Bontebok
Damaliscus pygargus dorcas
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Bontebok are confined in their distribution to a restricted area in the southwestern Cape Province, lying between Bredasdorp and Cape Agulhas.
Bontebok
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see damalisk.
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Damalisk - name for African antelopes of the genus Damaliscus, closely related to the hartebeest.
Bontebok, Blesbok
Taxonomy Damaliscus pygargus [Pallas, 1767]. Citation: Spicil. Zool., 1:10. Type locality: South Africa, Cape Prov., Swart River.
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The Bontebok {Damaliscus Dorcas}
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BONTEBOK - Damaliscus dorcas dorcas
At one stage, the unique bontebok population in South Africa stood at less than 40 individual animals, shot to the brink of extinction by hunters and farmers alike.
Samango monkey, Bontebok, roan, suni, lion, leopard, blue duiker.
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The blesbok, the bontebok, and the members of the genus Dameliscus are also called hartebeests.
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The Blesbok, or Blesbuck, (Damaliscus dorcas phillpsi) is related to the Bontebok (Damaliscus dorcas dorcas)and it is purplish antelope with a distinctive white face and forehead.
waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, bontebok Damaliscus pygargus, and gazelles, the males choose a particular piece of habitat and defend it from other adult males.
While as many as 10 and as few as 5 subfamilies have been suggested, the intersection of molecular, morphological, and fossil evidence suggests 8 distinct subfamilies: Aepycerotinae (impalas), Alcelaphinae (bonteboks, hartebeest, wildebeest, ...
Relatives include the bontebok, Damaliscus dorcas, and the hartebeest, Alcephalus busephalus.
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The name gnu comes from a Bushman word for the wildebeest's bellow.
Korrigum (D. korrigum) Â- Common Tsessebe (D. lunatus) Â- Bontebok (D. pygargus) Â- Bangweulu Tsessebe (D. superstes)
Alcelaphus
Hartebeest (A. buselaphus) Â- Red Hartebeest (A. caama) Â- Lichtenstein's Hartebeest (A. lichtensteinii) ...
Bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus)
Straw-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus)
Geoffroy's cat (Leopardus geoffroyi)
DeVille's robber frog (Pristimantis devillei)
Pristimantis (Pristimantis truebae)
Congo clawless otter (Aonyx congicus) ...
In Damaliscus, which includes, among many other species, the blesbok and bontebok (D. albifrons and D. pygargus) and the sassaby or bastard hartebeest (D. lunatus), the face is shorter, and the horns straighter and set on a less elevated crest.
hunting, and habitat loss (particularly agricultural development and competition from domestic cattle). The species has largely disappeared from South Africa and no longer occurs in much of western and central Africa.
Reintroduced to Bontebok and ...
 See also: Antelope, Hartebeest, Wildebeest, Cattle, Buffalo
  
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