Project Description

The wildlife in the area around Nieu Bethesda has adapted to survive in the dry and unstable Karoo environment. The mammal species include primates, rodents and carnivores.

Mammal list

  • Cape rock elephant-shrew
  • Rock elephant-shrew
  • Smith’s rock elephant-shrew
  • Round-eared elephant-shrew
  • South African hedgehog
  • Reddish grey musk shrew
  • Forest shrew
  • Hottentot golden mole
  • Egyptian free-tailed bat
  • Cape serotine bat
  • Schreibers’ long-fingered bat
  • Geoffroy’s horseshoe bat
  • Vervet monkey
  • Chacma baboon
  • Aardwolf
  • Brown Hyena
  • Cape wild cat
  • Black-footed cat
  • Caracal
  • Bat-eared fox
  • Silver fox
  • Blackbacked jackal
  • Cape clawless otter
  • Striped polecat
  • Whitenaped weasel
  • Cape grey mongoose
  • Water mongoose
  • Yellow mongoose
  • Suricate (Meerkat)
  • Rock dassie
  • Ant bear
  • Scrub hare
  • Cape hare
  • Natal red rock rabbit
  • Smith’s red rock rabbit
  • Common mole-rat
  • Porcupine
  • Ground squirrel
  • Springhare
  • Spectacled dormouse
  • Woodland dormouse
  • Pouched mouse
  • Bush karoo rat
  • Short-tailed gerbil
  • Hairy-footed gerbil
  • Grant’s rock mouse
  • Namaqua rock mouse
  • Multimammate mouse
  • House rat
  • Striped mouse
  • Bushpig
  • Eland
  • Kudu
  • Mountain reedbuck
  • Red hartebeest
  • Blesbok
  • Springbok
  • Grey duiker
  • Steenbok
  • Klipspringer
  • Grey rhebuck