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  2. Bubal hartebeest - Wikipedia

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    The bubal hartebeest, also known as northern hartebeest or bubal antelope or simply bubal (Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus) is the extinct nominal (i.e., first described) subspecies of hartebeest. It was formerly found north of the Saharan Desert .

  3. Hartebeest - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Bovidae - Wikipedia

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    Some antelopes have been domesticated including the oryxes, addax, elands and the extinct bubal hartebeest. In Ancient Egypt oryxes, addaxes and bubal hartebeests are depicted in carved walls. [citation needed] The earliest evidence of cattle domestication is from 8000 BC, suggesting that the process began in Cyprus and the Euphrates basin. [69]

  5. Alcelaphinae - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. File:Alcelaphus buselaphus buselaphus.jpg - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. List of African animals extinct in the Holocene - Wikipedia

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    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]

  8. Wildlife of Israel - Wikipedia

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    One of the most famous examples of habitats destroyed is the drying of swamps including the Hula lake which caused the local extinction of the European water vole and jungle cat. An ancient wave of urbanization during the Iron Age resulted in the local extinction of the aurochs, bubal hartebeest, and hippopotamus. [8]

  9. List of recently extinct mammals - Wikipedia

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    Extinction of taxa is difficult to detect, as a long gap without a sighting is not definitive. Some mammals declared as extinct may very well reappear. [1] For example, a study found that 36% of purported mammalian extinction had been resolved, while the rest either had validity issues (insufficient evidence) or had been rediscovered. [3]