I was wondering if anybody knew all the species of plains game that are huntable in Africa?

What might be the most difficult species to hunt, due to either cunning or rarity?

I look forward to your responses.

If you use S.C.I. Animals of Africa and eliminate the Big 5, about 159.


As far as rarity, my opinion is the Mountain Nyala due to only one place in the world where he can be hunted, Ethiopia. Limited permits and very expensive.

i think some of the tougher ones to hunt are actually the little guys , - bates pygmy antelope royal antelope , suni etc etc to name a few -

they are not common , live in incredibly dense forrest and are shy and very fast -

The hardest one's to get are the one's out of your pay grade!
haha

The one's that are endangered...aka Hunter's Hartebeest, and many others.

but I 2nd Ivan's thoughts, even some of the rich folks keep getting skunked on those little fellas!! But they are fun hunt...

What Ivan said +1.

I have been trying for a grysbok for 22 years. I haven't shot yet.

This is everything

BIG CATS
African lion
African leopard
African cheetah

SMALL CATS & AFRICAN CIVET
Serval
Caracal
African wild cat
African golden cat
African civet

HYENAS
Spotted hyena
Brown hyena
African striped hyena

THICK-SKINNED GAME
African elephant
Black rhinoceros
Southern white rhinoceros
Cape buffalo
Nile buffalo
Central African savanna buffalo
West African savanna buffalo
Dwarf forest buffalo

SPIRAL-HORNED ANTELOPES
Central African giant eland
Cape eland
Livingstone eland
East African eland
Western bongo
Kenya bongo (closed)
Southern greater kudu
Eastern Cape greater kudu
East African greater kudu
Abyssinian greater kudu
Western greater kudu
Mountain nyala
Common nyala
Zambezi sitatunga
Forest sitatunga
East African sitatunga
Sesse Islands sitatunga
Lesser kudu
Harnessed bushbuck
Nile bushbuck
Abyssinian bushbuck
Menelik bushbuck
East African bushbuck
Chobe bushbuck
Limpopo bushbuck
Cape bush buck

SABLE, ROAN ANTELOPES
Common sable antelope
Roosevelt sable antelope
Western roan antelope
Sudan roan antelope
East African roan antelope
Southern roan antelope

ORYX
Kalahari gemsbok
Angolan gemsbok
Golden gemsbok
Beisa oryx
Scimatar-horned oryx
Fringe-eared oryx

WATERBUCK
Common waterbuck (or ringed)
Sing-sing waterbuck
E. African defassa waterbuck
Crawshay defassa waterbuck
Angolan defassa waterbuck

LECHWE, KOB, PUKU
Common lechwe
Kafue Flats lechwe
Red lechwe
Black lechwe
Nile lechwe
White-eared kob
Uganda kob
CentralAfrican kob
Western kob (Buffon)
Puku

REEDBUCKS & RHEBOK
Common reedbuck
Eastern bohor reedbuck
Abyssinian bohor reedbuck
Sudan bohor reedbuck
Nigerian bohor reedbuck
Nagor reedbuck
Southern mountain reedbuck
Chanler mountain reedbuck
Western mountain reedbuck
Vaal rhebok

WILDEBEESTS
Black wildebeest
Blue wildebeest
Cookson wildebeest
Nyasa wildebeest
White-bearded wildebeest

HARTEBEESTS
Cape or red hartebeest
Coke hartebeest
Kenya highland hartebeest
Neumann hartebeest
Lelwel hartebeest
Western hartebeest
Lichtenstein hartebeest

DAMALISCS
Korrigum
Tiang
Topi
Tsessebe
Hirola or Hunter antelope
Blesbok
White blesbok
Bontebok

IMPALAS
East African impala
Southern impala

GAZELLES
Southern Grant gazelle
Roberts gazelle
Northern Grant gazelle
Bright gazelle
Peters gazelle (or Tana)
Soemmerring gazelle
Red-fronted gazelle (or Korin)
Heuglin gazelle
Thomson gazelle
Mongalla gazelle
Sahara dorcas gazelle
Egyptian dorcas gazelle
Eritrean gazelle
Isabelline gazelle
Kalahari springbok
Angolan springbok
South African springbok
Black springbok
White springbok
Copper springbok
Southern gerenuk
Northern gerenuk

PYGMY ANTELOPES
Klipspringer
Common oribi
Haggard oribi
Steenbok
Cape grysbok
Sharpe grysbok
Livingstone suni
East African suni
Royal antelope
Bates pygmy antelope

DIK-DIKS
Salt dik-dik
Harar dik-dik
Guenther dik-dik
Kirk dik-dik
Damara dik-dik
Phillips dik-dik

BUSH DUIKERS
Southern bush duiker
Angolan bush duiker (closed)
East African bush duiker
Western bush duiker

FOREST DUIKERS
Yellow-backed duiker
Abbott duiker
Bay duiker
Peters duiker
Weyns duiker
Gabon duiker (or white-bellied)
Black-fronted duiker
Ogilby duiker
Zebra duiker
Black duiker
Harvey red duiker
Natal red duiker
Red-flanked duiker
Maxwell duiker
Blue duiker

SHEEP, GOATS
Nubian ibex
Aoudad or Barbary sheep

CHEVROTAINS
Water chevrotain

HIPPOPOTAMUSES
Hippopotamus

WILD PIGS
Warthog
Giant forest hog
Bushpig
Red river hog
Barbary wildboar

CROCODILES
Nile crocodile

A great part of the difficulty in collecting a diverse selection of African animals is that so many of them occur in only one country and/or area.

I have taken over 50 different species but have been sitting on 28 of the SCI "African 29" for at least five years. The few animals that qualify for the last one needed to complete my quest are not necessarily rare, but they are located in areas I have not returned to in recent years. And I won't complete it next year when I return to Zim on another Ele hunt.

I certainly agree with Ivan as to the little guys being tough (and fun). I will hopefully add my eighth and ninth to my "Tiny Ten" with Chifuti Safaris next year.

WOW!
Thanks for posting the list thomasjohn! That pretty much covers it I would say.

In the list above are forest animals and mountain animals.
As far as I know plains Game are only antelopes and gazelles that life on plains or savanna habitats south of the sahara.

This might help:

http://www.shakariconnection.c...cies-by-country.html

WHAT ABOUT ZEBRA?

quote:

Originally posted by sahu:
WHAT ABOUT ZEBRA?

...and Giraffe(s)...:

http://www.wild-about-you.com/AfricaGame.htm

quote:

Originally posted by sahu:
WHAT ABOUT ZEBRA?

all three under Z here: http://www.shakariconnection.c...species-si-to-z.html

Oh, and welcome to the forum!

quote:

Originally posted by mouse93:...and Giraffe(s)...:

Under G here: http://www.shakariconnection.c...-species-f-to-h.html

Ivan for sure 100%. Suni 4 yrs in a row in Zululand and still looking.

Is the Bates on license any where. I know Steve is doing Royal in Ghana.

In cameroon but is is very rare. Had a chance by pure luck and missed miserably.

The list I posted was from SCI's Animals of Africa Inner Circle. They don't list zebra, giraffe, or baboon. Sounds like SCI needs a few more SLAMs.

Another vote with Ivan, and some of the smaller antelopes are being closed or very limited in area; Yellow backed Duiker, etc.

Agreed! Ivan+4!

I don't recall seeing the Honey Badger on the list either.

There are a lot fewer SPECIES of African game than animal categories in the SCI record book.

That's because SCI has created separate categories for a bunch of subspecies and/or color phases.

For example, there are only two species of wildebeest, one species of roan, two species of waterbuck, one species of bushbuck, one species of sable, one (maybe two) species of African buffalo, one species of springbok, etc., etc..

Before anyone slams SCI, let me say that its Trophy Records Committee created the majority of those categories at the request of outfitters and members.

The various southern kudu categories, for example, came about at the request of outfitters in areas where kudus typically had smaller horns.

During the sixteen years I edited the record books, there were many such requests, as well as requests to create categories that had absolutely no biological basis.

Most were rejected, but some did get approved, witness the color phases of springbok and blesbock created by game farmers through selective breeding.

Bill Quimby

vandy, Honey badgers are more of a varmint than a plains game animal. Likewise, Spring Hare, Porcupine, Jackel etc. Still a good point and a tough species to add to any hunters wish list.

And a good job Bill. Aside from record keeping, it's good to understand a little more about the game we seek before we head off to some far off continent. Thanks for doing what you did, David

Thanks for the very enlightening list. I am actually surprised that the total number is a bit limited. The Ethiopian wolf & Walia ibex are protected & distinct species.

I have always been amazed with the diversity of animals in India & I wish I had lived 50 or 100 years ago & been able to hunt them. Here are some of them....just from my memory....

BIG CATS
Tiger
Asiatic lion
Leopard
Clouded leopard
Snow Leopard
Cheetah - extinct around 1953

BEARS
Himalayan Black bear
Himalayan Brown bear (same as the Grizzly / European / Asian Brown bear species)
Sloth Bear
Sun Bear

Asian Elephant

RHINOS
Great Indian One horned Rhino
Lesser one horned or Sumatra Rhino - extinct in India 1960s?
Lesser Two horned or java Rhino - extinct in India 1960s?

OXEN
Gaur
Wild Water Buffalo
Wild yak
Banteng - extinct in India 1960s??

DEER
Sambar
Chital
Bharasingha or Swamp deer
Hog deer
Thamin - Brow antlered deer
Muntjack - 2 or 3 species
Musk deer - 2 species
Hangal & Shou - Indian races of Red Deer

ANTELOPE
Black Buck
Nighai
Chinkara or Indian gazelle
Tibetan gazelle
Four Horned antelope
Chevrotain - 3 species
Serow
Ghoral
Takin
Chiru - Tibetan Antelope

SHEEP & GOATS
Himalayan Ibex
Sind Ibex
Himalayan Tahr
Nilgiri Tahr
Shapu urial
Bharal - blue sheep
Marcopolo Argali
Nayang - Tibetan Argali

PIGS
Wild Boar
Andaman Wild Pig (distinct species)
Pygmy hog (presumed extinct until it was re-discovered in the 1970s)

DOGS
Wolf
Dhole - Red / wild dog
Various foxes & jackals

LESSER CATS
Caracal
Himalayan lynx
Fishing cat
Golden Cat
Wild cat
Sand cat
Leopard cat
Rusty spotted cat
Marbled cat
Palass' cat (probably the most beautiful small cat on earth!)
Civets - 8 to 10 species including binturong, Linsang, red panda etc.

Other animals - Wild ass, 3 species of porcupine, honey badger, 2 other species of badgers, 3 species of giant squirrels, one species of giant flying squirrel & many smaller flying squirrels, Mugger crocodile, Salt water crocodile, Gharial (fish eating crocodile),

You can see a lot more in this book http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pro...TF8&n=266239&s=books

Sorry if I hijacked the post a bit... I just got carried away......