BlackBuck🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Blackbuck

Antilope cervicapra (Linnaeus, 1758)

De Indische antilope (Antilope cervicapra) is een evenhoevig zoogdier uit de onderfamilie echte antilopen (Antilopinae) van de holhoornigen (Bovidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd als Capra cervicapra in 1758 gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. De soort komt voor op de open vlakten van India en Pakistan.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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4
Photos
8
Measurements
13
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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Other figures ↓

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
COMBINE
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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
COMBINE
Other figures ↓

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
COMBINE
Details ↓

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

Figures vary

  • 168 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

Figures vary

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

Volume l
38 Laverage
Details ↓

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.

More

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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