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Alcelaphus buselaphus - #3569

Hartebeest
Alcelaphus buselaphus swaynei. Also as Alcelaphus swaynei, Swane's Hartebeest.
Geographic Distribution

In N Africa, now extinct but within historic times occurred in N Algeria, Libya (marginally), N Morocco, and Tunisia. In West and Equatorial Africa in Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, S Chad, Côte d'Ivoire, N Dem. Rep. Congo, N Eritrea, Ethiopia (outside highlands), Gambia (extinct or vagrant), Ghana, E Guinea Bissau, Guinea, S Kenya, S Mali, Niger (marginal in SW), Nigeria, Senegal, NW Somalia (extinct), S Sudan, N Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda, S Angola, Botswana, Lesotho (extinct), Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland (introduced), and W Zimbabwe, E Angola, SE Dem. Rep. Congo, Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa (KwaZulu-Natal and doubtfully Limpopo Prov.; extinct but reintroduced), Swaziland (extinct), Tanzania, Zambia, SE Zimbabwe.

Order/Family
Bovidae
Genus
Alcelaphus
Specific Epithet
buselaphus
Image Location
Ethiopia, Oromia region, Senkelle Swayne's Hartebeest Sanctuary
Image Date
2 February 2013
Photographer
DS Power

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