Least ConcernGreater Kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
43 countries31 parks
Species group · Mammals
WAnimals has 2 species of kudu, in the family Bovidae.
Ranges calculated from the profiles that record the figure, not from all 2.
Each one has its own full profile. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
Recorded in 43 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Bulls carry spiral horns of up to 1.8 metres, which take 6 years to grow to full size.
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Its large, extremely sensitive ears make it particularly hard to approach.
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It lives in dense woodland, scrub and wooded hills.
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Very shy: it freezes in the scrub rather than running.
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It leaps more than two and a half metres vertically from a standing start, an ability it uses to cross thorn scrub instead of going round it.
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It does not drink: it meets its water needs from the leaves and fruit it browses, which lets it occupy parts of the Horn of Africa where there is no surface water for months on end.
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