🐃Sable antelope
The sable antelope is a large antelope which inhabits wooded savanna in East and Southern Africa, from the south of Kenya to South Africa, with a separated population in Angola.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.
- Body mass
- 225 kg
- Body length
- 2.35 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 22 years
Everything we know about the Sable antelope
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass225 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 225 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length2.35 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass282 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan22 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 22 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length8.36 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.7 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation271 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 271 daysAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Litter size1COMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 1AnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density0.14 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l225 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
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 Sable antelope yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusHippotragus
- ›speciesHippotragus niger
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyHippotraginae
- genusHippotragus
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyHippotraginae
- genusHippotragus
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