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The animals that build the landscape rather than simply live in it. Elephants open the woodland, hippos fertilise the rivers, and more than a million wildebeest and zebra move through the Serengeti each year cropping the plains everything else depends on.
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9 species
Large Herbivores
Featured Loxodonta africana Tembo / Ndovu
Tanzania’s elephants shape woodlands, open waterholes and create pathways used by many other species.
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Featured Connochaetes taurinus Nyumbu
The engine of the Great Migration: more than a million wildebeest follow rain and fresh grass through the greater Serengeti ecosystem.
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Featured Diceros bicornis michaeli Faru
A rare conservation success and one of Tanzania’s most treasured sightings, especially on the Ngorongoro Crater floor.
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Equus quagga Punda milia
A familiar but endlessly photogenic grazer, often moving with wildebeest across the Serengeti and gathering at Tanzania’s dry-season water sources.
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Giraffa tippelskirchi Twiga
Tanzania’s national animal, recognised by irregular, vine-leaf patches that extend down its legs.
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Syncerus caffer Nyati / Mbogo
Powerful herd animals that gather in impressive numbers on floodplains, woodland edges and near permanent dry-season water.
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Hippopotamus amphibius Kiboko
A river and lake giant that spends hot days in water, then comes ashore after dark to graze.
Read field guidePhacochoerus africanus Ngiri
The kneeling grazer of the open plains, tail held vertical as a family trots away — present in every Tanzanian savanna park.
Read field guidePotamochoerus larvatus Nguruwe mwitu
A shaggy, red-brown nocturnal pig of thick riverine bush — heard crashing away far more often than it is seen.
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