Tanzania 2016 - Animal checklist

       
 

Missed a few animal species I hoped to find, but with a total of 44 mammalian (and the croc, tortoise and gecko), the trip was OK compared to my FIVE earlier African safaris. All these mammals are easily identifiable, maybe expect for the hyraxes seen from a distance and where there is no ID documentation photos.

T = Tarangire, S = Serengeti, N = Ngorongoro, B = Bagamoyo (coast, including Sadaani NP)

 

 

 

 

Number

 

Common name

 

Latin name

 

Location

 

1 Baboon - Olive Papio anubis T, S
2 Baboon - Yellow
Papio cynocephalus
B
3 Buffalo - Cape  Syncerus caffer caffer T, S ,N
4 Bushbaby - Greater  (night drive + coast) Galago crassicaudatus S
5 Bushbaby - Zanzibar
Galagoides zanzibaricus udzungwensis
B
6 Bushbuck - Imbabala Tragelaphus scriptus N
7 Cheetah - Tanzanian Acinonyx jubatus raineyii  S
8 Dikdik - Kirk's  Madoqua kirkii T, S
9 Eland - East African Taurotragus oryx pattersonianus  S
10 Elephant - African Bush Loxodonta africana  T, S, N
11 Fox - Bat-Eared (night drive) Otocyon megalotis virgatus S
12 Gazelle - Grant's Gazella granti S, N
13 Gazelle - Thompson Gazella thomsonii S, N
14 Genet - Common  (night drive) Genetta genetta S
15 Giraffe - Masai Giraffa tippelskirchi T, S
16 Hare - Cape  (night drive) Lepus capensis S, N
17 Hartebeest - Coke´s  Alcelaphus buselaphus S, N
18 Hippopotamus - East African Hippopotamus amphibius kiboko  S, N, B
19 Hyena - Spotted  Crocuta crocuta  S, N
20 Hyrax - Rock  Procavia capensis  S
21 Hyrax - Yellow-Spotted Rock Heterohyrax brucei T, S
22 Hyrax - Eastern Tree  Dendrohyrax validus S
23 Impala - Common  Aepyceros melampus melampus  T, S
24 Jackal - Black-backed  Canis mesomelas  S, N
25 Jackal - Golden Canis aureus N
26 Leopard - African Panthera pardus pardus  S
27 Lion - Masai Panthera leo nubica  T, S, N
28 Mongoose - Banded  Mungos mungo  S, B
29 Mongoose - Dwarf  Helogale parvula  T, S
30 Mongoose - Egyptian Herpestes ichneumon S
31 Mongoose - White-Tailed  (night drive) Ichneumia albicauda S
32 Mongoose - Slender Galerella sanguinea B
33 Monkey - Vervet  Cercopithecus aethiops  T, S
34 Reedbuck - Bohor  Redunca redunca T, S
35 Rhino - Northern Black Diceros bicornis michaeli N
36 Shrew - Elephant Macroscelidae S
37 Springhare - East African  (night drive) Pedetes surdaster S
38 Squirrel -  Unstriped Ground Xerus rutilus T
39 Steenbok  Raphicerus campestris naumanni  S
40 Topi Damaliscus lunatus S
41 Warthog  Phacochoerus aethiopicus  T, S, N
42 Waterbuck - Common  Kobus ellipsiprymnus T
43 Wildebeest - White-Bearded  Connochaetus taurinus T, S, N
44 Zebra - Grant's   Equus quagga boehmi  T, S, N
45 Crocodile - Nile  Crocodylus niloticus  S, B
46 Tortoise - Leopard
Stigmochelys pardalis
S
47 Gecko - Tropical House Hemidactylus mabouia B