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WILDLIFE CHECKLIST
 
MAMMALS

INSECTOVORES Insectivora
Hedgehog
Elephant Shrew
Otter Shrew
Four Toed Hedgehog

BATS Chiroptera
Egyptian Fruit Bat
Epauletted Fruit Bats
False Vampire Bat
Leaf Nosed Bats
Mastff Bats
Simple Nosed Bats
Slit Faced Bats
Straw coloured Bat
Tomb Bats
Horseshoe Bats

AARDVARK Tubilidentata
Aardvark

UNGULATES Artiodactyla
Black Lechwe
Blue Duiker
Buffalo
Burchell’s Zebra
Bush Pig
Bushbuck
Common Duiker
Common Waterbuck
Defassa Waterbuck
Eland
Giraffe
Grysbok
Hippopotamus
Impala
Kafue Lechwe
Klipspringer
Kudu
Lichtenstein’s Hartebeest
Oribi
Pangolin
Puku
Red Lechwe
Red forest Duiker
Reedbuck
Roan
Sable
Sharpe’s Grysbok
Sitatunga
Steinbok
Tsessebe
Warthog
Yellow Backed Duiker
Perissodactyla

Black Rhinoceros
Zebra

PRIMATES primates
Blue Monkey
Bush Baby
Chacma Baboon
Colobus Monkey
Grant’s Night Ape
Night Ape
Vervet Monkey
White Nosed Monkey
Yellow Baboon

ELEPHANT elephantidae
African Elephant

HARES Lagomorpha
Red Rock Hare
Cape Hare
Scrub Hare

HYRACOIDEA Procaviidae
Rock Hyrax
Yellow Spotted Dassie
Tree Dassie

CARNIVORES Carnivora
Aard wolf
African Striped weasel
African Wild Cat
Banded Mongoose
Bushy tailed Mongoose
Mellors Mongoose
Caracal
Cheetah
Civet
Clawless Otter
Dwarf Mongoose
Genet
Honey Badger
Large Grey Mongoose
Leopard
Lion
Marsh Mongoose
Palm Civet
Selous’ Mongoose
Serval
Side striped Jackal
Slender Mongoose
Spotted Hyaena
Spotted neck Otter
White-tailed Mongoose
Wild Dog
Zorilla

PHOLIDOTA Manidae
Pangolin
Tree Pangolin

RODENTS rodentia
Black and Red Squirrel
Black Rat
Boehm’s Squirrel
Bush Squirrel
Cane Rat
Climbing Mouse
Doormouse
Fat mouse
Giant Mole Rat
Giant Rat
House mouse
Lesser Cane Rat
Porcupine
Pouched Mouse
Pygmy Mouse
Silvery Mole Rat
Spiny Mouse
Spring Hare
Sun Squirrel
Swamp Rat
Tree Mouse

AMPHIBIANS Amphibia
Clawed Frog
Square Marked Toad
Red Toad
Rain Frog
African Bullfrog
Ridged Frog
Puddle Frog
Grey Tree Frog
Bubbling Kassina
Painted Reed Frog

REPTILES Reptilia
African Marsh Terrapin
Leopard Tortoise
Bell’s Hinged Tortoise
House Gecko
Bibron’s Gecko
Spiny Agama
Blue Headed Tree Agama
Common Flap Necked Chameleon
Rainbow Skink
Striped Skink
Sundevall’s Writhing Skink
Black lined plated Lizard
Common Rough scaled Lizard
Nile Monitor
Savanna Monitor
NileCrocodile
Schlegl’s Blind Snake
African Python
Common House Snake

Cape File Snake
Blotched Wolf Snake
Olive Marsh Snake
Southeastern Green Snake
Variegated Bush Snake
Bark Snake
Striped Grass Snake
Olive Grass Snake
Tiger SnakeBoomslang
Cape Vine Snake
Black Necked Spitting Cobra
Black Mamba
Rhombic Night Adder
Snouted Night Adder
Puff Adder
Gaboon Viper

FISHES Teleostei
Mudsucker
Tiger Fish
Kafue Pike
Moonfish
Giant Nile Perch
Small Nile Perch
Spiny Eel
Giant Catfish
Sharp Toothed Catfish
African Mottled Eel
Electric Catfish
Bulldog
Striped Robber
Rock Catlet
Sardine
Climbing Perch
Banded Bream
Dwarf Bream
Red Breasted Bream
Green Headed Bream
Kariba Bream
Kufue Bream
English Fish
Humped Bream
Yellow Belly Bream
Ostyichthyes

Lungfish
Bichir

INSECTS
Odontata
Dragonflies
Isoptera
Termites
White Ants
Orthoptera

Grasshoppers
Crickets
Dictyoptera

Mantids
Dictyoptera

Cockroaches
Phasmida

Stick Insects
Hemiptera

Bugs
Neuroptera

Lacewings
Antlions
Lepidoptera

Butterflies-
Moths
Coleoptera

Beetles
Hymenoptera

Ants
Bees
Wasps
Diptera

Housefly
Horsefly
Tsetse fly
Mosquito
Robber fly
Hover fly
Bee fly

 

 

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