The Atlas of Africa's Principal Mammals |
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12 years HORNS Abyssinian Alcelaphus Angola Antelope Artiodactyla Average babwe BASIC COLOURATION Grey Benin Black Bohor Reedbuck Botswana Bovidae brown HABITAT Bushbuck Cameroon Carnivora Central African Republic Cephalophus Defassa Waterbuck DIET Grasses WEIGHT Dik Dik DISTRIBUTION Map DUIKER Cephalophus Dwarf Mongoose East African Eastern Gambia Eastern Guinea Bissau Eland Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Family four MAXIMUM AGE Gabon GAZELLE Gazella Genetta Genus GESTATION PERIOD Seven Ghana Giraffe Grey HABITAT HABITAT Arid HABITAT Forest Hare Hartebeest Hippotragus HORNS Both sexes HORNS Males Hyaena Ivory Coast Kenya Largest Lechwe Liberia Malawi Mauritania MAXIMUM AGE 12 MONKEY Cercopithecus Namibia Nigeria North Northern Cameroon NUMBER OF YOUNG Order Oryx PERIOD Seven months Redunca Republic of South Senegal Seven months NUMBER SHOULDER HEIGHT Somalia South Africa South-western Southern Chad Southern Mali Southern Niger Southern Sudan stripes Sub-family Tanzania Togo Tragelaphus Uganda Upper Upper Volta YOUNG One MAXIMUM Zaïre Zambia Zebra Zimbabwe