Fauna
The ecoregion is home to the endangered Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla), African forest elephant(Loxodonta cyclotis), and okapi (Okapia johnstoni)
A population of 'super-sized' chimpanzees, the so-called Bili apes that the local people say eat the birds in area, has been reported from Bili Forest in the far north, about 200 km east of Bondo, DR Congo. University of Amsterdam scientists observed the animals eating the carcass of a leopard. No scientific evidence has been presented that they hunt and kill big cats, though the Bili chimpanzees exhibit unusual behaviour such as sleeping in large nests on the ground rather than in trees, indicating a possible lack of fear of such predators.
Animals native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo:
- African buffalo
- African bush elephant
- African civet
- African golden cat
- African manatee
- African palm civet
- African striped weasel
- Banded mongoose
- Bili ape
- Black-collared lovebird
- Blue duiker
- Blue-headed wood dove
- Bohor reedbuck
- Bongo
- Bonobo
- Bushbuck
- Cape hyrax
- Cheetah
- Common duiker
- Common eland
- Congo peacock
- Eastern lowland gorilla
- Gallagher's free-tailed bat
- Giant eland
- Giant forest hog
- Giraffe
- Golden jackal
- Greater kudu
- Ground pangolin
- Handsome francolin
- Hartebeest
- Hippopotamus
- Kob
- Lechwe
- Leopard
- Lichtenstein's hartebeest
- Lion
- Marsh mongoose
- Mountain gorilla
- Okapi
- Oribi
- Plains zebra
- Puku
- Red river hog
- Roan antelope
- Sable antelope
- Serval
- Side-striped jackal
- Sitatunga
- Southern reedbuck
- Spotted hyena
- Topi
- Trumpeter hornbill
- Upemba lechwe
- Warthog
- Waterbuck
- Western lowland gorilla
- White rhinoceros
- Yellow-backed duiker
Read more about this topic: Wildlife Of The Democratic Republic Of The Congo
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