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Mammals native to South Africa

Even-toed ungulates
Blue buck
Sable antelope
Common rhebok
Waterbuck
Blue duiker
Natal duiker
Grey duiker
African buffalo
Suni
Cape grysbok
Bushbuck
Sharpe's grysbok
Giraffe
Nyala
Klipspringer
Steenbok
Greater kudu
Gemsbok
Black wildebeest
Impala
Southern reedbuck
Blue & white-bearded wildebeest
Mountain reedbuck
Common hartebeest
Tsessebe
Springbok
Desert warthog
Blesbok
Common warthog
Bushpig
Common hippopotamus
Oribi
Roan antelope
Carnivores
South atlantic elephant-seal
Marsh mongoose
Side-striped jackal
Yellow mongoose
Black-backed jackal
Cape grey mongoose
Slender mongoose
African caracal
Common dwarf mongoose
Egyptian mongoose
Black-footed cat
White-tailed mongoose
Wild cat
Banded mongoose
Selous' mongoose
Meller's mongoose
Aardwolf
Meerkat
Serval
Cheetah
Honey badger
Striped polecat
African striped weasel
African civet
Bat-eared fox
Speckle-throated otter
Common genet
Spotted hyaena
African wild dog
Panther genet
Cape fox
Blotched genet
African clawless otter
Antarctic fur seal
Afro-australian fur seal
Amsterdam island fur seal
African lion
Leopard
Dolphins, porpoises, and whales
True's beaked whale
Blue whale
Common rorqual
Flatheaded bottlenose whale
Chinese white dolphin
Arnoux's beaked whale
Bridled dolphin
Melon-headed whale
Pygmy right whale
Euphrosyne dolphin
Pygmy sperm whale
Long-beaked dolphin
Southern right whale
Rough-toothed dolphin
Benguela dolphin
Fraser's dolphin
Pygmy killer whale
Hourglass dolphin
Dusky dolphin
False killer whale
Shepherd's beaked whale
Killer whale
Southern right whale dolphin
Pacific pilot whale
Long-finned pilot whale
Bottle-nosed dolphin
Grey dolphin
Cuvier's beaked whale
Bunch
Indo-pacific beaked whale
Blainville's beaked whale
Gray's beaked whale
Common minke whale
Hector's beaked whale
Coalfish whale
Layard's beaked whale
Bryde's whale
Bats
Light-winged lesser house bat
Lesser long-fingered bat
African yellow bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
Greenish yellow bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Damara woolly bat
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Natal free-tailed bat
Lesser woolly bat
Long-tailed house bat
Botswanan long-eared bat
Cape hairy bat
De winton's long-eared bat
Welwitch's bat
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Egyptian free-tailed bat
Rusty pipistrelle
Madagascan large free-tailed bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Mauritian tomb bat
Wood's slit-faced bat
Ansorge's free-tailed bat
Little free-tailed bat
Percival's trident bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Blasius's horseshoe 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
Hyraxes
Rock dassie
Eastern tree dassie
Bush hyrax
Hares, pikas, and rabbits
Greater red rockhare
Jameson's red rockhare
Smith's red rockhare
Bushman hare
Cape hare
Scrub hare
Elephant-shrews
Eastern rock elephant shrew
Four-toed elephant shrew
Cape elephant shrew
Western rock elephant shrew
Round-eared elephant shrew
Short-snouted elephant shrew
Bushveld elephant shrew
Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs
Black rhinoceros
Quagga
Mountain zebra
Square-lipped rhinoceros
Burchell's zebra
Pangolins
Cape pangolin
Primates
Mohol galago
Blue monkey
Garnett's greater galago
Elephants
African elephant
Rodents
Pouched mouse
Cape short-eared gerbil
Smith's bush squirrel
Red bush squirrel
Namaqua dune mole rat
Brants's whistling rat
Cape dune mole rat
Cape porcupine
Littledale's whistling rat
Kreb's fat mouse
Spring hare
Fat mouse
Desert pygmy 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
Greater cane rat
Bushy-tailed hairy-footed gerbil
Cape gerbil
Spiny mouse
Highveld gerbil
Cape spiny mouse
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
Damara mole rat
Shortridge's rat
Namaqua rock rat
South african ground squirrel
Angoni vlei rat
African mole rat
Gerbil mouse
Small-eared dormouse
Woodland dormouse
Woosnam's broad-headed mouse
Vlei rat
Namtap
Laminate vlei rat
African marsh rat
Southern multimammate mouse
Rock dormouse
Saunder's vlei rat
Natal multimammate mouse
Stone dormouse
Sloggett's vlei rat
Bush vlei rat
Gray glimbing mouse
Brant's climbing mouse
Chestnut climbing mouse
Nyika climbing mouse
Aardvark
Aardvark
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