Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Mammalia
- --- order: Artiodactyla
- ---- family: Bovidae
- ----- species: Kobus leche
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Characteristics: | herbivore; height: 95cm; the shoulders are lower than the crop, causing the body to slope forward; the coat is reddish-brown on the back, lighter lower on the body and white on the belly; the legs are brown, the front legs have characteristic vertical black stripes; males are bigger than females and have horns; |
Countries: | - BW
- Botswana
- NA
- Namibia
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Ecoregions: | - AT0907
- Zambezian flooded grasslands
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References: | Cillié 1997: 40 |