How many Bovid species/subspecies have You seen?

Hi zoo-fans,

I am a collector of bovids, means I try to get as many sightings with photos of bovid taxa as possible. I started 3 years ago, now I am at number 109 with taxa I have seen alive. Beside that I collect also fossil taxa and rare stuffed specimens. For now I would start with my list of lifers i have seen. Those with stars were seen also/only in the wild. I am interested how your list would look like!

1. Addax
2. Common Impala*
3. Black-faced Impala
4. Kaama hartebeest
5. Coke’s hartebeest*
6. Lichtenstein’s hartebeest*
7. Southern lesser kudu*
8. Lybian barbary sheep
9. Saharan barbary sheep
10. Springbok
11. Blackbuck
12. Plains bison
13. Wood bison
14. Lowland wisent
15. Gayal
16. Indian Gaur
17. Domestic yak
18. Zebu
19. Javan Banteng
20. Sanga cattle
21. Domestic european cattle
22. Nilgai
23. Domestic river buffalo
24. Domestic swamp buffalo
25. Lowland anoa
26. Mountain anoa
27. Golden takin
28. Mishmi takin
29. Sichuan takin
30. West Caucasian tur
31. East Caucasian tur
32. Bukhara markhor
33. Domestic goat
34. Cretan wild goat
35. Alpine ibex
36. Nubian ibex
37. Southeastern Spanish ibex
38. Western Spanish ibex
39. Siberian ibex
40. Western Harvey’s duiker*
41. Natal red duiker
42. Western yellow-backed duiker
43. Eastern white-bearded wildebeest*
44. Western white-bearded wildebeest*
45. Black wildebeest
46. Blue wildebeest
47. Jimela*
48. Blesbok
49. Western Thomson’s gazelle*
50. Cuvier’s gazelle
51. Saharan dorcas gazelle
52. Rhim gazelle (Eastern slender-horned gazelle)
53. Persian goitered gazelle
54. Himalayan thar
55. Roan antelope
56. Southern sable antelope
57. Defassa waterbuck
58. Ellipsen waterbuck*
59. Kafue flats lechwe
60. Red lechwe
61. Nile lechwe
62. Black lechwe
63. Southern gerenuk*
64. Cavendish’s dikdik*
65. Hinde’s dikdik*
66. Thomas’s dikdik*
67. Mhorr gazelle
68. Addra gazelle
69. Southern Grant’s gazelle*
70. Robert’s gazelle*
71. Peter’s gazelle*
72. South chinese goral
73. Mountain suni* – NO PHOTO
74. Coastal Suni
75. Lowland nyala
76. Mountain goat
77. Abyssinian klipspringer
78. Maasai klipspringer*
79. Beisa oryx
80. Fringe-eared oryx*
81. Scimitar-horned oryx
82. Gemsbok
83. Arabian oryx
84. Barren Ground muskox
85. White-faced muskox
86. Domestic sheep
87. European mouflon*
88. Transcaspian urial
89. Buchara urial
90. Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep
91. Dall’s sheep
92. Marco Polo Argali
93. Western blue duiker
94. Chinese Bharal
95. East African steenbok*
96. Bohor reedbuck*
97. Chanler’s mountain reedbuck*
98. Southern mountain reedbuck
99. Apennine chamois
100. Pyrenean chamois
101. Alpine chamois*
102. Greater kudu
103. Cape buffalo*
104. Forest buffalo
105. East African eland*
106. Eastern bongo
107. Western sitatunga
108. Eastern coastal bushbuck*
109. South-eastern bushbuck*

 

How many of these have you seen in the wild?

 

My list as follows:

1. Impala
2. Cape Buffalo
3. Red Buffalo
4. Plains Bison
5. Addax
6. Matetsi Sable antelope
7. Southern Roan antelope*
8. Nubian Ibex
9. Barbary Sheep
10. Cape Eland
11. Livingstone’s Eland*
12. Zambian Sable*
13. Springbok
14. Angolan Springbok*
15. Gemsbok
16. Blue Wildebeest
17. Black Wildebeest*
18. Red Hartebeest*
19. Eastern Bongo
20. Western Sitatunga
21. Eastern Giant Eland
22. Natal Red Duiker
23. Cape Blue Duiker
24. Cape Grey Duiker
25. Southern Steenbok
26. Cape Grysbok*
27. Blesbok
28. Bontebok
29. Zulu Suni
30. Southern Mountain Reedbuck
31. Southern Reedbuck
32.Grey Rhebok*
33. Blackbuck
34. Scimitar-horned Oryx
35. Arabian Oryx
36. Cape Bushbuck
37. Chobe Bushbuck
38. Nyala
39. Ellipsen Waterbuck
40. Tsessebe
45. Transcapian Urial
46. Black-faced Impala
47. Southern Greater Kudu
48. Red Lechwe
49. Kafue Flats lechwe
50. Domestic Asiatic Water Buffalo
51. Domestic Sheep
52. Domestic cattle
53. South African Klipspringer
54. Domestic Goat

Definitely lacking in Caprids and Gazelles, but other then that I don’t think I’ve done too bad

 

When feeling as splitty as your list is, I come to 137 different taxa, of which the bold ones are (also) seen in the wild.

1. Plains bison
2. Wood bison
3. European bison
4. Gayal
5. Gaur
6. Domestic yak
7. Zebu
8. Sangha cattle
9. Domestic cattle
10. Banteng
11. Domestic swamp buffalo
12. Domestic water buffalo
13. Lowland anoa
14. Mountain anoa
15. African buffalo
16. Red forest buffalo
17. Nilgai
18. Nyala
19. Mountain nyala
20. Mountain bongo
21. Western sitatunga
22. Bushbuck ssp delamerei
23. Bushbuck ssp dama
24. Menelik’s bushbuck
25. Southern lesser kudu
26. Northern lesser kudu
27. Southern greater kudu
28. Northern greater kudu
29. East African eland
30. South African eland
31. Mountain suni
32. Impala
33. Black-faced impala
34. Southern steenbok
35. Eastern steenbok
36. Cape grysbok
37. Springbok ssp marsupialis
38. Springbok ssp hofmeyri
39. Southern gerenuk
40. Northern gerenuk
41. Saiga ssp tartarica
42. Blackbuck
43. Mhor gazelle
44. Addra gazelle
45. Grant’s gazelle
46. Grant’s gazelle ssp robertsi
47. Bright’s gazelle
48. Peters’s gazelle
49. Soemmerring’s gazelle
50. Dorcas gazelle
51. Slender-horned gazelle
52. Persian goitered gazelle
53. Serengeti Thomson’s gazelle
54. Thomson’s gazelle ssp nasalis
55. Cavendish’s dikdik
56. Damara dikdik
57. Gunthers dikdik ssp smithii
58. Hinde’s dikdik
59. Kirk’s dikdik
60. Salt’s dikdik ssp saltiana
61. Thomas’s dikdik
62. Oribi ssp montana
63. Southern reedbuck ssp arundinum
64. Southern reedbuck ssp orientalis
65. Southern mountain reedbuck
66. Bohor reedbuck ssp bohor
67. Bohor reedbuck ssp wardi
68. Ellipsen waterbuck
69. Defassa waterbuck
70. Kafue Flats Lechwe
71. Red lechwe
72. Nile lechwe
73. Puku ssp senganus
74. Grey rhebok
75. Roan antelope
76. Sable antelope
77. Addax
78. Beisa oryx
79. Fringe-eared oryx
80. Beisa oryx ssp gallarum
81. Gemsbok
82. Arabian oryx
83. Coke’s hartebeest (including Jackson's hartebeest a natural hybrid with Lelwel)
84. Swayne’s hartebeest
85. Lichtensteins hartebeest
86. Kaama hartebeest
87. Tsessebe
88. Topi (Serengeti + Ruaha)
89. Blesbok
90. Bontebok
91. Black wildebeest
92. Blue gnu
93. Eastern white-bearded gnu
94. Serengeti white-bearded gnu
95. Johnston’s gnu
96. Rocky mountain goat
97. Mishmi takin
98. Sichuan takin
99. Golden takin
100. Libyan barbary sheep
101. Saharan barbary sheep
102. Himalayan tahr
103. Blue sheep
104. Cretan wild goat
105. West caucasian tur
106. East caucasian tur
107. Markhor ssp heptneri
108. Domestic goat
109. Alpine ibex
110. Nubian ibex
111. Siberian ibex
112. Argali
113. Domestic sheep (including European mouflon)
114. Bighorn sheep ssp canadensis
115. Dall’s sheep
116. Asian mouflon ssp. gmelini
117. Bukhara urial
118. Transcaspian urial
119. Pyrenean chamois
120. Appennine chamois
121. Alpine chamois
122. Balkan chamois
123. Long-tailed goral
124. Chinese goral
125. Japanese serow
126. Greenland musk ox
127. Barren Ground musk ox
128. Common duiker ssp madoqua
129. Common duiker ssp orbicularis
130. Congo blue duiker
131. Natal red duiker
132. Harvey’s red duiker
133. Yellow-backed duiker
134. Black-fronted duiker ssp. hooki
135. Abyssinian klipspringer
136. Masai klipspringer
137. Cape klipspringer

 

Very impressive list! You must have travelled quite widely across Africa to have spotted so many African species. I envy you very much!
Where did you see the tsessebe?

 

Wild only (I have never kept captive lists)
1. American Bison
2. Cape Buffalo
3. Lake Chad Buffalo
4. Nyala
5. Central Bushbuck
6. Cape Bushbuck
7. Zambezi Kudu
8. Common Eland
9. Common Impala
10. Steenbok
11. Cape Springbok
12. Dorcas Gazelle
13. Mountain Gazelle
14. Southern Oribi
15. Tibetan Gazelle
16. Southern Reedbuck
17. Red Lechwe
18. Buffon’s Kob
19. Uganda Kob
20. Puku
21. Ellipsen Waterbuck
22. Defassa Waterbuck
23. Roan Antelope
24. Red Hartebeest
25. Bontebok
26. Blesbok
27. Western Tsessebe
28. Uganda Topi
29. Black Wildebeest
30. Blue Wildebeest
31. Greater Blue Sheep
32. Iberian Ibex
33. Pyrenean Chamois
34. Bush Duiker
35. Red-flanked Duiker
36. Natal Red Duiker
37. Black-fronted Duiker

 

Wow also great list, as are all here. I didn't expect someone here has seen wild anoa. Was it difficult?

 

Impressive! Isn't the Seregeti tommy the same as ssp. nasalis?

 

Thanks, It is indeed, I typed the wrong subspecies, as I have seen the nominate too.

I saw the Tsessebe in NE Botswana near Chobe NP. For my previous job I had a lot of field work in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania, which certainly helped. But those days are over now with a final (and 11th) visit to Kenya earlier this year. Apart from that I have been to Southern Africa twice, of which one time was limited to the Western Cape. So I have been lucky to travel so much indeed.

 

As for wild Anoa, they are seen from the same hide in Sulawesi as Babirusa, although more rarely. Sadly, I did not get to visit Gorontalo this summer as the trip itinerary was finalised before I discovered this fact.

 

In the wild:

Wood Bison
Plains Bison
Dall Sheep
Mountain Goat
Muskox
Alpine Chamois

*Aoudad/Barbary Sheep
*Blackbuck
*European Mouflon

*Introduced Naturalized Populations in Texas

 

Captive bovids I've seen:

• Common impala
• Blackbuck
• Red lechwe
• Defassa waterbuck
• Blue wildebeest
• Scimitar oryx
• Roan antelope
• Sitatunga
• Lowland nyala
• Common eland
• Barbary sheep
• Mishmi takin
• Lowland anoa
• Mountain anoa
• Javan banteng
• European bison

 

Nice! Are You sure You didn't see Lelwel-hartebeest, as You have also Uganda-Topi and -Kob in Your list?

 

1. Domestic water buffalo
2. American bison
3. Lowland anoa
4. Gaur
5. Banteng
6. Ankole cattle (and other breeds but this is the most impressive IMO)
7. Domestic yak
8. Auodad
9. Nilgai
10. Blue wildebeest
11. Giant eland
12. Common eland
13. Sable antelope
14. Steenbok
15. Grant's gazelle
16. Impala
17. Fringe-eared oryx
18. Arabian oryx
19. Scimitar-horned oyrx
20. Roan antelope
21. Thomson's gazelle
22. Addra gazelle
23. Springbok
24. Lowland nyala
25. Mountain bongo
26. Greater kudu
27. Lesser kudu
28. Blue duiker
29. Yellow-backed duiker
30. Red-flanked duiker
31. Black duiker
32. Bontebok
33. Addax
34. Slender-horned gazelle
35. Blackbuck
36. Gerenuk
37. Waterbuck ( I don't remember which, but I recall seeing them at Lion Country Safari, Disney's Animal Kingdom, and Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge)
38. Bay duiker
39. Springbok
40. Domestic goat
41. Domestic sheep

 

Hi, I saw ca 117 subspecies in zoos, 44 species and ca 52 subspecies in the wild, in total ca 148 species or subspecies of bovids. There could be more, depending of different races of some zoo stocks of antelope etc.

 

Great idea and great list @Marcus Burkhardt !

1. Addax
2. Common Impala
3. Black-faced Impala
4. Kaama hartebeest
5. Lybian barbary sheep
6. Kordofan barbary sheep
7. Springbok
8. Blackbuck
9. Cape buffalo
10. Forest buffalo
11. Nilgai
12. Plains bison
13. Wood bison
14. Lowland wisent
15. Gayal
16. Indian Gaur
17. Domestic yak
18. Zebu
19. Javan Banteng
20. Sanga cattle
21. Domestic european cattle
22. Domestic swamp buffalo
23. Domestic river buffalo
24. Domestic sheep
25. Lowland anoa
26. Mountain anoa
27. Golden takin
28. Mishmi takin
29. Sichuan takin
30. West Caucasian tur
31. East Caucasian tur
32. Bukhara markhor
33. Domestic goat
34. Cretan wild goat
35. Alpine ibex
36. Nubian ibex
37. Southeastern Spanish ibex
38. Siberian ibex
39. Himalayan tahr
40. Central chinese goral
41. European mouflon
42. Transcaspian urial
43. Buchara urial
44. California bighorn sheep
45. Desert bighorn Sheep
46. Dall’s sheep
47. Marco Polo Argali
48. Armenian Mouflon
49. Chinese Bharal
50. Apennine chamois
51. Balkan chamois*
52. Alpine chamois
53. Mountain goat
54. Barren Ground muskox
55. White-faced muskox
56. Western blue duiker
57. Black duiker
58. Natal red duiker
59. Western yellow-backed duiker
60. Red-flanked duiker
61. Eastern white-bearded wildebeest
62. Black wildebeest
63. Blue wildebeest
64. Bontebok
65. Blesbok
66. Thomson’s gazelle
67. Cuvier’s gazelle
68. Saharan dorcas gazelle
69. Slender-horned gazelle
70. Persian goitered gazelle
71. Mhorr gazelle
72. Addra gazelle
73. Grant’s gazelle
74. Red-fronted Gazelle
75. Speke's gazelle
76. Nubian Soemmerring's gazelle
77.South African steenbok
78. Roan antelope
79. Southern sable antelope
80. Defassa waterbuck
81. Ellipsen waterbuck
82. Kafue flats lechwe
83. Red lechwe
84. Nile lechwe
85. Lake Victoria defassa waterbuck
86. Southern gerenuk
87. Cavendish’s dikdik
88. Kirk's dikdik
89. Uganda Kob
90. Beisa oryx
91. Fringe-eared oryx
92. Scimitar-horned oryx
93. Gemsbok
94. Arabian oryx
95. Eastern giant eland
96. Paterson eland
97. Southern mountain reedbuck
98. Lowland nyala
99. Greater kudu
100. Southern lesser kudu
101. Eastern bongo
102. Western sitatunga
103. East African sitatunga
104. Ethiopian klipspringer
105.Zimbabwean Klipspringer

 

Thanks Dhole for Your list! There are still some to get for me on Your list, hopefully in a NA zoo tour! BTW You counted springbok twice

 

Wow, a very impressive number! Would You also put them in a list here? Or at least the specials?