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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~30%
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kruger National Park | 🇿🇦 South Africa |
More parks will be added in future updates.
No species of the same family or order lives in Kruger National Park, so these are its closest relatives here: other reptiles.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report an East African Shovel-Snout sighting in Kruger National Park on a given day, based on 17 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 42nd most-seen of the 62 reptiles we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.
September–October and December–March
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report an East African Shovel-Snout in Kruger National Park on a given day, against under 5% in April–August and November, the lowest months. Those are among Kruger National Park's wettest months, with about 65 mm of rain a month against almost none in August.
Between 7 and 10 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most East African Shovel-Snout sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
Only Kruger National Park, in our data
Kruger National Park is the only park on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate East African Shovel-Snout sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the East African Shovel-Snout is recorded against all the reptiles logged in Kruger National Park (17 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
