South Africa has a wealth of life. Wildlife ranges from Aardwolf to Zebra, from puku to pangolin, from caracal to hirax. South Africa is home to: – (2002-3 South Africa at a Glance, Editors Inc.):

• The world’s largest land mammal (African elephant)
• The smallest (a shrew the size of a human fingertip)
• The tallest (giraffe)
• The fastest (cheetah)
• The heaviest reptile (leatherback turtle)
• The largest antelope (eland)
• The largest bird (ostrich)
• The heaviest flying bird (Kori Bustard)
• 900 bird species — 10% of the world’s variety on 1% of its land area
• 6 000 different spiders, 175 varieties of scorpion and 100 different snakes
• 23 200 different plants — richest zone on earth in terms of species to area.

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