🇧🇼 Animals of Botswana

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

The aardwolf is the smallest member of the hyena family and eats almost nothing but termites.

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 cheetah is the fastest land animal.

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

The Egyptian goose is a pale brown waterbird of African rivers, lakes and grassland, marked by a dark ring around each eye.

The giraffe is the tallest land animal.

The greater flamingo is the largest and most widespread flamingo.

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 leopard is a spotted big cat that lives across Africa and Asia in more kinds of country than any other cat.

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

The meerkat is a small mongoose of the dry plains of southern Africa.

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

The spotted hyena is Africa's most common large carnivore and a hunter first, not a scavenger.

The white rhinoceros is the biggest and most social of the five living rhinos.