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| Latin name | Tragelaphus euryceros |
| Length | 170 - 250cm |
| Height | 110 - 140cm |
| Weight | 150-220kg |
| Gestation | 9.5 Months |
| No. of young | 1 |
| Lifespan | Up to 19 Years |
The Bongo is found in dense mountain forests, confined to West Africa, Zaire, Kenya and Ethiopia.
In the wild
A wide variety of vegetation, mainly browsing on tender bush herbage around
the base of trees, bamboo, cassava and sweet potato, sometimes raiding agricultural
crops such as yams.
At Woburn Safari Park
Cabbage, apples, bananas, parsnips, lettuce, spinach, wholemeal bread, oats,
bran and 'Ungulate nuts,' containing cereal grains, oil seeds, high fibre
materials vitamins and fats
The Bongo is an extremely rare and endangered form of antelope. This animal has successfully bred at Woburn in the past.
- Both sexes have spiral horns, the longest ever recorded being just over 1m long!
- Bongos like to wallow in mud puddles and then rub against a tree, polishing their horns.
- The body, from shoulder to rump, is usually marked with 12 yellow-white vertical stripes but the number of stripes on each side of the animal is rarely the same.