Bongo

• GeneralThe largest forest antelope; males lose their chestnut colour with age.
• adaptaciónIt is one of the largest forest antelopes in Africa, and the white vertical stripes on its body help hide it among the shafts of light that pierce the dense canopy.
• Its vertical white stripes, which break up its outline in the gloom of the understorey, are as individual as a fingerprint and allow each animal to be identified.
• The mountain subspecies survives with little more than a hundred animals spread across four massifs in Kenya, while zoos around the world hold considerably more than there are in the wild.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (mammal)

Habitat and environment

Dense understorey of lowland rainforest and montane forest of central and eastern Africa

Sexual maturity

2.2 years

Gestation / incubation

9.5 months

Litter / clutch size

1

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragelaphus_eurycerus

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.