






Latin name |
Damaliscus lunatus |
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Family |
Large mammals |
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Size |
1,2 m Both sexes carry horns |
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Weight |
140 kg (m) 126 kg (f) |
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Colour |
Rufous to dark brown, with purplish sheen. Upperparts of legs darker. Inside hindlegs and the underside yellowish white. |
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Appearance |
The red hartebeest, but the tsessebe's horns are shorter and its shoulders are not as humped as the hartebeest's. The tsessebe also lacks the clearly defined white marking so evident on the hartebeest's rump. |
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Habitat |
Grassland near water and the fringes of woodland. |