Which of These Animals Are Native to Africa? Quiz

Answer:

First off, here are the ten choices that are wrong:

The bactrian camel, aka Mongolian camel, or two-humped camel is native to Central Asia. Actually, neither the one-hump camel (dromedary) nor the two-hump camel is indigenous to Africa; the dromedary was brought to North Africa from Arabia around 300 BC.

The cane toad is indigenous to the tropical and subtropical forests, savannas, and grasslands of South and Central America. Its introduction to Australia in 1935 had disastrous results. The cassowary, on the other hand, is indigenous to Australia. It is a flightless bird favoring the dense forests of New Guinea and northeastern Australia. The echidna is an egg-laying mammal, like the platypus, and it is native to New Guinea and Australia.

The giant burrowing cockroach, also called the rhinoceros cockroach or litter bug, can be up to eight inches long! I hope he stays in his indigenous homeland, Australia, and does NOT become invasive. The golden lion tamarin is not a lion, but is a primate native to Brazil. It gets its name from its mane-like fur.

The hoatzin is also called the stinkbird, or reptile bird and is native to the tropics of South America. It always stays close to water. The tapir is a pig-like herbivorous mammal native to tropical regions of Central and South America and Southeast Asia. They originated in North America 50 million years ago, then migrated down to South America to Asia via land bridges.

The tiger is not native to Africa, but is native to Asia. The wombat is a burrowing marsupial native to Australia. It evolved from ancestors in Australia after the continent split off from Gondwana 50 million years ago.

These are the animals that are native to Africa:

Both the aardvark and aardwolf are indigenous to Africa. The aardvark is found across sub-Saharan Africa from Senegal and Sudan to South Africa; the aardwolf is in eastern Africa from Ethiopia to South Africa. While the aardvark does almost all the work, digging and burrowing to eat ants and termites, the aardwolf primarily makes use of abandoned burrows.

The black rhinoceros favors the savannas, bushlands, and arid scrub terrain featuring low amounts of rainfall and drought-resistant plants. It is mostly nocturnal, avoiding the harsher daylight sun. There are also species of rhinoceros that are not indigenous to Africa such as the Javan, Sumatran and Indian rhinoceros which are native to Asia. The black and white rhinoceros of Africa usually have two horns while the Asians have one. The Asian rhinos prefer a wetter terrain than the Africans.

The bush baby, also called the galago, is a small, nocturnal primate native to sub-Saharan Africa. Although they evolved separately, they are similar to the tarsiers of Asia and South America's night monkeys.

All four species of giraffe are native to Africa. They are the Southern giraffe, Maai giraffe, Reticulated giraffe, and Northern giraffe. Their long necks evolved to feed on African acacia trees, and also provided the advantage of spotting predators from far away on the savannas. The giraffe's closest relative is the okapi, also native to Africa, particularly the dense rainforests of Central Africa. Its striped legs, similar to a zebra's, blend into the terrain as camouflage. It prefers forests as opposed to the giraffe's savanna habitat.

The world's largest living frog is the Goliath frog, native to the rainforests of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa. Over millions of years, they adapted to the waterfalls and the fast-flowing, oxygen-rich rivers and stream systems of the region.

All living species of hippopotamus are native to Africa. The common hippopotamus is found in the rivers, lakes, and wetlands of sub-Saharan Africa, whereas the pygmy hippopotamus is native only to West Africa's rainforests. The Ice ages and aridification wiped out populations of hippos that were non-African.

Native to sub-Saharan Africa, the kudu is a fascinating looking kind of antelope with its spiral horns and striped coat. There are two species - the greater kudu favors wooded savannas, bushveld, and rocky hillsides in Eastern and Southern Africa, and the lesser kudu prefers the dry regions of Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania.

The mandrill is a colorful primate native to the rainforests of Central Africa, where they live on the fruits, seeds, and small animals found in there. They will occasionally travel across savannas. They are the largest monkey species.

The marabou stork is a large bird native to almost all sub-Saharan African countries, in terrains like savannas, wetlands, marshes, floodplains and grasslands near bodies of water. They scavenge carcasses like a vulture, and hunt small prey in open settings.
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The naked mole-rat is a hairless rodent native to the Horn of Africa in Eastern Africa. It is, in a word, ugly, and it prefers hard, compact soil for burrowing as opposed to sand. Its burrows help it avoid surface heat. It is one of the only mammals that regulates its own body temperature like a reptile.

The serval is a medium-sized wild cat native to sub-Saharan Africa, inhabiting savannas, wetlands, marshes, and mountain grasslands. It has the longest legs relative to body size of any cat, useful in pouncing on prey like rodents, birds, and frogs in dense vegetation.

The shoebill, also called the whale-headed stork and shoe-billed stork, is a bird native to the freshwater swamps of tropical Central and East Africa. This dinosaur-looking bird likes slow-moving rivers and oxbow lakes where their favorite prey, the lungfish, swims. The shoebill is the last surviving member of the Balaenicipitidae family, isolated in Africa for around 40 million years.