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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