Animals in Cape Town: What You Can Spot, Learn, and Collect
Cape Town wildlife guide: Boulders Beach penguins, Hout Bay fur seals, Table Mountain dassies, southern right whales in False Bay and the kelp-forest octopus.
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Cape Town is the only big city with a penguin colony on a swimming beach. Boulders Beach near Simon's Town has around 2,000 African penguins; Cape fur seals crowd Duiker Island off Hout Bay and the V&A Waterfront jetties; rock hyraxes (dassies) sun themselves on Table Mountain; southern right whales calve in False Bay from June to November; and great white sharks, bronze whalers, dolphins and the kelp-forest octopus live in the cold water around the peninsula. Cape Point has bontebok, eland, ostrich and baboons.
The Cape Peninsula is a national park with a city attached. Table Mountain National Park runs from the cableway down to Cape Point, and fynbos, cliffs and two oceans meet within a half-hour drive of the centre. That gives Cape Town a wildlife list no other city can match: a penguin colony, a whale nursery, a seal island, a mountain full of dassies and sunbirds, and the kelp forests that made My Octopus Teacher.
In the suburbs, helmeted guineafowl march across lawns, Egyptian geese nest on office roofs, sacred ibis stalk the sports fields and hadedas scream at dawn. Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden on the mountain's eastern slope is the best place in the city for sugarbirds, sunbirds and spotted eagle-owls.
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The African penguin has crashed by more than 90 percent in a century and Boulders is one of its few growing colonies, right next to a town. Visiting on the boardwalk, and not on the beach where the birds nest, is how the public helps keep it that way.
False Bay is also where shark science and whale recovery meet: southern right whales have come back from near-extinction to calve in sight of the shore, while the great whites that made Seal Island famous have largely moved on since 2017, a change visitors can watch being studied.
Tempat mencari
Peta satwa liar Cape Town
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Hewan untuk di-spot
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African PenguinD
The Boulders Beach colony at Simon's Town nests in the granite boulders and swims with bathers at Foxy Beach, viewed from the SANParks boardwalk; a second colony is at Stony Point in Betty's Bay.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed at Boulders year-round.
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SealB
Cape fur seals pack Duiker Island off Hout Bay, reached by a short boat trip, and loaf on the V&A Waterfront jetties; snorkelling with them is offered from Hout Bay.
Catatan spotting: Guaranteed at Hout Bay and the Waterfront.
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Rock HyraxD
Dassies sun themselves on the rocks at the top of the Table Mountain cableway and around the Cape Point lighthouse, used to people but quick to vanish.
Catatan spotting: Near-certain at the upper cable station on a sunny day.
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Great White SharkA
False Bay's Seal Island was the world's great white hotspot until 2017; the sharks are now scarce there, and cage-diving operators out of Gansbaai and Simon's Town mostly see bronze whalers with occasional whites.
Catatan spotting: Rare in False Bay now; Gansbaai, two hours east, has better odds.
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Southern Right WhaleA
Mothers and calves rest in False Bay and off the Atlantic seaboard from June to November, visible from Boyes Drive, Clarence Drive and the Cape Point road.
Catatan spotting: Common from land in winter and spring; September is peak.
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Dusky DolphinA
Pods ride the cold Atlantic water off Hout Bay and Cape Point and are seen from the Duiker Island boats and the Cape Point cliffs.
Catatan spotting: Regular offshore; more often from boats than from shore.
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Common OctopusD
The kelp forests of False Bay, where My Octopus Teacher was filmed, hide octopus in dens among the boulders at Windmill Beach and Miller's Point for snorkellers in 12-degree water.
Catatan spotting: Regular for patient snorkellers and divers in the kelp.
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BontebokB
The Cape Point section of the park holds a herd of this once nearly extinct antelope, grazing the fynbos near the Olifantsbos and Buffels Bay roads.
Catatan spotting: Regular at Cape Point.
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OstrichB
Wild ostriches walk the beaches and fynbos of Cape Point and are often photographed against the Atlantic surf at Olifantsbos.
Catatan spotting: Common at Cape Point.
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Cape Dwarf ChameleonE
A small chameleon of Cape Town gardens and fynbos, found on garden shrubs in the southern suburbs and at Kirstenbosch at night by torchlight.
Catatan spotting: Common but very hard to see; a torch at night helps.
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Angulate TortoiseE
Grazes the fynbos of Cape Point and the West Coast and crosses the roads on warm mornings; the most common tortoise on the peninsula.
Catatan spotting: Regular at Cape Point in spring and summer.
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Helmeted GuineafowlD
Flocks patrol the southern suburbs, Kirstenbosch lawns and golf courses, calling loudly at dusk.
Catatan spotting: Abundant in the suburbs.
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Egyptian GooseD
Nests on rooftops, roundabouts and the Company's Garden ponds, and honks over the city at dawn.
Catatan spotting: Abundant everywhere there is grass and water.
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Sacred IbisD
Stalks sports fields, Rondebosch Common and the Rietvlei wetland, and roosts in the Zandvlei reedbeds.
Catatan spotting: Common on open grass across the city.
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- City-break travellers who want wildlife without a safari: penguins, seals and whales in a weekend.
- Snorkellers and cold-water divers exploring the False Bay kelp forests.
- Hikers on Table Mountain and the Cape Point trails with birds and dassies along the way.
- Families; Boulders, the Two Oceans Aquarium and Hout Bay seals are all easy with children.
Tips spotting
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- 01Arrive at Boulders before 9am or after 4pm; the penguins are most active, the light is better and the boardwalk is quieter.
- 02In whale season, drive Boyes Drive above Muizenberg or Clarence Drive past Gordon's Bay and stop at the lay-bys with binoculars.
- 03Snorkel the kelp at Windmill Beach at high tide on a calm day with a thick wetsuit; octopus, pyjama sharks and cuttlefish live in the boulders.
- 04Do not feed the Cape Point baboons and keep car windows up; they have learned to open doors.
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What wildlife is there in Cape Town?
African penguins at Boulders Beach, Cape fur seals at Hout Bay and the Waterfront, rock hyraxes on Table Mountain, southern right whales and dolphins in False Bay, great white and bronze whaler sharks offshore, octopus and reef life in the kelp forests, and bontebok, eland, ostrich and chacma baboons at Cape Point.
What animals can be found in Cape Town?
No big game inside the city, but a long list of coastal and mountain species: penguins, seals, whales, dolphins, sharks, several antelope at Cape Point, baboons, porcupines, caracals (occasionally in the suburbs), tortoises, chameleons and over 300 bird species including sugarbirds, sunbirds and spotted eagle-owls.
When can you see whales in Cape Town?
Southern right whales are in False Bay and along the Atlantic coast from June to November, with August to October the peak; humpbacks pass in spring and summer. Hermanus, 90 minutes east, is the best land-based whale watching in the country.
Are there still great white sharks in False Bay?
Far fewer than before. Great whites largely disappeared from Seal Island after 2017, probably because of orca predation on sharks, and cage-diving trips now mostly see bronze whaler sharks. Gansbaai, two hours away, still has occasional great whites.
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