Addo Elephant National Park

Name: Addo Elephant National Park
Address: South Africa

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Addo Elephant National Park, South Africa — Photo: Josep M. Gracia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Boundary from OpenStreetMap, about 1,687 km². The counts below cover the park and roughly 16 km around it.

Recorded in and around Addo Elephant National Park

Species: 1,259
Grid cells: 3,434
Records: 544,894

Insects 756
Birds 308
Bony fish 73
Reptiles 51
Mammals 45
Amphibians 14
Sharks and rays 12

Species with at least one recorded territory whose grid cell centres fall in or near Addo Elephant National Park. Cells are up to 25 km across, so an animal counted here may have been recorded just outside the boundary. This is not a park checklist, and the counts follow where people look as much as what lives there.

Likely encounters

Encounter chances are worked out for the species with a full field-guide entry, and none of them has records here yet. The most recorded species below come from the same records.

Most recorded here

The species with the most open occurrence records in and around Addo Elephant National Park, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.