September 4

The African Animal Alphabet

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By Jemma Brewitt on September 4, 2017

Whale, hello, there!

So, living up to our name, we’ve put together an African animal alphabet. No, we’re not lion – we really did.  Take a look at our quick index to the outrageous and wonderful creatures which inhabit our continent. It’s a little sealy, but hopefully it’ll have you coming to visit them yourself.

Lone lioness sits in the savannah
Photo Credit: Gillian Maskell

The African Animal Alphabet:

Absurd, amusing and ant eating – the aardvark

Aardvark, an odd animal

Bustling through Botswana – the buffalo

A close up of a buffalo

Charming and camouflaged – the cheetah

A cheetah and her cub sitting on a small hill
Photo credit: Bryan Busovicki

Dipping and diving – the dolphin

Dolphins in the clear water of the Maldives
Photo credit: K. Kulikov

Enchanting and enormous – the elephant

A clos-eup of an elephant with a sunset

Fascinating, fabulous and funky – the flamingo

A lesser flamingo wading in the water

Goofy but glamorous – the giraffe and guinea-fowl

A group of giraffe walking in the savannah

A flock of guinea fowl gather around water
Photo credit: Little Ogava

Hilarious and hungry hyena, and heavy and (arguably) handsome hippopotamus

A hyena grinning

Hippo wallowing in the water and mud

Immaculate and inspiring – the impala

Impala at waterhole with red billed buffalo weavers
Photo credit: Villiers Steyn

Jittery and judicious – the jackal

A jackal admiring the birds in green grass

Killer Kingfisher with Keen eyes

Pied kingfisher

Lavish and luxurious – the lion and leopard

A beautiful picture of a leopard walking in the grass

A lion rubs his head in the branches
Photo Credit: Mike Walsh

Mischievous and meddlesome – the meerkats

A cute group of meerkats

Baby meerkat

Naturally nimble – the nyala

A closeup of a nyala int he bush

The backs of Nyala

Outrageous and oh-so-odd – the ostrich

An ostrich in Africa fluffing its feathers

Ostrich in Namibia
Photo credit: Shannon Wild

Puzzling but very precious – the pangolin and penguin

A close up of a penguin in South Africa

A pangolin curls up
Photo credit: Twalu Kalahari Reserve

Quirky and quaint- the quail (in this case, its’ cousins – the francolin and grouse)

A lone quail

Black-Faced Sand Grouse

Robust and rare – the rhino

Rhino walking through long grass in sun light

Sneaky and secretive – the serval

A close-up of a serval

Tranquil in turquoise- the turtle

A turtle swimming with coral reef

Unbelievable and undiscovered – the unicorn (or in this case, something similar)

A horse in Namibia

Vicious and valiant – the vulture

Vultures in Tanzania

Wondrous whale and the whiney wild dog

A whale breaching in Hermanus

A beautiful wild dog walking in the bush

Xenodochial Xenus squirrel

Ground squirrel

Yikes, a Yellow mongoose

A yellow mongoose

Zesty and zippy – the zebra

Zebra drink at the waterhole in Etosha, Namibia

And there we have it, the African Animal Alphabet.

Tell us about your favourite African animal in the comments below.


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Africa, Wildlife


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About the author 

Jemma Brewitt

Jemma's love for nature and culture grew while growing up on her family's dairy farm in the Natal Midlands. Since then she has been a ski lift operator in the Sierra Nevada, an Au Pair in London, an English teacher in Vietnam and is now writing about her favourite continent - Africa.

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