🇿🇲 Animals of Zambia

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 cheetah is the fastest land animal.

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

The giraffe is the tallest land animal.

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

The shoebill is a tall grey wading bird of central African swamps, named for its huge clog-shaped bill.

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.