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Roan Antelope

🇳🇱 Roanantilope ·Hippotragus equinus

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
  2. 2. © ONG OeBenin · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © Arthur Chapman · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  4. 4. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
  5. 5. © Doug Macdonald · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0
  7. 7. © Paul Pratt · CC BY-NC 4.0
  8. 8. © Bart Wursten · CC BY-NC 4.0
  9. 9. © ONG OeBenin · CC BY-NC 4.0
  10. 10. © Gawie Malan · CC BY-NC 4.0
Roan Antelope, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

The roan antelope ( Hippotragus equinus ) is a savanna antelope found in West, Central, East and Southern Africa. It is the namesake of the Chevaline project, whose name was taken from the French Antilope Chevaline .

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,136iNaturalist 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.
  • 2,136 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest in 1804 (222 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Roan Antelope
Nederlands
Roanantilope
scientific name
Hippotragus equinus
class
Mammalia
order
Artiodactyla
family
Bovidae
IUCN Red List
LC · least concern
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
2,136
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1804 by Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest

IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.

relatives· Bovidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42332, Wikidata Q471785, GBIF 2441030, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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