#0334 · 🦊 mammals

Bontebok/Blesbok

🇳🇱 Bontebok ·Damaliscus pygargus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Bastiaan Notebaert · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © copper · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Callum Evans · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Dennis Laidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Gigi Laidler · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Gareth Preiss · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Callum Evans · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Maritza Van Rensburg · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © agolme · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Tony Rebelo · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The bontebok ( Damaliscus pygargus ) is an antelope found in South Africa, Lesotho and Namibia. The bontebok has two subspecies; the bontebok ( Damaliscus pygargus pygargus ), occurring naturally in the Fynbos and Renosterveld areas of the Western Cape, and the blesbok ( Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi ) occurring in the highveld.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,008iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
5,008 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1767 (259 years ago).