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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Nigeria. Of the mammal species in Nigeria, one is critically endangered, thirteen are endangered, sixteen are vulnerable, and ten are near threatened. One of the species listed for Nigeria can no longer be found in the wild. [1]
The wildlife of Nigeria consists of the flora and fauna of this country in West Africa. Nigeria has a wide variety of habitats, ranging from mangrove swamps and tropical rainforest to savanna with scattered clumps of trees. About 290 mammal species and 940 bird species have been recorded in the country.
The biggest African mammal is the African bush elephant, the second largest being its smaller counterpart, the African forest elephant. Four species of pangolins can be found in Africa. [50] African fauna contains 216 species of primates. [51] Four species of great apes are endemic to Africa: both species of gorilla (western gorilla, Gorilla ...
Pages in category "Mammals of Africa" The following 55 pages are in this category, out of 55 total. ... African giant shrew; African savanna hare; African wolf; B ...
A breeding program aims to create similar-looking animals, but these are not true quaggas. This list of African species extinct in the Holocene covers extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geologic epoch that began about 11,650 years before present (about 9700 BCE) [a] and continues to the present. [1]
The Nigerian mole-rat was first described by the British zoologist Oldfield Thomas in 1911. The species name "foxi" honours the Reverend George Fox who sent twelve specimens to the Natural History Museum in London where Thomas was the curator of mammals. Of these specimens, nine were of a similar size and appearance and two, a male and a female ...
Lists of animals of Nigeria (1 C) A. Animal welfare and rights in Nigeria (1 C) C. Fauna of the Cameroonian Highlands forests (74 P) R. Reptiles of Nigeria (42 P)
Mostly because of hunting and habitat fragmentation and loss, thus increasing population isolation and decline, Sclater's guenon is listed as a vulnerable species. [2] Sclater's guenon is known to occur in captivity only at the Centre for Education, Rehabilitation, and Conservation of Primates and Nature [4] in Cross River State, Nigeria.