Animal Checklist

Animal Checklist

Here's a list of animals found in the Masai Mara Ecosystem.

The Glory of Nature

  • Bush babies
  • Galago, Large-eared greater
  • Primates
  • Baboon
  • Blue Monkey
  • Red-tailed monkey
  • Vervet monkey
  • Dogs jackals and foxes
  • Hunting dog (wild dog, painted hunting dog)
  • Bat-eared fox
  • Black- backed jackal
  • Side-striped jackal
  • Weasels, badgers and otters
  • Honey Badger (Ratel)
  • African Clawless Otter
  • Civets and Genets
  • East African Civet
  • Small-spotted Genet
  • Mongooses
  • Banded
  • Dwarf
  • White-tailed
  • Slender – black-tipped
  • Hyenas
  • Aardwolf
  • Spotted Hyena
  • Striped Hyena
  • Cats
  • Caracal
  • Cheetah
  • Leopard
  • Lion
  • Serval
  • Elephants
  • African Elephant
  • Horses and zebras
  • Common or Burchell’s zebra
  • Rhinoceroses
  • Black Rhino
  • Hyrax
  • Rock Hyrax
  • Aardvark
  • Aardvark (ant bear)
  • Pigs
  • Warthog
  • Hippopotamuses
  • Hippopotamus
  • Giraffe
  • Masai Giraffe
  • Horned Ungulates
  • African Cape Buffalo
  • Bushbuck
  • Kirks Dik-dik
  • Common Eland
  • Grant’s Gazelle
  • Impala
  • Kongoni (Coke’s Hartebeest)
  • Oribi
  • Bohor Reedbuck
  • Steinbok
  • Topi
  • Water Buck (Defassa)
  • Wildebeest (brindled or white
    - bearded Gnu)
  • Pangolins
  • Ground Pangolin
  • Rodents
  • Crested Porcupine
  • Springhare
  • Hares and rabbits
  • Cape Hare
  • Reptiles
  • Nile Crocodile
  • Monitor Lizard
  • Agama (Rock) Lizard