TANZANIA WILDLIFE GUIDE

Every Animal You'll See on Safari

Tanzania holds more wild country than almost anywhere else on earth. The Serengeti alone covers 14,750 square kilometres. Add the Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ruaha, and the vast Nyerere ecosystem in the south, and you have a mosaic of grassland, acacia woodland, soda lake, swamp, and highland forest that between them hold over 430 mammal species and more than 1,100 species of bird. What makes a safari here different is the density. A single morning game drive in the Serengeti can put you alongside lion, cheetah, elephant, and a thousand wildebeest before breakfast. The Ngorongoro Crater compresses the Big Five into 260 square kilometres of volcanic floor. Ruaha, in the remote south, holds ten per cent of the world's remaining lions. The grid below is our working guide to the animals you're most likely to see, from the famous to the overlooked. Click any card to read its full profile, including habitat, behaviour, where in Tanzania you'll find it, and the best time of year to look.