Habitat
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Grey Rhebok prefers rocky mountains, mountain slopes and plateaus with sufficient grass and a few shrubs and trees. Although normally restricted to hilly or mountainous country, they have adapted well to the rolling wheatlands in the southern extent of their range. It is independed of water.
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Habits
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Their normal group consists of a territorial ram and several ewes with their lambs. It may form herds of up to 11 animals. There are solitary males and family groups but no bachelor herds. When a young male leaves the group, he remains solitary until he is old enough to establish his own territory. A part of the family group's home range is the territorial male's territory. He advertises this with certain movements and ostentations. The Rhebok grazes with short resting periods and rests for 3 hours during the hottest part of the day. When alarmed it flees to higher areas.
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Food
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Although considered to be exclusive grazers, they do brows on occasion.
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Vocalisation
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Snorts and hisses and an alarm cough.
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Breeding
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A single young is born between December and January after a gestation period of ± 8 months. Ewes have 2 pairs of groin mammae.
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