Children’s Challenge
This booklet has been designed
specially for you as a useful
information guide and checklist for
your safari experience with us.
We hope it will keep you busy,
entertained and excited as you can
record your sightings whilst on
safari.
We would love to know how well
you have done!
Did you know?
• The Big Five includes Lion, Leopard, Rhino, Buffalo and Elephant.
• The Little Five includes Elephant Shrew, Buffalo Weaver, Leopard Tortoise, Lion Ant
and Rhino Beetle.
• Female Elephants are known as “COWS”
•Giraffes have blue tongues
• Hyenas are More Closely Related to Cats than Dogs
• Lions Sleep for 20 Hours a Day
• An Elephant Calf Often Sucks Its Trunk for Comfort
• Hippos spray their poo to mark their territory, they do this by wagging their tails
while pooing. This messy behavior is sometimes called “dung showering”
• Hippos produce almost as much poop daily as an elephant.
Try and see how many of the Big and Little Five, and other unusual animals you
can spot whilst on your Safari with Footsteps in Africa.
Key - Diet
Eats Insects – Insectivore
Eats Grass & Leaves – Herbivore
(Browser & Grazer)
Eats Meat – Carnivore
Eats a Mixed Diet - Omnivore
Key - Activity
Day – Diurnal
Night – Nocturnal
“Animal behaviour
characterised by activity
during the day and sleeping
at night.”
“Animal behaviour characterised
by activity during the night and
sleeping during the day.”
Mammal
Diet
Activity
Check
Mammal
Aardwolf
Blackbacked
Jackal
African
Civet
Burchell's
Zebra
African
Elephant
Bushbuck
African
Wild Cat
Cape
Buffalo
African
Wild Dog
Cheetah
Baboon
Common
Reedbuck
Banded
Mongoose
Common
Waterbuck
Bat-Eared
Fox
Giraffe
Diet
Activity
Check
Mammal
Diet
Activity
Check
Mammal
Greater
Kudu
Porcupine
Hippo
Puku
Honey
Badger
Red
Lechwe
Impala
Sable
Large
Spotted
Genet
Spotted
Hyena
Leopard
Steenbuck
Lesser
Bushbaby
Vervet
Monkey
Lion
Warthog
Diet
Activity
Check
Key - Points
After your game drive, count up the points of all the birds and reptiles you
spotted. The higher the end score, the luckier you have been in completing
our challenge and spotting the more difficult sightings!
1 – easy to spot
2 – likely to spot
3 – difficult to spot
4 – much harder to spot
Birds
Points
African Cuckoo
Check
Birds
Points
3
Helmeted Guinea Fowl
1
African Darter
3
Kori Bustard
3
African Fish Eagle
2
Lilac Breasted Rollar
1
African Grey Hornbill
2
Orange-Breasted Bush
Shrike
3
African Hoopoe
1
Pel's Fishing Owl
4
African Pygmy
Kingfishers
2
Red-Billed Buffalo
Weaver
2
Black-Collared Barbet
3
Red-Headed Finches
2
Burchell's Starling
3
Swallow-Tailed BeeEater
3
Check
Birds
Points
Check
Birds / Reptiles
Points
White-Breasted
Cormorant
3
Wattled Crane
2
White-Browed Coucals
4
Tawny Eagle
4
Yellow-Billed Egrets
2
African Rock Python
3
Yellow-Crowned Bishop
2
Flap-neck Chameleon
2
Yellow-Fronted Canaries
3
Leopard Tortoise
2
Hamerkop
1
Nile Crocodile
1
Crested Francolin
1
Rock Monitor Lizzard
3
Check
Notes
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