Bongo (Animal)
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BONGO (Boocercus eurycerus), a West African bushbuck, the largest of the group.
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(bng´g), spiral-horned antelope, Boocercus eurycerus, found in jungles and thick bamboo forests of equatorial Africa.
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Taxonomy Tragelaphus eurycerus [Ogilby, 1837]. Citation: Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1836:120 [1837]. Type locality: West Africa. The taxonomic record (above) is taken from Wilson and Reeder (1993).
Bongos are the only forest antelope that gathers in herds (of about 20 animals). They are fast runners who can also jump very well, but they often go around or under obstacles in the forest. These shy antelopes like to wallow in mud.
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The bongo is the only Tragelaphid in which both the male and female have horns. Among the various species of antelope in the African Equatorial forrest, Bongos are the largest. They are the only forest antelope to form herds.
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Male bongos seek out adult females only at breeding season, though they don't try to herd them or restrict their movements, as do some antelope species.
Bongos are the largest and most spectacular of the African forest antelopes. The main population is in west Africa, however, a much smaller and critically endangered subspecies is found in the mountain forests of Kenya.
Bongos are the largest forest antelope.
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Native people believe if they eat or touch bongo they will have spasms similar to epileptic seizures. Because of this superstition, bongos have been relatively unharmed in their native ranges.
Bongo is an African native name. Tragos (Greek) a he-goat;.elaphos (Greek) a deer; in combination referring to an antelope. Eurus (Greek) broad, widespread; keras (Greek) the horn of an animal.
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Bongos has a massive body with high-bent back, its shoulder-height reaches 130 cm, the weight 225 kg. The color of the fur is sincerely bay, with olde...
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The bongo is a large, striped antelope from African forests.
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Camels are large mammals that live in dry areas.
The sitatunga can crossbreed with the lesser kudu, bushbuck and bongo. Bongo hybrids are fertile and can reproduce. Several hybrids between the subspecies of sitatunga have been reported by zoos.
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The kudu is considered to be the most handsome of the tragelaphine antelopes, which includes the bongo, eland, nyala, bushbuck and sitatunga.
Kleiman, D.G. 1985. Social and reproductive behavior of the giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca). Bongo, (Berlin), 10:45-58
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The greater kudu is considered by many to be the most handsome of the tragelaphine antelopes, which includes the bongo, eland, nyala, bushbuck and sitatunga.
Africa is the home of most antelopes, including the bushbuck ,waterbuck , lechwe, marshbuck , impala , or palla, kudu, nyala , springbuck , bongo .
Sitatunga (T. spekeii) Â- Nyala (T. angasii) Â- Bushbuck (T. scriptus) Â- Mountain Nyala (T. buxtoni) Â- Lesser Kudu (T. imberbis) Â- Greater Kudu (T. strepsiceros) Â- Bongo (T. eurycerus)
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Gorilla population surveys, conducted by WCS, have helped the government of Cameroon create a new national park, which will protect more than 600 gorillas and other threatened species, such as chimpanzees, forest elephants, buffalos, and bongo.
 See also: Antelope, Oryx, Eland, Deer, Gazelle
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