Cape Porcupine

Table Mountain, Garden Route and Kruger National Park are among the 11 atlas places where the Cape Porcupine is recorded. Most records concentrate in South Africa, Namibia and Botswana, though its occurrence is also noted in Zimbabwe and Malawi. The atlas holds 148 open records of Hystrix africaeaustralis from nine countries. These records track the species across its southern African range, including sightings in iSimangaliso Wetland Park and the Waterberg Plateau Park.