| SCIENTIFIC CLASSIFICATION |
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| COMMON NAME: | defassa waterbuck | | KINGDOM: | Animalia | | PHYLUM: | Chordata | | CLASS: | Mammalia | | ORDER: | Artiodactyla | | FAMILY: | Bovidae | | GENUS SPECIES: | Kobus (native African name) ellipsiprymnus defassa; defassa represents sub-species | |
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| DESCRIPTION: | The defassa waterbuck is a large, robust animal with long, shaggy hair and a brown-gray coat that emits an oily secretion from its sweat glands, which acts as a water repellant. It also has large, rounded ears and white patches above the eyes, and around the nose and mouth and throat. The common waterbuck has a conspicuous white ring encircling a dark rump, while the defassa has wide white patches on either side of the rump. | | MALE | Males are generally about 25% larger than the females. Only males have horns, prominently ringed and as long as 100 cm (40 in.). The horns are widely spaced and curve gracefully back and up. | |
| SIZE: | | | MALE | Shoulder height of males about 125 cm (4.2 ft.) | |
| WEIGHT: | 148.5-225 kg (330-500 lb.) | |
| DIET: | Includes coarse grasses seldom eaten by other grazing animals and occasionally browse leaves from certain trees and bushes | |
| GESTATION: | Gestation lasts approximately 280 days | |
| SEXUAL MATURITY: | 2.5-3 years | |
| LIFE SPAN: | Up to 18 years | |
| RANGE: | South of the Sahara | |
| HABITAT: | Inhabits areas close to water in savanna grasslands, gallery forests and riverine woodlands. | |
| POPULATION: | GLOBAL | Unknown | |
| STATUS: | IUCN | Lower Risk/Conservation Dependent | | CITES | Not listed | | USFWS | Not listed | |
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