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BlackBuck🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Blackbuck

Antilope cervicapra (Linnaeus, 1758)

Die Hirschziegenantilope (Antilope cervicapra) ist eine in Südasien verbreitete Antilope aus der Gruppe der Gazellenartigen (Antilopini), innerhalb dieser ist sie mit den echten Gazellen am nächsten verwandt, vor allem den Vertretern der Gattung Gazella.

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Measurements
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vs you
≈ half your weight
Also called
Antilope cervicapra
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
38 kg
Body length
1.23 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
24 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Blackbuck

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

Figures vary

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

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

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

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

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

Home range
0.62 km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Volume l
38 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 Blackbuck yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Blackbuck

Closest relative on this site
🐃 Goitered gazelle — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.8 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Hirschziegenantilope (de), ظبي أسود (ar), Antilope cervicapra (es), Antilope cervicapre (fr), antylopa indyjska (pl), אנטילופה הודית (he) … and 25 more languages

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