Steve Jenkins and the Animals of Africa

We have had so much fun using the many wonderful books by Steve Jenkins to supplement our Africa research! Some of the animals he has in his books are mentioned in our nomenclature cards... see these in my Waseca Biomes Africa Cards post... so they're really helpful as a secondary source.

But there are a ton of fascinating creatures which live in Africa, so we have been expanding our report topics; students who are interested in other African animals have the opportunity to do BONUS reports!

In case anyone else is doing Animals of Africa reports, I just wanted to list all of the African animals Steve Jenkins has in each book, before I return this huge stack back to the public library!

Note: Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest includes facts about the Sahara Desert and Nile River.

If I have missed one of his books, please let me know in the comments box and I will check it out and update this list.

Actual Size

ostrich, Goliath frog, gorilla, pygmy mouse lemur, Goliath beetle, African elephant

Almost Gone: The World's Rarest Animals

addax

The Animal Book: A Collection of the Fastest, Fiercest, Toughest, Cleverest, Shyest ―- and Most Surprising -― Animals on Earth

African elphant, African foam grasshopper, archerfish, armadillo lizard, blackchin tilapia, blue-winged grasshopper, bolas spider, bombardier beetle, Cape buffalo, Cape stag beetle, cheetah, Nile crocodile, extinct elephant bird, elephant seal, European roller, fat-tailed scorpion, flat-faced longhorn beetle, giraffe, giraffe weevil, gorilla, hairy frog, hippopotamus, Jackson's chameleon, kestrel, manatee, Morgan's sphinx moth, mosquito, naked mole rat, ostrich, pangolin, porcupine, pygmy mouse lemur, red spitting cobra, Ruppell's vulture, satanic leaf-tailed gecko, sifaka, tenrec, termite, warthog

Animals by the Numbers: A Book of Infographics

Afrian elephant, hippopotamus, termite, cheetah, ostrich, impala, mosquito, giraffe, porcupine, greater kudu, Jackson's chameleon, white rhinoceros, ibex, scimitar-horned oryx, Morgan's sphinyx moth, lion, hyena, Cape buffalo, crocodile, fat-tailed scorpion, tsetse fly, Ruppell's vulture, Sahara desert ant, wildebeest

The Beetle Book

flat-faced longhorn beetle, rose chafer beetle, African jewel beetle, Cape stag beetle, giraffe weevil, dung beetle, tok-tokkie, Madagascar hissing cockroach, African goliath beetle

Big & Little

ostrich, Nile crocodile, African chameleon, African rock python, gorilla, fennec fox

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest

African elephant, giraffe, cheetah

Bones: Skeletons and How They Work

aardwolf, elephant, stork, python, giraffe, mouse lemur, baboon, chameleon, rhinoceros

Creature Features: 25 Animals Explain Why They Look the Way They Do

Egyptian vulture, mandrill, mole rat, giraffe, shoebill stork, rock hyrax

Eye to Eye: How Animals See the World

stalk-eyed fly, panther chameleon, hippopotamus

Flying Frogs and Walking Fish: Leaping Lemurs, Tumbling Toads, Jet-Propelled Jellyfish, and More Surprising Ways That Animals Move

agama, springbok, ring-tailed lemur, baboon, mudskipper, Moroccan desert spider, hedgehog, armadillo lizard, pangolin

How Many Ways Can You Catch a Fly?

lily trotter (jacana), Jackson's chameleon, worm lizard, aardvark

How to Clean a Hippopotamus: A Look at Unusual Animal Partnerships

zebra, wildebeest, ostrich, cattle egret, waterbuck, honeyguide, ratel (honey badger), oxpecker, giraffe, rhinoceros, red deer, African buffalo, warthog, mongoose, Egyptian plover, African crocodile, hippopotamus, African helmeted turtle, social weaver, African pygmy falcon, black tree ants

How to Swallow a Pig: Step-by-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom

vervet monkey, Nile crocodile

I See a Kookaburra! Discovering Animal Habitats Around the World

serval, giraffe antelope (gerenuk), elephant shrew, dung beetle, rhinoceros, secretary bird, termite, naked mole rat

Living Color

tomato frog, blue-winged grasshopper, Madagascar moon moth, yellow mongoose, African chameleon, flamingo

Move!

lily trotter (jacana)

My First Day: What Animals Do on Day One

giraffe, blue wildebeest (gnu), sifaka, zebra

Never Smile at a Monkey: And 17 Other Important Things to Remember

hippopotamus, spitting cobra, African buffalo

Sisters and Brothers: Sibling Relationships in the Animal World

African elephant, naked mole rat, termite, spotted hyena, cheetah, Nile crocodile, cichlid, cuckoo catfish

Slap, Sqeak & Scatter: How Animals Communicate

vervet monkey, mole rat, chimpanzee, ring-tailed lemur, elephant, klipspringer, hippopotamus

Time for a Bath

giant pangolin, African elephant, jerboa, web-footed gecko

Time to Eat

butcherbird, ostrich, dung beetle, giant hawk moth, aye-aye

Time to Sleep

giraffe, European bee-eater, flamingo, warthog, white stork, gorilla

Trickiest! 19 Sneaky Animals

fork-tailed drongo, archerfish, bolas spider, satanic leaf-tailed gecko

What Do You Do When Something Wants to Eat You?

bombardier beetle, pangolin

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

hyena, African elephant, yellow-winged bat, hippopotamus, giraffe, chameleon, bush baby, chimpanzee, mosquito, egg-eating snake, archerfish

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