The bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus) is a large, mostly nocturnal, forest-dwelling antelope, native to sub-Saharan Africa. Bongos are characterised by a striking reddish-brown coat, black and white markings, white-yellow stripes, and long slightly spiralled horns.

The Bongo, also known as the Bongo Antelope (Tragelaphus eurycerus), is a magnificent and large antelope species. It is characterized by its reddish-brown coat that bears striking vertical white stripes, which help with camouflage in the dense rainforest it inhabits.

Bongos are the largest and most colorful of the forest African antelopes. They exhibit sexual dimorphism; females weigh between 210 and 235 kilograms and the males range from 240 to 405 kilograms. Females and young are chestnut red, with darker legs.

2022年11月8日 · The largest, most colorful, and sociable of all Antelope in African is the Bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus). It belongs to the spiral-horned antelope tribe Tragelaphini (family Bovidae). The Bong is also the third-largest antelope, after the similar Giant Eland and the Common Eland.

2016年10月9日 · Among these is the bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus), which can be found in three, entirely separate, regions of equatorial Africa. The two main populations live along the southern coast of West Africa, from Guinea to Benin, and across the heart of the Congo Basin and surrounding jungles, from Cameroon and Gabon in the west almost to the Ugandan ...

It is one of two subspecies of bongo, the other being the lowland or western bongo (tragelaphus eurycerus eurycerus), which inhabits lowland equatorial forests throughout the Congo basin and West Africa. Exceedingly shy animals, bongos are forest browsers exclusively, being restricted to densely forested areas with an abundant year-round growth ...

At Woburn Safari Park there is a breeding herd of Eastern mountain bongo that can be seen on the Road Safari in the enclosure they share with the Barbary macaque monkeys. This large species of African forest antelope is listed as critically …

The bongo (Tragelaphus eurycerus), an antelope species, is characterized by prominent colours and long spiralling horns (75 cm - 99 cm), which in females tend to be more parallel than in males. Bongos are unusual in the genus Tragelaphus in that both sexes have horns.

2023年2月23日 · The bongo is unequivocally one of Africa’s most graceful and attractive antelope, yet their shy natures and love of obscurity have kept them largely off the safari radar. Bongos can be spotted in Odzala-Kokoua National Park

The mountain bongo was first introduced to Europeans at the close of the last century as an “Antelope like a Zebra, with horns, but coulored like a bushbuck with white stripes on either side”. The Wandorobo forest dwellers told hunters about a …