Subspecies Aepyceros melampus melampus (Lichtenstein, 1812) (Common impala)

Biological classification:
  • kingdom: Animalia
  • - phylum: Chordata
  • -- class: Mammalia
  • --- order: Artiodactyla
  • ---- family: Bovidae
  • ----- subspecies: Aepyceros melampus melampus
Characteristics:herbivore; height: 90 cm; reddish-brown back, light brown flanks and white belly; three black stripes on the hindquarters; females are smaller and lack horns
Countries:

BW
Botswana
MZ
Mozambique
ZA
South Africa
ZW
Zimbabwe
Ecoregions:

AT0128
Southern Zanzibar-Inhambane coastal forest mosaic
AT0717
Southern Africa bushveld
AT0719
Southern Miombo woodlands
AT0725
Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
Links:
References:Cillié 1997: 16
Source: wikimedia
Date: 2011-12-17
Place: Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya
Creator: Christopher T Cooper
Permission: Creative Commons Attribution License
Comments: title Aepyceros melampus melampus (common impala) group, within the shade created by Acacia xanthophloea (fever trees), south of the Salt Lick Game Lodge, near the eastern boundary of the LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary, in the Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary, Kenya. This herd consists of two males (rams), one mature and one young, and many females (ewes)
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