🇧🇫 Animals of Burkina Faso

The aardvark is a pig-sized burrowing mammal of sub-Saharan Africa.

The African buffalo is a heavy wild ox of sub-Saharan Africa that lives in herds of dozens to thousands and must drink every day.

The African bush elephant is the largest land animal alive.

The African wildcat is a small striped cat of dry Africa and Asia, and the ancestor of every domestic cat.

The caracal is a slim, long-legged cat with black ear tufts, found across Africa and from Arabia to India.

The common ostrich is the largest and heaviest living bird and lays the largest egg.

The hippopotamus spends its days in rivers and lakes and its nights grazing on land.

The honey badger is a stocky, loose-skinned mustelid that roams Africa, Arabia and India.

The lion is the only cat that lives in social groups.

The serval is a slender African cat with the longest legs and largest ears of any cat for its size.