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At three or four years of age, the males can attempt to take over a territory and its female members. A resident male defends his territory and will fight if provoked. [51] The male marks the border of his territory through defecation. [40] A herd of hartebeest. Hartebeest are remarkably alert and cautious animals with highly developed brains.
Commonly known as the red hartebeest, it is the most colorful hartebeest, with black markings contrasting against its white abdomen and behind. It has a longer face that other subspecies, with complex curving horns joined at the base. [4] The average weight of a male is about 150 kg, and female is 120 kg.
Female Coke's hartebeest calve every 9–10 months, too early for the last calf to become independent. Male calves accompany their mothers for up to 2 years, a year longer than other alcelaphines, although they mature at the same age as wildebeests, at 3–4 years.
The last captive bubal, a female (sometimes wrongly reported as the last bubal ever), died in Paris in 1923. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia received another female in 1905 from the Zoological Society of Philadelphia, which was stuffed. This is possibly the only bubal preserved in the United States of America. [12]
Although basically sedentary, the female hartebeest in Nairobi Natinoal Park, Kenya, are locally quite active, moving in small groups within individual home ranges of 3.7–5.5sq km (1.4–2.1sq mi), which are not particularly associated with any one female group. In fact, the average female home range includes over 20–30 male territories."
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Contemporaneously, in English, sportsmen referred to the animal as a Senegal hartebeest, as it was considered the same species as what is now recognised as D. lunatus korrigum. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Other names recorded in East Africa by various German explorers were mhili in Kisukuma and jimäla in Kinyamwezi .
Lichtenstein's hartebeest (Alcelaphus buselaphus lichtensteinii) [2] is a subspecies of the hartebeest antelope that dwells in savannahs and floodplains of Southeastern [3]-Central Africa. It is sometimes classified as a unique species, Sigmoceros lichtensteinii .