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Animals in Uganda

Uganda is a country located in East Africa. It is known as an excellent place for lovers of nature. Many admirers go to enjoy the sites and sounds of the natural beauty it has to offer. Being covered in forests, waterfalls, lakes and many beautiful animals there is awe-inspiring sites all around. Uganda also offers safaris, which takes you on trails of many different animals. Though the wildlife there was depleted for a short period of time due to the killing of many animals used for food. It has now flourished again and is palpitating with wildlife. There are Zebras, monkeys, buffalo, crocodiles, lions, tigers, hippopotamus, elephants and this is only to name a few. The government of Uganda have put in place a set of rules to protect these beautiful creatures and their habitat. This keeps the diversity amongst the wildlife thriving and is important to protect nature itself. Because of this, Uganda is perhaps one of the top locations for finding unique and one of a kind animals and plants. For example, animals found nowhere else but in the Uganda wildlife are, a monkey named the "Uganda Mangabey", the "Bwindi Forest Gorilla", the "Acuminate Bush Viper" which is an endemic reptile known from a single specimen. There are many amphibians and fresh water fish known for their uniqueness to Uganda. As well as birds, there is also a "Fox's Weaver" which is the sole bird exclusive to Uganda. Many gorgeous sites and wonderful animal life are situated in the Uganda territory. Available for either the lover of nature or anyone for that matter to enjoy. Whatever the case may be, you will not be disappointed. Taking advantage to behold these wonders in person is like no other experience.

Click here for a list of endangered animals in Uganda.

Even-toed ungulates in Uganda

Common hippopotamus
Bates' pygmy antelope
Steenbok
Guenther's dikdik
Grant's gazelle
Mountain reedbuck
Impala
Bohar reedbuck
Giraffe
Roan antelope
Common hartebeest
Okapi
Water chevrotain
Klipspringer
Bongo
Gemsbok
Marshbuck
Bushbuck
Tsessebe
Lesser kudu
Greater kudu
Oribi
Peter's duiker
Common warthog
Bay duiker
Giant forest hog
Blue duiker
Bushpig
Black-fronted duiker
Red river hog
Waterbuck
Red-flanked duiker
Kob
Yellow-backed duiker
Weyn's duiker
Grey duiker
African buffalo

Carnivores in Uganda

Wild cat
Cheetah
African golden cat
Aardwolf
Speckle-throated otter
African wild dog
African palm civet
Marsh mongoose
Alexander's cusimanse
Pousargues' mongoose
Slender mongoose
Common dwarf mongoose
Egyptian mongoose
Banded mongoose
Honey badger
African clawless otter
Striped polecat
African striped weasel
Spotted hyaena
African civet
Jackson's mongoose
Common genet
Side-striped jackal
Panther genet
Black-backed jackal
Servaline genet
African caracal
African lion
Leopard
Serval

Bats in Uganda

Bini free-tailed bat
Hamilton's tomb bat
Duke of abruzzi's free-tailed bat
Mauritian tomb bat
Gland-tailed free-tailed bat
Egyptian tomb bat
Welwitch's bat
Spotted free-tailed bat
Aba roundleaf bat
Chapin's free-tailed bat
Bate's slit-faced bat
Sundevall's roundleaf bat
Lappet-eared free-tailed bat
Cyclops roundleaf bat
Nigerian free-tailed bat
Hairy slit-faced bat
Sooty roundleaf bat
Little free-tailed bat
Large-eared slit-faced bat
Noack's roundleaf bat
African sheath-tailed bat
Halcyon horseshoe bat
Dwarf slit-faced bat
Geoffroy's horseshoe bat
Egyptian slit-faced bat
Eloquent horseshoe bat
Rüppell's horseshoe bat
Hildebrandt's horseshoe bat
Woermann's bat
Lander's horseshoe bat
Peter's dwarf epauletted fruit bat
Moloney's flat-headed bat
Large-eared free-tailed bat
Lesser long-fingered bat
Hammer-headed fruit bat
Long-haired rousette
Greater long-fingered bat
Pel's pouched bat
Angolan free-tailed bat
Medje free-tailed bat
Heart-nosed bat
Persian trident bat
Light-winged lesser house bat
Mongalla free-tailed bat
Damara woolly bat
Dark-winged lesser house bat
Midas free-tailed bat
Spurrell's woolly bat
African yellow bat
Dwarf free-tailed bat
White-bellied yellow bat
Railer bat
Nut-colored yellow bat
Trevor's free-tailed bat
Yellow-winged bat
Straw-coloured fruit bat
Ethiopian epauletted fruit bat
East african epauletted fruit bat
Wahlberg's epauletted fruit bat
Tiny pipistrelle
Franquet's epauletted fruit bat
Rüppel's pipistrelle
Little collared fruit bat
Egyptian free-tailed bat
Rusty pipistrelle

Hyraxes in Uganda

Bush hyrax
Rock dassie
Western tree dassie

Hares, pikas, and rabbits in Uganda

Cape hare
Bunyoro rabbit

Elephant-shrews in Uganda

Checkered elephant shrew
Short-snouted elephant shrew
Dusky-footed elephant shrew
Rufous elephant-shrew

Horses, rhinoceroses, and tapirs in Uganda

Burchell's zebra

Pangolins in Uganda

Giant ground pangolin
Cape pangolin
Black-bellied pangolin
Three-cusped pangolin

Primates in Uganda

Eastern needle-clawed bushbaby
Lesser bushbaby
Angolan black-and-white colobus
Eastern black-and-white colobus
Garnett's greater galago
Chimpanzee
Black-cheeked white-nosed monkey
Owl-faced guenon
Potto gibbon
L'hoest's guenon
Gray-cheeked mangabey
Blue monkey
Patas monkey
De brazza's monkey

Elephants in Uganda

African elephant

Rodents in Uganda

Rusty-bellied brush-furred rat
Red-legged sun squirrel
Jackson's praomys
Woosnam's brush-furred rat
Carruther's mountain squirrel
Ruwenzori sun squirrel
Misonne's praomys
Fire-footed rope squirrel
Boehm's gerbil
Forest giant squirrel
Percival's spiny mouse
Kemp's gerbil
Wilson's spiny mouse
Bushveld gerbil
Big-eared swamp rat
Fring-tailed gerbil
Hinde's rock rat
Savanna gerbil
Emin's gerbil
Four-striped grass mouse
Forest thicket rat
Kaiser's rock rat
Harrington's gerbil
Moon striped mouse
Lord derby's flying squirrel
Charming thicket rat
Rufous-nosed rats
Guinea multimammate mouse
Peters' hybomys
African wading rat
Dwarf scaly-tailed squirrel
Lesser cane rat
Natal multimammate mouse
Giant rat
Greater cane rat
Beaded hylomyscus
Gambian rat
African grass rat
Montane hylomyscus
African brush-tailed porcupine
Stella hylomyscus
Ochre mole rat
Dent's vlei rat
Crested porcupine
African marsh rat
Tropical vlei rat
Cape porcupine
Montane shaggy rat
Mearns's pouched mouse
Pygmy scaly-tailed flying squirrel
Delany's mouse
Rudd's bristle-furred rat
Remarkable climbing mouse
Striped ground squirrel
Kivu climbing mouse
Unstriped ground squirrel
Alexander's bush squirrel
Gray glimbing mouse
Hildegarde's broad-headed mouse
Boehm's bush squirrel
Chestnut climbing mouse
Congo forest mouse
Tiny fat mouse
Hopkins's groove-toothed swamp rat
Toad mouse
Buffoon lemniscomys
Ruwenzori thicket rat
Target rat
Issel's groove-toothed swamp rat
Mahomet mouse
Typical lemniscomys
Macmillan's thicket rat
Creek groove-toothed swamp rat
Pygmy mouse
Shining thicket rat
African groove-toothed rat
Peter's mouse
Crested rat
Lorrain dormouse
Ankole mole rat
Thomas's pygmy mouse
Gray-bellied pygmy mouse
Savanna dormouse
Rudd's mole rat
Rahm's brush-furred rat
Gambian sun squirrel

Aardvark in Uganda

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