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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Nilgai

Boselaphus tragocamelus (Pallas, 1766)

Nilghai-antilopen (Boselaphus tragocamelus) er en stor, asiatisk antilope i underfamilen Bovinae blandt de skedehornede pattedyr. Den er udbredt i åben skov og på sletter i det sydlige Asien. Hannen er gråblå og kan veje op til 300 kg. Hunnen er brunlig. Kun hannen har horn, der er cirka 20 cm lange. På struben findes en hvid plet, hvorunder der hos hannen findes en løsthængende hårdusk. Nilghai-antilopen er den eneste art i slægten Boselaphus.

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Also called
Boselaphus tragocamelus, Bluebuck
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
180 kg
Body length
2.05 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Nilgai

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
180 kg
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 180 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
2.05 m
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Brain mass
272 g
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
22 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 22 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
8.06 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Age at maturity
2.2 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Gestation
255 days
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 255 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
about 2
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1.5AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Population density
1.63 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
180 Laverage
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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 Nilgai yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

More

More about the Nilgai

Closest relative on this site
🦬 American bison — last shared an ancestor ≈ 12 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants80%
fruit20%
In other languages
Nilgau (de), Boselaphus tragocamelus (es), Antilope Nilgaut (fr), nijlgau (nl), Nilgau indyjski (pl), נילגאי (he) … and 24 more languages

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