the withers-height of the stag-goat-antelope amounts approximately 80 cm, its weight approximately 40 kg. its shape is gazelle-good. The croup towers above something the withers, adult bucks are colored dun, with one of tan sounded neck-region. Is a field about the eyes, the muzzle, the ears and the entire underside with the mirror knows. Females and young have a tawny upper side. Albinos occur occasionally. The bucks carry crosswise-curled and in 3 - 4 meanders schraubig of turned horns.
Habitat Stag-goat-antelopes live in the open grassland of the Indian subcontinent like gazelles. Also in river-valleys, culture-country and in light groves of the lowlands, they are to be found.
Way of life The herds consist of an adult buck as leader and 20-30 females with young. In times of the food and water-lack, the herds to bigger stoves gather together.
Stag-goat-antelopes execute high and wide jumps. It is a splendid picture if a whole herd leaps through the air almost simultaneously.
The Sasin is active predominantly in the morning and in the afternoon. If the life-conditions become not too unfavorable, this antelope is location-loyal.
Stag-goat-antelopes flee with big speed and execute its typical jumps at the escape. Young against it shirk with danger into the grass.
Reproduction Brünstige bucks mark its precinct with the secretion of its pre-eye-glands at branches and other suitable places. If males fight together, they open its pre-eye-glands so far that they virtually become umgestülpt. The rivals stride too with high-stretched chin one on top of the other and flat on the neck put back horns. Now and then, they toss the head downward, through what the horn-tops point forward. A buck collects a harem about himself and doesn't tolerate that a female leaves the association.
In the combination-prelude, the buck impresses before the female with put back head. it does emphasized wide steps, that are replaced from a tripping, on that occasion. The tail is bent with this affected behavior on the back. Together with the mirror, the back of the buck turns into a showy signal through it.
After approximately 180 days of Tragzeit, stag-goat-antelopes place a young, it rarely is two. The boys are typical Ablieger, that follow its mothers only in the age of 2 weeks.
Endangering In India, the continuances of the stag-goat-antelope declined through ecocide and Bejagung strongly. However, it could be introduced successfully in Argentina and Texas.
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