Grazing antelope
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| Grazing antelopes Temporal range: Pleistocene to present
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Mammalia |
| Order: | Artiodactyla |
| Family: | Bovidae |
| Subfamily: | Hippotraginae Brooke, 1876 |
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A grazing antelope is any of the species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae of the family Bovidae. As grazers, rather than browsers, the "Hippo" in Hippotraginae refers to the slightly horse-like characteristics of body size and proportions: long legs and a solid body with a relatively thick muscular neck.
- Subfamily Hippotraginae
- Genus Hippotragus
- Roan antelope, Hippotragus equinus
- Sable antelope, Hippotragus niger
- Giant sable antelope Hippotragus niger varani
- Bluebuck, Hippotragus leucophaeus (extinct)
- Genus Oryx
- East African oryx, Oryx beisa
- Common beisa oryx, Oryx beisa beisa
- Fringe-eared oryx, Oryx beisa callotis
- Scimitar oryx, Oryx dammah
- Gemsbok, Oryx gazella
- Arabian oryx, Oryx leucoryx
- East African oryx, Oryx beisa
- Genus Addax
- Addax, Addax nasomaculatus
- Genus Hippotragus