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Introduction
The pronghorn is the second fastest land animal in the world, almost as fast as the cheetah. It is the fastest in the Western Hemisphere.
In 1915, after the American pronghorn was almost hunted to extinction, there were only 15,00 ...
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Animal Info - Chiru (Tibetan Antelope)
(Other Names: ??, ????, ???(??????????), Antílope del Tibet, Antilope du Tibet, Orong, Orongo, Tchirou, Tibetantilope, Tschiru, Tstosh, Zangling)
Pantholops hodgsonii
Status: Endangered
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1. Profile (Picture)
2. Tidbits
3. Status and Trends (IUCN Status, Countries Where Currently Found, Population Estimates, History of Distribution, Threats and Reasons for Decline)
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Animal Info - Mountain Nyala
Tragelaphus buxtoni
Status: Endangered
Contents
1. Profile (Picture)
2. Tidbits
3. Status and Trends (IUCN Status, Countries Where Currently Found, Population Estimates, History of Distribution, Threats and Reasons for Decline)
4. Data on Biology and Ecology (Size and Weight, Habitat, Age to Maturity, Gestation Period, Birth Season, Birth Rate, Early Development, Diet, Behavior, Social Organization, Age and Gender Distribution, Density and Range)
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One thing I'd like to mention about Impalas is their interesting social behavior: One male leads a pack of about 50 females, while the other males stay to themselves. Since the leader also has to take care of reproduction, it can only hold out for a limited time of a couple of months, then another one takes its place.
The Impala are very common. They look similar to Grant's Gazelles of which I do not have a picture here.
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Antelopes
The eland is the largest of Kenya's antelope. Some weigh up to a ton and measure six feet tall. As large as they are, they can still jump six feet in the air. They can be distinguished by their tufted dewlap hanging down from the neck. The greater kudu weighs around 600 pounds and is distinguished by its long spiral horns, over four feet long. Kudus have excellent hearing with ears that can turn in any direction. Long hair grows on their front from the throat down to the ...
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Arabian Oryx
Oryx leucoryx
Physical Characteristics
Graceful white antelope, long straight horns, black markings on legs and face, moderately long legs, broad hooves, tasseled tail
Diet
Wild: Feeds primarily on grasses, also, herbs, fruits, shoots
Can exist for weeks without water
Behavior
Herd animals: 10-20 animals, equal number of males and females, hierarchy
Desert specialist
Can walk for hours
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Artiodactyla Id code: amd172
Bovidae
Hippotragus equinus
(Desmarest, 1804)
(Eng) Roan antelope
(Fre) Hippotrague, antilope chevaline
Taxonomic notes
No significant taxonomic notes.
IUCN threat category
Lower Risk, conservation dependent (LR: cd).
Available information
The species' ecology has been studied mainly in southern Africa, and information available for east, central and west Africa mainly concerns its status and presence in protected areas.
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THE PRONG-HORNED ANTELOPE.
(Antilocapra Americana.)
The antelope family comprises many of the most beautiful and graceful species among horned animals. When we behold the curiously twisted horns of the sasin, the long, sharp horns of the passan, the large, spiral horns of the koodoo and the shorter horns of the eland, not to mention the graceful bodies and limbs of these animals, we are led to wonder at the extravagance of nature in furnishing such a variety of appendages to these creature ...
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Blue Duiker
Scientific name: Cephalophus monticola
Family: Bovidae
Order: Artiodactyla
Class: Mammalia
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Cephalophus monticola is the smallest species of duiker. It can weigh between 4-10 kilograms with a shoulder height of about 30-40 centimeters. The body length of the Blue Duiker is between 55-72 centimeters and the tail length can be between 7-12.5 centimeters long. The coat of a Blue Duiker is short and red as a kid changing to a bluish/gray as an a ...
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BONGO ANTELOPE
COMMON NAME: Bongo Antelope
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Tragelaphus euryceros
LOCATION: Kenya and Western Africa
HABITAT: Lowland and mountain forests
SIZE: 44-54 inches, 470-900 pounds
GESTATION PERIOD: 9 months, giving birth to one calf
LIFESPAN: Up to 19 years
DIET: Leaves, flowers, garden produce, twigs
LOCATION IN THE ZOO: Near the Cheetah Exhibit
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
Rich, chestnut color coat. Ten to fifteen white-yellow vertical torso stripe ...
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BONGO ANTELOPE
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Name: Bongo Antelope
Scientific name: Tragelaphus euryceros
Range: Africa: Sierra Leone to Kenya
Habitat: Forest
Status: Cites Appendix III, not listed by USFWS
Diet in the wild: browser, leaves, flowers, twigs, thistles
Diet in the zoo: leaves , garden produce and cereals
Location: near Cheetah Exhibit
Physical description: Adult height is about 3’8” to 4’3” and length is about 5’8” to 8’3”. Females 462-557 lbs an ...
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Bontebok
Damaliscus dorcas
Physical Characteristics
The hair is soft and has a iridescent sheen. The body color is a deep purple-red with a white blaze on the face, a pronounced rump patch and a white tail. The horns are well developed in both sexes and are angular and ringed for most of their length (up to 18 inches).
Size of average adult
weight: 135 pounds for males
length : 47 - 81 inches from head to tail
Diet
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Taurotragus oryx
Classification:
Phylum - Chordata
Class - Mammalia
Order - Artiodactyla
Family - BovidaeStatus:
Classified as low risk, but still conservation dependent.
Range:
Common eland range throughout Central and Southern Africa. They are found mainly on savannas, but will also venture into forest and desert fringes.
Physical Characteristics:
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Dik-dik
The Center has successfully raised over 40 Guenther's dik-dik in the past decade. This small antelope is native to Africa. In 2003, our Center changed its conservation, breeding and exhibition efforts to focus more on Australian animals. Therefore, we no longer have an extensive dik-dik breeding program. We do, however, retain one pair of dik-dik, "Snout and Mocha," to introduce to our visitors. To those who have visited our Center previously, you may recall that Snout enjoys his part i ...
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Dik-Dik
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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
Gunther's Dik-Diks are graceful dwarf antelopes about the size of a fox terrier. At maturity they weigh up to 12 pounds and are 14 inches tall at the shoulder. These tiny animals (35cm shoulder-height) have almost no tail and a small tuft of hair on the head. Kirk's Dik-dik are reddish-brown with paler flanks and a white belly.
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Eland
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SWAHILI NAME: Mbunga
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
The Common eland, Taurotragus oryx, may stand 6 feet at the shoulders and weigh slightly more than 2,000 pounds. Both sexes have horns, beautiful spirals three feet long.
The Common eland's coat is light tan, darkening to gray in older males. There are usually a few light stripes on the forequarters, black and white leg markings, and a black tuft on the end of the tail.
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Gerenuk
The Gerenuk is a tall, thin, gazelle-like antelope that has a long giraffe-like neck.
Name: Gerenuk
Scientific name:Litocranius walleri
Range: Throughout eastern Africa from Somalia to Kenya
Habitat: From the flat thorn bush of the Savanna to the dry desert
Status: Not threatened
Diet in the wild: leaves, young shoots of trees and thorny shrubs
Diet in the zoo: horsefeed, herbivore pellets, alfalfa hay
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GREATER KUDU, Tragelaphus strepsiceros
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WHAT IT IS
The second tallest antelope, with the most spectacular horns. Narrow bodied, long legged. ~ wt 418-693 lb (190 315 kg), ht 48-60 in (122 150 cm); ~ wt 264 473 lb (120 215 kg), ht 40 56 in (100 140 cm). Head proportionally small with huge, cupped ears. Horns 2.5 turns (rarely, 3); average 48 in, record 72 (180 cm). Coat smooth except spinal crest in both sexes and beard in male only. Color red brown to blue gray; male ...
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Greater Kudu
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PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
This spiral-horned antelope is bluish gray to grayish-brown in color and has seven to ten vertical white stripes on its flanks. Its maximum shoulder height is over five feet, and males weigh as much as 720 pounds. Females are somewhat smaller.
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SWAHILI NAME FOR ANTELOPE: Swala
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
The Klipspringer (Afrikaans for "rock jumper") is only about twenty-two inches high at the shoulder, and weighs approximately forty pounds. Stocky and powerful, yet extremely agile, this shy and nervous antelope is unique. The male has delicate little horns about four to six inches long. Its ears are actually longer than its horns.
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KLIPSPRINGER, Oreotragus oreotragus
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WHAT IT IS
The only antelope that lives on kopjes and cliffs. Short body, massive hindquarters, and sturdy long legs. Stands on tips of truncated hotyves. Male wt 23 lb (10.6 kg), ht 20 21 in (49 52.5 cm); Female wt 29 lb (13.2 kg), ht same as male. Head wedge shaped on short neck, with big rounded ears. Horns wide set, upstanding spikes, 4 in (10 cm). Occasionally present in f ...
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Kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
One of the most striking and beautiful of the antelopes, the greater kudu lives in central and southern Africa, in rocky hill country or on brush-covered plains. Farmers in areas inhabited by the kudu must take into account, when building their fences, the animal’s ability to easily leap obstacles 2.5 m in height.
The male's magnificent spiral horns can reach up to 168 cm in length and are highly prized trophies. Kudus frequently use ...
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LESSER KUDU
(Tragelaphus imberbis)
Swahili Name: Tandala Ndogo
Scientific Name: Tragelaphus imberbis
Size:
Body length: 110-140cm/3.6-4.6 ft
Shoulder height:90-110cm/3-3.7ft
Tail lenght:25-40cm/10-16 in
Weight: 56-105kg/123-231 lb
Life Span:
7 to 8 years in the wild and up to 23 years in captivity (average 15 years)
Life Cycle:
Weaning: After 6 months
Sexually Maturity: Females by 15
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Suni Antelope
Height: 35 cm
Mass: 5 - 7 kg
My favourite little antelope. Unfortunately, not much I know about them. But this is what I could find out.
Browser and independent of water, they obtain most of their moisture from the food they eat. Small, shy animals. They live in dense thick bush. They can be found in pairs or solitary. Only the males have horns. Colours are fawn and ...
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Roan
ORDER: Artiodactyla
FAMILY: Bovidae
GENUS: Hippotragus
SPECIES: equinus
I. DESCRIPTION:
Head and body length is 190 to 240 cm (75-95 in), shoulder height is 126-145 cm (50-57 in). Horns are 55-99 cm (22-39 in). Weight averages 280 kg (616 lb) in males and 260 kg (572 lb) in females. General coloration is pale reddish brown with white underparts. Hippotragus is characterized by thick, tough skin; a well-developed and often upright mane on the nape; a short mane on the ...
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Pronghorn
Order Artiodactyla : Family Antilocapridae : Antilocapra americana (Ord)
Description. A small, deerlike mammal with black, pronged horns that reach beyond the tip of the ears in males; in females they are shorter and seldom pronged; only two toes on each foot (no dewclaws); rump patch, sides, breast, belly, side of jaw, crown, and band across throat white; chin and markings on neck black or dark brown; black patch at angle ...
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Pronghorn
Antilocapra americana
Physical Characteristics
They are not true antelope. They are the only surviving genus and species of their family. The body is tan with white and black markings. The wooly undercoat is covered with long, brittle guard hairs which are hollow. Horns are found on males and females. They are the only animals that shed their horns. The long cloven hooves are cushioned for running. Windpipe and lungs are extra l ...
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Pronghorned Antelope
Antilocapra americana
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Once roaming the prairie in numbers rivaling the bison, the pronghorn antelope is now restricted, in Canada, to the adjacent southern corners of Alberta and Saskatchewan. A small, trim animal, standing about 90 cm high at the shoulder, the pronghorn is the fastest North American mammal. It is capable of speeds estimated at 80-95 km/h in short bursts.
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SABLE ANTELOPE, Hippotragus niger
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Roosevelt sable, H. n. rooseveltien
Kirk's sable, H. n. kirkii
Southern sable, H. n. niger
Giant sable, H. n. varianien
WHAT IT IS
Rivals the greater kudu as most-handsome antelope, especially the male giant sable. Compact, powerful build, thick neck enhanced by upstanding mane, and sturdy legs. Resemblance of females and males holds up to 3 years or until males become darker and develop bigger horns. Male ...
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Sable Antelope
Hippotragus
The handsome sable antelope of eastern and southern Africa belongs to a group called sabre-horned antelopes, because of their long, scimitar-shaped horns. Those of the sable antelope are covered with ring-like ridges.
Adult males often reach 1.5 m at the shoulder and can weigh over 270 kg. They are glossy black except for white markings on their face and underparts, with a tufted tail and slight mane.
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Saiga Antelope
Saiga tatarica
Only one fossil of this species is known from Canada. It was found on the beach of Baillie Island, east of the Mackenzie Delta in the Northwest Territories. Other remains have been found in Ice Age deposits of central and northern Alaska. Because saiga antelopes are particularly adapted to dry, steppe-grasslands, they probably crossed the wide, steppe-like plains of the Bering Isthmus (a land connection between Siberia and Alaska that existe ...
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Springbok
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS:
The Springbok's coat is cinnamon fawn above with a dark reddish fawn horizontal band extending from the upper foreleg to the edge of the hip. It has a conspicuous black side band contrasting with white under parts. Three functions have been suggested for the black side-bands: they act as a visual signal to keep the herds together, they communicate when all the members are fleeing and they may break up the outline of individuals in a herd.
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The Pronghorn
Antilocapra americana
Entirely unique on this planet, the Pronghorn's scientific name, Antilocapra americana, means "American antelope goat." But the deer-like Pronghorn is neither antelope nor goat -- it is the sole surviving member of an ancient family dating back 20 million years.
The Pronghorn is the only animal in the world with branched horns (not antlers) and the only animal in the wo ...
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Waterbucks are large, stately, easily recognized antelope with straight backs and coarse, shaggy coats. Their coats are gray to grayish-brown, and their legs are darker in color. The animals have conspicuous semi-circular white patches of color on their rumps.
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Impala, Aepyceros melampus
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WHAT IT IS
A one-of a-kind antelope. No close relatives. Graceful build, long neck, limbs evenly developed and slender. Male wt 117-167 lb (53-76 kg), ht 30-36 in (75-92 cm); Female wt 88-117 lb (40-53 kg), ht 28-34 in (70-85 cm). Horns: male only; S-shaped and wide-set, 18 to 37 in (45-91.7 cm), strongly ridged but comparatively thin; far larger in East African than in southern African pop ...
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North American Saiga
Saigas (Saiga tatarica), presently confined to central Asia, spread westward to England and eastward to the Northwest Territories of Canada during the Pleistocene (about 2 million to 10,000 years ago). The species is a valuable paleoenvironmental indicator of dry, steppe-like grasslands, and a saiga fossil proves that eastern Beringia (unglaciated parts of Alaska, Yukon and adjacent areas of the Northwest Territories) extended east of the Mackenzie Delta.
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