Kruger Safari — Part Deux

Last safari post, I promise… Megan and I tried to keep track of everything we saw in Kruger. OK, OK, Megan wrote everything down and I pestered her about the new stuff. Ultimately, we came up with the following list of animals and birds. I’m 100% confident we missed some, particularly the antelope and the birds. There were so many birds…. (I didn’t count stuff we only saw at the rehab center).

African wild cat
Antelope of various kinds, including
- Duiker
- Impala (known as the McDonalds of the bush, both because of their availability and the “M” on their butts)
- Klipspringer
- Kudu
- Nyala
- Sharpe’s grysbok
- Springbok
- Steenbok
- Waterbok
Baboon
Birds of various kinds, including
- Blue heron
- Cormorant
- Eagle owl
- Egret
- Egyptian goose
- Fish eagle
- Franklin
- Glossy starling
- Gray laurie
- Hamerkop
- Lilac breasted roller
- Long-tailed shrike
- Nightjar
- Oxpicker
- Red billed hornbill
- Red billed woodpeckers
- Saddle bill stork
- Spotted eagle owl
- Tawny eagle
- Vultures
- Yellow billed hornbill

Buffalo
Bush baby (yes, this is a real thing — they are very small nocturnal primates)
Chameleon
Cheetah
Civit (nocturnal cat-like creature)
Crocodile
Elephant
Spotted genet (another cat-like creature)
Giraffe
Hippo
Honey badger
Jackal
Leopard (OK, the one we saw was hand-raised and in a pen, but I’m still counting it)
Lion
Mongoose
Porcupine
Rhino
Rock rabbit
Scrub hare
Squirrel
Warthog
Wildebeest
Vervet monkey
Zebra