Your top 5 favorite Antelopes

[Austin the Sengi]

As a ZooChatter who loves ungulates as much as I love elephant shrews; naturally, it seemed that a thread like this would come around at some point. Sure, it’s been some time since I last made a similar thread. But after spreading the news about the birth of Zoo Miami’s newest giant eland. I felt very inspired to ask this simple question of what your top five species of antelope are, that is all; and to start things off, here’s my answer for reference:

1. Bongo
2. Giant Eland
3. Jackson’s Hartebeest
4. Nilgai
5. Lesser Kudu

Honorable Mention/s:*
1. Pronghorn - (not a true antelope I know)
2. Blackbuck
3. Gerenuk
4. Klipspringer
5. Addax


(*means that this will be subject to change)

 

[twilighter]

Top 5 from another Antelope lover : )

1. Zebra Duiker
2. Beira
3. Giant Eland
4. Chiru
5. Hirola

Honorable mention:

Saola is not a true Antelope, but otherwise would top the list.

 

[bongorob]

Bongo
Nile Lechwe
Black Wildebeest
Blesbok
Yellow-backed Duiker

 

[SwampDonkey]

Fun question, I think mine would be:

1. Saiga
2. Topi
3. Blesbok
4. Arabian Oryx
5. Blackbuck

Honorable mention:
1. Likewise on the pronghorn
2. East African oryx
3. Royal antelope
4. Blue duiker
5. Sitatunga
6. Red lechwe

 

[Fallax]

This is a great question, and quite tough as I love antelopes. I think I'll go with the following:

1. Blackbuck
2. Dama Gazelle
3. Black Wildebeest
   
4. Roan Antelope
5. Saiga

 

[Prochilodus246]

This was a difficult decision with me being a lover of ungulates but I managed to narrow it down to these:

1) Hirola
2) Giant sable antelope
3) Giant eland
4) Saiga
5) Arabian oryx

 

[Tigeanderson]

1) Greater Kudu
2) Impala
3) Saiga
4) Waterbuck
5) Four Horned antelope

honorable mentions:
1) Likewise as well on the pronghorn
2) Blackbuck
3) Nilgai
4) Mongolian Gazelle
5) Chiru aka Tibetan antelope
6) Wildebeest
7) Red Flanked Duiker
8) Royal antelope

 

[Haliaeetus]

1) Greater Kudu
2) Sable Antelope
3) Blackbuck
4) Arabian Oryx
5) Dorcas Gazelle

 

[Lafone]

1. Sitatunga
2. Bongo
3. Waterbuck (any)
4. Dik Dik
5. Roan

 

[Platypusboy]

1. Giant eland
2. Klipspringer
3. Thomson's gazelle
4. Saiga
5. Bongo

 

[SwampDonkey]

This is a great question, and quite tough as I love antelopes. I think I'll go with the following:

1. Blackbuck
2. Dama Gazelle
3. Black Wildebeest
   
4. Roan Antelope
5. Saiga

Dama, great choice. I may have to swap one of my 5 for them, they are great animals.

 

[Enzo]

Hello.
1. Oryx gazella
2. Oryx leucoryx
3. Hippotragus niger
4. Kobus kob (leucotis)
5. Damaliscus pygargus

Honorable mentions:
- Alcelaphus buselaphus
- Beatragus hunteri
- Boselaphus tragocamelus
- Connochaetes gnou
- Kobus megaceros
- Oryx beisa (callotis)
- Tragelaphus eurycerus
- Tragelaphus spekii
- Tragelaphus strepsiceros

 

[Stefan Verhoeven]

List of 5 favorite species seen till date:
1. Phillips dik-dik
2. Beira
3. Speke's
4. Gerenuk
5. Nilgai

List of 5 species that I would love to see once:
1. Dibatag
2. Saiga
3. Saola
4. Chiru
5. Zebra duiker

 

[TinoPup]

I was going to attempt this but even with restricting it to only species I've seen, I couldn't tell you my five favorite Antilopinae I really love nilgai, though, and still get as excited to see them as if they were rare.

 

[biggest_dreamer]

I think it goes something like this:

• Bongo
• Bontebok
• Addax
• Sitatunga
• Greater kudu

Incredibly basic, but these are by far the species that are most consistently captivating when I see them (and I did limit myself to species I've actually seen).

 

[Nile Hippo Expert]

1. Bongo
2. Giant Eland
3. and 4. Greater and Lesser Kudu
5. Addax

 

[Tim May]

Even restricting my list to only species I've seen, I still found it extremely difficult to choose only five antelope species but eventually selected the following:-

• zebra duiker
• Jentink's duiker
• saiga
• royal antelope
• white-tailed gnu (black wildebeest)

The following species all came extremely close to making my top five:-

• gerenuk
• giant eland
• Cape hartebeest
• Nile lechwe
• bushbuck
• four-horned antelope

 

[cloudedleopard611]

1. Gemsbok
2. Klipspringer
3. Impala
4. Gerenuk
5. Thompson's gazelle
Blackbuck almost made the cut.

 

[15399]

In no particular order:
Speke's Gazelle
Soemmerring's Gazelle
Roan Antelope
Kirk's Dik-Dik
Klipspringer
Red-Flanked Duiker

I know, I cheated and included six.

I'd be curious to hear what Zoo Chat's resident ungulate expert, @Kudu21 has as an answer to this question.

 

[E Maximus]

This was much harder than I thought it would be to put together, but if I had to chose I'd say it would go as the following.
1. Gemsbok
2. Bongo
3. Sitatunga
4. Nilgai
5. Giant Eland

Honorable mentions:
1. Greater Kudu
2. Addax
3. Blackbuck
4. Nyala
5. Saiga