Sable Antelope
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SABLE ANTELOPE, the English name for a large and handsome South African antelope (Hippotragus niger), exhibiting the rare feature of 'blackness or dark colour in both sexes.
Sable Antelope
Hippotragus niger
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Sable Antelope
Mammal. Like others of their kind, sable antelope have a social structure based on territory, age, and strength. The strongest adult males, called “bulls,' set up territories in good grazing areas.
Sable antelopes were much sought by hunters. Ernest Hemingway, who used to hunt sable antelopes, gives an interesting account of their habits in The Green Hills of Africa. Lions are about the only predators strong enough to bring down a healthy sable.
Sable antelope
Taxonomy Hippotragus niger [Harris, 1838]. Citation: Athenaeum, 535:71. Type locality: South Africa, Transvaal, Cashan Range (= Magaliesberge), near Pretoria.
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Sable antelope adapt well to confined, manipulated, intensive production systems.
Male sable antelopes are glossy black except for white markings on their face and belly. They have a tufted tail and a slight mane and long horns that strongly curve backwards.
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Sable antelope (Hippotragus niger)
This stunning antelope rivals even the greater kudus as the most handsome of all antelope, with its powerful, robust build, vertical mane... More 30 Images 5 Videos ...
Sable antelope
Class: Mammalia
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Appendix I
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Sable Antelope
Africa Mammals Guide Information: Both males and females have horns which curve backwards. The colour is dark brown which becomes darker with age. The belly and backside of the buttocks below the tail are white.
Sable Antelope do not start life with a dark coat. A newborn calf is born with a camouflaging, sandy-brown coat. As the calf grows and achieves status in the herd, its coat will continually darken (Wolfsen 1997).
Sable Antelope - Hippotragus niger
Sable are the most striking of all the African antelope and one of the top trophies in any hunter's mind. Their magnificent horns, contrasting colours and relative scarcity make them highly desirable.
Roan Antelope (H. equinus) Â- Sable Antelope (H. niger)
Oryx
East African Oryx (O. beisa) Â- Scimitar Oryx (O. dammah) Â- Gemsbok (O. gazella) Â- Arabian Oryx (O. leucoryx) ...
The sable antelope and the closely related roan antelope have enormous, backward-curved, scimitar-shaped horns. Gazelle is the name for a number of small, delicate antelopes with spreading horns, inhabiting deserts and grassy plains.
 See also: Antelope, Sable, Hippo, Goat, Oryx
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