Topi
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 Topi | ||||||||||||||||
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| Damaliscus lunatus Burchell, 1823 |
The Topi, or Tsessebe, as it is called in Southern Africa, (Damaliscus lunatus also known as Tiang or Korrigum) is a savannah and floodplain antelope found in Sudan, Chad, Kenya, Tanzania, and Southern Africa.
Topi stand over a metre tall at the shoulder and weigh 80 to 160 kilograms. Their coats are a rusty red colour with black legs, chest and a black strip running from forehead to the tip of the nose. The horns are lyre-shaped and are conspicuously ringed and can reach 70 centimetres in both sexes.
Topi live in savannah and floodplains where they eat mainly grass. Males hold territories from a few tens of thousands of square metres to a few square kilometres. These are marked out with urine, and dung. Topi form herds of up to twenty females and calves led by a male, but thousands of Topi may come together during migration.
