Oreotragus tyleri (Hinton, 1921)
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Oreotragus tyleri |
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Angolan Klipspringer
French: Oréotrague de Tyler / German: Angola-Klippspringer / Spanish: Saltarrocas de Angola
Taxonomy. Oreotragus oreotragus tyleri Hinton, 1921 View in CoL ,
Esquimina, south of Benguela, Angola.
Formerly considered a subspecies of O. oreotragus . Monotypic.
Distribution. Known from the Kaokoveld in S Angola and Namibia. View Figure
Descriptive notes. Head-body 77-91 cm, shoulder height 49.5-57 cm, ear length 10-12 cm, hindfoot 21-24 cm. The Angolan Klipspringer is a medium-sized species. The female is larger than the male. Mean skull length is 13-9 cm (13.3-14. 5 cm) in males and 14-4 cm (13.9-15. 1 cm) in females. Horn length is about 8:5-10. 1 cm. The general color is weakly speckled pale sandy ocher, but the legs have no noticeable speckling at all, and may be gray. Like the Transvaal Klipspringer (O. transvaalensis) and Stevenson's Klipspringer (O. stevensoni), the underparts of the Angolian Klipspringer are extensively white. The region above the hooves is conspicuously dark brown. The ears are yellow inside and out and are longer than in the species to the south and east. The limbs are also elongated.
Habitat. The Angolan Klipspringer uses rocky areas,like other klipspringers.
Food and Feeding. The primary food is Acacia albida, and they may climb into these trees and browse at up to 5-4 m.
Breeding. There is no specific information available for this species, but it is likely to have a gestation length of around five months,like other klipspringers.
Activity patterns. There is no specific information available for this species. Klipspringers stand motionless for long periods of time on top of rocks, scanning the surroundings, their four feet together.
Movements, Home range and Social organization. A population of this species studied by S. C. Roberts has the largest known territories, averaging 100 ha. They live in mated pairs, and mean group size is 2-6.
Status and Conservation. Classified as Least Concern on The IUCN Red List (under O. oreotragus ). Oreotragus taxa, except the Nigerian Klipspringer (O. o. porteousi), are not considered separately by IUCN.
Bibliography. Groves & Grubb (2011), Roberts (1996), Skinner & Chimimba (2005).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Oreotragus tyleri
| Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier 2011 |
Oreotragus oreotragus tyleri
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