The Main Creatures
The Lions (獅子ライオン)
Lions are some of Baruuba’s most worthy opponents. Many individuals in captivity had been seen in circuses, but they’re not suitable for them anyway. Lions often have messy prides, where their sigmas topple each other every time they’ll enter them.
Joni (ジョニ) - Joni is a newfound lioness ally of Barumba in his adventures. She is the estranged daughter of Kassim.
Kassim (カシム) - The half blind golden lion whom Barumba finally has befriended after years of being left off by his father Bwonga, who himself was a disaster to fellow lions.
Bwonga (ブウォンガ) - Kassim’s somewhat overweight, late grey brown dad, who was a piece of shit even to his fellow lions. His real name, however, is Wanga (ワンガ).
Aren (アレン) - Kassim’s grandfather and Shaba’s rather traumatised red brown father.
Shaba (シャバ) - Shaba was the cream coloured daughter of Aren, who stayed with fellow members of her pride by becoming a mother to Kassim. She died with dignity.
The Chimpanzees (チンパンジー)
Amongst the animals, Chimpanzees are the hardest to befriend.
Shula (シュラ) - A chimp named Shula babysat Barumba when he was a toddler and found another child whose parents were kidnapped away into a false kingdom’s temple. She lost her own friend, who was a frail youngster, to the machinations of his own gangster grandpa, who in turn kicked off his middle aged mother. In turn, Michi was already on the verge of her own menopause anyway.
Michi (ミチ) - Michi is the daughter of a gangster, who also happens to be a dead chimp’s menopausal mother.
Scully (スカリー) - Scully was a tomboyish chimpanzee, who grew old, lost her own favourite mate, and then had to sacrifice herself to stop more cruelty.
The Forest Elephants (マルミミゾウ)
Forest elephants are seen in Semuliki and other national parks.
The Leopards (ヒョウ)
Leopards have seldom tried to eat human babies in times of hunger.
Prua (プルア) - Prua is the somewhat frail but speedy daughter of two relatively distant cousins, who is a pale grey leopard.
The Olive Baboons (オリーブヒヒバブーン)
Olive Baboons have wrecked the house where Baruuba’s parents were kidnapped from. Given translation conventions, they are imagined as if they’re speaking in regional Sydneysider accents.
The Bush Elephants (ブッシュゾウ)
A herd of Bush Elephants led by a big old cow are some of Barumba’s closest allies.
The Mountain Gorillas (山ゴリラ)
Like the Kikombas, Mountain Gorillas just want to be left alone.
The Minor Creatures
The Speckle Throated Otters (スペックルノドカワウソ)
The Black and White Casqued Hornbills (黒と白のカスクサイチョウ)
The Dartmouth’s Thicket Rats (ダートマスのフレイネズミ)
The Uganda Pied Hornbills (ウガンダサイチョウ)
The Semuliki Red Tailed Guenons (セムリキアカオグエノン)
The Little Congo Collared Fruit Bats (小さなコンゴ首輪コウモリ)
The Black Casqued Hornbills (クロカスクサイチョウ)
The Red Necked Spur Fowl Quails (アカクビスイレン)
The Congo Pottos (コンゴポット)
The Palm Nut Vultures (ヤシノキハゲワシ)
The Striped Weasels (縞模様のイタチ)
The Ripon Barbels (リポンバーベル)
Ripon Barbels tend to live in big lakes surrounding the savanna.
The Crowned Hornbills (カンムリサイチョウ)
The Hammerkops (シュモクドリ)
The Charming Thicket Rats (奇麗ヤブネズミ)
The Semutundu Catfishes (セムトゥンドゥナマズ)
The Gambian Sun Squirrels (ガンビアマレーリス)
The Striped Polecats (シマケナガイタチ)
The Great Lakes Elephant Fishes (五大湖ゾウの魚)
Also known as Great Lakes Bottlenose Elephant Fishes (五大湖ハンドウズゾウの魚), these hangry fishes live in the African Great Lakes.
The Common Rousette Bats (一般ルーセットコウモリ)
The Bush Pigs (ブッシュピッグ) (ブッシュブタ)
Bush Pigs, also known as Bush Boars (ブッシュイノシシ), live in both the savanna and cloud forest. An old female was the creature who first found Barumba in the wild.
Barun Barun (バルンバルン) - A senile female bush pig who first found Barumba in the cloudforest. It was she who warned the fellow jungle animals about the poor baby being orphaned by a mafia of murderous cryptids.
The Emin’s Pouched Rats (エミンの袋に入ったネズミ)
The Fungo Civets (ファンゴジャコウネコ)
The White Thighed Hornbills (白いサイチョウ)
The Fire Footed Rope Squirrels (火足ロープリス)
The Lake Bunyonyi Thicket Rats (ブニョニ湖のヤブネズミ)
The Carruther’s Rope Squirrels (カラザーロープリス)
The Handsome Brown Spur Fowl Quail (かなり茶色のスイレンウズラ)
These spur fowl quail with pretty faces live in the mountains.
The Trumpeter Hornbills (トランペッターサイチョウ)
The Dent’s Vlei Rats (デントのフレイネズミ)
The Black Billed Turacos (クロハシエドリ)
The Lake Bunyonyi Emale Catfishes (ブニョニ湖エマレナマズ)
The Lake Victoria Booby Mice (ビクトリア湖カツオドリネズミ)
The Scaly Spur Fowl Quail (鱗状のヤドリギウズラ)
The Red Tailed Grey Parrots (赤い尾のヨウム)
Red Tailed Grey Parrots roam through the various jungles that Baruuba has visited.
The Water Chevrotains (水シボロテイン)
The Rwenzori Thicket Rats (ルウェンゾリヤブネズミ)
The Kivu Sun Squirrels (キブマオリス)
The Piping Hornbills (配管サイチョウ)
The Redhead Lovebirds (赤毛のコザクラインコ)
Redhead Lovebirds are also in the same jungles as Red Tailed Grey Parrots.
The Servaline Genets (セルバリン ジェネット)
The Thomas’ Chibi Mice (トーマスのちびネズミ)
The Semuliki Blue Guenons (セムリキブルーゲノン)
The Nile Breathing Mud Catfishes (ナイル呼吸泥ナマズ)
The Red Billed Dwarf Hornbills (アカハシサイチョウ)
The Red Legged Sun Squirrels (アカアシマサリス)
The Leopard Lungfishes (ヒョウ肺魚)
The Congo Swamp Otters (コンゴ湿地カワウソ)
The Shining Thicket Rats (輝くヤブネズミ)
The Dusky Galagos (薄暗いガラゴ)
The Panther Genets (パンサージェネット)
The Red Necked Spur Fowl Quail (アカクビスイレンウズラ)
The Toad Mice (ヒキガエルネズミ)
Toad Mice are tiny rodents which live in the cloudforest.
The Straw Coloured Fruit Bats (麦わら色のオオコウモリ)
The most common of African fruit bats, Straw Coloured Fruit Bats are seen flying in the thousands.
The Jungle Caracals (ジャングルカラカル)
Also known as African Golden Cats.
The Nile Sharp Toothed Catfishes (ナイルの鋭い歯のナマズ)
The Grey Bellied Chibi Mice (灰色のお腹のチビネズミ)
The Harlequin Quails (道化師ウズラ)
The Gosling’s Pool Rats (ゴズリングのプールネズミ)
As their colloquial species name suggests, the small Gosling’s Pool Rats live on river pools, even though they’re actually semi aquatic mice.
The Nandini Palm Civets (ナンディニハクビシン)
The Long Tailed Pangolins (尾長センザンコウ)
The Otter Shrews (カワウソトガリネズミ)
Even though Otter Shrews are seldom seen, they do make cameos in many Baruuba stories. The most commonly seen ones are giant otter shrews.
The Woodland Thicket Rats (森の藪ネズミ)
There are two species of woodland thicket rats, even though both of which are very vulnerable to plasmodium induced diseases, thus they have to share their eponymous paragraph for convenience.
The White Throated Samango Guenons (白いノドのサマンゴゲノン)
White Throated Samango Guenons are adaptable old world monkeys.
The Kivu Pouched Rats (キブ袋入りネズミ)
Kivu Pouched Rats are sometimes seen.
The Helmeted Guinea Fowl (ホロホロチョウ)
Helmeted Guinea Fowl live in the savanna.
The Lake George Vlei Rats (デントのフレイネズミ)
The Tree Hyraxes (木ハイラックス) - Like the Otter Shrews, the Tree Hyraxes are nocturnal.
The Sitatungas (シタトゥンガ)
The Rameron Pigeons (ラメロンハト)
The Spur Winged Geese (拍車翼のあるガチョウ)
The Greater Cane Rats (オオ杖ネズミ)
The Congo Booby Mice (コンゴカツオドリネズミ)
Also known as Guinea Multimammate Mice due to their multiple mammary glands.
The Red Beaked Fin Feet (アカクチバシヒレフット)
Red Beaked Fin Feet are seen mainly in the swamps.
The Golden Wolves (黄金の狼)
Also known as African Golden Wolves.
The Woodland Chibi Mice (森のちびネズミ)
The MacMillan’s Thicket Rats (マクミランヤブネズミ)
The Franquet’s Epauletted Fruit Bats (フランケの肩章付きコウモリ)
The Sharpe’s Drongoes (シャープのオウゴンゴ)
The Derby’s Scaly Tailed Squirrels (ダービーのウロコリス)
Derby’s Scaily Tails live in the many woodlands surrounding the cloudforest where Baruuba lives.
The Temminck’s Mice (テミンクネズミ)
The Maroon Bellied Pygmy Geese (栗色の腹のピグミーガン)
Maroon Bellies are frequently seen in swamplands.
The Tree Pangolins (木センザンコウ)
The Marsh Mongooses (沼地マングース)
The Schoutenden’s Genets (シュートデンのジュネット)
The African Tiger Frogs (アフリカトラガエル)
