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Selected Mammal List of the Kibale Forest


Photo: Colin Chapman

Primates
Galago thomasi
Galago matschiei
Potto ( Peridictus potto )
Red Colobus (Piliocolobus tephrosceles )
Black and White Colobus ( Colobus guereza )
Redtail Monkey ( Cercopithecus ascanius )
Blue Monkey ( Cercopithecus mitis )
L'hoesti Monkey ( Cercopithecus lhoesti )
Vervet Monkey ( Cercopithecus aethiops )
Grey-cheeked Mangabey ( Lophocebus albigena johnstoni )
Olive Baboon ( Papio anubis )
Chimpanzee ( Pan troglodytes )
Note Prosimian taxonomy according to Simon Bearder
Red Colobus name follows advice of Colin Groves

Pachyderms and Ungulates
African Elephants ( Loxodonta africana )
Hippopotamus ( Hippopotamus amphibius )
Buffalo ( Synerus caffer )
Waterbuck ( Kobus ellipsiprymnus )
Bushbuck ( Tragelaphus scriptus )
Sitatunga ( Tragelaphus spekei )
Giant Forest Hog ( Hylochoerus meinertzhageni )
Bush Pig ( Potomochoerus porcus )
Warthog ( Phacochoerus aethiopicus )
Red Duiker ( Cephalophus harveyi )
Blue Duiker ( Cephalophus moniticola )
Carnivores
Lion ( Panthera leo )
Leopard ( Panthera pardus )
Serval Cat ( Felis serval )
Side-Striped Jackal ( Canis adustus )
Spotted Hyena ( Crocuta crocuta )
Zirilla ( Ictonyx striatus )
Honey Badger ( Mellivora capensis )
Congo Clawless Otter ( Aonyx congica )
African Civet ( Viverra civetta )
African Palm Civet ( Nandinia binotata )
Genet ( Genetta sp. )
Marsh mongoose ( Atilax paludinosus )
Egyptian Mongoose ( Herpestes ichneumon )
Slender Mongoose ( Atilax paludinosus )
Long-snouted Mongoose ( Herpestes naso )
Dark Mongoose ( Crossarchus obscurus )
Banded Mongoose ( Mungo mungo )
Black-Legged Mongoose ( Bdeogale nigripes )

Rodents
Muridae
Cricetomyes gambianus
Dendromus mystacalis
Hybomys univittatus
Hylomyscus stella
Lemniscomy striatus
Lophuromus flavopunctatus
Lophuromys sikapusi
Malacomys longipes
Mus minutoides
Praomys jacksoni
Rattus ratus (exotic)
Tatera vilida
Thamnomus dolichurus
Thamnomys rutilans
Gliridae
Graphiurus murinus
Sciuridae
Thomas's Tree Squirrel (