Larger in body than the Zambezi Sitatunga found in Zambia and Botswana, the forest Sitatunga has a darker coat with distinct white stripes and a white dorsal ridge.
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Sunday, 31 March 2024
22-3-2024 BIOPARC, VALENCIA - FOREST SITATUNGA (Tragelaphus spekii ssp. gratus)
Larger in body than the Zambezi Sitatunga found in Zambia and Botswana, the forest Sitatunga has a darker coat with distinct white stripes and a white dorsal ridge.
Sunday, 24 March 2024
14-10-2015 BIOPARC, VALENCIA - FOREST SITATUNGA (Tragelaphus spekii ssp. gratus) NIKON P900
An animal with a semi-aquatic habit, it limits many of its activities to swampy areas rich in vegetation, dense reedbeds, river, stream and lake environments, and wooded shoals.
Larger in body than the Zambezi Sitatunga found in Zambia and Botswana, the forest Sitatunga has a darker coat with distinct white stripes and a white dorsal ridge.
The species is still present in several countries in Central Africa ; it is discontinuously distributed in West Africa
The sitatunga is semi aquatic, and so specialized that it occurs only in swamps or permanent marshes. Partial to papyrus and phragmites within swamps, it may also occur in wetlands dominated by bullrushes, reeds, and sedges. They frequent the deepest parts of the swamp.