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African Exotic Animals
Gemsbok
The scientific name for Gemsbok is Oryx gazella. The Gemsbok is a very striking animal with dramatic features and long spear like horns. It has a thick horse like neck with a short mane that runs from the head to the shoulders and a compact, muscular body. Males and females are difficult to tell apart as they bear the same markings and color. The Gemsbok is mainly a grazer, feeding mainly on the sparse dry desert grasses. They will drink water if available from waterholes and streams but can survive days or even weeks without it. Native to Ethiopia and Somalia in eastern Africa to Namibia in southwestern Africa.
Sable
The scientific name for the Sable is hippotragus niger. The adult males can reach weight of 500 pounds and females to 450 pounds. The males coat color is darker, almost black, as the females color is more chestnut. Sable graze on grasses, browse and forbs. They are native to southern Savanna from southestern Kenya eastern Tanzania to Angola.
Scimitar-Horned Oryx
The scientific name for the scimitar-horned oryx is oryx dammah. Adult males can reach 470 pounds and females to 300 pounds. The male and female color is the same, white bodies with chestnut neck and chest, with face and leg markings of cocoa to beige. They diet on grass with little browse or forbs. Native to the interior of North Africa, based in the Dahel belt on the sothern fringe of the Sahara.
Nyala
The scientific name for Nyala is tragelaphus angasi. Adult males can reach 275 pounds and females to 150 pounds. The male Nyala is dark charcoal gray with dark belly fringe with white spinal chest. The female Nyala are chestnut with contrasting torso strips. Their main diets consists of grass, browse and forbs. They are native to southeastern Africa.
Red Lechwe
The scientific name is Kobus leche leche. Males average weight is 225 pounds while the females are 175 pounds. Coarse, rough, greasy coat with distinct odor. Hair is somewhat long, reddish brown shading to light brown on lower sides and lower half of haunches. The red lechwe diets consists of swamp grasses, sedges, and semi-aquatic plants of many species. Native to South Central Africa.
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