Greater Kudu

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Greater Kudu

Greater Kudu Cow

Conservation dependent (LR/cd)

Scientific classification

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Mammalia
Order:	Artiodactyla
Family:	Bovidae
Subfamily:	Bovinae
Genus:	Tragelaphus
Species:	T. strepsiceros

Binomial name

Tragelaphus strepsiceros
(Pallas, 1766)

The Greater Kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a woodland antelope found throughout East and Southern Africa.

Greater Kudu are about a metre to a metre and a half tall at the shoulder and weigh 120 to 500 kilograms, the males being much larger than the females. Greater Kudu have brown to grey-blue coats with many white stripes and markings. There is a crest on the neck and shoulders and a mane along the throat. The males have horns with up to three twists which can reach almost half a metre.

Greater Kudu live in woodland and scrub and eat grass and leaves. Greater Kudu are active both at night and during the day. They live in single sex groups of up to ten.

[edit] Gallery

Kudu cow	Young Greater Kudu Bull	Greater Kudu Bull	Greater Kudu bulls grazing
Greater Kudu at the Natural Bridge Caverns Wildlife Park in Texas.

[edit] See also

Lesser Kudu
Kudu dung spitting

[edit] References

Antelope Specialist Group (1996). Tragelaphus strepsiceros. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006.