
African civet
Amsterdam island fur seal
Common genet
Panther genet
Cape fox
Blotched genet
African lion
Leopard
South atlantic elephant-seal
Side-striped jackal
Black-backed jackal
African caracal
Black-footed cat
Wild cat
Marsh mongoose
Aardwolf
Yellow mongoose
Cape grey mongoose

Dolphins, porpoises, and whales in South Africa

Shepherd's beaked whale
Southern right whale dolphin
Killer whale
Pacific pilot whale
Long-finned pilot whale
Grey dolphin
Bunch
Blainville's beaked whale
Bottle-nosed dolphin
Gray's beaked whale
Common minke whale
Hector's beaked whale
Coalfish whale
Layard's beaked whale
Bryde's whale
True's beaked whale
Blue whale
Cuvier's beaked whale
Common rorqual
Flatheaded bottlenose whale
Indo-pacific beaked whale
Arnoux's beaked whale
Chinese white dolphin
Melon-headed whale
Bridled dolphin
Pygmy right whale
Euphrosyne dolphin
Pygmy sperm whale
Southern right whale
Long-beaked dolphin
Rough-toothed dolphin
Pygmy killer whale
Benguela dolphin
Fraser's dolphin
Hourglass dolphin
Dusky dolphin
False killer whale

Bats in South Africa

Wood's slit-faced bat
Ansorge's free-tailed bat
Little free-tailed bat
Percival's trident bat
Blasius's horseshoe bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Cape horseshoe bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Darling's horseshoe bat
Dent's horseshoe bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat
Lander's horseshoe bat
Bushveld horseshoe bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Swinny's horseshoe bat
Lesser long-fingered bat
Light-winged lesser house bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
African yellow bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Greenish yellow bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Natal free-tailed bat
Damara woolly bat
Long-tailed house bat
Lesser woolly bat
Botswanan long-eared bat
Cape hairy bat
De winton's long-eared bat
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Welwitch's bat
Rusty pipistrelle
Egyptian free-tailed bat
Madagascan large free-tailed bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Mauritian tomb bat

Hyraxes in South Africa

Eastern tree dassie
Bush hyrax
Rock dassie

Hares, pikas, and rabbits in South Africa

Bushman hare
Cape hare
Scrub hare
Greater red rockhare
Jameson's red rockhare
Smith's red rockhare

Elephant-shrews in South Africa

Round-eared elephant shrew
Cape elephant shrew
Western rock elephant shrew
Short-snouted elephant shrew
Bushveld elephant shrew
Eastern rock elephant shrew
Four-toed elephant shrew

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs in South Africa

Black rhinoceros
Burchell's zebra
Quagga
Mountain zebra
Square-lipped rhinoceros

Pangolins in South Africa

Primates in South Africa

Garnett's greater galago
Mohol galago
Blue monkey

Elephants in South Africa

African elephant

Rodents in South Africa

Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Spiny mouse
Cape gerbil
Cape spiny mouse
Highveld gerbil
Bushveld gerbil
Black-tailed tree rat
Red rock rat
Mozambique thicket rat
Acacia rat
Grant's rock mouse
Four-striped grass mouse
Woodland thicket rat
Shortridge's rat
Namaqua rock rat
Damara mole rat
Gerbil mouse
Small-eared dormouse
Angoni vlei rat
African mole rat
Greater cane rat
Woodland dormouse
Vlei rat
Southern multimammate mouse
Namtap
Laminate vlei rat
African marsh rat
Natal multimammate mouse
Rock dormouse
Saunder's vlei rat
Stone dormouse
Sloggett's vlei rat
Gray glimbing mouse
Bush vlei rat
Brant's climbing mouse
Chestnut climbing mouse
Nyika climbing mouse
South african ground squirrel
Cape short-eared gerbil
Woosnam's broad-headed mouse
Pouched mouse
Smith's bush squirrel
Red bush squirrel
Namaqua dune mole rat
Brants's whistling rat
Cape dune mole rat
Littledale's whistling rat
Cape porcupine
Spring hare
Kreb's fat mouse
Desert pygmy mouse
Fat mouse
Pygmy mouse
Dassie rat
Neave's mouse
Barbour's rock mouse
Free state pygmy mouse
Pygmy rock mouse
Brukkaros pygmy rock mouse
White-tailed mouse
Cape mole rat
Single-striped grass mouse
Hairy-footed gerbil

Aardvark in South Africa

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