#0455 · 🦊 mammals

Sable Antelope

🇳🇱 Sabelantilope ·Hippotragus niger

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Roelof van der Breggen · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Rigelus · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © Sean Werle · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Niall Perrins · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © paost · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Peter Steward · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © paost · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Richard Gill · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The sable antelope ( Hippotragus niger ) is an antelope which inhabits wooded savannah in East Africa south of Kenya, and in Southern Africa.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,262iNaturalist 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.
2,262 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by William Cornwallis Harris in 1838 (188 years ago).