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Eastern Rock Elephant Shrew
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The total body of the Eastern Rock Elephant Shrew measures 260 mm and the tail is longer than the head and body length and it weighs about 60 grams. The tail is less hairy...
African Giant Pouched Rat
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The African Giant Pouched Rat is generally considered to be the Gambian Pouched Rat [Cricetomys gambianu] which has been separated as a species from the Southern Giant Pouched Rat...
Side-striped Jackal
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The Side Striped Jackal is a nocturnal, dog-like carnivore, with a head and body length of 650-800 mm and tail length of 300-400 mm. Shoulder height 400- 500 mm, mass 7-12 kg. Timid and rarely seen...
Red Lechwe
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Three subspecies of lechwe occur in southern Africa. The red lechwe, Kobus leche leche, occurs in separate populations in western Zambia, northern Botswana and the eastern Caprivi...
Banded Mongoose
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) males are only heavier than females during the immature stages. In adulthood both sexes are similar in size and mass...
Dwarf Mongoose
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The Common Dwarf Mongoose (Helogale parvula) is the smallest of the mongoose family, and both males and females weigh only 350-400 gr. Total length is 250mm...
Slender Mongoose
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Slender Mongoose (Galerella sanguinea), also known as the Black-tipped Mongoose or the Black-tailed Mongoose. Slender Mongoose females attain a mass of 575 gr. and are smaller...
White-Tailed Mongoose
Africa Mammals Guide Information: White-tailed Mongoose [Ichneumia albicauda] No size difference exists between the sexes, which are physically similar in appearance. Body length measures 1.1 m and the mass is 4.3 kg...
Yellow Mongoose
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Yellow Mongoose. Total length is 400-600 mm, with a tail length of 180-250 mm. Mass is about 450-900 g. Has a triangular shaped face with a pointed snout. When running the tail...
Hippo
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The Hippo is a massive, semi-aquatic mammal with a mass of up to 2,5 tonnes. It is able to walk under water on the river bed, and can remain submerged for five minutes...
Small Grey Mongoose
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Small Grey Mongoose. Males are larger than females at 500 - 1000 gr. Total body length varies from 550 mm to 690 mm. Tail length between 200-340 mm. The body is uniform light to dark...
Red Hartebeest
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The Red Hartebeest is a large, reddish-fawn antelope with sloping back and long narrow face. Both sexes have heavily ringed horns. Of the 12 subspecies described in Africa...
Spring Hare
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The vernacular name of this creature is misleading, since the Spring Hare is in fact a rodent, and not a hare. Springhares are to some degree used as food by African people...
Scrub Hare
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The Scrub Hare is larger in the south-western parts of the range (2.7-4.5 kg) than further north (1.5-3.2 kg). The upper parts are a grizzled-grey and the under parts white...
Cape Hare
Africa Mammals Guide Information: There are twelve sub-species of the Cape Hare found throughout Africa. The female Cape Hare is slightly larger than the male. Their mass varies from between 1.5 – 2.5 kg...
Monkey
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Unlike many tropical African countries, there are only two monkey species in South Africa, namely the vervet and the samango monkey. Both are fruit eating tree dwellers as a consequence of which...
Sharpes Grysbok
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Sharpe's Grysbok is a shy antelope, which is slightly smaller than the Cape Grysbok, and which has a thick-set body and a rich rufous-coloured coat. It stands 500 mm at the shoulder...
Vervet Monkey
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Males have a mass of 6kg and measure 1.1 m in length, whereas females are slightly smaller and weigh only 4kg. Vervet Monkeys have a silver-grey body with a marked black face...
Cape Grysbok
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The Cape Grysbok is a small, shy antelope with a thick-set body and a coarse coat of hair. A mingling of white and reddish hair on the back and sides gives this species a grizzled, reddish...
Cape Otter
Africa Mammals Guide Information: The Cape Clawless Otter measures 1,3 m in length and weighs about 13 kg. Except for the belly, throat, cheeks and upper lip, which are all white...
 
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