Zingela Safaris

Blesbok Photo Album Page 8

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.

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Mads Langseth of Norway with a Blesbok.

Suzi Huntington of California and PH Jannie Spangenberg with a Blesbok.

Jaime Carvajal, mom Myriam, Gonzaga Carvajal, Rafael Carvajal (Jnr) and dad Rafael Carvajal of Spain with a Blesbok.

PH Jannie Spangenberg and Thomas Hargrove of Texas with a Blesbok.

Joseph Bradshaw and Nona Bradshaw of Nevada with a Blesbok.

PH Jannie Spangenberg, Karl Auinger and his wife Annemarie Auinger of Austria with a Blesbok.

John Veigl of Austria with a Blesbok.

Kjetil Holteberg of Norway with a Blesbok.

PH Errol Lambrechts and Dusty Ferrenburg of Alaska with a female and male Blesbok.

Simone Anderson and Dave Anderson of Canada with a Blesbok.

Jose Izquierdo and Maite Izquierdo of Spain with PH Jannie Spangenbergin the centre with a Blesbok.

Maite Izquierdo of Spain with a Blesbok.

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