🐃Bluebuck
藍馬羚（學名：Hippotragus leucophaeus）是一種已滅絕的羚羊，且是非洲最早消失的大型哺乳動物。牠們與馬羚及黑馬羚是近親，但略為細小。牠們生活在南非東南海岸的大草原，在冰河時期的分佈更為廣泛。牠們可能是擇食性的，較為喜歡吃優質的草。 於17世紀，歐洲殖民大量殺死稀少的藍馬羚，目的是要將牠們的棲息地改變為農地。牠們約於1800年滅絕，現時只有四個博物館存有牠們架起的標本，分別是在維也納、斯德哥爾摩、巴黎及萊頓，並且在其他地方有一些牠們的骨頭及角。所架起的標本並沒有呈藍色，推測牠們的藍色是來自黑色及黃色毛皮的混合。
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.
- Body mass
- 225 kg
- Body length
- 1.91 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- 26 years
This animal is extinct
Assessed Extinct on the IUCN Red List, 2017. Everything on this page — the measurements, the photos, the videos — is a record of an animal that is gone.
Everything we know about the Bluebuck
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body mass225 kgCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Body length1.91 mCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Maximum lifespan26 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Generation length8.37 yearsestimatedCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Age at maturity2.1 yearsCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Gestation284 daysCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Litter size1COMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Trophic levelHerbivoreCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Activity cycleDiurnalCOMBINEDetails ↓Hide ↑
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Volume l225 LaverageDetails ↓Hide ↑
Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.
estimated = a model's estimate for a species nobody has measured; average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Bluebuck yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumChordata
- ›classMammalia
- ›orderArtiodactyla
- ›familyBovidae
- ›genusHippotragus
- ›speciesHippotragus leucophaeus
- classMammals · Mammalia
- orderEven-toed hoofed animals · Artiodactyla
- subfamilyHippotraginae
- genusHippotragus
All 16 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- 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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