Big game
Tsessebe
Damaliscus lunatus
- Group
- Big game
- Size class
- Large (70–300 kg)
- Family
- Bovidae
Range
- Africa
Habitat
- Savanna
- Grassland
Range
Countries it is found in
23 countries
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Congo - Kinshasa
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Namibia
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Sudan
- Sudan
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Range from:ASM Mammal Diversity Database — read 2026-08-05
Cross-reference
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Same genus (Damaliscus)
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Blue wildebeest
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Same subfamily (Alcelaphinae)
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