Category: Other Wildlife

An entire cast of Botswana's wildlife only appears after dark, including aardvark, pangolin, porcupine, civet, genet, serval, honey badger, springhare, bushbaby and aardwolf. Seeing them requires a night drive, which national parks prohibit and private concessions and community areas permit.…

Botswana holds an unusually wide range of antelope because it contains both permanent wetland and semi-arid desert, and species have specialised at both extremes. Red lechwe and sitatunga are adapted to water in the Okavango, gemsbok and springbok to the…

Botswana's baobabs are among the country's most visited landmarks, with Baines' Baobabs in Nxai Pan looking almost exactly as they did in a Victorian painting, Chapman's Baobab having stood on Ntwetwe Pan for generations before collapsing, and the trees on…