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The bubal hartebeest ranged originally across Africa north of the Sahara, from Morocco to Egypt, where it disappeared earlier. [7] It was also present with certainty in the Southern Levant prior to the Iron Age, [8] but Francis Harper (1945) found only "none too well substantiated" recent historical records from Palestine and Arabia.
The hartebeest is extinct in Algeria, Egypt, Lesotho, Libya, Morocco, Somalia, and Tunisia. [1] The Bubal hartebeest has been declared extinct since 1994. [21] German explorer Heinrich Barth, in his works of 1857, cites firearms and European intrusion among the reasons for the decrease in its numbers. [70]
The subfamily Alcelaphinae (or tribe Alcelaphini), [1] [2] of the family Bovidae, contains the wildebeest, tsessebe, topi, hartebeest, blesbok and bontebok, and several other related species. Depending on the classification, there are 6–10 species placed in four genera, although Beatragus is sometimes considered a subgenus of Damaliscus ...
Corine antelope, Antelope corinna, and extinct Bubal Hartebeest, Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science," Florence, Italy, 1837. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Giarre, directed by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin, and published by Batelli e Figli.
Bubal hartebeest: Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus: North Africa and southern Levant [47] Last animal in Tunisia was killed in 1902 near Tataouine, in Algeria south of the Chott Ech Chergui in the 1920s, and in Morocco in Missour in 1925. [48]
The western hartebeest is mainly active during the day. A herbivore, it grazes during the cooler morning and afternoon periods, resting in shaded areas during the hot daytime. Females form herds of five to 12 members, while males generally remain solitary. [4] While the herd is feeding, one member will act as a sentry, watching for possible ...
Extinct species from the area include the scimitar oryx (Oryx dammah), addax (Addax nasomaculatus) and bubal hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus). [8] Also the Droseridites baculatus, an extinct plant known only from fossils of its pollen, was found at the Ghazalat-1 Well. [9]
Many animals used to inhabit the Atlas mountains such as the Atlas bear, [15] North African elephant, North African aurochs, bubal hartebeest and Atlas wild ass, [16] but these subspecies are all extinct. Barbary lions [11] are currently extinct in the wild, but descendants exist in captivity. [17] [18] [19]