MLGZoo: African Adventures

 

My Little Garden Zoo 2023 continues with animal species who call Africa home.  Additions will continue to be made as the season progresses.  The 18 species previously presented on Sunday, April 30 in the Asian Trail section are now joined by 18 species from across Africa.  Sections of MLGZoo also represent Australia, and the Americas.  Images of those species will be forth coming throughout the month of May.

GRANT'S PLAINS ZEBRA

Equus quagga boehmi

RANGE

There are 3 species of zebra: Grevyi, Quagga, and Zebra.  The most common are the Quagga or which there are 6 subspecies, and the Grant's Zebra is one.

Zambia, Zaire, Tanzania, Kenya and Ethiopia

CONSERVATION STATUS

COMMON WARTHOG

Phacochoerus africanus

RANGE

Green: known range, Taupe: possible range

Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Congo, Central African Republic, Southern Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Zaire, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana, Namibia, and Angola

CONSERVATION STATUS

COMMON HIPPOPOTAMUS

Hippopotamus amphibius

RANGE

All major river systems across sub-Saharan Africa

CONSERVATION STATUS

SOUTHERN WHITE RHINOCEROS

Ceratotherium simum simum

RANGE

Brown: original range, Green: introduced range, Blue: colonizing range certain, Black: colonizing range uncertain

South Africa, Namibia, Botswana,Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Mozambique, Zambia and Kenya (Senegal and Cote d'Ivoire uncertain)

CONSERVATION STATUS

AFRICAN LION

Panthera leo

RANGE

colonized presence in India, spread across all of sub-Saharan Africa

CONSERVATION STATUS

CHEETAH

Acinonyx jubatus

RANGE

4 subspecies of Cheetah, A. j. jubatus is the nominate subspecies in blue

Angola, Namibia, Botswana, South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania and Kenya

CONSERVATION STATUS

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Asian Cheetah, Acinonyx jubatus venaticus, was down to 12 individuals as recently as 2022.  It's extinction is eminent.

WESTERN LOWLAND GORILLA

Gorilla g. gorilla

RANGE

4 subspecies of Gorilla, Western Lowland Gorilla range in red

Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, the Gabon, Congo and Zaire

CONSERVATION STATUS

COMMON CHIMPANZEE

Pan t. troglodytes

RANGE

4 subspecies of Chimpanzee, Common Chimpanzee in rust

Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, the Gabon and Congo

CONSERVATION STATUS

RING-TAILED LEMUR

Lemur catta

RANGE

Madagascar

CONSERVATION STATUS

RETICULATED GIRAFFE

Giraffa reticulata

RANGE

9 subspecies of Giraffe, the Reticulated Giraffe in the Green

Kenya and Ethiopia

CONSERVATION STATUS

OKAPI

Okapi johnstoni

RANGE

Zaire

CONSERVATION STATUS

EASTERN MOUNTAIN BONGO

Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci

RANGE

Kenya

CONSERVATION STATUS

THOMSON'S GAZELLE

Eudorcas thomsonii

RANGE

Tanzania and Kenya

CONSERVATION STATUS

FOUR-TOED HEDGEHOG

Atelerix albiventris

RANGE

Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Niger, Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia

CONSERVATION STATUS

SLENDER-TAILED MEERKAT

Suricata suricatta

RANGE

Roughly the same as the Cape Ratel

South Africa, Botswana and Namibia

CONSERVATION STATUS

CAPE RATEL [HONEY BADGER]

Mellivora capensis

RANGE

12 Subspecies of Ratel are combined on this map

South Africa, Botswana and Namibia

CONSERVATION STATUS

AFRICAN WILD DOG

Lycaon pictus

RANGE

Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Central African Republic, Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Senegal

CONSERVATION STATUS

FENNEC FOX

Vulpes zerda

RANGE

Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Algeria, Tunisia, Niger, Libya, Chad, Sudan and Egypt

CONSERVATION STATUS