Africa

Africa

  • Aoudad or Barbary sheep

    Ammotragus lervia

    Straw colour. They do not have a beard like goats, but have a highly developed mane from the throat to the chest and upper front legs. The horns are more similar to those of the tur or barhal, than to those of the goats.

    The range, in North Africa, from Mauritania, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Mali, Algeria, Niger, Chad, Sudan and Tunisia. Introduced in Sierra Espuña, Spain, and Texas, United States.

  • Nubian aoudad

    Ammotragus lervia blainei

    The Nubian aoudad differs somewhat in the color of the coat, being perhaps somewhat darker in some areas of the body. It inhabits the Nubian desert, on the hills of the Red Sea in south-eastern Sudan.

  • Mountain nyala

    Tragelaphus buxtoni

    Large antelope resembling the Kudu. Spiral horns smaller than the Kudu, which give one or two turns, with sometimes divergent tips.

    It is endemic to Ethiopia, in the Chercher and Din Din mountains and to the south in the Arussi and Bale mountains. In the dense forest at altitudes from 2,000 to 4,000 meters above sea level.

  • Arabian tahr

    Arabitragus jayakari

    He’s the smallest of the tar. Brownish coat, with rough and abundant hair that goes down to the carps. With a long dark mane on the back.

    Horns similar to the Himalayan tar, less marked the growth knots in the upper keel and more slender.

    It inhabits the northern coastal strip of Oman and the United Arab Emirates.

  • Chanler mountain reedbuck

    Redunca fulvorufula chanleri

    Smaller than the Mountain Reedbuck and more greyish hair, with a reddish head and neck.

    Range, is in Ethiopia, eastern Kenya, northeastern Tanzania and Uganda and southeastern Sudan.

  • Southern mountain reedbuck

    Redunca fulvorufula fulvorufula

    It is the largest of the Mountain reedbucks , and with a reddish color.

    It inhabits eastern South Africa from Limpopo, Natal, Orange Free State and the Eastern Cape.

  • Vaal rehbok

    Pelea capreolus

    Grey body with white lower parts, large, round, glandular nose. Fine horns, vertical and parallel, with rings at the base.

    He lives in South Africa in the Cape Provinces.

  • Wallia or Abyssinian ibex

    Capra wallia

    Dark coloured, with the distinctive black strip on the front of the legs, interrupted by a white spot on the knees and on the hoof. Scimitar horn with knobs.

    It is endemic to the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia.

  • Nubian ibex

    Capra nubiana

    Somewhat smaller in size than other Ibex, light straw coloured. Males with long, dark beards and scimitar horns, forming a semicircle to the rear, have marked knots.

    It lives in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Oman, Israel, Jordan, Eritrea, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.