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Encyclopedia > Nile Lechwe
Kob
Conservation status: Lower Risk (cd)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Reduncinae
Genus: Kobus
Species: megaceros
Binomial name
Kobus megaceros
Fitzingger, 1855


The Nile Lechwe (Kobus megaceros) is an antelope found in floodplains in southern Sudan.


Nile Lechwe stand 90 to 100 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh from 70 to 110 kilograms. Females are golden-brown with a white underbelly and no horns. Males are chocolate brown to russet with a white 'hood' over the shoulders and small white patches over the eyes. They have long ridge structured horns which are vaguely 's' shaped in profile.


Nile Lechwe are found in marshy areas where they eat aquatic plants. Nile Lechwe are crepuscular, they are active in the early morning and late afternoon. They gather in herds of up to fifty females and one male or in smaller all male herds.


During mating season, young males bend their horns to the ground as if to poke the earth. Then they urinate onto their long throat and cheek hair. Males fight in the water, their heads submerging in horn-to-horn combat. These contests are usually short and violent. Females are quite loud, making a toad-like croaking when moving


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Nile Lechwe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (198 words)
The Nile Lechwe (Kobus megaceros) is an antelope found in floodplains in Southern Sudan.
Nile Lechwe stand 90 to 100 centimetres at the shoulder and weigh from 70 to 110 kilograms.
Nile Lechwe are crepuscular, they are active in the early morning and late afternoon.
Nile lechwe, Mrs. Gray's lechwe (472 words)
The Nile lechwe is particularly adept at wading and swimming, travelling with a series of leaps when the water is too shallow to swim.
Floodplains and freshwater marshes on the White Nile in central Africa.
The Nile lechwe is considered a low risk, near threatened species by the IUCN (1996).
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