Grey rhebok

Southern Grey Rhebok
A male at the Bontebok National Park, Western Cape, South Africa,

Near Threatened  (IUCN 3.1)
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Artiodactyla
Family: Bovidae
Subfamily: Reduncinae
Genus: Pelea
Gray, 1851
Species:
P. capreolus
Binomial name
Pelea capreolus
(Forster, 1790)

The grey rhebok or gray rhebuck (Pelea capreolus), locally known as the vaalribbok in Afrikaans, is a species of antelope native to South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini (Swaziland). The specific name capreolus is Latin for 'little goat'.

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