Sable Antelope

Sable Antelope

Taxobox
name = Sable Antelope
status = LR/cd | status_system = IUCN2.3
trend = down


image_width = 270px
image_caption = Sable Bull (Kafue, Zambia)
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Mammalia
ordo = Artiodactyla
familia = Bovidae
subfamilia = Hippotraginae
genus = "Hippotragus"
species = "H. niger"
binomial = "Hippotragus niger"
binomial_authority = Harris, 1838

The Sable Antelope ("Hippotragus niger") is an antelope which inhabits wooded savannah in East Africa south of Kenya, and in Southern Africa.

ubspecies

There are three subspecies:
* "H. n. niger" which is considered low risk conservation dependent
* "H. n. varani" (Giant Sable Antelope) of central Angola which is classified as critically endangered
* "H. n. kirkii" (Zambian Sable Antelope) of central Angola and western Zambia and is classified as vulnerable

Description

The Sable Antelope stands 120 to 140 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh 200 to 270 kilograms, males being larger than females. Female Sable Antelope are chestnut to dark brown darkening as they mature while males are very distinctively black. Both sexes have a white underbelly, white cheeks and a white chin. They have a shaggy mane on the back of their neck. Sable antelope have ringed horns which arch backward, in females these can reach a meter, but in males they can reach over one and a half meters.

Ecology and behavior

Sable Antelope live in wooded savannah where they eat mid-length grass and leaves. They are diurnal but are less active during the heat of the day. Sable Antelope form herds of ten to thirty females and calves led by a single male. Sable Antelope males will fight among themselves; they drop to their knees and use their horns.

Miscellaneous

*The sable antelope was one of the national emblems of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).
*The sable antelope was also introduced into Texas as game in private ranches.

Gallery

References

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External links

*ARKive - [http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/mammals/Hippotragus_niger/ images and movies of the sable antelope "(Hippotragus niger)"]
*Sable Behavior [http://wildlife-nature.com/sabletxt.htm]


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