8 January 2012
Mammals I saw in South Africa
Posted by Callan Bentley
Elephant shrew
Epauletted fruit bat
Savannah baboon
Vervet monkey
Scrub hare
Tree squirrel
Woodland (?) dormouse
Unidentified rat
Cape porcupine (as roadkill only)
Black-backed jackal
Wild dog
Banded mongoose
Dwarf mongoose
Small-spotted genet
Spotted hyena
African wild cat
Lion
Leopard
African elephant
Rock hyrax (dassie)
Plains zebra
Square-lipped (white) rhinoceros
Common warthog
Hippopotamus
Giraffe
African buffalo
Greater kudu
Bushbuck
Waterbuck
Blue wildebeest
Bontebok
Impala
Springbok
Kilpspringer
Steenbok
Common duiker
Cape fur seal
(Some kind of) dolphin
Callan Bentley is Associate Professor of Geology at Piedmont Virginia Community College in Charlottesville, Virginia. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America. For his work on this blog, the National Association of Geoscience Teachers recognized him with the James Shea Award. He has also won the Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council on Higher Education in Virginia, and the Biggs Award for Excellence in Geoscience Teaching from the Geoscience Education Division of the Geological Society of America. In previous years, Callan served as a contributing editor at EARTH magazine, President of the Geological Society of Washington and President the Geo2YC division of NAGT.
I’m pleased to see that the African porcupines can’t make it across the street any better than ours.
You seem to be real renaissance man. Will you post lists of rocks and minerals and maybe constellations also?