We saw many species of what westerners would call “wild animals.” Some ignored us; others kept their distance. We saw birds, but not the diversity present during the winters in the northern hemisphere, when many species of neotropical migrants winter in the part of Africa we visited.

            The following list provides access to images of animals, almost all ones we took, without regard to where we saw them. The few (uncopyrighted) images from other sources are acknowledged with the image.

♦          Elephants

♦          Lions

♦          Baboons*

♦          Monkeys*

♦          Cheetah*

♦          Leopard

♦          Hyenas*

♦          Serval Cat*

♦          Jackal* - Blackbacked

♦          Giraffes

♦          Wart Hogs*

♦          Rhinoceros* - Black

♦          Hippopotamus*

♦          Zebras*

♦          Cape Buffalo*

♦          Antelope:

            ●          Dikdik*

            ●          Gazelle - Thompsons*

            ●          Springbok*

            ●          Gazelle - Grant's*

            ●          Impala*

            ●          Waterbuck*

            ●          Topi*

            ●          Wildebeest*

            ●          Eland*

♦          Crocodile

♦          Birds

   
    To see some absolutely fanstastic images of animals like we saw, check out this web site (copyrighted by Ross Warner):

http://www.rosswarner.com/safari.shtml

For big cats, check out these outstanding web pages from the Singapore Zoological Gardens:

             http://www.szgdocent.org/cats/a-chetah.htm                               http://www.zoo.com.sg