Africa | San Diego Zoo Animals & Plants

The Serengeti

Map of the African region of the world

A giraffe dines on some thorny acacia leaves in Africa

African penguin walking across beach in South Africa.

African Penguin

Several African Proteas in bloom.

Pygmy falcon perched on a wood pole.

African Pygmy Falcon

African pygmy goose enjoys a day at the lake

African Pygmy Goose

African spurred tortoise

African Spurred Tortoise

The bright orange-red bloom of the African tulip tree

African Tulip Tree

Aloe plant and flowers

Amazonian leafcutter ants

Impala

Red Panda eating bamboo.

Little green sunbird on banana flower

Madagascar Baobab Alley

Flying fox

bat-eared fox

Close-up of beach salvia's rust brown blooms

Male beautiful sunbird

Beautiful Sunbird

Native California bee

A pair of bee-eaters sitting on a branch, the right-hand bird holding a bee in its beak.

Shining Leaf Chafer Beetle

Bird's-nest fern

Bird's-nest Fern

Hummingbird sitting on a bird-of-paradise flower

Bird-of-paradise (Plant)

Emerald tree boa

Bonobo

Bonsai maple at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

A bontebok nuzzles another's muzzle.

Alaskan brown bear

Monarch butterfly resting on green leaf

Butterfly, Moth, and Skipper

Cochal cactus

Caecilian slithering along dirt ground

A bee collects pollen from a white Calla Lily.

Cape chestnut blooms

Cape honeysuckle

Cape Honeysuckle

Cape Rush (Chondropetalum tectorum)

A caracal stares to the left as it walks

Yellow-rumped warbler with a bee in its beak sitting on a cattail in B.C. Canada

Veiled chameleon

Mother cheetah grooming young cub

Two young chimpanzees sitting in a green leafy tree next to an adult

Orange discus fish cichlid

King cobra with head upright on brown dirt ground

Close-up of a cockerel's sifaka's face, displaying it's large round, yellow eyes.

Coquerel's Sifaka

East African Crowned Crane

A Chinese dwarf crocodile floating half-submerged in water

African crowned eagle

Cycad photo showing two cones.

Looking up from under three dragon trees

Banded Demoiselle (Calopteryx splendens) Male

Dragonfly and Damselfly

Two dung beetles rolling a ball of dung on gravel

Two young dwarf mongoose hold each other while playing while an adult keeps watch.

African bush Elephant calves in Serengeti N.P. - Tanzania

Medusa's Head Euphorbia

Fennec fox standing over hole in dirt

Many figs are shown hanging on a ficus tree.

Fischer's lovebird Tanzania

Fischer's Lovebird

four flamingos stretch their necks up to the sky

Closeup of a female fossa looking to the right

Red-legged kassina frog

Male gelada looking to the right as the wind blows his long hair

A pink geranium.

Geranium (Pelargonium)

Giant African millipede walking along a wood branch

Giant African Millipede

the pink and white flowers of a shell ginger

Ugandan giraffe against a blue sky background

Closeup of a male Trandcaspian urial displaying his large, curved horns

Golden eagle with wings spread and talons extended as it goes in for a landing

The goliath frog is normally found in and near fast-flowing rivers with sandy bottoms in the Middle African countries of Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea.

Baby Joanne the gorilla lounges on her mother's back

L'hoest guenon looking left and up

Gundi

Close up of a hamadryas baboon's face

Hamadryas Baboon

European hedgehog hides behind red pansy flower that it has nibbled on

A red hibiscus flower.

East African Hippo mother and baby half submerged in water

A young honey badger looks to the left as he sits in tall blades of grass.

Honey Badger (Ratel)

Southern Ground hornbill

Grand Cayman Blue Iguana

Pink impatiens blooms

A kingfisher preening its extended wing

Closeup of a klipspringer's face in front of a green background

Ladybug crawling down a blade of grass

Lavender in a field.

Ring-tailed lemur mother and baby

Amur leopard looking to the right with blurred jungle background

Lion brothers nuzzle one another on the grasslands of Masai Mara, Kenya

Lion's tail flowers growing as a shrub

Lion’s Tail (Lion’s Ear)

Green-headed tree agama lizard

A pair of manatees floating in murky turquoise Florida bayou water

Close-up of a male mandrill's blue and red nose

Close up of a mangabey monkey's face as he chews on a piece of food

Close-up of a Madagascar Golden mantella frog sitting on a dark brown log

The red colors of a maple tree's leaves.

A group of meerkats huddled together

Monarch butterfly drinking nectar from milkweed flowers.

Closeup of a white-headed langur holding onto a branch while it holds a green leaf in its mouth

Diplacus aurantiacus, Sierra monkeyflower

A naked role rat peeks its head out from a transparent plastic tube

Female Nile lechwe displaying light coat, and male displaying dark coat

Acorns growing on an oak tree

An okapi faces its striped rear toward the camera while holding its head to the left

Orange clock vine

Orange Clock Vine

The white flower on an orchid.

Hong Kong orchid tree blooms

Gemsbok oryx with head lowered

A pair of ostriches in front of a large green grassy field.

Great horned owl in flight.

A painted dog looks to the left as it stands behind some blurred grass

Painted Dog (African Hunting Dog)

Close up of a fan palm frond.

A pancake tortoise was across a dirt covered rock.

Pancake Tortoise

A Papyrus tree.

African grey parrot

Great White pelican

Butterfly sitting on a cluster of pink pentas flowers.

porcupine

Pygmy hippo enjoys an apple

Pygmy Hippopotamus

Burmeses python on black background

Black rhino on the Serengeti

A Rock Hyrax or Dassie, on lichen covered rocks in Cape Peninsula, South Africa

Rodrigues Flying Fox

Rodrigues Flying Fox

Rosemary with purple flowers showing.

Purple flowers on a sage.

Fire salamander

Salamander and Newt

Sausage tree fruit

Scorpion in the Spanish desert

Sea lavender with small butterfly.

Secretary bird displaying head plumage

Serval laying in the grass

Shoebill

African Slender-snouted crocodile

Slender-snouted Crocodile

oncilla

Yellow bush viper

Sociable weaver bird sitting on a branch near its woven nest

Sociable Weaver

Two adult Somali wild asses standing amidst yellow wildflowers

Somali Wild Ass

orb weaver spider

Spiral horned Kudu antelope

Spiral-horned Antelope

Spotted hyena Turbo rests his head on his brother, Zephyr's, back as they lay in their den.

Peruvian fire stick insect on a leafy branch

Saddlebill stork

A striped hyena looks slightly to the left as is suns itself in front of its den

A common fly trapped by a sundew

A tight cluster of basil leaves.

Sweetie bush purple flowers starting to bloom

Greenbottle blue tarantula

A tiny tenrec standing on soil and dried leaves.

tree fern

A tree pangolin looks to the right while standing on a wood plank

Three tropical pitcher plant "traps"

Tropical Pitcher Plant

Turtle with butterflies, Amazon

Turtle and Tortoise

Vervant Monkey in Tree

Bearded vulture (Gypaetus barbatus)

Warthog in African habitat

Colorful waxbills drinking at water's edge, Africa

West African lungfish

West African Lungfish

A southern white rhino stands in a grass field and looks slightly to the right.

White Rhinoceros

Cape Buffalo

Red River Hog piglets

Wild Swine (Pig and Hog)

Oak Fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris (L.) Newman

African Plains