Bontebok = Damaliscus pygargus pygargus
Blesbok = Damaliscus pygargus phillipsi
Tsessebe = Damaliscus lunatus
Topi = Damaliscus jimela or Damaliscus korrigum jimela
GENUS IN GENERAL
Depiction in field guide-books
Stotting
https://www.inaturalist.org/journal/milewski/76632-stotting-in-damaliscus#
Adaptive colouration: caudal flag
Facial markings
https://www.inaturalist.org/posts/78685-the-overlooked-complexity-of-facial-markings-in-genus-damaliscus#
BONTEBOK adults
BONTEBOK infants, juveniles, and adolescents
BONTEBOK infantile crypsis and divulgence of pregnancy
BLESBOK adults
BLESBOK infants, juveniles, and adolescents
COMPARISON OF BLESBOK WITH BONTEBOK
Overall photo-comparison
Sexual dimorphism
Auricular flag
Bleezes and flags
Facial bleeze
Ontogenic triplexity
Tail-tassel
TSESSEBE
Adaptive colouration
Relationship to mud
Ontogenic development
COMPARISON OF TSESSEBE WITH BLESBOK
General
Dark haunch-patch/ischiopygal flag
TOPI
Adaptive colouration
Sexual dimorphism
COMPARISON OF TSESSEBE WITH TOPI
COMPARISON OF BLESBOK WITH TOPI
COMPARISON OF TOPI WITH WILDEBEEST AND HARTEBEEST
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