Roan Antelope

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{{Taxobox | color = pink | name = Roan Antelope | status = Conservation status: Lower risk (cd) | image = Roan_bull_zambia01.jpg | image_width = 200px | image_caption = Young Roan Antelope (Ndevu, Zambia) | regnum = Animalia | phylum = Chordata | classis = Mammalia | ordo = Artiodactyla | familia = Bovidae | subfamilia = Hippotraginae | genus = Hippotragus | species = H. equinus | binomial = Hippotragus equinus | binomial_authority = Desmarest, 1804 }}

The Roan Antelope (Hippotragus equinus) is a grassland antelope found in West, Central,East Africa and Southern Africa.

Roan Antelope stand about a metre and half at the shoulder and weigh around 250 kilograms. Roan Antelope are a roan colour with a lighter underbelly, white eyebrows and cheeks and a black face, lighter in females. there is a short erect mane and a very light beard. The horns are ringed and can reach a metre long in males, slightly shorter in females. They arch backwards slightly.

Roan Antelope are found in grasslands where they eat mid-length grass. They form harem groups of five to fifteen animals with a dominant male. Roan Antelope commonly fight among themselves for dominance of their herd, brandishing their horns while both animals are on their knees.af:Bastergemsbok de:Pferdeantilope lt:Arklinė antilopė hu:Fakó lóantilop nl:Roanantilope pl:Antylopa modra