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Impalas (Aepyceros melampus), female and young🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Impala

Aepyceros melampus (Lichtenstein, 1812)

L'impala (Aepyceros melampus) est une espèce de mammifère artiodactyle de la famille des Bovidés. Cette antilope est placée à part dans son propre genre (Aepyceros) et sa propre sous-famille (Aepycerotinae) ou tribu (Aepycerotini). Les deux sous-espèces reconnues, l'impala commun (Aepyceros melampus melampus) et l'impala à face noire (Aepyceros melampus petersi), ont parfois été considérées comme deux espèces distinctes. L'impala peut être atteint par la dermatose bovine contagieuse DNC.

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Also called
Black-faced Impala, Common Impala
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendStable
Key measurements
Body mass
53 kg
Body length
1.46 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
26 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Impala

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

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

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  • 53 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length
1.46 m
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Brain mass
174 g
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Maximum lifespan
26 years
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  • 26 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length
7.32 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

Gestation
197 days
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  • 198 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size
1
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Trophic level
Herbivore
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Activity cycle
Crepuscular / mixed
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Home range
1.97 km²
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Population density
9.94 per km²
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Volume l
53 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 Impala yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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More about the Impala

Closest relative on this site
🐃 Addax — last shared an ancestor ≈ 13 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Aepyceros melampus (it), Impala (de), Aepyceros melampus (es), impala (fi), impala (fr), impala (nl) … and 27 more languages
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