Impala
Aepyceros melampus
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Impala
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species of antelope, Aepyceros melampus, closely related to the gazelle and found in the savannah and bush country of E and S Africa.
Impala
Mammal. The impala is a species of antelope. Standing 90 centimeters (3 feet) tall, they can leap 3 meters (10 feet) in the air and reach 9 meters (30 feet) in a single bound. Extremely sociable, they live in herds of hundreds of individuals.
Impalas feed mainly on grasses, but they also eat a wide variety of leaves, fruits, and seeds. The amount they eat of any one food depends on season and location.
Impalas are fleet runners who are able to leap distances of up to 33 feet (10 meters). They use this technique to escape predators and sometimes, apparently, simply to amuse themselves.
Impala Antelope (genus aepyceros) that lives in the bush country of South and East Africa. It stands about 3 ft. high at the shoulder, its coat is a rich reddish brown shading to whitish on the underparts.
Impala
Taxonomy Aepyceros melampus [Lichtenstein, 1812]. Citation: Reisen Sudl. Africa, 2, pl. 4 opp. p. 544. Type locality: South Africa, Cape Province, Kuruman, Khosis.
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Impala are social, gregarious animals that stay in groups of 6-30 in a moist summer but congregate in larger herds of 400 or more in the dry winter months following the mating season.
The impala is a medium-sized African antelope that has long, ringed horns. These mammals live in huge herds in southeastern and south-central Africa in open forests, grasslands, and shrubby areas.
Diet
Impalas eat tender young grass shoots in the wet season and herbs and shrubs at other times. During the dry season they must drink daily.
Impala
Aepyceros melampus
A grazing antelope from Africa which lives in single-sex herds. The males have impressive lyre-shaped horns.
The Impala {Aepyceros malampus}
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Impala have a complex social structure and an interesting mating system. Like other antlered ungulates, impala mate during a certain period of time called the rut.
IMPALA - Aepyceros melampus
One of the most common antelope of sub-Saharan Africa, the impala is an evolutionary success story and is capable of living in many different conditions.
Impalas are an important food source for many larger predators, especially cheetahs, lions, hyenas, etc. Young impalas may be taken by birds of prey such as Martial eagles.
The impala is active throughout the 24-hour day, alternating resting and grazing, and drinking at least once a day. Herds have a home range of about 2-6 square kilometers. About 1/3 of adult males hold territories, which vary in size from 0.2-0.
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Impala were Kenya's answer to the kob we saw in Uganda. They were everywhere, in huge numbers. And still, this is probably the best picture of impala I came away with -- pretty sad, huh?
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Impala
Class: Mammalia
Status: Common, but CITES III in Ghana, and the subspecies Aepyceros melampus petersi is listed as endangered by IUCN and USDI, there being only an estimated 1,000 - 2,000 individuals in 1989.
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Impala
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Graceful reddish antelope. Tuft of black hair on ankle of hind legs are diagnostic. Males have lyre-shaped horns.
Impala
the withers-height of the Impala amounts approximately 90 cm, its weight for 80 kg. This slim antelope is colored sallow-russet. From the back-middle ...
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IMPALA
A high-jumping, lightly-built antelope from southern Africa.
JAVELINA
A pig-like mammal, also known as the collared peccary, from deserts and chaparrels of North and Central America.
impalas (Aepyceros melampus)
Grant's gazelles (Nanger granti)
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With the palla, or impala(A epyceros melampus), we reach an exclusively African genus, characterized by the lyrate horns of the bucks, the absence of lateral hoofs, and the presence of a pair of glands with black tufts of hair on the hind-feet.
In East Africa, the cheetah's main prey is the Thomson's gazelle on the plains (Serengeti) and impala in the woodlands. In the arid bushland of northern Kenya, lesser kudu, gerenuk, and dikdik have been identified as major prey.
Their main prey varies among populations, but always focuses on medium sized ungulates such as impala. A few packs, however, will also include much larger animals, such as wildebeests and zebras, in their prey.
Hunting: Cheetahs live on medium-sized prey, such as impalas, gazelles, the calves of wildebeest and zebra, even hares and large birds. A cheetah eats about six pounds of meat per day. It drinks about once every four to ten days.
The females do almost all of the hunting, bringing down animals such as wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, impala, and sometimes giraffe. Lions will also feed on smaller animals such as hares, birds and reptiles.
In Africa, the preferred prey of the lion is wildebeest, impala, zebras, buffalo and warthogs. At the Zoo, their diet includes a commercial raw meat mix, solid beef, beef shank bones and long bones.
Fast and ferocious, they excel at hunting the speedy Thomson's gazelles and impalas, but they will also attack warthogs and any mid-sized antelope (such as the springbok and the impala), and the young of large antelopes such as the common wildebeest.
Diet: mainly small to medium sized antelope such as impala, duiker, hartebeest, dik-dik, springbok, kudu
Breeding Season: throughout the year
Sexual Maturity: 456 days
Gestation: about 95 days
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During mornings and early evenings, packs search together within their home range for antelopes (duiker, reedbuck, impala, and Thomson's gazelle), as well as larger wildebeest and the occasional zebra, particularly if these prey are ill or injured.
Hungry, Hungry Hunter: Cheetahs are carnivores, eating mostly mammals under 40 kg (90 lb), including Thomson's gazelles and impala. Wildebeest and calves are hunted when cheetahs hunt together. Guinea fowl and hares are also hunted.
Staples Wide variety; from wildebeest, impala, zebra, giraffe, buffalo and wild hogs to sometimes rhinos and hippos. They will also feed on smaller animals such as hares, birds and reptiles.
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An impressive and fearsome-looking bird, it can bring down an impala, though it usually takes much smaller prey, especially sandgrouse, francolins and other ground-dwelling birds.
Some more examples of herbivores are Elephants, Giraffe, Kudu, Warthog, Impala, Rhino, Hippo and Zebra.
Some more examples of carnivores are Leopard, Cheetah, Hyena, African wild dogs, Tigers, Caracals and Servals.
The cheetah is carnivorous, and its diet consists of animals such as gazelles, wildebeests, impalas, rabbits, birds and warthogs. Cheetahs, unlike lions or hyenas, prefer to hunt during the day.
Cheetahs rely on a burst of speed to catch such swift prey as gazelles, wildebeest calves, impalas and smaller hoofed animals, knocking their prey to the ground and delivering a suffocating bite to the neck.
A typical diet will include zebra, giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest, gazelles and impala. Lions are opportunistic and will readily scavenge the kills of cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs and hyenas.
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Examples of their prey are antelope, gazelles, impalas, zebras, wildebeests, hares, small rodents and birds. Cheetahs hunt alone or in small groups.
So far, Dickerson has been mostly experimenting on his own, printing leopard spots onto the skins of more abundant African species, such as the impala. But the results have not yet proven satisfactory, and the researcher told AllAboutWildlife.
Prides, composed of four to six females, work together to take down large prey, such as zebra, wildebeest, impala and buffalo. Hunting skills are developed as cubs through the use of play-fighting among relatives.
Wildebeest are often seen with other herbivours such as the Impala or the Zebra. This animal is a herd animal and relys on mutual protection from its other members in the herd.
To do this, cheetahs often sit on a termite mound or tree limb to scan the countryside. Though they like gazelles best, cheetahs also keep an eye out for impalas, springhares, birds, and the young of warthogs, kudu, hartebeest, and other mammals.
 See also: Antelope, Gazelle, Leopard, Lion, Cheetah
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