Knysna Turaco

Birds > Rare Birds

The Knysna Turaco (Tauraco corythaix), also celebrated as the Knysna Lourie, is an incomparably magnificent, emerald-green fruit-eating bird native to the ancient coastal and montane forests of South Africa. With its tall rounded green crest tipped in snowy-white,...

Four-striped Grass Mouse

Mammals > Rodents

The Four-striped Grass Mouse (Rhabdomys pumilio), affectionately known across southern Africa as the Striped Field Mouse, is one of the most abundant, conspicuous, and ecologically vital rodents in the sub-continent. Belonging to the family Muridae, this handsome...

Common Flat Lizard

Reptiles > Lizards

The Common Flat Lizard (Platysaurus intermedius) is one of the most widespread and magnificent rock-specialist reptiles of southern Africa’s bushveld. Belonging to the family Cordylidae, this remarkable lizard has undergone extreme morphological flattening,...

Nyala

Mammals > Even-Toed Ungulates

The Nyala (Tragelaphus angasii), also known as the lowland nyala, is an exceptionally beautiful, spiral-horned tragelaphine antelope indigenous to the dense lowland woodlands and riverine thickets of southeastern Africa. First described scientifically in 1849 by...

Cape Fox

Mammals > Carnivorans

OverviewThe Cape Fox (Vulpes chama), also known across southern Africa as the Silver Jackal or Asse, is the only true fox (genus *Vulpes*) native to sub-Saharan Africa. Roaming the vast, sun-baked expanses of the Kalahari, Karoo, and southern African highveld, this...