🐃Gemsbok
مَهاة جنوب إفريقيا أو الجَمَزْبوكة أو أرْخ الصحراء أو مارِيَّة الصحراء هي ظبي صحراوي يُصنف كأحد أنواع جنس المهاة الأربعة، ويُعد الأكبر من بين جميع الأنواع الثلاث الأخرى. يَقطن هذا النوع من المهاة صحراء كلهاري الواسعة ويَمتد انتشاره الجغرافي عبرَ جنوب غرب القارة الإفريقية، بحيث يَشمل بلدان ناميبيا وبوتسوانا وزيمبابوي وجنوب إفريقيا. تراجع عدد مَهاة جنوب إفريقيا كثيرًا في العُقود الأخيرة، لكنها لا زالت تواجه تهديدات جادَّة بالانقراض حتى الآن.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.
- Body mass
- 38 kg
- Body length
- 1.43 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 24 years
Everything we know about the Gemsbok
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass38 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 170 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length1.43 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass295 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan24 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 24 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length7.85 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.3 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation168 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 270 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.67 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l38 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Gemsbok yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusOryx
- ›speciesOryx gazella
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyHippotraginae
- genusOryx
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyHippotraginae
- genusOryx
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