Food wise, they love to munch on leaves, shoots and grasses. How many species of bongo are there? The western or mountain bongo and the eastern or lowland bongo.
Ours are Eastern. How long do does a bongo live for? They can live up to 19 years in the wild. Our membership means we share knowledge with leading zoos across the UK and Europe, and we learn from them too. It is a legal requirement in the UK for the speed to be shown in miles per hour. We offer a comprehensive range of quality conversion faces these are not stickers that show dual calibration.
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Highly competitive premiums are available from many leading insurers. Call us for information. Contact us for more information. We would love to hear from you. Bongo Facts. Bongo Gallery Back home. A room with a view. This antelope is the largest, heaviest, and most colorful African forest antelope. It has an auburn or chestnut coat with 10 to 15 vertical whitish-yellow stripes running down its sides. Females are usually more brightly colored than males.
Both males and females have spiraled lyre-shaped horns. The large ears are believed to sharpen hearing, and the distinctive coloration may help bongos identify one another in their dark forest habitats. They have no special secretion glands and so rely less on scent to find one another than do other similar antelopes.
Young bongos are vulnerable to pythons, leopards, and hyenas. Lions have also been reported to kill bongos. Even though there are taboos against eating bongo meat by locals, the lowland bongo are still subject to snare hunting due to expanding commercial forestry exploitation.
They are the primary target of tourist safari hunting in central Africa, and the demand has been increasing during the past decade. Large-scale and continuous hunting has completely eliminated this species in some areas. African Wildlife Foundation works with governments and villages to designate wildlife corridors — large swaths of land that bongos can use to roam freely and safely from one park, or country, to another.
Corridors link protected areas and allow wildlife to follow rains or travel to their calving grounds without disturbing human settlements. AWF engages communities living near wildlife to create sustainable practices for agricultural and settlement growth by providing training on best practices and incentivizing conservation agriculture in exchange for community members allowing local wildlife to live peacefully near their communities without encroaching on their territories.
The largest forest antelope are quite timid and are easily frightened. They will run away after a scare — at considerable speed — and seek cover, where they stand still and alert with their backs to the disturbance. Their hindquarters are less conspicuous than the forequarters, and from this position, the animal can quickly flee. Adult males of a similar size or age seem to try to avoid one another.
Even though they are relatively non-territorial, they will meet and spar with their horns in a ritualized manner. Sometimes, serious fights will take place but they are usually discouraged by visual displays, in which the males bulge their necks, roll their eyes, and hold their horns in a vertical position while slowly pacing back and forth in front of the other male.
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