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Writer's pictureMckenzie Sims

African Species List

Dangerous game

Lion

Leopard

African Elephant

Southern White Rhinoceros

Northern White Rhinoceros

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

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

Western Bongo

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 CheetahAfrican 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

Bright Gazelle

Dama Gazelle

Egyptian Dorcas Gazelle

Eritrean Gazelle

Heuglin Gazelle

Isabelline Gazelle

Mongalla Gazelle

Moroccan Dorcas Gazelle

Northern Grant Gazelle

Pelzeln Gazelle

Peters or Tana Gazelle

Red-fronted Gazelle or Korin

Roberts Gazelle

Sahara Dorcas Gazelle

Slender-horned Gazelle

Soemmerring Gazelle

Speke or Flabby-nosed Gazelle

Sudan Soemmerring Gazelle

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

Lelwel Hartebeest

Lichtenstein Hartebeest

Neumann Hartebeest

Swayne Hartebeest

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

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’sZebra – 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

 

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

Hirola or Hunter Antelope

 

 

 

Springbok

Angolan Springbok

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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