the Indian Nile-district-antelope has a withers-height of 140 cm with a weight until 180 kg. it is a high-legged antelope with precipitous back-line, pointed tapered muzzle and a short neck-mane. Adult bucks are colored gloomily gray-blue, with a white stain at the throat, white mirror and white stomach. One tuft of extended hair hangs down from the neck-underside of the buck. The horns are short measuring approximately 25 cm, and turned somewhat forward.
The females are smaller and more brownish colored. they don't carry any horns. The young resemble the female.
Habitat Residences this type are light monsoon-forests, grass-jungles and parklands. The Nile-district-antelope lives in, with exception the South-top and a narrow strip in the west, almost whole India, as far as it was not wiped out or was ousted.
Way of life Herds construct altogether 20-30 animals Nile-district from females, young and a few adult bucks. The males form also own herds or live as a loner. The females with its boys are little shy. its enemies are the tiger and (as far as still existing in the Gir-Forest) Indian lions. One found the remains of Nile-maximum credible accident also in the stomach of the swamp-crocodile.
This type is location-loyal as long as its residence offers food and troughs sufficiently. Member a herd visits common excrement-places.
Reproduction At combination-fights, the rivals settle on its carpal-joints and fight itself mutually with neck and horns. they impress breitseits with curved backs and lowered head against each other.
Sets a young Nile-district after 247 days of Tragzeit, if they bear for the first time, otherwise twin-births are the rule.
Continuance The continuance of the Nile-district-antelope declined strongly in India, however it was introduced on numerous game-farms in Texas (USA) so that it is not regarded as threatened.
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