Red Lechwe
Kobus leche leche
A medium-sized antelope that prefers marshlands, swamps and floodplains, up to 500 mm deep where they graze on the lush aquatic grasses. Males and females are both reddish-brown, with a white belly but only the males have horns.
Conservation
Populations are declining throughout their range due to poaching, hunting, habitat loss and disturbance as well as climate change.
- Height
- 90-110 cm
- Length
- 112-127 cm
- Weight
- 60 and 80 kg
- Calf
- 1
- Range
- Western Zambia, Botswana and eastern Namibia.
- Conservation status
- Near Threatened
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