#0253 · 🦊 mammals

Greater Kudu

🇳🇱 Grote Koedoe ·Tragelaphus strepsiceros

LCleast concern 🦊 Mammals 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © copper · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © magdastlucia · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Peter Steward · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Roelof van der Breggen · CC BY-NC 4.0
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7. © Jan Ebr & Ivana Ebrová · CC BY 4.0
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what is it?

The greater kudu ( Tragelaphus strepsiceros ) is a woodland antelope found throughout eastern and southern Africa. Despite occupying such widespread territory, they are sparsely populated in most areas, due to a declining habitat, deforestation and poaching. The greater kudu is one of two species commonly known as kudu, the other being the lesser kudu, T. imberbis .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,426iNaturalist 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.
12,426 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1766 (260 years ago).