Rarest Mammal in Kruger?

[Bush Brat]

Nice pics mposthumus!
We have seen Sable twice in Kruger, once with lions chasing it!
The sable and kudu running frantically, seen at Farfield in 2010.



Blackies we have also seen twice, however both times we couldn't get a pic.

[leachy]

i think the rarest mammal in the kruger is

a considerate "jeep jockey"

they are almost on the verge of extinction.....................

[Bush Brat]

Like that one leachy! -O

[Richprins]

The rarest is probably a rat or a bat or something, BB! -O

I'd go with that striped polecat one...I did see one near Orpen on the outside one night!

Nice thread!

Thanks for clearing the Brownie stuff up, Heksie!

[Bushcraft]

There are plenty to consider I think

Aardvark, pangolin, bushpig, caracal, suni, oribi, striped polecat, water mongoose

I would say bushpig out of that

And then there’s

White lion, black leopard, brown hyena

Maybe the black leopard out of those

[Flutterby]

Are there black leopards in SA?

[Bushcraft]

I have seen them in semi - captivity

A melanistic morph of the leopard occurs, particularly in mountainous areas and rain forests. The black colour is heritable and caused by recessive gene loci
In Africa, black leopards are much less common, as melanism is not an adaptive advantage in the savannah. Dark coloration provides poor camouflage and makes hunting difficult. In the dense forests of the Ethiopian Highlands, however, the black leopard is much more common than in Africa generally; as many as one in five leopards may be melanistic.

Pseudo-melanism (abundism) occurs in leopards. A pseudo-melanistic leopard has a normal background colour, but the spots are more densely packed than normal and merge to obscure the golden-brown background colour. Any spots on the flanks and limbs that have not merged into the mass of swirls and stripes are unusually small and discrete, rather than forming rosettes. The face and underparts are paler and dappled like those of ordinary spotted leopards

A few people have claimed to have seen 1 in KNP (There's a 4 page thread on another forum about it)

[Flutterby]

[nan]

right Bushpig, Striped Polecat, Water Mongoose... never saw
Black Panther, I saw one... in captivity, superb one... but captive



and I saw enough Brownies in Kgalagadi -O
Oribi... in Botswana
Gerenuk in Masai Masai.... but no Gazelle in Kruger

[Bush Brat]

Well it seems that there are too many rare animals in Kruger, so let me add another one - Aardwolf? -O