One of the 9 antelopes on WAnimals
Mammals · Artiodactyla · Bovidae
Tragelaphus scriptus
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
It is the only truly solitary, non-territorial antelope in Africa: neither males nor females defend any part of their home range, so a great many individual ranges overlap freely.
Weight
25 kg – 80 kg
Size
65 cm – 1 m
Life expectancy
12 years
Diet
Herbivore
Feeds mainly on plants.
Activity
Crepuscular
Active mainly at dawn and dusk.
Social structure
Solitary
Lives and hunts alone, joining others only to breed.
Sighting difficulty
Easy
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Sources consulted: World Species; Africa Mammals Guide; African Wildlife Foundation; AnAge (genomics.senescence.info); BioDB; Animal Diversity Web; ResearchGate (Focus on the Bushbuck); Animalia.bio
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented — showing 10 of 23.
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The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.
