#0451 · 🦊 mammals

Kob

🇳🇱 Kobwaterbok ·Kobus kob

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Markus Lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Egui_ · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nik Borrow · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Egui_ · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Karenga, Uganda:© Björn Reese · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Nwoya, Uganda:© gillbsydney · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Distrikt Kaabong, Uganda:© Nadja Kickinger · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Nakasongola, Uganda:© justGoron · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Pochalla, South Sudan:© Inge van den Meiracker · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Boma National Park, Pibor, Jonglei, SS:© mbarger · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The kob ( Kobus kob ) is an antelope found across sub-Saharan Africa, in Gashaka Gumti National Park, Nigeria and some part of Senegal to South Sudan. Found along the northern savanna, it is often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda; Garamba and Virunga National Park, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as grassy floodplains of South Sudan. Kob are found in wet areas (such as floodplains), where they eat grasses....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,319iNaturalist 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.
2,319 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben in 1777 (249 years ago).