This dataset contains aerial images, model result files and the code used in the paper: Multispecies detection and identification of African mammals in aerial imagery using convolutional neural networks. It is divided into 3 main parts: 1) The code, which contains the mmdetection v1.0.0 package as well as the adapted version and Jupyter notebooks; 2) The data (general_dataset.zip), which contains all the images and annotations of the general dataset used for training the deep learning models in the paper; 3) The results (results_files.zip), which contain the models outputs on the general dataset.