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The lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis) is a medium-sized bushland antelope found in East Africa.The species is a part of the ungulate genus Tragelaphus (family Bovidae), along with several other related species of striped, spiral-horned African bovids, including the related greater kudu, the bongo, bushbuck, common and giant elands, nyala and sitatunga.
Lesser kudu, Tragelaphus imberbis, of eastern Africa; Greater kudu, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, of eastern and southern Africa; The two species look similar, though greaters are larger than lessers. A large adult male greater kudu stands over 5 feet (1.5 m) tall at the shoulder, and a large male lesser kudu stands about 4 feet (1.2 m) tall.
The greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a large woodland antelope, found throughout eastern and southern Africa. Despite occupying such widespread territory , they are sparsely populated in most areas due to declining habitat , deforestation , and poaching . [ 2 ]
Hartebeest Dorcas gazelle Somali giraffe Klipspringer African buffalo Greater kudu East African oryx. The even-toed ungulates are ungulates whose weight is borne about equally by the third and fourth toes, rather than mostly or entirely by the third as in perissodactyls. There are about 220 artiodactyl species, including many that are of great ...
Tragelaphus / t r ə ˈ dʒ ɛ l ə f ə s / is a genus in the tribe Tragelaphini and the family Bovidae.The genus authority is French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, who first mentioned it in the journal Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique in 1816. [1]
Benirschke et al. (1980) worked on karyotypes with the lesser kudu and found them to share with the nilgai an X chromosome fused with autosome 14. [21] Another study that analyzed the COII gene found the nilgai and lesser kudu being sister species (although the support was low and had limited species sampling). [22]
The results showed the tribe Tragelaphini to be monophyletic, with the lesser kudu (T. imberbis) basal in the phylogeny, followed by the nyala. [10] [11] On the basis of mitochondrial data, studies have estimated that the lesser kudu separated from its sister clade around 13.7 million years ago. However, nuclear DNA data shows lesser kudu and ...
The chromosomes resemble those of the greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros). [18] Male elands and female greater kudus can produce a viable male hybrid, though whether it is sterile is unknown. An accidental crossing of an East African common eland (T. o. pattersonianus') with an East African kudu (T. s. bea) occurred in the San Diego Zoo ...