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Learn the wildlife of Benin

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2,473 species have research-grade observations in Benin on iNaturalist. KnowKi turns the most recorded into short lessons with real photos, so you can learn a country's wildlife from home.

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Most recorded here

The species with the most research-grade observations on iNaturalist, and how many each has. Most recorded doesn't mean native.

Birds

  1. Laughing Dove Spilopelia senegalensis827
  2. Western Cattle-Egret Ardea ibis637
  3. Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus548
  4. Western Plantain-eater Crinifer piscator540
  5. Yellow-billed Shrike Corvinella corvina510
  6. White-faced Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna viduata324
  7. Wattled Lapwing Vanellus senegallus285
  8. Senegal Coucal Centropus senegalensis284
  9. Speckled Pigeon Columba guinea280
  10. Red-cheeked Cordonbleu Uraeginthus bengalus263

Plants

  1. Giant milkweed Calotropis procera3,000
  2. Shea Tree Vitellaria paradoxa908
  3. Neem Azadirachta indica521
  4. Wide Spikenard Mesosphaerum suaveolens469
  5. African baobab Adansonia digitata387
  6. African peach Nauclea latifolia384
  7. Camels-foot monkeybread Piliostigma thonningii357
  8. Coffee Senna Senna occidentalis339
  9. Gbehutu Cochlospermum planchonii317
  10. Borassus palm Borassus aethiopum285

Mammals

  1. Straw-coloured Fruit Bat Eidolon helvum1,858
  2. African Buffalo Syncerus caffer688
  3. Roan Antelope Hippotragus equinus585
  4. Northern Bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus493
  5. Olive Baboon Papio anubis426
  6. Kob Kobus kob425
  7. Lion Panthera leo409
  8. Patas Monkey Erythrocebus patas396
  9. Common Warthog Phacochoerus africanus373
  10. Tantalus Monkey Chlorocebus tantalus295

Insects

  1. Plain Tiger Butterfly Danaus chrysippus378
  2. Western Honey Bee Apis mellifera281
  3. Citrus Swallowtail Papilio demodocus243
  4. Angola White Lady Graphium angolanus231
  5. Guineafowl Butterfly Hamanumida daedalus228
  6. African Migrant Catopsilia florella194
  7. Golden Pansy Junonia chorimene180
  8. Danaid Eggfly Hypolimnas misippus175
  9. Common Leopard Phalanta phalantha173
  10. Dancing Amber Telchinia serena147

Reptiles

  1. West African Crocodile Crocodylus suchus146
  2. Nile Monitor Varanus niloticus113
  3. African Spurred Tortoise Centrochelys sulcata64
  4. Fire-sided Skink Trachylepis perrotetii44
  5. Senegal Flapshell Turtle Cyclanorbis senegalensis36
  6. African Rock Python Python sebae34
  7. Senegal Chameleon Chamaeleo senegalensis28
  8. Peters's Rock Agama Agama picticauda28
  9. African Five-lined Skink Trachylepis quinquetaeniata27
  10. African Saw-scaled Viper Echis ocellatus26

How a trip works

A trip has its own trail of lessons: meet six species, match them to new photos, then practice with four choices. Species you learn go into your Fieldbook, and starting a trip earns its Passport stamp. Your home place stays as it is.

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Species lists and counts from research-grade observations on iNaturalist, as of October 2026. Free, with no ads, no account and no purchases.