Young calves are “earth” or “dry grass” colour which makes them harder to be seen by predators.
Description
- Family : Bovidae, Bovidae
- Habitat : African savannah
- Food : grasses
- Weight : 80 kg (male) 70 kg (female)
- Shoulder height : 90 cm
- Lifespan : 17 years
- Gestation : 7,5 months
- Young per birth : 1 or 2
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Animal's legal status :
- UICN : LR - less risk of extinction (1996)
- CITES : Appendix II (1981)
- European Union : Annex B (1997)
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