Kob

Kobus kob · Bovidae

The kob is an antelope found across Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. Together with the closely related reedbucks, waterbucks, lechwe, Nile lechwe, and puku, it forms the Reduncinae tribe. Found along the northern savanna, it is often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda; Garamba and Virunga National Park, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as grassy floodplains of South Sudan.

Where the Kob lives

Recorded in Benin, Uganda, Ghana and Dem. Rep. Congo (Africa).

Most records fall in Atakora, Borgou, Alibori, Nwoya, Northern and Rubirizi.

See the Kob’s range on the globe

Conservation status

Least concern (LC). Not at risk: it is doing well in the wild. Categories are the IUCN Red List as republished by GBIF.

Sources

The range is a density of 9,098 georeferenced GBIF records, not an expert-drawn map. Description from Wikipedia.