This theme is dedicated & restricted to all mammals found in Southern Africa. It includes all those found on dry land & those in the oceans.

Mammals (class Mammalia) are warm-blooded, vertebrate animals characterised by the presence of sweat glands & milk producing glands, and by the presence of: hair, three middle ear bones used in hearing, and a neocortex region in the brain. All mammals, other than the Monotremes, give birth to live young instead of laying eggs.