Temminck's Ground Pangolin

Temminck's Ground Pangolin

Manis temminckii

Insufficient data
overall probability at Serengeti National Park
4 Verified records at Serengeti National Park
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

The ground pangolin (Smutsia temminckii), also known as Temminck's pangolin, Cape pangolin or steppe pangolin is a species of pangolin from genus Smutsia of subfamily Smutsiinae the within family Manidae. It is one of four species of pangolins which can be found in Africa, and the only one in southern and eastern Africa. The animal was named for the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck. Wikipedia →

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Temminck's Ground Pangolin at Serengeti National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Gorongosa National Park 🇲🇿 Mozambique
30–40%
2 Kruger National Park 🇿🇦 South Africa
<5%
3 Gonarezhou National Park 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Insufficient data
4 Lower Zambezi National Park 🇿🇲 Zambia
Insufficient data
5 Mana Pools National Park 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Insufficient data
6 Kafue National Park 🇿🇲 Zambia
Insufficient data
7 Liwonde National Park 🇲🇼 Malawi
Insufficient data
8 Moremi Game Reserve 🇧🇼 Botswana
Insufficient data
9 Hwange National Park 🇿🇼 Zimbabwe
Insufficient data
10 Serengeti National Park 🇹🇿 Tanzania
Insufficient data
11 Chobe National Park 🇧🇼 Botswana
Insufficient data
12 Etosha National Park 🇳🇦 Namibia
Insufficient data
13 Ngorongoro Conservation Area 🇹🇿 Tanzania
Insufficient data
14 Masai Mara National Reserve 🇰🇪 Kenya
Insufficient data
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