
Botswana Mammal List
The list of mammals found in Botswana is simply surprising considering that 70% of the country is covered by the Kalahari desert. It is in the Okavango and Chobe regions that wildlife flourishes on a scale rarely match on the continent.
With 164 mammal species having been recorded ranging from the huge African elephant all the way down to the small elephant shrew. Of the 164 species found only 12 of those make the critically endangered to the near-threatened list; this points to exceptionally good wildlife management on behalf of the Botswanan people and government.
We have only included 66 out of the 164 in the below list as these are the mammals one has the best chance of viewing, the other animals that have been left out are the smaller critters for example; rodents, bats, and shrews that are all likely to go unnoticed.
Checklist of mammals in Botswana
Aardvark Aardwolf African Wild Cat African Elephant Banded Mongoose Bat-eared Fox Black Rhinoceros Black-backed Jackal Blue Wildebeest Buffalo Burchell's Zebra Bushbuck Bushpig Cape Clawless Otter Cape Hare Caracal Chacma Baboon Cheetah Civet Common Duiker Common Reedbuck Dwarf Mongoose |
Red Duiker Roan Antelope Eland Giraffe Greater Cane-Rat Grey Rhebok Hippopotamus Honey Badger Impala Klipspringer Kudu Large Grey Mongoose Large-spotted Genet Leopard Lesser Bushbaby Lichtenstein's Hartebeest Lion Natal Multimammate Mouse Nyala Oribi Pangolin Peter's Epauletted Bat |
Porcupine Rock Dassie Sable Antelope Serval Sharpe's Grysbok Side-striped Jackal Slender Mongoose Small-spotted Genet Spotted Hyaena Springhare Steenbok Striped Polecat Suni Thick-tailed Bushbaby Tree Squirrel Tsessebe Vervet Monkey Warthog Water Mongoose Waterbuck White Rhinoceros Wild Dog |
- Departure; Scheduled and tailor-made departure dates
- Duration; 15 Day Botswana Safari
- Lodging; Semi Participation Camping Safari
- Group Size; Maximum 12
- Note: Travel insurance is compulsory for all safaris
- Departure; Scheduled and tailor-made departure dates
- Duration; 11 Day Botswana Safari
- Lodging; Luxury Tented Mobile Safaris
- Group Size; Maximum 12
- Note: Travel insurance is compulsory for all safaris
- Departure; Daily; Scheduled or Tailor-Made
- Duration; 3 Days/ 2 Nights
- Lodging; Mobile Camping
- Group Size; Minimum 2
- Minimum age; Eight years old
- Note: Travel insurance is compulsory for all safaris
- Departure; Scheduled and tailor-made departure dates
- Duration; 15 Day Botswana Safari
- Lodging; Semi Participation Camping Safari
- Group Size; Maximum 12
- Note: Travel insurance is compulsory for all safaris
- Departure; Scheduled and tailor-made departure dates
- Duration; 9 Day Botswana Safari
- Lodging; Luxury Tented Mobile Safaris
- Group Size; Maximum 12
- Note: Travel insurance is compulsory for all safaris