Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Impala
Horns up to 92 cm
The impala may be the only ungulate that grooms itself as well as its herd mates.
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Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Blue wildebeest
Runs up to 80 km/h
A calf can stand and start nursing about six minutes after it is born.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Springbok
Leaps up to 2 m
In extreme cases a springbok never drinks water in its whole life.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Greater kudu
Bulls up to 1.6 m tall
A bull's horns would reach about 120 cm if they were straightened out.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Gemsbok
Speeds up to 60 km/h
Wild melons and cucumbers can supply all the water a gemsbok needs.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Arabian oryx
Extinct in the wild
The Arabian oryx was gone from the wild by the early 1970s, and zoos saved it.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
African buffalo
Cape herds up to 2,000
A rinderpest outbreak in the late 19th century killed 95 percent of African buffaloes.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Water buffalo
Up to 1,200 kg
Its horns spread wider than those of any other bovid.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Domestic yak
Bulls 350 to 580 kg
Chinese writings log yak and cattle crosses for at least 2,000 years.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Muskox
Its name comes from the smell males give off during the rut.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Mountain goat
Males up to 81.8 kg
A mountain goat's age can be read from the rings on its horns.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Bighorn sheep
Horns up to 14 kg
A ram's horns can weigh as much as all the bones in its body.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Alpine ibex
Males 67 to 117 kg
The Alpine ibex fell to fewer than 100 animals, all in one Italian national park.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Bovidae
Domestic goat
More than 1.1 billion
Goats are the only ruminant that regularly climbs trees.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Camelidae
Llama
130 to 272 kg adult
Llamas carry an unusually high amount of hemoglobin in their blood.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Camelidae
Alpaca
Up to 22 coat colors
Mating itself makes a female alpaca ovulate.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Camelidae
Guanaco
Runs up to 64 km/h
Guanacos spit when threatened, and can reach up to 1.8 m away.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Camelidae
Bactrian camel
Up to 250 cm tall
A calf is moving about on its own within a day of being born.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Giraffidae
Okapi
About 1.5 m tall
Its markings look like a zebra's, yet its closest living relative is the giraffe.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Cervidae
Red deer
Stags 175 to 250 cm
Every red deer calf is born spotted and loses the spots by the end of summer.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Cervidae
White-tailed deer
Antlers grow back
A buck drops its antlers in late winter and grows new ones by spring.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Antilocapridae
Pronghorn
Up to 55 mph
The fastest land mammal in the Americas, running up to 55 mph.
Mammalia › Perissodactyla › Rhinocerotidae
Black rhinoceros
800 to 1,400 kg
A black rhino offspring can depend on its mother for up to four years.
Mammalia › Perissodactyla › Rhinocerotidae
Indian rhinoceros
Males 2.07 to 2.2 t
The largest rhinoceros in Asia, and second largest alive.
Mammalia › Perissodactyla › Tapiridae
Malayan tapir
Up to 540 kg
This is the one tapir that lives outside the Americas.
Mammalia › Perissodactyla › Equidae
Grevy's zebra
Up to 1.6 m at withers
It is the tallest zebra and has the narrowest stripes of all zebras.
Mammalia › Perissodactyla › Equidae
Donkey
Withers up to 150 cm
Donkeys can breed with zebras, and the offspring is called a zonkey.
Mammalia › Artiodactyla › Suidae
Common warthog
Tusks up to 25.5 cm
When chased, a warthog runs with its tail up and backs into its den with its tusks facing out.
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- Impala
- Blue wildebeest
- Springbok
- Greater kudu
- Gemsbok
- Arabian oryx
- African buffalo
- Water buffalo
- Domestic yak
- Muskox
- Mountain goat
- Bighorn sheep
- Alpine ibex
- Domestic goat
- Llama
- Alpaca
- Guanaco
- Bactrian camel
- Okapi
- Red deer
- White-tailed deer
- Pronghorn
- Black rhinoceros
- Indian rhinoceros
- Malayan tapir
- Grevy's zebra
- Donkey
- Common warthog
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