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Lechwe

🇳🇱 Litschiewaterbok ·Kobus leche

NTnear threatened 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0
  2. 2. © Mario Micklisch · CC BY 4.0
  3. 3. © noladoc · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Doug Macdonald · CC BY-NC 4.0
  5. 5. © mikc · CC BY-NC 4.0
  6. 6. © Jukka Jantunen · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © dutchbaby · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  8. 8. © Joachim Louis · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  9. 9. © Stephen John Davies · CC BY-NC 4.0
  10. 10. © Nico Vromant · CC BY-NC 4.0
Lechwe, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Peter Archdale · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The lechwe ( Kobus leche ), or southern lechwe , is an antelope found in wetlands of south central Africa.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 1,670iNaturalist observations
  • threat NTnear threatened

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.
  • 1,670 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by John Edward Gray in 1850 (176 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Lechwe
Nederlands
Litschiewaterbok
scientific name
Kobus leche
class
Mammalia
order
Artiodactyla
family
Bovidae
IUCN Red List
NT · near threatened
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
1,670
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1850 by John Edward Gray

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

relatives· Bovidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 42329, Wikidata Q273565, GBIF 5220162, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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