🐃Sitatunga
The sitatunga or marshbuck is a swamp-dwelling medium-sized antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. The sitatunga is mostly confined to swampy and marshy habitats. They occur in tall and dense vegetation as well as seasonal swamps, marshy clearings in forests, riparian thickets and mangrove swamps.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2016.
- Body mass
- 88 kg
- Body length
- 1.61 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 23 years
Everything we know about the Sitatunga
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass88 kgCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 88 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Body length1.61 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Brain mass158 gCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan23 yearsCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 23 yearsAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: high
Generation length7.52 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity1.7 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation242 daysCOMBINEOther figures ↓Hide ↑
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- 242 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 cycleCrepuscular / mixedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Population density2.69 per km²COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l88 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 Sitatunga yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusTragelaphus
- ›speciesTragelaphus spekii
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyBovinae
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumChordata
- subphylumCraniata
- subphylumVertebrata
- superclassGnathostomata
- superclassSarcopterygii
- superclassTetrapoda
- classMammals · Mammalia
- subclassTheria
- superorderLaurasiatheria
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- suborderRuminantia
- infraorderPecora
- familyBovidae
- subfamilyBovinae
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