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Alcelaphinae and Boselaphus excluded?

I’m pretty sure Alcelaphinae (wildebeests, hartebeests, etc.) and Boselaphus (nilgai) are generally considered antelopes. Birdsage3 (talk) 03:13, 24 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Created really 102.113.197.130 (talk) 12:14, 4 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

"Antelope" term in 'track and field'?

Under Culture:

Humans have also used the term "Antelope" to refer to a tradition usually found in the sport of track and field.

What does that mean? What tradition? Why 'humans'? Do non-humans use terms? Epikoros (talk) 02:55, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Locomotor adaptations in antelopes.

Many wild antelopes are characterized by high running and jumping abilities. Their main defence againts predators is to try to escape.

Species such as black wildebeest, springbok, blesbok, mountain reedbuck, greater kudu as well European fallow deer, have a high concentrations of glycolitic fast twitch type IIx muscle fibers. Smaller species naturally have a higher concentrations of type IIx fibers than larger species. Although their concentration of type IIx fibers is still lower than that of the wild cheetahs.

Wild cheetahs vastus lateralis muscle have a concentration of 76 % of type IIx fibers, compared to 58 % of springboks, 57 % of mountain reedbucks, 55 % of blesboks, 48 % of fallow deers, 43 % of kudus and 30 % of black wildebeest.

The activity of the enzyme LDH (Lactate Dehydrogenase), an indicator of a principally anaerobic muscle metabolism (Without oxygen), is around 4 times higher than that of humans, a level of activity comparable to that of the lion but lower than that of the caracal and especially that of the wild cheetah.

LDH activity is 6 times higher than that of humans in wild caracals and 9 times higher in wild cheetahs.

Aerobic enzyme activity is higher than that of felids in general and is comparable to that of human endurance runners. This indicates muscles capable of both high speed and high endurance.

In the impala muscles of the hindlimbs make up 17.5 % of their body mass while muscles of the forelimbs 11.3 %.

Furthermore, antelopes tend to have long limb bones for their body masses.

https://doi.org/10.1242/bio.20149241

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.061572

https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.073684

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13826213_Skeletal_muscle_histology_and_biochemistry_of_an_elite_sprinter_the_African_cheetah

https://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/19598/Kohn_Fiber(2011).pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

https://www.nature.com/articles/nature25479/tables/1

https://archive.org/details/mammalsaspredato0000unse/page/5/mode/2up

LeandroPucha (talk) 05:14, 3 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]