Oribi

Oribi
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ORIBI, or OUREBI, the local name of a small South African antelope (Oribia scoparia), standing about 24 in.

Oribi
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.

Oribi
Africa Mammals Guide Information: A small antelope with light rust-brown colouring, white throat and belly. The horns are straight but bend slightly forward towards the tips.

Oribi's territory ranges from Senegal to west and central Ethiopia and southern Somalia, southward into eastern Kenya, across into north Botswana and Angola, with patchy and discontinuous distribution through Mozambique, ...

Oribi (O. ourebi)
Raphicerus
Steenbok (R. campestris) Â- Cape Grysbok (R. melanotis) Â- Sharpe's Grysbok (R. sharpei) ...

About Oribi
This animal is the largest of the dwarf antelope, a group that includes royal antelope, dik-diks and klipspringers. It is the only antelope that feeds mainly on grass.

6%; hare, oribi, wildebeest, hartebeest, less than 4% each
Nairobi National Park: Thomson's gazelle 9.4-21.9%, Grant's gazelle 17.0-24.6%, impala 27.4-35.8%; Coke's hartebeest 9.4-12%, Warthog 7.5-2.2%
Masai Mara: Thomson's gazelle 41.7%, impala 32.

Oribi (Ourebia ourebi)
Laughing dove (Stigmatopelia senegalensis)
Great snipe (Gallinago media)
African spoonbill (Platalea alba)
Red stinkwood (Prunus africana)
Common warthog (Phacochoerus africanus)
Sanderling (Calidris alba) ...

Tsessebe, black rhino, Cape mountain zebra, African wild dog, Oribi.

Vulnerable ...

The general size, shape, and coloration of the steenbok is similar to the gray duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia) and oribi (Ourebia ourebi), and this antelope may be mistaken for either species in the field (Kingdon, 1997).

Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania: impala (69%), wildebeest (11%) reedbuck (3%), warthog (3%).
Serengeti National Park, Tanzania: Thompson's gazelle (57%), wildebeest (40%), Grant's gazelle, zebra .
Zambia: impala, reedbuck, hartebeest, oribi.

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