Find your desired species
The list below is comprephensive list of the species found across Africa. Now there is a few small species that are left out and bird speceis are left out. this list does included animals no longer hunted that are labled with (NH) "Not Hunted" these species either live in a country that is no longer hunted or their are not permits avalible to hunt them. Many of them were badly depleted during the early bush waars and the pionioring stages of the Northern countries of Africa. I hope you find this list helpful and insightive to learn more about African wildlife and to help you when planning your next or futuer safaris.
Dangerous game
Lion
Leopard
African Elephant
Southern White Rhinoceros
Northern White Rhinoceros (NH)
Black Rhinoceros
Cape Buffalo
Central African Savanna Buffalo
Dwarf Forest Buffalo
East African Savanna Buffalo
Nile Buffalo
West African Savanna Buffalo
Nile Crocodile
Hippopotamus
Sable and Roan
East African Roan Antelope
Southern Roan Antelope
Sudan Roan Antelope
Western Roan Antelope
Common Sable Antelope
Giant Sable Antelope (NH)
Roosevelt Sable Antelope
Spiral Horns
Cape Eland
Central African Giant Eland
Livingstone Eland
East African Eland
Western Giant Eland
Abyssinian Greater Kudu
East African Greater Kudu
Eastern Cape Greater Kudu
Lesser Kudu
Southern Greater Kudu
Western Greater Kudu
Central Africa Bongo (C.A.R., Cameroon)
Kenya Bongo (NH)
Western Bongo (NH)
East African Sitatunga
Forest Sitatunga
Ssese Islands Sitatunga
Zambezi Sitatunga
Abyssinian Bushbuck
Cape Bushbuck
Chobe Bushbuck
East African Bushbuck
Harnessed Bushbuck
Limpopo Bushbuck
Menelik Bushbuck
Nile Bushbuck
Pygmy Antelope
Abbott Duiker
Ader Duiker
Angolan Bush Duiker
Beira or Antelope
Bay Duiker
Black Duiker
Black-fronted Duiker
Blue Duiker
East African Bush Duiker
Gabon or White-bellied Duiker
Harvey Red Duiker
Jentink Duiker
Maxwell Duiker
Natal Red Duiker
Ogilby Duiker
Peters Duiker
Red-flanked Duiker
Southern Bush Duiker
Western Bush Duiker
Weyns Duiker
Yellow Back Duiker
Zebra Duiker
Damara Dik-dik
Guenther Dik-dik
Harar Dik-dik
Kirk Dik-dik
Phillips Dik-dik
Salt Dik-dik
Southern Oribi
Central Oribi
Sudan Oribi
Western Oribi
East African Suni
Livingstone Suni
Zanzibar Suni
Cape Grysbok
Sharpe Grysbok
Steenbok
Royal Antelope
Bates Pygmy Antelope
Klipspringer
Small Game / Predators
Aardwolf
African Cheetah
African Civet
African Golden Cat
African Striped Hyena
African Wild Cat
Bat-eared Fox
Brown Hyena
Caracal
Genet Cat
Palm Civet
Serval
Spotted Hyena
Porcupine
Side striped jackal
Black Back jackal
Golden Jackal
Honey Bagger
Cape Fox
Python
Vervet monkey
Colobus Monkey
Patas Monkey
Chacma Baboon
Olive Baboon
Hamadryas Baboon
Gelada Baboon
Anubis Baboon
Pigs
Warthog
Desert Warthog
Red River Hog
Bushpig
Barbary Wild Boar
Giant Forest Hog
Gazelles
Atlas Gazelle (NH)
Bright Gazelle(NH)
Dama Gazelle (NH)
Egyptian Dorcas Gazelle (NH)
Eritrean Gazelle (NH)
Heuglin Gazelle (NH)
Isabelline Gazelle (NH)
Mongalla Gazelle (NH)
Moroccan Dorcas Gazelle (NH)
Northern Grant Gazelle
Pelzeln Gazelle (NH)
Peters or Tana Gazelle (NH)
Red-fronted Gazelle or Korin
Roberts Gazelle
Sahara Dorcas Gazelle (NH)
Slender-horned Gazelle (NH)
Soemmerring Gazelle
Speke or Flabby-nosed Gazelle (NH)
Sudan Soemmerring Gazelle (NH)
Thomson Gazelle
Southern Impala
East African Impala
Black Faced Impala
Damaliscus
Tiang
Topi
Korrigum
Tsessebe
Blesbok
Bontebok
Hartebeest
Red Hartebeest
Coke Hartebeest
Jackson Hartebeest
Kenya Highland Hartebeest (NH)
Lelwel Hartebeest
Lichtenstein Hartebeest
Neumann Hartebeest
Swayne Hartebeest (NH)
Western Hartebeest
Wildebeest
Blue Wildebeest
Black Wildebeest
Cookson Wildebeest
Nyasa Wildebeest
White- beareded wildebeest
Kobus
Angolan Defassa Waterbuck
Common or Ringed Waterbuck
Crawshay Defassa Waterbuck
East African Defassa Waterbuck
Sing-sing Waterbuck
Black Lechwe
Red Lechwe
Kafue Flats Lechwe
Nile Lechwe (NH)
Puku
Central African Kob
Uganda Kob
West African Kob
White eared Kob
Reedbuck
Abyssinian Bohor Reedbuck
Chanler Mountain Reedbuck
Common Reedbuck
Eastern Bohor Reedbuck
Nagor Reedbuck
Nigerian Bohor Reedbuck
Southern Mountain Reedbuck
Sudan Bohor Reedbuck
Western Mountain Reedbuck
Zebra
Zebra – Burchell’s
Zebra – Cape Mountain
Zebra – Hartmann’s Mountain
Selou’s Zebra
Grants Zebra
Chapmans Zebra
Crawshay’s Zebra
Maneless Zebra
Ibex and sheep
Aoudad or Barbary Sheep
Nubian Ibex
Wally Ibex (NH)
Oryx
Beisa Oryx
Burchell's Golden Oryx (Namibia)
Fringe-eared Oryx
Scimitar-horned Oryx
Angolan Gemsbok
Kalahari Gemsbok (Namibia)
Kalahari Gemsbok (R.S.A., Botswana, Zimbabwe)
One off’s
Giraffe
Vaal Rhebok
Water Chevrotain
Addax (NH)
Hirola or Hunter Antelope (NH)
Springbok
Angolan Springbok (NH)
Black Springbok
White Springbok
Copper Springbok
Kalahari Springbok
South African Common Springbok
Color variations found in South Africa
Golden Gemsbok
Red Gemsbok
Golden Wildebeest
Kings Wildebeest
Royal Wildebeest
Black Impala
Saddle back impala
White flanked impala
Yellow Blesbok
Copper Blesbok
Painted Blesbok