The park is also home to mammals including chacma baboons, vervet monkeys, hippopotamuses, leopards, common duikers, bushbucks, greater kudus, and klipspringers. Also to be seen are crocodiles, African fish eagles, and white-breasted cormorants as well as wading birds, kingfishers, hornbills, nightjars, kestrels, swallow-tailed bee-eaters, and many other species of birds.

Lake Malawi attracts a number of birds which favour either the water or islands or the particular vegetation of the shorelands. The African fish eagle is the Pride of the lake and is Malawi's national bird.This superb bird, which has a black body with white head, neck and tail feathers, is easily spotted as it dives to take fish from just under the surface of the waters.There are more concentrations of fish eagles here than anywhere else in the world.

If not seen, its loud cry will be heard as it perches on a waterside tree or skims over the lake.Along the lakeshore, palms attract the collared palm thrush and palm swifts, while the mighty boababs have their mottled spinetails with wonderfully swept back wings. Pied kingfishers dive to take small fish and, where there are reeds, golden and brown-throated weavers can be seen. Very prominent, especially on the off-shore islands, are white-breasted cormorants, although the reed cormorant is much less commonly seen. By far the most impressive bird, for its sheer size, found near the lake is the giant Marabou stork.

Lake Malawi itself attracts relatively few waterbirds but the often rocky shores have their hyrax colonies and attendant Black Eagles Aquila verreauxi and the lake itself is fished by the permeating Fish Eagles Haliaetusvocifer.