Bluebuck
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One of four existing bluebuck skins,Vienna Museum of Natural History.The overall blue colouration is caused by the lighting. | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Artiodactyla |
Family: | Bovidae |
Subfamily: | Hippotraginae |
Genus: | Hippotragus |
Species: | †H. leucophaeus
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†Hippotragus leucophaeus (Pallas,1766)
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Historical distribution andHoloceneandPleistocenefossil sites of bluebuck (blue),sable antelope(red), androan antelope(yellow) in southern Africa | |
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Thebluebuck(Afrikaans:bloubok/ˈblaʊbɒk/) orblue antelope(Hippotragus leucophaeus) is anextinctspeciesofantelopethat lived in South Africa until around 1800. It was smaller than the other two species in its genusHippotragus,theroan antelopeandsable antelope.The bluebuck was sometimes considered asubspeciesof the roan antelope, but a genetic study has confirmed it as a distinct species.
The largest mounted bluebuck specimen is 119 centimetres (47 in) tall at thewithers.Itshornsmeasure 56.5 centimetres (22.2 in) along the curve. Thecoatwas a uniform bluish-grey, with a pale whitish belly. The forehead was brown, darker than the face. Its mane was not as developed as in the roan and sable antelopes; its ears were shorter and blunter, not tipped with black; and it had a darker tail tuft and smaller teeth. It also lacked the contrasting black and white patterns seen on the heads of its relatives. The bluebuck was agrazer,and may have calved where rainfall, and thus the availability of grasses, would peak. The bluebuck was confined to the southwesternCapewhen encountered by Europeans, but fossil evidence androck paintingsshow that it originally had a larger distribution.
During theLate Pleistocene,the bluebuck was common across South Africa, but by the time Europeans encountered the bluebuck in the 17th century, it was already uncommon, perhaps due to its preferred grassland habitat having been reduced to a 4,300-square-kilometre (1,700 sq mi) range, mainly along the southern coast of South Africa. Sea level changes during the earlyHolocenemay also have contributed to its decline by disrupting the population, and it appears that it may have adapted for a loweffective population size.The first published mention of the bluebuck is from 1681, and few descriptions of the animal were written while it existed. The few 18th-century illustrations appear to have been based on stuffed specimens. Hunted by European settlers, the bluebuck became extinct around 1800; it was the first large Africanmammalto face extinction in historical times, followed by thequaggain 1883. Only four mounted skins remain, in museums inLeiden,Stockholm,Vienna,andParis,along with horns and possible bones in various museums.
Taxonomy
[edit]According to German zoologistErna Mohr's 1967 book about the bluebuck, the 1719 account of theCape of Good Hopepublished by the travelerPeter Kolbeappears to be the first publication containing a mention of the species. Kolbe also included an illustration, which Mohr believed was based on memory and notes. In 1975, Husson and Holthuis examined the original Dutch version of Kolbe's book and concluded that the illustration did not depict a bluebuck, but rather agreater kudu(Tragelaphus strepsiceros), and that the error was due to a mistranslation into German. The first published illustration of the bluebuck is therefore instead a depiction of a horn from 1764.[4][5]It has also been pointed out that the animal had already been mentioned (as "blaue Böcke" ) on a list ofSouth African mammalsin 1681.[6]
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The Welsh naturalistThomas Pennantmade the next published illustration, and included an account of the antelope, calling it "blue goat", in his 1771Synopsis of Quadrupeds,based on a skin from the Cape of Good Hope purchased from Amsterdam. In 1778, a drawing by the Swiss-Dutch natural philosopherJean-Nicolas-Sébastien Allamandwas included inComte de Buffon'sHistoire Naturelle;he called the antelopetzeiran,the Siberian name for thegoitered gazelle(Gazella subgutturosa). The illustration is widely believed to be based on the specimen in Leiden. This drawing is the first published illustration that shows the entire animal.[4][7][8]Another record of the bluebuck appears in the travel memoirs of French explorerFrançois Levaillant,published in the 1780s, describing his quest to discover the land to the east of the Cape of Good Hope, "Hottentots Holland".The German zoologistMartin Lichtensteinwrote about the bluebuck in 1812, but the species was mentioned less frequently in subsequent literature.[3]
In 1776, the German zoologistPeter Simon Pallasformallydescribedthe bluebuck asAntilope leucophaeus.[9]In 1853, the Dutch zoologistCoenraad Jacob Temminckstated that thetype specimenwas an adult male skin now in theNaturalis Biodiversity CenterinLeiden(formerlyRijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie), collected inSwellendamand present inHaarlembefore 1776. It has been questioned whether this was actually the type specimen, but in 1969, the Dutch zoologists Antonius M. Husson andLipke Holthuisselected it as thelectotypeof asyntype series,as Pallas may have based his description on multiple specimens.[10]
In 1846, the Swedish zoologistCarl Jakob Sundevallmoved the bluebuck and its closest relatives to the genusHippotragus;he had originally named this genus for theroan antelope(H. equinus) in 1845.[11]This revision was commonly accepted by other writers, such as the British zoologistsPhilip SclaterandOldfield Thomas,who restricted the genusAntilopeto theblackbuck(A. cervicapra) in 1899.[3]In 1914, the nameHippotraguswas submitted forconservation(so older, unused genus names could be suppressed) to theInternational Commission on Zoological Nomenclature(ICZN) with the bluebuck as thetype species.However, the original 1845 naming of the genus with the roan antelope as a single species was overlooked and later suppressed by the ICZN, leading to some taxonomic confusion. In 2001, the British ecologistPeter J. Grubbproposed that the ICZN should rescind its suppression of the 1845 naming and make the roan antelope the type species ofHippotragus,since too little is known about the bluebuck for it to be a reliable type species.[11]This was accepted by the commission in 2003.[12]
The common names "bluebuck" and "blue antelope" are English for the originalAfrikaansname "blaubok"/ˈblaʊbɒk/.The name is acompoundofblauwandbok( "male antelope" or "male goat" ).[13]Variants of this name include "blaawwbok" and "blawebock".[3]Thegeneric nameHippotragusisGreekfor "horse-goat",[14]while thespecific nameleucophaeusis a fusion of two Greek words:leukos( "white" ) andphaios( "brilliant" ).[15]
Preserved specimens
[edit]Four mounted skins of the bluebuck remain: the adult male in Leiden, a young male at theZoological Museum of Stockholm,an adult female in theVienna Museum of Natural History,and an adult male in theMuseum of Natural History in Paris.A mounted skin was housed in theZoological Museum in Uppsalauntil the 19th century, but now only the horns remain. There are also records of a skin in Haarlem, but its current whereabouts are unknown. Several of these skins have been identified in various 18th-century illustrations.[6][16][17]Skeletal remains have been found in both archaeological and palaeontological contexts.[18]
In 2021, the German geneticist Elisabeth Hempel and colleagues examined ten bluebuck specimens to resolve their identities, and found that only four of them were bluebucks. The skins in Stockholm and Vienna were confirmed as belonging to bluebucks, as were skull fragments in Leiden that may belong to the lectotype specimen, and the horns in Uppsala. Four assigned skulls (those in Glasgow, Leiden, Paris and Berlin) were shown to belong to either sable or roan antelopes, as were two pairs of horns (in Cape Town and St. Andrews). As a result, the bluebuck is rarer in museum collections than previously thought, and no complete skulls are known of the species. The researchers pointed out that there are four more potential specimens that could be confirmed through testing; two skulls in Berlin, a pair of horns in London, and either a skull or pair of horns in Brussels.[17]In 2023, the pair of horns in London were confirmed by Hempel and colleagues to belong to a blue antelope usingA-DNA,but four other candidates were shown to be roan antelopes.[19]
Evolution
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Based on studies ofmorphology,the bluebuck has historically been classified as either a distinct species or as asubspeciesof the roan antelope.[18]After its extinction, some 19th-century naturalists began to doubt its validity as a species, with some believing the museum specimens to be small or immature roan antelopes, and both species were lumped together under the nameA.leucophaeusby the English zoologistGeorge Robert Grayin 1821. The Austrian zoologistFranz Friedrich Kohlpointed out the distinct features of the bluebuck in 1866, followed by Sclater and Thomas, who rejected the synonymy in 1899.[3]In 1974, the American biologistRichard G. Kleinshowed (based on fossils) that the bluebuck and roan antelope occurredsympatricallyon the coastal plain of the southwestern Cape fromOakhursttoUniondaleduring the earlyHolocene,supporting their status as separate species.[18][20]
In 1996, an analysis ofmitochondrial DNAextracted from the bluebuck specimen in Vienna by South African biologist Terence J. Robinson's and colleagues showed that it was outside thecladecontaining the roan and sable antelopes. The study therefore concluded that the bluebuck is a distinct species, and not merely a subspecies of the roan antelope as was supposed.[20]In 2017, a reconstruction of the entire bluebuckmitogenomeby Portuguese biologists Gonçalo Espregueira Themudo and Paula F. Campos, based on bone powder extracted from the horns in Uppsala, contradicted the 1996 results. This study instead placed the bluebuck as asister speciesto the sable antelope, with the roan antelope as anoutgroup.The bluebuck and sable antelope diverged from each other 2.8 million years ago, while the roan antelope diverged from both of them 4.17 million years ago. Africa was going throughclimatic oscillationsbetween 3.5 and 2 million years ago, and during a colder period, the ancestors of the sable antelope and bluebuck may have been separated, and the population in southern Africa eventually became a new species.[21]
Thecladogramsbelow shows the placement of the bluebuck according to the 1996 and 2017 DNA studies:[20]
Robinson and colleagues, 1996:[20]
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Themudo and Campos, 2017:[21]
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Based on their larger sample of specimens, Hempel and colleagues also found the bluebuck genetically closest to the sable antelope in 2021.[17]This was confirmed by a 2022 study by Hempel and colleagues, which managed to sample DNA from a fossil bluebuck specimen for the first time, at 9,800–9,300 years old the oldestpalaeogenomefrom Africa (the climate in South Africa is generally unfavourable to preserving ancient DNA).[22]
Description
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The adult male bluebuck in Leiden is 119 centimetres (47 in) tall at thewithers,and is possibly the largest known specimen.[23]According to Sclater and Thomas, the tallest specimen is the one in Paris, a male that stands 110 centimetres (45 in) at the shoulder; the specimen in Vienna, on the other hand, is the shortest, a 100-centimetre (40 in) tall female. The bluebuck was notably smaller than the roan and sable antelopes, and therefore the smallest member of its genus.[3]
Thecoatwas a uniform bluish-grey, with a pale whitish belly, which was not contrasted on the flanks. The limbs had a faint dark line along their front surface. The forehead was brown, darker than the face, and the upper lip and patch in front of the eyes were lighter than the body. The neck-mane was directed forwards and not as developed as in the roan and sable antelopes, and the throat-mane was almost absent. Other differences between the bluebuck and its extant relatives included its shorter and blunter ears not tipped with black, a darker tail tuft (though little darker than its general colour), and smaller teeth.[3][6]The bluebuck also lacked the contrasting black and white patterns seen on the heads of its relatives.[23]
As the old skins are presumably faded, it may be difficult to reconstruct the original colour of the bluebuck from them.[24]Pennant observed that the eyes had white patches below them and the underbelly was white; the coat was a "fine blue" in living specimens, while it changed to "bluish grey, with a mixture of white" in dead animals. He also suggested that the length of the bluebuck's hair and the morphology of its horns formed a link between antelopes andgoat.He went on to describe the ears as pointed and over 23 centimetres (9 in) long and the tail as 18 centimetres (7 in) long, terminating in a 6 centimetres (2.4 in) long tuft.[7]
The horns of the bluebuck were significantly shorter and thinner than those of the roan antelope, but perhaps proportionally longer.[3]The horns of the Leiden specimen measure 56.5 centimetres (22.2 in) along the curve.[23]Pennant gave the horn length as 51 centimetres (20 in). He added that the horns, sharp and curving backward, consist of twenty rings.[7]The horns of the bluebuck appear to have hollow pedicles (bony structures from which the horns emerge).[25]
Behaviour and ecology
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The bluebuck, as Klein puts it, became extinct before "qualified scientists could make observations on live specimens". According to historical accounts, the bluebuck formed groups of up to 20 individuals.[6]Similarities to the roan and the sable antelopes in terms of dental morphology make it highly probable that the bluebuck was predominantly a selectivegrazer,and fed mainly on grasses.[26][27]The row ofpremolarswas longer than in others of the genus, implying the presence ofdicotsin the diet.[28]A 2013 study by the Australian palaeontologist J. Tyler Faith and colleagues noted the scarcity of morphological evidence to show that the bluebuck could have survived the summers in the western margin of theCape Floristic Region(CFR), when the grasses are neither palatable nor nutritious. This might have induced a west-to-east migration, because the eastern margin receives rainfall throughout the year while precipitation in the western margin is limited to winter.[28]
An 18th-century account suggests that females might have left their newborn calves in isolation and returned regularly to suckle them until the calves were old enough to join herds, which is similar to the behaviour of roan and sable antelopes. Akin to other grazing antelopes, the bluebuck probably calved mainly where rainfall, and thus the availability of grasses, peaked. Such locations could be the western margin of the CFR during winter and the eastern margin of the CFR during summer. Faith and colleagues found that the occurrence of juveniles in bluebuck fossils decreases linearly from the west to the east, indicating that most births took place in the western CFR; due to the preference for rainfall, it may be further assumed that most births occurred during winter, when the western CFR receives most of its rainfall. The annual west-to-east migration would have followed in summer, consistent with the greater number of older juveniles in the east that would have joined herds. Juvenile fossils also occur in other places across the range, but appear to be concentrated in the western CFR.[28]
Distribution and habitat
[edit]Endemicto South Africa, the bluebuck was confined to the southwesternCape.A 2003 study estimated the expanse of the historic range of the bluebuck at 4,300 square kilometres (1,700 sq mi), mainly along the southern coast of South Africa;[27]fossils, however, have been discovered in a broader area that includes the southern and western CFR and even the highlands ofLesotho.[28]Historical records give a rough estimate of its range. On 20January 1774, Swedish naturalistCarl Peter Thunbergrecorded a sighting in Tigerhoek,Mpumalanga.In March or April 1783, Levalliant claimed to have witnessed two specimens in Soetemelksvlei,Western Cape.Based on these notes, a 2009 study by the South African zoologist Graham I. H. Kerley and colleagues estimated the range of the bluebuck to be limited within a triangular area in the Western Cape, bounded byCaledonto the west, Swellendam to the northeast andBredasdorpto the south.[29]Rock paintingsin theCaledon river valleyof theFree Stateprovince in eastern South Africa have been identified as bluebucks, which also confirms the once wider distribution of the species.[30]
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In 1974, Klein studied the fossils ofHippotragusspecies in South Africa. Most of these were found to represent the bluebuck and the roan antelope. The fossil record suggested that the bluebuck occurred in large numbers during thelast glacial period(nearly 0.1million years ago), and was more common than sympatric antelopes. The bluebuck could adapt to more open habitats than could the roan antelope, a notable point of difference between these species. Fossils of the bluebuck have been found in theKlaises Riverand theNelson Bay Cave(near Plettenberg Bay) andSwartklip(to the west of theHottentots Holland mountains).[18]Faith and colleagues noted that the western and southern CFR were separated bybiogeographicalbarriers, such as theCape Fold Beltandafromontaneforests.[28]
A 2011 study suggested that low sea levels facilitated migrations for large mammals;[31]therefore the rise in sea levels with the beginning of the Holocene would have led to fragmented bluebuck populations and distanced many populations from the western coast (fossils dating to this period are scarce in the western coast but have been recorded from the southern coast). Thus, a mass extinction could have taken place, leaving behind mainly the populations that remained in the resource-rich western CFR.[28]The causes of the drastic decline in bluebuck populations just before the 15th and 16th centuries have not been investigated; competition with livestock and habitat deterioration could have been major factors in its depletion.[18]
Faith and colleagues further suggested that the bluebuck, being a grazer, probably favoured grassland habitats.[28]This hypothesis is supported by fossil evidence – bluebuck fossils appear in significant numbers along with those of grassland antelopes.[32][33]Kerley and colleagues suggested that the bluebuck frequented grasslands and shunned wooded areas and thickets.[29]In a 1976 study of fossils in theSouthern Cape,Klein observed that the bluebuck's habitat preferences were similar to those of theAfrican buffalo(Syncerus caffer) and thereedbucks(Redunca).[34]
Relationship with humans
[edit]Extinction
[edit]Due to the small range of the bluebuck at the time of European settlement of the Cape region in the 17th and 18th centuries compared to the much wider area evidenced by fossil remains, it is thought the species was already in decline before this time. The bluebuck was the sole species ofHippotragusin the region until 70,000–35,000 years ago, but the roan antelope appears to have become predominant about 11,000 years ago. According to Robertson and colleagues in 1996, this might have coincided with grasslands being replaced by, for example, brush and forest, thereby reducing what is presumed to be the preferred habitat of the bluebuck, the grasslands.[20]
Faith and colleagues stated in 2013 that the results of the sea level changes in the early Holocene may also have played a role in the decline of the species, and left only the southern population to survive into historical times.[28]Hempel and colleagues found a low level of genetic diversity between the four confirmed bluebuck specimens in 2021, which confirms its population size was low by the time of European colonisation.[17]In 2022, Hempel and colleagues demonstrated that there had been ancient gene flow from the roan into the blue antelope, and that the genomic diversity was much lower in the latter. This indicates the species was already vulnerable due to low population size in at least the early Holocene due to habitat loss and range fragmentation, and the impact of colonial-era humans was probably the decisive factor that led to its extinction.[22]While there is no doubt that European colonisation was the deciding factor in the demise of the bluebuck, Hempel and colleagues determined in 2024 that for at least 400,000 years, bluebuck populations had become adapted to loweffective population size,exhibitinginbreeding avoidance.Bluebuck genomes evinced highgenetic purging,and even seemed unaffected by glacial cycles and changes in habitat size.[35]
The bluebuck was hunted to extinction by European settlers; in 1774 Thunberg noted that it was becoming increasingly rare.[5]The German biologistHinrich Lichtensteinclaimed that the last bluebuck had been shot in 1799 or 1800.[10]The bluebuck is the first historically recorded largeAfrican mammalto become extinct,[18][20][36]followed by thequagga(Equus quagga quagga), which died out in 1883.[37][38]Around the time of its extinction, the bluebuck occurred in what would be known as theOverbergregion (Western Cape), probably concentrated in Swellendam.[39]In 1990, the South African zoologist Brian D. Colohan argued that an 1853 eyewitness report of a "bastard gemsbok" seen nearBethlehem, Free State,actually referred to a bluebuck, 50 years after the last individuals in Swellendam were shot.[30]TheIUCN Red Listaccepts Lichtenstein's dates of extinction.[1]The related roan and sable antelopes have also disappeared from much of their former range.[40]
Cultural significance
[edit]The bluebuck rock paintings from the Caledon river valley have been attributed toBushmen.They show six antelopes facing a man, and were supposedly inspired byshamanictrance;they may depict a Bushman visiting thespirit-worldthrough a tunnel. The Bushmen possibly believed that the bluebuck had a supernatural potency, like other animals in their environment. The animals in the paintings are similar in proportion to the reedbuck, but the large ears, horns, and lack of a mane rule out species other than the bluebuck.[30]
A South African fable,The Story of the Hare,mentions a bluebuck (referred to asinputi) that, among other animals, is appointed to guard akraal.[41]The bluebuck is also mentioned in French novelistJules Verne'sFive Weeks in a Balloon(1863); the animal is described as a "superb animal of a pale-bluish colour shading upon the gray, but with the belly and the insides of the legs as white as the driven snow".[42]
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ignored (help) - Stuart, Chris; Stuart, Tilde (1996).Africa's Vanishing Wildlife(1st ed.). Shrewsbury, UK: Swan Hill Press.ISBN978-1-85310-817-4.
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- Interactive 3D scan of the Vienna specimen at Sketchfab
- Mohr, E.; Nager (1967)."Notes about the" Glasgow Skull "by Erna Mohr in 1967"(PDF).Translated by R. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on September 19, 2016.RetrievedJune 11,2016.
- Blue Antelope CorrespondencesArchived2020-11-26 at theWayback Machine