A lot of people have asked what animals we saw in Africa. It would probably be easier to list what we didn’t see. But here’s the list of what we did see:
Lions
Leopards
Cheetahs
African Wildcats
Genet
Ardwolves
Serval
Melanistic serval
Rothschild giraffes
Masai giraffes
Reticulated giraffes
White rhinos
Black rhinos
Hippos
River otters
Elephants
Wildebeests
Cape Buffalos
Common Zebra
Grevy’s Zebra
Warthogs
Spotted hyenas
Striped hyenas
Brown hyenas
Jackals
Bat eared foxes
Tree hyraxes
Rock hyraxes
Bush babies
African Savannah Hare
Spring Hare
Honey badgers
Banded mongooses
White-tailed mongooses
Swamp rat
Nile Grass rat
Rock python
Boa constrictor
Black mamba (crushed on a road)
Agama Lizards
Nile monitor lizards
Savannah lizards
Leopard tortoises
Geckos
Palmetto gecko
Namaqua chameleon
Shovel Snouted Lizard
Terrapins
Bright eyed madagascar frog
White lady spider (cartwheel spider)
Nile Crocodiles
Oryxes
Waterbucks
KlipSpringers
Dik diks
Coke Hartebeest
Jackson’s Hartebeests
Kudus
Lesser Kudus
Steenboks
Topis
Elands
Thompson gazelles
Grant gazelles
Impalas
Red Lechwes
Gorillas
Gelado baboons
Baboons
Black faced vervets
Vervet monkeys
Colobus monkeys
Sykes monkey
Indri lemurs
Dwarf lemurs
Mouse lemurs
Bamboo lemurs
Brown lemurs
Fork marked lemurs
Red-tailed sportive lemurs
Red fronted brown lemurs
Verreaux sifakas (white lemurs)
Golden Sifakas
Birds
Ostriches
Kori Bustards
Secretary Birds
African fish eagles
Gray snake eagle
Martial eagles
Long crested eagles
Lesser spotted Eagle
Black-chester snake Eagle
Wahlberg’s Eagle
Bataleur eagles
Tawny Eagle
saddleback stork
Maribou Stork
Yellow-billed Stork
blacksmith lapwing
White-crowned lapwing
red bill hornbills
Yellow-billed hornbills
African gray hornbill
White-crowned hornbill
Von der Decken’s Hornbill
Helmeted guinea fowl
lilac breasted roller
Cuckoo roller
Purple roller
gabar goshawk
Eastern chanting Goshawk
southern pale chanting goshawk
purple roller
Broad-billed roller
cape classic starling
Superb Starling
Wattled starling
Burchell’s Starling
Ruppell’s Starling
Red-winged Starling
greater spotted cuckoo
Black crowned Tchagra
red crested coran
african spoonbill
African collared dove
Lennar falcon
Eleonara’s falcons
Black-winged kites
Black Kite
Lappet faced vultures
White faced vultures
Hooded Vulture
Palm-nut vulture
Crowned cranes
Vulturerine guinea fowl
Guinea fowl
White headed buffalo weaver
Yellow headed weaver
Grosbeak weaver
European Bee Eater
Olive Bee Eater
Little Bee Eater
Fork-tailed Drongo
Red billed buffalo weaver
Speke’s weaver
Long tailed shrike
Red headed francolin
Gray headed kingfisher
Madagascar pygmy kingfisher
Woodland Kingfisher
Malachite Kingfisher
Giant Kingfisher
Pied Kingfisher
Madagascar wagtail
Cape wagtail
White-face whistling duck
Malagasy kestrel
Black Bulbul
White-browed coucal
Black coucal
Senegal Coucal
Coppery-tailed Coucal
Black Crake
Green Woodhoopoe
common Hoopoe
Rosy-patched Bushshrike
Red-billed Firefinch
Lesser Vasa Parrot
Egyptian Goose
Spur-winged Goose
Little egret
Great Egret
Western Cattle Egret
Goliath Heron
Gray Heron
Black Headed Heron
Black-crowned night heron
White-backed Night heron
Squacco Heron
Purple Heron
African Paradise flycatcher
Malagasy paradise flycatcher
Mascarene Paradise flycatcher
Blue Coua
Madagascar Blue Pigeon
Purple grenadier
White-browed robin chat
Southern Anteater Chat
Hybrid lovebird
Rosy-faced lovebird
Gray-headed lovebird
Great Cormorant
Reed Cormorant
Mourning Doves
Black Ringed Neck Doves
Laughing Dove
Emerald Spotted Wood-Dove
Wachtels
Crested Plovers
Tulaco (Gray go-Away) birds
White headed vultures
Lappet-faced vulture
African sacred Ibis
Hadada Ibis
Auger Buzzard
Lizard Buzzard
White-crowned fiscal shrike
Red-billed woodpecker
Mountain gray Woodpecker
White-headed vanga
Madagascar blue vanga
Rufous vanga
Long-billed Bernieria
Madagascar Magpie-Robin
Malagasy Bulbul
Blue Crane
Mute Swan
Nicobar Pigeon
Rock Pigeon
Fischer’s Lovebird
Senegal Parrot
Meyer’s Parrot
Black-crowned Tchagra
Crimson-breasted Gonolek
Shaft-tailed Whydah
Yellow-throated sandgrouse
Burchell’s sandgrouse
Swainson’s spurfowl
Red-billed Spurfowl
Great spotted Cuckoo
Familiar Chat
Cape Sparrow
White Stork
Saddle-billed Stork
Common Myna
Red-tailed Tropicbird
White-tailed Tropicbird
Seychelles Fody
Red Fody
Seychelles Bulbul
Red-whiskered Bulbul
Desert cisticola
Rattling Cisticola
African crake
Square-tailed Nightjar
African Pipit
African Darter
Western Barn Owl
Verreaux’s Eagle-owl
Great White Pelican
African Harrier-Hawk
Anhinga
African Jacana
Abyssinian Thrush
Underwater sightings
electric eel
moray eel
sand fish
needle fish
green turtles
eagle ray
Stingray
white tip shark
Nurse shark
Also whale spouts
So that’s 264 animals. Below are another 16 animals that I didn’t include in the total.
Domestic Animals
Camels
Donkeys
horses
Cows
Sheep
Goats
Dogs
Cats
Plus the following at animal rescue facilities Wild Dogs, Caracal, Civet, Zonkey, Van Hornel chameleon, egg eater snake, tomato frogs and bonobos.