Beira

Beira
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see antelope.
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Antelope - name applied to a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family which also includes the sheep and goats.

Beira
Taxonomy Dorcatragus megalotis [Menges, 1894]. Citation: Zool. Anz., 17:130. Type locality: Somalia, Hekebo Plateau, 35 mi (56 km) SW of Berbera.

Beira is from behra, the Somali name for this antelope. Dorkas (Greek) a gazelle or antelope; tragos (Greek) a he-goat. Megas (Greek) big; ous (Greek), genitive otos, the ear: a reference to the huge ears.

A still more aberrant gazelle is a small North-East African species known as the beira (Dorcatragus melanotis), with very short horns, large hoofs and a general appearance recalling that of some of the members of the subfamily Neotraginae, ...

5-pound royal antelope to the 45-pound beira. The klipspringer weighs in at between 22 and 33 pounds and stands just 17 to 20 inches at the shoulder. Living in small family groups, klipspringers are widely distributed in Africa south of the Sahara.

Mozambique (Beira, 20°S), s. Madagascar, in mid-ocean n. to 18°S to 24°S and to Carnarvon, c. Western Australia (24°S), off South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales off Wollongong to s.

[14] The entire range of the species is protected as a Special Protection Area, the Pico da Vara / Ribeira do Guilherme SPA (a Natura 2000 site), under European Union legislation.

Topic: Animals