Antelope

:This article deals with the African herbivorous mammal. For other uses, see Antelope (disambiguation)

Hybrid Antelope

A wide variety of Antelope hybrids have been recorded in zoos. This is due to a lack of more appropriate mates in enclosures shared with other species or with misidentification of species. The ease of hybridization shows how closely related some antelope species are. It is probably that some so-called species are actually variant populations of the same species and are prevented from hybridization in the wild by behavioural or geographical differences.

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• A mating between a male Eland and a female Kudu produced a sterile male hybrid that resembled the Eland.
• Blue Wildebeest produce fertile hybrids with the smaller Black Wildebeest. This led to an entire herd of 180 "genetically contaminated" Black Wildebeest being destroyed in a wildlife conservation park (species purity is a human concept, nature is far more flexible).
• In the early 1900s the London Zoological Society hybridized several antelope species including: the water-bucks Kobus ellipsiprymnus and Kobus unctuosus, and the Selouss antelope Limnotragus seloussi with Limnotragus gratus.

Listed antelope hybrids include:

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• Bongo/Sitatunga
• Lesser Kudu/Sitatunga
• Eland/Greater Kudu
• Blue Duiker/Maxwell's Duiker
• Bay Duiker/Red-flanked Duiker
• Bay Duiker/ Zebra Duiker
• Black Duiker/Kaffir Duiker
• Cape Hartebeest/Blesbok
• Bontebok/Blesbok* Black Wildebeest/Blue Wildebeest
• Common Waterbuck/Defassa Waterbuck
• Defassa Waterbuck/Nile Lechwe
• Defassa Waterbuck/Kob * Nile Lechwe/Kob
• Kafue Lechwe/Ellipsen Waterbuck
• Red-fronted Gazelle/Thomson's Gazelle
• Beisa Oryx/Fringe-eared Oryx
• Grant's Gazelle/Thomson's Gazelle
• Beisa Oryx/Gemsbok
• Arabian Oryx/Scimitar-horned Oryx
• Thomson's Gazelle/Roosevelt's Gazelle
• Slender-horned Gazelle/Persian Goitered Gazelle
• Persian Gazelle/Blackbuck
• Cuvier's Gazelle/Slender-horned Gazelle