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ReedbuckFrom LoveToKnow 1911 REEDBUCK (Dutch rietbok), the popular name of a foxy red South African antelope (Cervicapra arundineum) of medium size, with a moderately long bushy tail, a bare gland-patch behind the ear, ...
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ReedbuckRelated Category: Vertebrate Zoology see marsh antelope. More on ReedbuckMarsh Antelope - name for members of a group of deerlike African antelopes, usually found in reeds or tall grasses near water.
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Bohor reedbuck - REDUNCA REDUNCA
Class: Animals with Milk Glands (Mammalia)
Subclass: True Mammals (Eutheria)
Order: Even-toed Mammals (Artiodactyla)
Family: Bovidae.
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Bohor Reedbucks have a distinctive whistling (males) and a frog-like croaking (females). These animals become most verbose during ritual mating displays. Gestation period is about 7.5 months.
Habitat
Ethiopia and the Blue Nile region of the Sudan ...
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Southern reedbuck
Taxonomy Redunca arundinum [Boddaert, 1785]. Citation: Elench. Anim., 1:141. Type locality:South Africa, Cape of Good Hope, Bathurst Division.
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Southern Reedbuck (R. arundinum) Â- Mountain Reedbuck (R. fulvorufula) Â- Bohor Reedbuck (R. redunca)
Aepycerotinae
Aepyceros ...
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Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe: impala (60%), kudu (30%), reedbuck (2%). Kruger National Park, South Africa: impala (52%), kudu (12%), reedbuck (15%). Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya: Thompson's gazelle (67%), impala (17%), wildebeest (8%).
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In the wild, caracals will eat guinea fowl, desert partridges, hedgehogs, rodents, mongoose, duikers, dik-diks, mountain reedbuck, fawns of impala, bush-buck and other antelopes like greater kudus. Rock hyrax makes up roughly half of their diet.
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The dominant prey of the wild dog is Thomson's gazelle, wildebeest, impala, duiker and reedbuck. At the Zoo, wild dogs are fed a base diet that includes a commercial raw meat mix which contains the nutrients essential for the animal's well being.
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 See also: Antelope, Waterbuck, Gazelle, Lechwe, Wildebeest
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