Red Lechwe
Kobus leche leche · Mammal
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A golden-brown antelope of 50 to 120 kg of the floodplains bordering swamps in Zambia, Angola, Botswana and the Congo; it is the commonest large mammal of the Okavango Delta (about 88,000). It grazes the grasses of flooded meadows, in herds sometimes thousands strong, and flees predators into knee-deep water, where its water-repellent legs make it fast. Only males bear the long lyre-shaped horns. It has long been hunted and poached for profit.
- Danger
- Harmless
- How it is met
- In herds, by day
- Size
- Medium
- In winter
- Active in winter
Where it lives
Savanna, Flooded Grassland, Swamp, Marsh
Sources
- Toni Lynn Newell, Kobus leche (lechwe). Animal Diversity Web, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, 1999.
- Lechwe. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
- Cobe lechwe. Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre, 2026.
- Okavango Delta. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, 2026.
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