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The blesbok or blesbuck (Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi) is a subspecies of the bontebok antelope endemic to South Africa, Eswatini and Namibia.It has a distinctive white face and forehead, which inspired the name because bles is the Afrikaans (and Dutch language) word for a blaze such as one might see on the forehead of a horse.
The Blesbokspruit is a river in Gauteng, South Africa that originates north of Daveyton, from where it runs south and then west past the towns of Springs, Nigel and Heidelberg before joining the Suikerbosrand River, a tributary of the Vaal River.
The bontebok (Damaliscus pygargus) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. D. pygargus has two subspecies; the nominate subspecies (D. p. pygargus), [3] occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok (D. p. phillipsi) occurring in the Highveld.
The blesbok and quagga were among the large animals that once roamed on the highveld in great numbers. Nowadays, there still is a sizeable population of springbok in some areas,. [8] However, much of the area is devoted to Balls farming and South Africa's largest conurbation (Gauteng Province).
It is located 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) south of Johannesburg, in an area of 640 hectares (1,600 acres). Home to many species of flora and bird life, it is also home to large and small mammals such as blesbok, zebra, wildebeest and duiker. The reserve has a number of hiking trails and archaeological sites, with the Bloubosspruit flowing through ...
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A case of this relationship between termites and mammalian dung middens is observed in South Africa, between the endemic blesbok and harvester termites. [31] The blesbok have been observed to deliberately place dung middens when they are in the vicinity of the harvester termite mounds.
the tigers were brought into south africa and released on a farm there.. thats why there are pictures of them hunting blesbok.. the idea was to prove that they can be released into wild again..or something like that The text says bontebok live in the highveld. It is the blesbok that live in the highveld, and eat the short grass.