Mammals
AFROTROPICAL Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forest

The mammals of the rainforest of Africa include a high diversity of primates... 

Class Mammalia

Family Cercopithecidae, 'Old World Monkeys'

Allochrocebus lhoesti, 'L'Hoest's Monkey'. Distinguished by reddish back, and white neck and cheeks.

 'L'Hoest's Monkey' is unusual for a rainforest monkey in that it spends a lot of time foraging on the forest floor.

Piliocolobus tephrosceles, 'Ugandan Red Colobus'.

Colobus guereza, 'Mantled Guereza', 'Eastern Black and White Colobus', 'Abyssinian Black and White Colobus'. This is the subspecies Colobus guereza occidentalis, 'Western Guereza'.

Chlorocebus pygerythrus, 'Vervet Monkey'. Mostly lives in more open habitats, but also found in riverine forest, coastal forest and forest edge, throughout southern and eastern Africa. 

Gorilla beringei beringei, 'Mountain Gorilla'.

Order Rodentia

Family Sciuridae

Funisciurus carruthersi, 'Caruther's Mountain Squirrel'. Found in the subtropical rainforest of the mountains of central and central-eastern Africa.

Paraxerus boehmi, 'Boehm's Bush Squirrel'. Found in rainforest in central & eastern Africa.

Order Chiroptera

Family Pteropodidae

Eidolon helvum, 'Straw-colored Fruit Bat'. The most widespread megabat in Africa, perhaps the world. This species is reported to have the biggest migration of mammals on the planet, with ten million bats over moving into roost in rainforest of Zambia. As the name suggests it eats fruit, but it also feeds on nectar, and had been seen chewing on soft wood for moisture. They are found in forest, savanna and urban areas across much of sub-Sharan Africa.

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