Відповіді для Hагорода AM Антилопы

Антилопы

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Рік

2001

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08.01.2026

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Генеральної Конференції

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Дайте общие характеристики антилоп.

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Назовите три группы этих животных, и приведите по два примера для каждой.

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Умейте определять не менее 15 разных антилоп.

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Чем они питаются? Как они переваривают еду?

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Какую пользу приносят антилопы стране, в которой обитают. Назовите три пунтка.

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Что такое "ложные копыта"? У каких членов этого семейства они отсутствуют?

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Какие антилопы классифицированы как редкие южно-африканские животные на данный момент? Где их можно увидеть, кроме зоопарка и музея?

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Какие естественные враги у антилоп? Как антилопы защищают себя и своих детенышей?

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Ответьте на следующие вопросы:

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Какая антилопа самая большая?

9b

Какая антилопа самая быстрая?

9c

Какая антилопа является хорошим бойцом?

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Какая антилопа является хорошим прыгуном?

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Какая антилопа в основном ведет ночной образ жизни?

The duiker, dik-dik, and the bushbuck are chiefly nocturnal.

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Какая антилопа названа "африканской серной"?

The Klipspringer is sometimes called the "African Chamois."

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Какая антилопа является национальным животным Южной Африки?

The national animal of the Union of South Africa is the Springbok.

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Расскажите, за какой антилопой Вам больше всего нравится наблюдать. Назовите пять ее особенностей поведения.

Here are the characteristics of several antelope. Your Pathfinders may already have a favorite (or choose some other) antelope not listed here, and that is fine. Encourage research.

• Dik-dik

1. These antelopes are monogamous, meaning they mate for life.
2. Female dik-diks are somewhat larger than males.
3. The males have horns, which are small, and slanted backwards.
4. They are named for the sound they make when alarmed.
5. They are small.

• Bongo

1. Bongos have a striking reddish coat
2. They have black and white markings
3. They have long slightly spiral horns.
4. They are large
5. Some say it is the most beautiful antelope.

• Thomson's Gazelle

1. "Tommies" are known as swift animals.
2. They are able to run at high speeds for long periods of time.
3. They exhibit a distinctive behavior of stotting (running slowly and jumping high before fleeing) when they are threatened by predators such as lions or cheetahs.
4. They live and migrate in herds with hundreds or thousands of other Thomson's gazelles.
5. Occasionally, a Thomson's gazelle and a zebra will even appear to enjoy one another's company with great sociability.

• Impala

1. They are reddish-brown in color with lighter flanks, and have white underbellies.
2. Males have lyre-shaped horns which can reach up to 90 centimetres (3 ft) in length.
3. Impala are among the most beautiful and graceful of the antelopes.
4. Exceedingly agile, they are capable of leaping more than 12 m in a single bound.
5. Young male impala form bachelor herds of around thirty individuals.
6. Females and young form herds of up to two hundred individuals.
7. Mature males hold territories, and lead any female herds that wander into their territory.

• Klipspringer

1. Their name means rock hopper.
2. They reach approximately 58cm (22 inches) at the shoulder.
3. Klipspringers are relatively small animals compared to some of their larger antelope cousins.
4. They never need to drink, since the plants they eat provide them with enough water to survive.
5. Only the males have fragile horns that are usually about 20-25cm (4-6 inches) long.
6. They stand on the tips of their hooves.

• Roan Antelope

1. Roan Antelope stand about a meter and half at the shoulder and weigh around 250 kilograms.
2. Roan Antelope are a roan color with a lighter underbelly, white eyebrows and cheeks and a black face, lighter in females.
3. There is a short erect mane, a very light beard and prominent red nostrils.
4. The horns are ringed and can reach a meter long in males, slightly shorter in females.
5. The horns arch backwards slightly.
6. Roan Antelope are found in grasslands where they eat mid-length grass.
7. Roan Antelope commonly fight among themselves for dominance of their herd, brandishing their horns while both animals are on their knees.

• Springbok

1. Sprinboks have a pocket-like skin flap which extends along the middle of the back on to the tail. The springbok can lift this flap, which makes the white hairs underneath stand up in a conspicuous 'fan'.
2. Like the Thomson's gazelle, springboks stotter when threatened.
3. They used to be very common, but numbers have recently diminished due to an increase in hunting and more land being fenced off as farm land.
4. They are a small brown and white gazelle that stand about 80 cm (32 in) high.
5. Springboks inhabit the dry inland areas of south and southwestern Africa.

• Wildebeest

1. Wildebeests are also known as gnus.
2. They grow to 1.15–1.4 meters (45–55 inches) at the shoulder.
3. They weigh between 150 and 250 kilograms. (330 and 550 pounds)
4. They inhabit the plains and open woodlands of Africa, especially the Serengeti.
5. Wildebeest can live for more than 20 years.
6. They migrate in May, when around 1.5 million animals move from the plains to the woods
7. They return in November as summer rains water the plains.

References

• Wikipedia articles on Antelope, Dik-dik, Sable antelope, Eland, and others.
• http://www.sanparks.org/about/media/2004/rareantelopeconf.php