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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]
Bubal hartebeest: Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus: North Africa and Southern Levant Disappeared from the Southern Levant during the Iron Age (1200-586 BCE). [60] Caucasian wisent: Bison bonasus caucasicus: Caucasus, Kurdistan, [67] and Northern Iran Present in eastern Turkey until the Iron Age. [68] Steppe bison: Bison priscus: Northern ...
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 ...
Common name Scientific name Range Comments Pictures North African elephant: Loxodonta africana pharaoensis: North Africa: Neolithic rock art indicates that the African bush elephant inhabited much of the Sahara desert and North Africa at the beginning of the Holocene, and Ancient authors wrote that it was present in the Atlas Mountains, the Red Sea coast, and Nubia until the first few ...
Bubal hartebeest: Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766: Hartebeest (Alcephalus buselaphus) Artiodactyla: 1925 Africa: Portuguese ibex: Capra pyrenaica lusitanica Schlegel, 1872: Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) Artiodactyla: 1892 Europe: Pyrenean ibex: Capra pyrenaica pyreneica Schinz, 1838: Iberian ibex (Capra pyrenaica) Artiodactyla ...
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)† date uncertain Egypt: meat, hides, horns, sacrifices Historically farmed Extinct in the wild and in captivity 1b Bovidae: Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) pre-modern China (date uncertain) China: pest control, ornamental, pets 2a Anseriformes: Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus) date ...