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Addax nasomaculatus 618680978🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Addax

Addax nasomaculatus (Blainville, 1816)

Die Mendesantilope oder Addax (Addax nasomaculatus) ist eine afrikanische Antilope aus der Tribus der Pferdeböcke (Hippotragini). Sie war einst in der gesamten Sahara verbreitet, ist heute aber weitgehend ausgerottet, hat nur in kleinen Rückzugsgebieten überlebt und gilt als hochgradig gefährdet.

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Also called
Addax nasomaculatus
Conservation status
CRCritically endangered

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
94 kg
Body length
1.7 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
28 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Addax

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

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

By sex

  • Female75 kgWikidataQ190154
  • Male113 kgWikidataQ190154

Figures vary

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

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

Figures vary

  • 282 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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  • 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic level
Herbivore
COMBINE
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

Volume l
94 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 Addax yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🐃 Gemsbok — last shared an ancestor ≈ 2.5 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Addax (de), addax (fr), Аддакс (ru), Adaks pustynny (pl), דישון (he), 아닥스 (ko) … and 26 more languages
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