Antelope Pack

Baryonix82

Baryonix82
  • Addax (CR)
  • Saiga (CR)
  • Hirola (CR) -- The global hirola population is estimated at 300–500 animals and there are none in captivity. According to a document produced by the International Union for Conservation of Nature "the loss of the hirola would be the first extinction of a mammalian genus on mainland Africa in modern human history"
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  • Dama gazelle (CR)
  • Jentink's duiker (EN)
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  • Tibetan antelope (NT)
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  • Giant eland (VU)
  • Blackbuck (LC)
 

biggest_dreamer

biggest_dreamer
Hey, if we get that duiker, we’d finally have something that resembles a Malayan tapir a bit more than what we currently have!



…Jokes aside, that’s a new one to me. Every time I think there’s no way I’m going to discover any more fascinating new species thanks to this forum, a Jentik’s duiker or something falls in my lap.

I’d really like to see an antelope pack as well, but I don’t think I’d skew it so heavily towards obscure species and/or ones with minimal, if any, captive presence. If I were to sketch one out, I’d go with:
  • Blackbuck
  • Nilgai
  • Common eland, giant eland, or greater kudu
  • Yellow-backed duiker
  • Bontebok
  • Addax
  • Impala
  • Roan antelope - since we obviously can’t have an exhibit antelope, I’ll argue for a clone instead.
 

NachoB

NachoB
The blackbuck is the antelope i want the most at this point, followed by the greater kudu mostly because is one of my favorite. The tibetan antelope would be a very unique addition and i really hope we get some small ungulates like a dik-dik or duiker.

I had to make a selection of 8 then...

1. Blackbuck
2. Greater Kudu
3. Impala
4. Chiru
5. Kirk's dik-dik
6. Zebra duiker
7. Addax
8. Saiga

Any of this could be replaced by another gazelle of some kind (well not any i really want the blackbuck and the kudu lol), my favorites being the dama gazelle and Sommerring's gazelle. They would be the ones that al least look the most distinct from the two gazelles already ingame.

Would love a gerenuk as well :)
 
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Cynogale bennettii II

Cynogale bennettii II
These would be my picks for eight new antelope (including a clone species instead of an exhibit animal):

1. Yellow backed duiker - the biggest of the duikers that inhabits both rainforest and savannah habitats and can be mixed with many species from both biomes
2. Blackbuck - one of the more common zoo antelopes that would add a new desert and grassland species from India
3. Common waterbuck - another of the most common zoo antelopes and fairly docile, being able to be kept in many different mixed enclosures
4. Giant eland - not commonly kept at all now, but it is the largest of the antelopes and is also a threatened species
5. Four horned antelope - absent in zoos outside its native Indian Subcontinental range, but is a unique-looking, threatened small antelope that is being bred in captivity
6. Gerenuk - another species that is rather uncommon in zoos, but is a charismatic species of antelope
7. Kirk's dik-dik - an ideal small antelope that is kept in both large and small zoos as well as being mixed with larger hoofed animals, aardvarks and meerkats)
Clone. Goitered gazelle - a cold-hardy species from Central Asia that is very similar in appearance to the Thomson's gazelle, albeit slightly darker in colour)
 

avietar

avietar
Antelopes!!!

1. Nilgai
2. Blackbuck
3. Saiga / Tibetan antelope

Some sorely needed Asian antelopes.

4. Greater kudu / giant eland
5. Dikdik / duiker

A giant and a miniature antelope.

6. Hirola
7. Addax
8. Bontebok

A colorful tsessebe species, a critically endangered desert antelope, and a critically endangered hartebeest species.

This would be perfect for an antelope pack 👌
 

Fabian

Fabian
My perfect antelope pack would probably look like this:

  • Addax
  • Blackbuck
  • Blesbok
  • Giant Eland
  • Goitered Gazelle
  • Nilgai
  • Saiga Antelope
  • Red Forest Duiker (alt. Kirk's Dik-Dik)
Which would give as a very satisfying roster of four Asian antelope species to design very interesting Asian mixed-species habitats, as well as a couple of interesting additions to Africa's antelope roster. The Addax is probably the one I would first scrap from this list when trying to reduce it to just seven antelopes, because we already have different antelopes filling its niche. The Dik-Dik would be great to have, but I'd personally prefer a Duiker for more interesting Central African forest sections. And the Eland and Blesbok are just two extremely cool animals that I'd love to have. (Not sure whether Blesbok or Bontebok, but as far as I know European zoos have stopped holding any bonteboks in favor of the blesbok. I'd take either though!)
Impala, Hirola and Klipspringer are further alternatives.

I know they're not the most popular, but I'd be over the moon with such a pack.
 
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