How many Bovid species/subspecies have You seen?

Thanks for this info. Then I really have to visit a zoo with Rocky mountain bighorns instead of expect to see them in the wild when I make a NA zoo tour. BTW your list of captive bovids wouldn't be less interesting

 

They're certainly possible to see in some areas, I just got unlucky.

 

I don't keep captive lists, but I'll try to put one together:

Impala Aepyceros melampus

Blue Wildebeest Connochaetes taurinus
Bontebok Damaliscus pygargus

Springbok Antidorcas marsupialis
Blackbuck Antilope cervicapra
Thomson's Gazelle Eudorcas thomsonii
Goitered Gazelle Gazella subgutturosa
Speke's Gazelle Gazella spekei
Gerenuk Litocranius walleri
Kirk's Dik-Dik Madoqua kirkii
Dama Gazelle Nanger dama
Soemmerring's Gazelle Nanger soemmerringii
Royal Antelope Neotragus pygmaeus
Klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus

American Bison Bison bison (including pure animals)
Zebu Bos indicus
Domestic Cattle Bos taurus
Banteng Bos javanicus
Domestic Yak Bos grunniens
Nilgai Boselaphus tragocamelus
Domestic Water Buffalo Bubalus bubalis
Common Eland Taurotragus oryx
Lowand Nyala Tragelaphus angasii
Greater Kudu Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Bongo Tragelaphus euryceros

Aoudad Ammotragus lervia
Takin Budorcas taxicolor
Markhor Capra falconeri
West Caucasian Tur Capra caucasica
Domestic Goat Capra hircus
Chinese Goral Naemorhedus griseus
Mountain Goat Oreamnos americanus
Muskox Ovibos moschatus
Bighorn Sheep Ovis canadensis
Dall Sheep Ovis dalli
Domestic Sheep Ovis aries (including European Mouflon, is that still considered a sheep?)
Urial Ovis vignei

Red-flanked Duiker Cephalophus rufilatus
Yellow-backed Duiker Cephalophus silvicultor
Blue Duiker Philantomba monticola

Addax Addax nasomaculatus
Roan Antelope Hippotragus equinus
Sable Antelope Hippotragus niger
Arabian Oryx Oryx leucoryx
East African Oryx Oryx beisa
Gemsbok Oryx gazella
Scimitar-horned Oryx Oryx dammah

Common Waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus

 

Wild bovid/exotic species I have seen in captivity:

1. American bison

• Plains bison
• Wood bison

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2. African buffalo

• Cape buffalo
• Forest buffalo

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3. Domestic water buffalo
4. Gaur
5. Domestic yak
6. Takin

• Sichuan takin
• Golden takin

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7. Himalayan tahr
8. Markhor
9. Nubian ibex
10. Bighorn sheep

• Desert bighorn sheep

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11. Barbary sheep
12. Chamois
13. Scimitar-horned oryx
14. Arabian oryx
15. East African oryx
16. Thompson’s gazelle
17. Dama gazelle
18. Slender-horned gazelle
19. Blackbuck
20. Blue wildebeest
21. Black wildebeest
22. Greater kudu
23. Lesser kudu
24. Bongo

• Mountain bongo

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25. Lowland nyala
26. Common eland
27. Speke’s gazelle
29. Bontebok
30. Nilgai
31. Nile lechwe
32. Kafue flats lechwe
33. Gerenuk
34. Red-flanked duiker
35. Klipspringer
36. Waterbuck
37. Nubian Soemerring’s gazelle
38. Sitatunga
39. Banteng

• Javan banteng

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40. Addax

 

Excluding domestics, below is my current list of bovids. As with previous lists, the taxa in bold are those I have seen in the wild. For fun, the taxa with asterisks next to them are taxa I have personally worked with:

1. Common impala
2. Black-faced impala
3. Ellipsen waterbuck
4. Defassa waterbuck
5. Uganda kob
6. Red lechwe
7. Kafue Flats lechwe
8. Nile lechwe
9. South African springbok
10. Addra gazelle **
11. Mhorr gazelle
12. Nubian Soemmerring’s gazelle
13. Southern Grant’s gazelle
14. Serengeti Thomson’s gazelle **
15. Nubian red-fronted gazelle
16. Blackbuck
17. Speke’s gazelle **
18. Slender-horned gazelle **
19. Southern gerenuk **
20. Southern steenbok
21. Cavendish’s dik-dik
22. Transvaal klipspringer **
23. Cape bush duiker
24. Limpopo bush duiker
25. Black duiker
26. Red-flanked duiker
27. Zebra duiker
28. Western yellow-backed duiker **
29. Western bay duiker
30. Cape blue duiker **
31. Zulu blue duiker **
32. Kordofan aoudad **
33. Chinese bharal
34. Turkmenian markhor
35. Nubian ibex
36. Desert bighorn sheep
37. Transcaspian urial
38. Chinese goral
39. Mishmi takin
40. Golden takin
41. Sichuan takin
42. Southern sable antelope **
43. Southern roan antelope
44. Gemsbok
45. Fringe-eared oryx
46. Arabian oryx
47. Scimitar-horned oryx
48. Addax
49. Eastern white-bearded wildebeest **
50. Blue wildebeest
51. Black wildebeest
52. Bontebok
53. Blesbok
54. Red hartebeest
55. Nilgai
56. Eastern giant eland
57. Patterson’s eland **
58. Cape eland
59. Livingstone’s eland
60. Southern lesser kudu
61. Cape greater kudu
62. Southern greater kudu **
63. Mountain bongo **
64. Speke’s sitatunga **
65. Cape bushbuck
66. Lowland nyala
67. Lowland anoa
68. Cape buffalo
69. Red forest buffalo
70. Plains bison
71. Indian gaur
72. Javan banteng

 

Yes, they are here at Assiniboine! We have a single male Japanese Serrow who was kicked from his herd from another zoo. I've been told they are looking to expand the herd if more become available. We have I believe two stones sheep - or at least I have only seen two at a given time.

A lot of my other rarities have been from private zoos, or private owners.

 

Thank You! With the mouflon: as You don't mention subspecies, but after the taxonomy I use the european mouflon is a subspecies of domestic sheep (Ovis aries musimon). Others have them as subspecies of Ovis orientalis.

I think you are the first here who has seen royal antelope. I am very envious!

 

Wow thank You! If I'm not wrong the first one with zebra duiker here. Where did You see captive Livingstone's eland?

 

Ah yes, that's one zoo I wanted probably to visit on a (hopefully happening) NA zoo tour, because of the stone's sheep, rocky mountain bighorn sheep and the serow!

 

From the lists so far, most likely! There are probably a handful of other ZooChatters that saw the species when it was still around, but it was always quite rare.

I saw the Livingstone's eland at a couple of private facilities in South Africa as well as a game pasture at the Alzu Petroport gas station, about halfway between Johannesburg and Mbombela, on the way to Kruger National Park.

 

Many uncommon and alien subspecies have been widely introduced on South African farms and private reserves, as I’m sure your aware.

Allot of others unusual subspecies such as Zambian Sable can be easily seen in South Africa, at either private reserves or
simply attending an auction.
The South African private Game trade is uncomprehendingly huge, ranging from Nile Lechwe to Masai Giraffe.

 

This is correct. I spent quite a bit of time working in the conservation genetics labs at the National Zoo in Pretoria, so I have seen my fair share of samples from all sorts of interesting taxa sent in by ranchers wanting to confirm the origin of their stock (often for legal purposes as it is illegal to house West African roan in South Africa at all or to manage blesbok and bontebok or blue and black wildebeest on the same property). I never saw any sable that I was able to confirm as Zambian. I saw quite a few from the roadside that could have been Zambian; however, I never visited a facility that housed them, specifically. I saw southern sable wild in Kruger and worked with the taxon here in the United States. I was not aware of Nile lechwe being available in the private trade in South Africa; however, I did know that there were Masai giraffe kicking around. I saw a hybrid Masai x Cape giraffe at the Mokopane Biodiversity Conservation Centre. There are some photographs of this individual in the gallery.

 

So they imported Livingstone's while having another subspecies living naturally there? I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of hybridization goes on there.

 

Ah, I answered before reading the following comments. You already gave a better insight here. Wouldn't zambian sable be easily distinguished from the nominates, as the females in the nominate ssp are almost as black as the males?

 

Who knows the subspecies of Lesser Kudu in San Diego Zoo, Banteng in New Dehli Zoo, and whether any instututions in Europe recently kept other than Tajik Markhor?

 

At least with the lesser kudu I know that they are all ssp. australis in Europe and North America

 

Wild
· Aepyceros melampus (Impala)
· Alcelaphus buselaphus (Hartebeest)
· Antidorcas marsupialis (Springbok)
· Bison bison (American Bison)
· Connochaetes taurinus (Brindled Gnu/Blue Wildebeest)
· Damaliscus lunatus (Tsessebe)
· Damaliscus pygargus (Bontebok)
· Eudorcas thomsonii (Thomson’s Gazelle)
· Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Waterbuck)
· Litocranius walleri (Gerenuk)
· Madoqua kirkii (Kirk’s Dikdik)
· Nanger granti (Grant’s Gazelle)
· Oreotragus oreotragus (Klipspringer)
· Raphicerus campestris (Steenbok)
· Redunca redunca (Bohor Reedbuck)
· Sylvicapra grimmia (Gray Duiker/Common Duiker)
· Syncerus caffer (African Buffalo)
· Tragelaphus oryx (Common Eland)
· Tragelaphus scriptus (Bushbuck)
· Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Greater Kudu)

Zoo (Species worked with in bold) - excludes domestics (goat, sheep, cattle, yak, water buffalo)

Addax nasomaculatus (Addax)
Aepyceros melampus (Impala)
Ammotragus lervia (Aoudad)
Antidorcas marsupialis (Springbok)
Antilope cervicapra (Blackbuck)
Bison bison (American Bison)
Bison bonasus (European Bison)
Bos javanicus (Banteng)
Bos gaurus (Gaur)
Boselaphus tragocamelus (Nilgai)
Bubalus depressicornis (Lowland Anoa)
Budorcus taxicolor (Takin)
Capra caucasica (Western Tur)
Capra falconeri (Markhor)
Capra nubiana (Nubian Ibex)
Cephalophus niger (Black Duiker)
Cephalophus rufilatus (Red-Flanked Duiker)
Cephalophus silvicultor (Yellow-Backed Duiker)
Cephalophus spadix (Abbott's Duiker)
Connochaetes gnou (Black Wildebeest)
Connochaetes taurinus (Common Wildebeest)
Damaliscus pygargus (Bontebok)
Eudorcas thomsonii (Thomson's Gazelle)
Eudorcas rufifrons (Red-Fronted Gazelle)
Gazella cuvieri (Cuvier's Gazelle)
Gazella leptoceros (Slender-Horned Gazelle)
Gazella spekei (Speke's Gazelle)
Gazella subgutturosa (Goitered Gazelle)
Hemitragus jemlahicus (Himalayan Tahr)
Hippotragus equinus (Roan Antelope)
Hippotragus niger (Sable Antelope)
Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Waterbuck)
Kobus megaceros (Nile Lechwe)
Litocranius walleri (Gerenuk)
Madoqua kirkii (Kirk’s Dikdik)
Nanger dama (Addra Gazelle)
Nanger granti (Grant's Gazelle)
Nanger soemmerringii (Soemmering's Gazelle)
Naemorhedus griseus (Central Chinese Goral)
Oreamnos americanus (Mountain Goat)
Oreotragus oreotragus (Klipspringer)
Oryx beisa (East African Oryx)
Oryx dammah (Scimitar-Horned Oryx)
Oryx gazella (Gemsbok)
Oryx leucoryx (Arabian Oryx)
Ovis canadensis (Bighorn Sheep)
Ovis dalli (Dall's Sheep)
Ovis gmelini (Mouflon)
Ovis vignei (Urial)
Philantomba monticola (Blue Duiker)
Raphicerus campestris (Steenbok)
Syncerus caffer (African Buffalo)
Taurotragus derbianus (Giant Eland)
Taurotragus oryx (Common Eland)
Tragelaphus angasii (Nyala)
Tragelaphus euryceros (Bongo)
Tragelaphus imberbis (Lesser Kudu)
Tragelaphus spekei (Sitatunga)
Tragelaphus strepsiceros (Greater Kudu)

 

Thanks for sharing! Maybe the first and last one posting here Abbott's duiker! I know Your story with it from another thread. As chances were good for seeing a wild one at Machame camp at the beginning of this year, I tried it myself to see that species too in May. But unfortunately no success in 3 days waiting for it.

 

Did you see any other interesting subspecies (or DNA thereof) during your time working at the National Zoo?

 

1. Common Impala
2. Jackson's Hartebeest
3. Black Wildebeest
4. Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest
5. Blue Wildebeest
6. Topi
7. Blesbok
8. Bontebok
9. Angolan Springbok
10. Karoo Springbok
11. Blackbuck
12. Sudan Red-fronted Gazelle
13. Thomson's Gazelle
14. Cuvier's Gazelle
15. Saharan Dorcas Gazelle
16. Rhim Gazelle
17. Sand Gazelle
18. Speke's Gazelle
19. Persian Goitered Gazelle
20. Southern Gerenuk
21. Smith's Dik-Dik
22. Cavendish's Dik-Dik
23. Mhorr Gazelle
24. Addra Gazelle
25. Southern Grant's Gazelle
26. Nubian Sömmerring's Gazelle
27. Southern Steenbok
28. Russian Saiga
29. Aoudad
30. Kordofan Aoudad
31. Mishmi Takin
32. Sichuan Takin
33. Bukharan Markhor
34. Alpine Ibex
35. Nubian Ibex
36. Southeastern Spanish Ibex
37. Siberian Ibex
38. Japanese Serow
39. Himalayan Tahr
40. Central Chinese Goral
41. Mountain Goat *
42. Barren Ground Muskox
43. Greenland Muskox
44. Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep *
45. Desert Bighorn Sheep *
46. Dall's Sheep
47. Stone's Sheep
48. Armenian Mouflon
49. Okhotsk Snow Sheep
50. Transcaspian Urial
51. Western Bay Duiker
52. Black Duiker
53. Western Red-flanked Duiker
54. Western Yellow-backed Duiker
55. Maxwell's Duiker
56. Smoky Blue Duiker
57. Southern Blue Duiker
58. Gray Common Duiker
59. Addax
60. Southern Roan Antelope
61. Zambian Sable Antelope
62. Southern Sable Antelope
63. Beisa Oryx
64. Fringe-eared Oryx
65. Scimitar-horned Oryx
66. Gemsbok
67. Arabian Oryx
68. Royal Antelope
69. Southern Suni
70. Klipspringer
71. Defassa Waterbuck
72. Common Waterbuck
73. Uganda Kob
74. Red Lechwe
75. Nile Lechwe
76. Gray Rhebok
77. Nilgai
78. Wood Bison
79. Plains Bison *
80. Lowland Wisent
81. Indian Gaur
82. Javan Banteng
83. Lowland Anoa
84. Cape Buffalo
85. Forest Buffalo
86. Lowland Nyala
87. Giant Eland
88. Mountain Bongo
89. Southern Lesser Kudu
90. Cape Eland
91. East African Eland
92. West African Bushbuck
93. Nile Sitatunga
94. Southern Greater Kudu