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Bongo (01)🐃

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SpeciesArtiodactylaBovidae
Mammals

🐃Bongo

Tragelaphus eurycerus (Ogilby, 1837)

Бонго (лат. Tragelaphus eurycerus) — парнокопытное рода Лесные антилопы (Tragelaphus).

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Conservation status
NTNear threatened

IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
271 kg
Body length
2.39 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 Bongo

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

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

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

Brain mass
384 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: acceptable
Generation length
7 years
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

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

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

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  • 288 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
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: acceptable
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
0.09 per km²
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Source: COMBINE · v1 (Soria et al. 2021) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
271 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 Bongo yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

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Closest relative on this site
🐃 Common eland — last shared an ancestor ≈ 3.6 million years ago.
What it eats
leaves, roots and other plants100%
In other languages
Bongo (de), bongo (fr), Bongo leśne (pl), בונגו (he), 봉고 (ko), Tragelaphus eurycerus (es) … and 21 more languages
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