Looks like there are the 8 animals. Probably bears in Yosemite, elephants in Ombika, flamingos in El Calafate, giraffes on the Blue Nile, geese on Skadar Lake, seagulls on Lake Tahoe. But I wonder where to search for hippos and rhinos?
(The White Nile and Blue Nile were investigated by Livingston and Stanley, Sir Richard Burton, Speke. All star Victorian explorers. Military men like Kitchener and Gordon and The Mahdi were around there too. I would enjoy flying down the Nile in WWI era scouts).