Animals in Botswana: What You Can Spot, Learn, and Collect
Botswana wildlife guide: Okavango Delta mokoro trips with hippos and lechwe, Chobe's river elephants, wild dogs in Moremi, Makgadikgadi meerkats and the zebra migration.
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Botswana is elephant and water country. Chobe's riverfront holds the densest elephant population in Africa, the Okavango Delta's channels are full of hippos, crocodiles, red lechwe and fish eagles, and Moremi is one of the best places on the continent for African wild dogs and leopards. In the dry Makgadikgadi pans you can sit with habituated meerkats and watch southern Africa's largest zebra migration.
Botswana chose low-volume, high-value tourism and kept most of its wilderness unfenced, so the animals still move on their old routes. The Okavango floods from the Angolan highlands, arriving in the dry season when everything else is parched, and the game concentrates on its edges. Explore it from a mokoro, a poled canoe at water level, and the hippos, kingfishers and jacanas are at eye height.
Chobe in the north-east is the elephant river: in the late dry season herds of hundreds come down to drink and swim in the late afternoon, best seen from a boat. The Kalahari side is different again, with black-maned lions, brown hyenas and the meerkat colonies of the Makgadikgadi salt pans.
Kenapa lokasi ini penting
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Botswana holds about 130,000 elephants, roughly a third of all that remain in Africa, and the Okavango Delta is a UNESCO World Heritage wetland that has stayed almost pristine. Seeing both is seeing the continent's wildlife as it was.
It is also the stronghold of the African wild dog, Africa's most endangered large carnivore, with Moremi and the Linyanti among the few places where packs are seen regularly rather than by luck.
Tempat mencari
Peta satwa liar Botswana
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Hewan untuk di-spot
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African Bush ElephantS
Chobe's riverfront has the highest elephant density in Africa, with herds swimming the river to Sedudu Island in the afternoon; the Okavango and Linyanti herds are almost as big.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed at Chobe in the dry season, hundreds at a time on boat cruises.
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HippopotamusB
Pods fill the Okavango lagoons and channels and grunt all night outside the camps; mokoro polers know every pool to avoid.
Catatan spotting: Near-certain in the Delta and along the Chobe.
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CrocodileC
Big Nile crocodiles bask on the Chobe and Okavango sandbanks and ambush lechwe at the channel crossings.
Catatan spotting: Common on riverbanks; watch any water edge.
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African Wild DogA
Moremi, Khwai and the Linyanti hold some of the most-watched packs in Africa, denning in the winter months and hunting impala at dawn and dusk.
Catatan spotting: Realistic over several days in Moremi or Khwai; June to August denning season is best.
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LionB
Delta prides have learnt to hunt buffalo in the shallows and swim between islands; the Kalahari's black-maned lions roam the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.
Catatan spotting: Common in Moremi, Savuti and the Delta concessions.
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LeopardB
Moremi's riverine forest along the Khwai river is leopard habitat at its best, with cats draped in sausage trees above the tracks.
Catatan spotting: Regular along the Khwai; the Delta is among Africa's best leopard areas.
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Southern LechweC
Red lechwe splash across the Okavango floodplains in herds, bounding through knee-deep water where predators struggle to follow.
Catatan spotting: Abundant across the Delta floodplains.
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Plains ZebraB
Tens of thousands migrate between the Boteti river and the Makgadikgadi and Nxai pans with the rains, one of the longest land migrations in Africa.
Catatan spotting: Common year-round; the pans in December to March for the migration.
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MeerkatD
Habituated colonies on the edge of the Makgadikgadi pans near Jack's Camp and Planet Baobab let you sit with the group while a sentry uses your head as a lookout post.
Catatan spotting: Reliable on guided meerkat walks in the Makgadikgadi.
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Cape BuffaloB
Herds of a thousand cross the Chobe floodplain and the Okavango islands, trailed by Delta lions.
Catatan spotting: Common in the north; big herds in the dry season.
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African Fish EagleB
The call of Africa, heard over every Okavango lagoon, with pairs perched on dead trees above the channels and snatching bream from the surface.
Catatan spotting: Abundant across the Delta and Chobe.
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Carmine Bee-eaterD
Thousands nest in the sand cliffs of the Linyanti and Chobe rivers from September, erupting in pink clouds as boats pass.
Catatan spotting: Seasonal, September to November, spectacular at the colonies.
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African JacanaD
The lily-trotter walks on floating leaves beside every mokoro, picking insects from the water lilies.
Catatan spotting: Very common in the Delta from a mokoro.
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Malachite KingfisherD
A tiny blue-and-orange kingfisher perched low on papyrus stems along every Okavango channel, usually noticed only from a slow boat.
Catatan spotting: Common from a mokoro if you scan the reed edge.
Baca panduan spesiesPaling cocok untuk
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- Safari travellers who want water-based game viewing from boats and mokoros.
- Predator fans; Moremi and Khwai are prime wild dog and leopard country.
- Photographers at the Chobe riverfront in the late dry season.
- Families who want the Makgadikgadi meerkat walk and the salt-pan night sky.
Tips spotting
Tips ini dibuat agar halaman ini benar-benar berguna di lapangan, bukan hanya enak dibaca di layar.
- 01Combine a dry-land camp in Moremi or Khwai with a water camp in the inner Delta; the species lists are very different.
- 02Take the afternoon boat cruise on the Chobe from Kasane between August and October for the elephant swims.
- 03From a mokoro, stay quiet and low; the poler will show you painted reed frogs, jacanas and sitatunga tracks you would never see from a vehicle.
- 04Khwai and the Linyanti allow night drives, which is when the honey badgers, civets and genets appear.
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What wildlife is there in Botswana?
Elephants in huge numbers, hippos, crocodiles, lions, leopards, cheetahs, African wild dogs, buffalo, giraffes, zebra, red lechwe, sitatunga and over 590 bird species including fish eagles, carmine bee-eaters and Pel's fishing owl. The Kalahari adds meerkats, brown hyenas and black-maned lions.
What animals can be found in Botswana?
The Big Five minus abundant rhino (small reintroduced populations exist), plus Botswana specialities: red lechwe and sitatunga in the Okavango, African wild dogs in Moremi, the Makgadikgadi zebra migration and habituated meerkats on the salt pans.
When is the best time to visit the Okavango Delta?
June to October, when the flood is high but the land is dry, so animals crowd the water and mokoro trips run everywhere. November to March is hot and wet with newborn animals and migrant birds, and the zebra are on the Makgadikgadi pans.
Is Botswana good for seeing wild dogs?
It is one of the best countries in Africa for them. Moremi Game Reserve, the Khwai concession and the Linyanti hold resident packs, and June to August, when they den, gives the most predictable sightings.
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