Sable antelope | |
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Adult male or bull, Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa | |
Adult female or cow crossing the road in Kruger National Park, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Hippotraginae |
Genus: | Hippotragus |
Species: | H. niger
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Binomial name | |
Hippotragus niger (Harris, 1838)
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geographic range |
The sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) 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.[2]