Blesbok Photo Album Page 1
HABITAT
Highveld grassland with permanent water.
HABITS
Active during the day. Shelters amongst trees and bushes. In very hot weather stands facing the sun with head lowered. Drinks at least once a day. Both sexes and all ages depost preorbital gland secretion on grass stalks, which are then stroked with the horns, picking up a deposit of secretion between the ridges. Secretion from glands between the front hooves is deposited while walking and when territory residents paw the ground and scrape dung. Standing sideways on to intruders, foot stamping, horn swinging and digging up soil with the horns advertise territory occupation, and territories are defended by vigorous bouts of horn clashing, which can become serious, and are sometimes fatal.
DIET
A grazer, but will take some browse. The males mass are 70kg. and the females are 60kg.
BREEDING
Females give birth to a single young after a gestation period of 246 days and give birth from August to December. They have a lifespan of 13 years.
Steve Gluck of California with a Blesbok.
Stephen de Petro of California.
Rulo Varela of Argentina.
Eduardo Esquivel of Mexico City.
Hugo Malchiodi and Paticio Geijo of Argentina.
John Turkovich of Argentina.
Gordon Slate of Oregon with a Blesbok.
Andrew Veit of Colorado with a Blesbok.
Robert Hughes of Texas with a Blesbok.
Keith Warmington and his wife of England with a Blesbok.
Raymond Matthews of Tennessee with a Blesbok.
