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Encyclopedia > Grazing antelope
Grazing antelopes
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Scimitar Oryx
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Hippotraginae
Genera

Hippotragus
Oryx
Addax

A grazing antelope is any of the 6 species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae in the family Bovidae, which also includes sheep, goats, and cattle.

  • FAMILY BOVIDAE
    • Subfamily Bovinae: wild cattle and spiral-horned antelopes, 24 species in 9 genera
    • Subfamily Cephalophinae: duikers, 19 species in 2 genera
    • Subfamily Hippotraginae
    • Subfamily Antilopinae: gazelles, dwarf antelopes and the Saiga, 38 species in 14 genera
    • Subfamily Caprinae: sheep, goats, cattle and allies
    • Subfamily Reduncinae: waterbucks, reedbucks, 8 species in 2 genera
    • Subfamily Aepycerotinae: impala, 1 species in 1 genus
    • Subfamily Paleinae: rhebok, 1 species in 1 genus
    • Subfamily Alcelaphinae: wildebeest, haartbeast, 7 species in 5 genera

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Antelope - MSN Encarta (1852 words)
Antelope, common name applied to a diverse group of hollow-horned mammals that belong to the same family as cattle, goats, and sheep.
Antelope horns are always slightly curved, and in some species, such as the fl buck, they are shaped like a pair of corkscrews, spiraling in opposite directions.
Antelopes that live in forests tend to stay in the same area all their lives, but species that live in open habitats often migrate to feed and breed.
UCCE Rangeland Watershed Fact Sheet No. 21 (1527 words)
The grazing of a specific unit by livestock throughout a year or for that part of the year during which grazing is feasible.
A grazing management scheme in which rest periods for individual pastures, paddocks, of grazing units, generally for the full growing season, are incorporated in to a grazing rotation.
A grazing scheme where animals are moved from one grazing unit (paddock) in the same group of grazing units to another without regard to specific graze rest periods or levels of plant defoliation.
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