Impala | |
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Young male impala in Serengeti, Tanzanie | |
Female impala in Mikumi Naitional Pairk, Tanzanie | |
Conservation status
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Scientific classification | |
Kinrick: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Cless: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Faimily: | Bovidae |
Subfaimily: | Aepycerotinae Gray, 1872 |
Genus: | Aepyceros Sundevall, 1847 |
Species: | A. melampus |
Binomial name | |
Aepyceros melampus (Lichtenstein, 1812)
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Subspecies | |
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Distribution o the impala Reid =A. m. melampus Blue = A. m. petersi |
The impala (Aepyceros melampus) is a middlin African antelope. Its hicht ranges atween 75 an 95 cm (30 an 37 in) an it weighs atween 40 an 60 kg (88 an 132 lb).
It is foond in savannas an thick bushveld in Kenyae, Tanzanie, Swaziland, Mozambique, northren Namibie, Botswana, Zambie, Zimbabwe, soothren Angolae, northeastren Sooth Africae, an Uganda. It can be foond in nummers o up tae twa million.[2]