Hirola

Females have 1 young per litter after a gestation period of 238 days, and sexual maturity is reached at 2.6 years. The hirola is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List, an IUCN threatened category.

Weight

79.1 kg – 119 kgsrc for Weight

Length

Not recorded

Lifespan

16.6 years – 23.6 yearssrc for Lifespan

Diet

Herbivoresrc for Diet

Main food

Not recorded

Habitat

Not recorded

Gestation

238 dayssrc for Gestation

Young per litter or clutch

1src for Young per litter or clutch

Age at maturity

21.4 months – 3.5 yearssrc for Age at maturity

Litters or clutches a year

0.585src for Litters or clutches a year

Active

By day (diurnal)src for Active

Lifestyle

Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle

Conservation status

Critically Endangered (IUCN)src for Conservation status

Countries on record

Not recorded

1 more photo exists under a licence we cannot display: view at source.

Not recorded

The hirola is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List: it faces an extremely high risk of extinction in the wild.

1. LCLeast Concern
2. NTNear Threatened
3. VUVulnerable
4. ENEndangered
5. CRCritically Endangered
6. EWExtinct in the Wild
7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Critically Endangered species.

1. kingdomAnimalia
2. phylumChordata
3. classMammalia
4. orderArtiodactyla
5. familyBovidae
6. genusBeatragus
7. SpeciesBeatragus hunteri (P. L. Sclater, 1889)

Synonyms Cobus hunteri, Damalis hunteri, Damaliscus hunteri

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Water buffalo

Bubalus bubalis

Bovidae

NT, Near Threatened

African buffalo

Syncerus caffer

Bovidae

LC, Least Concern

Impala

Aepyceros melampus

Bovidae

LC, Least Concern

Muskox

Ovibos moschatus

Bovidae

LC, Least Concern

Chamois

Rupicapra rupicapra

Bovidae

EX, Extinct

Aurochs

Bos primigenius

Bovidae

CompareHirola vs Water buffaloHirola vs African buffaloHirola vs ImpalaHirola vs Muskox

• An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles · CC0 1.0 · E096-269
  Myhrvold, N.P., Baldridge, E., Chan, B., Sivam, D., Freeman, D.L. & Ernest, S.K.M. (2015) An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96: 3109. https://doi.org/10.1890/15-0846R.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3563457.v1
• Catalogue of Life eXtended Release · CC BY 4.0 · 2026-10-16 XR
  Catalogue of Life (2026). Catalogue of Life eXtended Release, version 2026-10-16 XR. Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgzlf
• Wikimedia Commons · per file (CC0 / public domain / CC BY green, CC BY-SA amber, anything else not displayed) · 2026-11-11
  Wikimedia Commons contributors. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org (each file credited to its author under its own licence).
• EltonTraits 1.0: species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals · CC0 1.0 · 1.0
  Wilman, H., Belmaker, J., Simpson, J., de la Rosa, C., Rivadeneira, M.M. & Jetz, W. (2014) EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95: 2027. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-1917.1. Data: https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.3559887.v1
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikidata contributors. Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org (data retrieved via the Wikidata Query Service).
• Wikipedia (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2026-11-11
  Wikipedia contributors. Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. https://en.wikipedia.org (text under CC BY-SA 4.0; each block names its article and revision).

@misc{hirola_2026,
  title = {Hirola (Beatragus hunteri)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/hirola},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}