an antelope native to the wooded savanna of East and Southern Africa From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The sable antelope (Hippotragus niger) is an antelope. It lives in wooded savanna in East and Southern Africa.
Sable antelope | |
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Adult male Hippotragus niger niger, Tswalu Kalahari Reserve, South Africa | |
H. n. niger cow in the southern Kruger National Park, South Africa | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Hippotraginae |
Genus: | Hippotragus |
Species: | H. niger |
Binomial name | |
Hippotragus niger (Harris, 1838) | |
geographic range |
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