Sitatunga
Taxonomy Tragelaphus spekii [P.L. Sclater, 1863]. Citation: In Speke, Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile, p. 223.
Sitatunga
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see bushbuck.
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Bushbuck - small, delicate, spiral-horned antelope, Tragelaphus scriptus, of tropical Africa.
Sitatungas are semi-aquatic, spending their entire lives in close vicinity of open water habitats, especially of marshes, swamps and floodplains bordering lakes and rivers.
SITATUNGA - Tragelaphus spekei
The sitatunga is a medium-sized, somewhat scruffy looking chocolate colored antelope with a shaggy coat and a distinctive white chevron marking below the eyes.
Sitatungas are one of the most aquatic antelope species and have many adaptations that allow them to spend time in water.
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Sitatunga coats are shaggy and several inches long. Their thin hair is also coated with an oily, water-repellent secretion.
Sitatunga is a common host animal for the parasite Schistosoma, a blood fluke found in mesentery blood vessels. (Delany, 1979) ...
Sitatunga
the Sitatunga has a withers-height of approximately 115 cm with a weight by 100 kg. it is built over behind and bigger than the otherwise analogical b...
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Sitatunga (T. spekeii) Â- Nyala (T. angasii) Â- Bushbuck (T. scriptus) Â- Mountain Nyala (T. buxtoni) Â- Lesser Kudu (T. imberbis) Â- Greater Kudu (T. strepsiceros) Â- Bongo (T. eurycerus)
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Bongos have sturdy, spiraled horns that resemble those of their cousins: nyalas, sitatungas, bushbucks, kudus and elands.
Sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii)
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Sitatungas live in swamps and have very wide hooves so they don't slip in the mud. Some, like the Oryx, have wide hooves to stop them sinking in the sand of the deserts where they live.
The kudu is considered to be the most handsome of the tragelaphine antelopes, which includes the bongo, eland, nyala, bushbuck and sitatunga.
Despite its name, the waterbuck is not truly aquatic nor as much at home in water and swamps as is the sitatunga or lechwe. It does, however, take refuge there to escape predators.
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Apart from the protection of endangered species, like the black rhino, the sitatunga (one of only three breeding populations) and Grevy's zebra (15% of the world's population), ...
 See also: Antelope, Nyala, Bushbuck, Waterbuck, Lechwe
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