Nigálya pónya, nyala ponga, and poonya are said to mean eater of bamboo.

About 25 species are rated by the IUCN as endangered, such as the dama gazelle and mountain nyala.

Cranial studies have shown that the mountain nyala and nyala, though sharing a common name, are actually distant relatives.

Today nyala are found in South African protected areas in the KwaZulu-Natal Game Reserves of Ndumo Game Reserve, uMkuze Game Reserve and Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, and in Kruger National Park.

Currently efforts are being made to retain the populations of nyala in Gorongosa National Park and Banhine National Park in Mozambique.

Most sightings of wild nyala are at water holes.

The main predators of nyala are lion, leopard and Cape hunting dog, while baboon and raptorial birds are the predators of juveniles.

The major threats to the population of nyala are hunting, habitat loss, agriculture and cattle grazing.

The most compelling evidence for the division of the bushbuck into the kéwel ( Tragelaphus scriptus ) and the imbabala ( Tragelaphus sylvaticus ) is that both species are more closely related to other members of the tragelaphine family ( the imbabala to the bongo and the sitatunga, and the kéwel to the nyala ) than to each other.

Mountain nyala were named for their similarity to the nyala but they are now considered closer relatives of the kudu.

Mountain nyala are endemic to the Ethiopian highlands southeast of the Rift Valley, between 6 ° N and 10 ° N.

Mountain nyala live in groups of about four to six animals sometimes ranging to thirteen and occasionally more, these groups are mainly females and calves often with one old male.

There are about 2, 500 mountain nyala in existence, which are threatened primarily by the encroachment of too many people in their habitat.

Several giant trees that occur in and around Alldays are another noteworthy feature of the area: a baobab at Bakleikraal, 21 m in circumference ; a wild fig in Alldays itself, larger than the famous Wonder Tree in Pretoria ; and a nyala tree that covers a surface of 100 m²

The only indigenous southern African mammals that are not there are-bontebok, blesbuck, spotted hyena, nyala and Roan Antelope.

Alert and wary in nature, nyala use a sharp, high dog-like bark to beware others in a group about danger.

Pregnant females, both nyala and impala, had higher KFIs than the non-pregnant ones.

Mountain nyala stand around a metre at the shoulder and weigh 150 to 300 kilograms, males being considerably larger than females.

Mountain nyala have grey-brown coats sometimes with poorly defined white stripes and splotches, their coats darken as they age, the underside is lighter than the rest of the coat.

Game Farmers in southern Africa found this out the hard way when they tried to introduce the two species in the same area ; the bushbuck being driven away by the nyala.

In some species, the males and females have differently coloured pelages ( e. g. blackbuck and nyala ).

The nyala ( Nyala angasii or Tragelaphus angasii ), also called inyala, is a South African spiral-horned antelope.

Mainly a herbivore, nyala feeds upon foliage, fruits and grasses, with adequate fresh water.

The scientific name of nyala is Nyala angasii or Tragelaphus angasii.

Life expectancy of the nyala is about 19 years.

The condition of the nyala often varies between the sexes.

During an attempt of blood sampling in nyala, it was found that Vitamin E levels varied during stress.

The nyala is the second taxon to branch off of the spiral-horned antelope family tree just after the lesser kudu.

As the nyala line has remained separate for a considerable amount of time ( over 5 million years ), it has now been placed in its own monotypic genus Nyala.

The research discovered new parasites that the nyala was host of-namely a Cooperia rotundispiculum race, Gaigeria pachyscelis, a Gongylonema species, Haemonchus vegliai, Impalaia tuberculata, an Oesophagostomum species, a Setaria species, Trichostrongylus deflexus, Trichostrongylus falculatus, the larval stage of a Taenia species, a Thysaniezia species and Schistosoma mattheei.

Also, a trypanosome was isolated from a nyala, wild-caught in Mozambique, which was diagnosed and found as akin to Trypanosoma vivax, based on biological, morphological and molecular data.

It has been observed that since 1986 in British Isles, spongiform encephalopathy has been diagnosed in many species of Bovidae-which included nyala, common eland, greater kudu, gemsbok, Arabian oryx and scimitar-horned oryx-as well as Felidae.

Fossil evidence suggests that the nyala has been a separate species since the end of the Miocene ( 5. 8 million years ago ).

The geographic distribution of the nyala may be based on the genetic variation.

According to a study of nyala in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, a great difference was marked among the gene frequencies at three microsatellite loci.

The conclusions were that the geographic variation in nyala may be due to a distribution pattern based on the habitat specificity.

According to statistics of 1999, 10-15 % of nyala occur on private land.

The nyala have never been observed showing signs of territoriality.

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