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| Subspecies: | Unknown |
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| CITES Status: | NOT LISTED |
| IUCN Status: | Near Threatened |
| U.S. ESA Status: | NOT LISTED |
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| Jumping Ability: | (Horizontal) |
| Life Span: | in the Wild |
| Life Span: | in Captivity |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Females) |
| Sexual Maturity: | (Males) |
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Habitat:
Inhabits bushland, thickets, semi-arid and arid thornbush (below 1,600 m), avoiding dense woodlands and very open, grass-dominated habitats. One of the most exclusive browsers, Gerenuk are largely independent of water (Leuthold 2013).
Range:
The Gerenuk (Litocranius walleri) formerly occurred widely in the semi-arid bushland of north-east Africa, from southern Djibouti to north-east Tanzania. The northern limit of the range is about 11o30'N in Djibouti (Laurent and Laurent 2002) and the southern limit around Tarangire National Park (NP) in Tanzania (Leuthold 2013). The Gerenuk still occupies large parts of its historical range. It was described as the commonest and most widespread antelope species across Somalia by Funaioli and Simonetta (1966) but little recent information is available on its current distribution there and it was expected to have been severely reduced (East 1999). The species remains widely but thinly spread in Somaliland, northern Somalia (Mallon and Jama 2013).
Conservation:
About 10% of the population occurs in protected areas (East 1999). Important protected area populations occur in Mago NP and Awash NP (Ethiopia), Sibiloi, Tsavo and Meru National Parks and Samburu Game Reserve (Kenya) and Mkomazi Game Reserve and Tarangire NP (Tanzania). It can be favoured by the spread of thickets following overgrazing by grasslands by livestock or removal of elephants by poaching.