Mammals by population |
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This is a list of even-toed ungulate species by estimated global population. This list is not comprehensive, as not all ungulates have had their numbers quantified.
Common name | Binomial name | Population | Status | Trend | Notes | Image |
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Saola | Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | <750 | CR [1] | [1] | Maximum estimate. No individuals in captivity. Wild population highly dispersed, and subpopulations fragmented with numbers of mature individuals below the minimum viable population. Foremost threatened by hunting. [1] | |
Pygmy hog | Porcula salvania | 250 [2] | EN [2] | [2] | Maximum estimate for mature individuals. [2] | |
Bawean deer | Axis kuhlii | 200–500 [3] | CR [3] | [3] | Estimates are for the wild population only; may reach as high as 500. [3] | |
Addax | Addax nasomaculatus | 30–90 [4] | CR [4] | [4] | Maximum estimate for the wild. [4] | |
Tamaraw | Bubalus mindorensis | 300 [5] | CR [5] | [5] | ||
Togian babirusa | Babyrousa togeanensis | 500 [6] | EN [6] | [6] | Maximum estimate. [6] | |
Walia ibex | Capra walie | 500 [7] | VU [7] | [7] | ||
Dama gazelle | Nanger dama | 500 [8] | CR [8] | [8] | Maximum estimate. [8] | |
Hirola | Beatragus hunteri | 500–2000 [9] | CR [9] | [9] | May be much lower. [9] | |
Anhui musk deer | Moschus anhuiensis | 700–800 [10] | EN [10] | [10] | Most recent estimate was in 1998. [10] | |
Przewalski's gazelle | Procapra przewalskii | 700–800 [11] | EN [11] | [11] | Could be underestimated. [11] | |
Persian fallow deer | Dama mesopotamica | 715 [12] | EN [12] | [12] | Previously thought to be extinct. [12] | |
Wild Bactrian camel | Camelus ferus | 950 [13] | CR [13] | [13] | The latest estimate for the population of the Wild Camel was conducted in 2008. [13] | |
South Andean deer | Hippocamelus bisulcus | 1048–1500 [14] | EN [14] | [14] | ||
Calamian deer | Axis calamianensis | 1123 [15] | EN [15] | [15] | 1994 estimate; has almost certainly decreased. [15] | |
Abbott's duiker | Cephalophus spadix | 1500 [16] | EN [16] | [16] | Maximum estimate. [16] | |
Cuvier's gazelle | Gazella cuvieri | 1750–2950 [17] | VU [17] | unknown [17] | ||
Nilgiri tahr | Nilgiritragus hylocrius | 1800–2000 [18] | EN [18] | [18] | Last estimate for the Nilgiri Tahr was conducted in 2008. [18] | |
Pygmy hippopotamus | Choeropsis liberiensis | 2000–3000 [19] | EN [19] | [19] | Estimate is from 1993; numbers have probably shrunk. [19] | |
Mountain anoa | Bubalus quarlesi | 2500 [20] | EN [20] | [20] | Maximum estimate. [20] | |
Rhim gazelle | Gazella leptoceros | 2500 [21] | EN [21] | [21] | Estimate is for mature individuals only. [21] | |
Visayan spotted deer | Rusa alfredi | 2500 [22] | EN [22] | [22] | Maximum estimate. [22] | |
Mountain nyala | Tragelaphus buxtoni | 2500–4000 [23] | EN [23] | [23] | 2500 is a maximum estimate from 1999, but recent work has shown numbers may be as high as 4000. [23] | |
European bison | Bison bonasus | 3200 [24] | NT [24] | [24] | Includes 1400 semi-domestic animals and 1800 wild. Semi-domestic numbers are likely underestimated. [24] | |
Chacoan peccary | Catagonus wagneri | 3200 [25] | EN [25] | [25] | Estimate was made in 2002; wide-scale deforestation of their habitat began in 2003. [25] | |
Wild water buffalo | Bubalus arnee | 3400 [26] | EN | |||
Jentink's duiker | Cephalophus jentinki | 3500 [27] | EN [27] | [27] | Maximum estimate; may be less than 2000. [27] | |
Barasingha | Rucervus duvaucelii | 3500–5100 [28] | VU [28] | [28] | ||
Nile lechwe | Kobus megaceros | 4291 [29] | EN [29] | [29] | ||
Small red brocket | Mazama bororo | 4500 [30] | VU [30] | [30] | Maximum estimate. [30] | |
Arabian tahr | Arabitragus jayakari | 5000 [31] | EN [31] | [31] | Maximum estimate. [31] | |
West Caucasian tur | Capra caucasica | 4000–5000 [32] | EN [32] | [32] | ||
Barbary sheep | Ammotragus lervia | 5000–10000 [33] | VU [33] | [33] | ||
Beira | Dorcatragus megalotis | 7000 [34] | VU [34] | [34] | ||
Arabian oryx | Oryx leucoryx | 7000–8000 [35] | VU [35] | [35] | 6000–7000 in captivity and c. 1000 in the wild. [35] | |
Hairy-fronted muntjac | Muntiacus crinifrons | 7000–8500 [36] | VU [36] | [36] | Most recent estimate was in 1998. [36] | |
Banteng | Bos javanicus | 8000 [37] | EN [37] | [37] | Maximum estimate; may be fewer than 5000. Numbers do not include the non-purebred domestic variety. [37] | |
Markhor | Capra falconeri | 9700 [38] | NT [38] | [38] | Estimate includes approximately 900 animals assumed to live in areas for which data is unavailable. [38] | |
Nubian ibex | Capra nubiana | 5000 [39] | VU [39] | [39] | Estimate for mature individuals only due to some areas lacking population estimates. [39] | |
Southern pudú | Pudu puda | 10000 [40] | NT [40] | [40] | Maximum estimate. [40] | |
Red goral | Naemorhedus baileyi | 10000 [41] | VU [41] | [41] | Maximum estimate for mature individuals. [41] | |
Four-horned antelope | Tetracerus quadricornis | 10000 [42] | VU [42] | [42] | ||
Javan rusa | Rusa timorensis | 10000 [43] | VU [43] | [43] | Maximum estimate for mature individuals. [22] | |
Taruca | Hippocamelus antisensis | 12000–17000 [44] | VU [44] | [44] | ||
Gaur | Bos gaurus | 13000–30000 [45] | VU [45] | [45] | ||
Soemmerring's gazelle | Nanger soemmerringii | 14000 [46] | VU [46] | [46] | ||
Mountain gazelle | Gazella gazella | 15000 [47] | EN [47] | [47] | Maximum estimate. [47] | |
Wild yak | Bos mutus | 15000 [48] | VU [48] | [48] | Estimate is from 1995. [48] | |
Giant eland | Tragelaphus derbianus | 15000–20000 [49] | VU [49] | [49] | ||
Black wildebeest | Connochaetes gnou | 18000 [50] | LC [50] | [50] | Minimum estimate (11000 wild and 7000 semi-domesticated). [50] | |
Grey rhebok | Pelea capreolus | 18000 [51] | NT [51] | [51] | ||
Harvey's duiker | Cephalophus harveyi | 20000 [52] | LC [52] | [52] | Numbers may be overestimated. [52] | |
Pampas deer | Ozotoceros bezoarticus | 20000–80000 [53] | NT [53] | [53] | ||
Red-fronted gazelle | Eudorcas rufifrons | 25000 [54] | VU [54] | [54] | ||
Zebra duiker | Cephalophus zebra | 28000 [55] | VU [55] | [55] | Could be overestimated; may be less than 15000. [55] | |
Bongo | Tragelaphus eurycerus | 28000 [56] | NT [56] | [56] | Two subspecies: Mountain (75–140) and Lowland (28000). [56] | |
Alpine ibex | Capra ibex | 30000 [57] | LC [57] | [57] | Was as low as 100 individuals in the 1800s. [57] | |
Silver dik-dik | Madoqua piacentinii | 30000 [58] | DD [58] | [58] | Possibly overestimated. [58] | |
Nyala | Tragelaphus angasii | 32000 [59] | LC [59] | [59] | ||
Ogilby's duiker | Cephalophus ogilbyi | 35000 [60] | LC [60] | [60] | ||
Okapi | Okapia johnstoni | 35000–50000 [61] | EN [61] | [61] | ||
Mountain reedbuck | Redunca fulvorufula | 36000 [62] | EN [62] | [62] | Minimum estimate, divided into three subspecies: Southern (33000), Chanler's (2900), and Western (450). [62] | |
Red forest duiker | Cephalophus natalensis | 42000 [63] | LC [63] | [63] | Numbers may be underestimated. [63] | |
Klipspringer | Oreotragus oreotragus | 42000 [64] | LC [64] | [64] | Estimate is considered conservative. [64] | |
Blackbuck | Antilope cervicapra | 50000 [65] | NT [65] | [65] | Numbers have increased from 20000–24000 in the 1970s. [65] | |
Spanish ibex | Capra pyrenaica | 50000 [66] | LC [66] | [66] | Numbered only c. 7900 in the early 1990s. [66] | |
Royal antelope | Neotragus pygmaeus | 62000 [67] | LC [67] | [67] | Possibly underestimated. [67] | |
East African oryx | Oryx beisa | 67000 [68] | EN [68] | [68] | Divided into two subspecies: Beisa (50000) and Fringe-eared (17000). [68] | |
Bighorn sheep | Ovis canadensis | 70000 [69] | LC [69] | [69] | Estimate was made in 2010. [69] | |
Southern reedbuck | Redunca arundinum | 73000 [70] | LC [70] | [70] | ||
Sable antelope | Hippotragus niger | 75000 [71] | LC [71] | [71] | ||
Roan antelope | Hippotragus equinus | 76000 [72] | LC [72] | [72] | ||
Mountain goat | Oreamnos americanus | 80000–119000 [73] | LC [73] | [73] | ||
Gerenuk | Litocranius walleri | 95000 [74] | NT [74] | [74] | ||
Sharpe's grysbok | Raphicerus sharpei | 95000 [75] | LC [75] | [75] | Difficult to study due to the animal's nocturnal nature; numbers may be underestimated. [75] | |
Japanese serow | Capricornis crispus | 100000 [76] | LC [76] | [76] | ||
Black duiker | Cephalophus niger | 100000 [77] | LC [77] | [77] | ||
Bohor reedbuck | Redunca redunca | 101000 [78] | LC [78] | [78] | Probably underestimated. [78] | |
Wild goat | Capra aegagrus | 110000 [79] | NT [79] | [79] | Minimum estimate, due to lacking population data in some areas. [79] | |
Dall sheep | Ovis dalli | 111500–116500 [80] | LC [80] | [80] | Consists of approximately 41500 sheep in Canada and between 70000 and 75000 animals in the United States. [80] | |
Hippopotamus | Hippopotamus amphibius | 115000–130000 [81] | VU [81] | [81] | ||
Lesser kudu | Tragelaphus imberbis | 118000 [82] | NT [82] | [82] | Minimum estimate. [82] | |
Goitered gazelle | Gazella subgutturosa | 120000–140000 [83] | VU [83] | [83] | ||
Puku | Kobus vardonii | 130000 [84] | NT [84] | [84] | ||
Muskox | Ovibos moschatus | 135000 [85] | LC [85] | [85] | Estimate includes 75400 animals in the Northwest Territories, 45300 in Nunavut, 3714 in Alaska, and between 9500 and 12500 in Greenland. [85] | |
Common eland | Tragelaphus oryx | 136000 [86] | LC [86] | [86] | ||
Yellow-backed duiker | Cephalophus silvicultor | 160000 [87] | NT [87] | [87] | ||
Saiga antelope | Saiga tatarica | 165000 [88] | NT [88] | [88] | Numbers stood at 1250000 in the mid-1970s. [88] | |
Red-flanked duiker | Cephalophus rufilatus | 170000 [89] | LC [89] | [89] | ||
Sitatunga | Tragelaphus spekii | 170000 [90] | LC [90] | [90] | Yet-to-be-published research suggests the population has been overestimated. [90] | |
Siberian ibex | Capra sibirica | 170000–250000 [91] | NT [91] | [91] | ||
Weyns's duiker | Cephalophus weynsi | 188000 [92] | LC [92] | [92] | ||
Waterbuck | Kobus ellipsiprymnus | 200000 [93] | LC [93] | [93] | About 95000 of the Defassa subspecies and 105000 of the Common. [93] | |
Lechwe | Kobus leche | 212000 [94] | NT [94] | [94] | Combined numbers of three subspecies: Red (98000), Kafue (78000), and Black (36000). [94] | |
Bates's pygmy antelope | Neotragus batesi | 219000 [95] | LC [95] | [95] | ||
Water chevrotain | Hyemoschus aquaticus | 278000 [96] | LC [96] | [96] | ||
White-bellied duiker | Cephalophus leucogaster | 287000 [97] | NT [97] | [97] | ||
Black-fronted duiker | Cephalophus nigrifrons | 300000 [98] | LC [98] | [98] | ||
Vicuña | Vicugna vicugna | 350000 [99] | LC [99] | [99] | ||
Grant's gazelle | Nanger granti | 350000 [100] | LC [100] | [100] | ||
Hartebeest | Alcelaphus buselaphus | 362000 [101] | LC [101] | [101] | ||
Suni | Nesotragus moschatus | 365000 [102] | LC [102] | [102] | ||
Gemsbok | Oryx gazella | 373000 [103] | LC [103] | [103] | ||
Peters's duiker | Cephalophus callipygus | 382000 [104] | LC [104] | [104] | ||
Greater kudu | Tragelaphus strepsiceros | 482000 [105] | LC [105] | [105] | ||
Salt's dik-dik | Madoqua saltiana | 485600 [106] | LC [106] | [106] | ||
Günther's dik-dik | Madoqua guentheri | 511000 [107] | LC [107] | [107] | ||
American bison | Bison bison | 530000 [108] | NT [108] | [108] | Includes 500000 semi-domestic animals and 30000 wild (19000 plains bison and 11000 wood bison). [108] | |
Thomson's gazelle | Eudorcas thomsonii | 550000 [109] | LC [109] | [109] | ||
Steenbok | Raphicerus campestris | 600000 [110] | LC [40] | [110] | Considered an underestimate. [110] | |
Pronghorn | Antilocapra americana | 700000 [111] | LC [111] | [111] | Numbered over 35000000 in the early 1800s and as little as 20000 in the early 1920s. [111] | |
Bay duiker | Cephalophus dorsalis | 725000 [112] | NT [112] | [112] | ||
Oribi | Ourebia ourebi | 750000 [113] | LC [113] | [113] | ||
African buffalo | Syncerus caffer | 890000 [114] | NT [114] | [114] | Considered conservative. Divided into four subspecies: West African Savanna (27000), Central African Savanna (133000), Southern Savanna (670000), and Forest (60000). [114] | |
Kirk's dik-dik | Madoqua kirkii | 971000 [115] | LC [115] | [115] | ||
Siberian roe deer | Capreolus pygargus | 1000000 [116] | LC [116] | [116] | About 500000 were hunted annually in Russia in the 1800s. [116] | |
Bushbuck | Tragelaphus scriptus | 1340000 [117] | LC [117] | [117] | Estimate is considered conservative. [117] | |
Guanaco | Lama guanicoe | 1000000 [118] | LC [118] | [118] | ||
Moose | Alces alces | 1500000 [119] | LC [119] | [119] | ||
Blue wildebeest | Connochaetes taurinus | 1550000 [120] | LC [120] | [120] | ||
Common duiker | Sylvicapra grimmia | 1660000 [121] | LC [121] | [121] | Considered extremely conservative; yet-to-be-published research shows it may number as high as 10000000. [121] | |
Impala | Aepyceros melampus | 2000000 [122] | LC [122] | [122] | ||
Springbok | Antidorcas marsupialis | 2000000–2500000 [123] | LC [123] | [123] | ||
Maxwell's duiker | Philantomba maxwellii | 2137000 [124] | LC [124] | [124] | Quite possibly underestimated. [124] | |
Mongolian gazelle | Procapra gutturosa | 2140000 [125] | LC [125] | Unknown [125] | Estimate has dropped from 2700000 since 1998. [125] | |
Blue duiker | Philantomba monticola | 7000000 [126] | LC [126] | [126] | Estimate is considered conservative. [126] | |
White-tailed deer | Odocoileus virginianus | 11500000 [127] | LC [127] | [127] | Estimated population in the United States and Canada only, with estimate of 11000000 in the US considered a minimum. [127] | |
Water buffalo | Bubalus bubalis | 172000000 [128] | Domesticated | incl. 3200000 Carabao in the Philippines | ||
Domestic goat | Capra hircus | 850000000 [129] | Domesticated | |||
Cattle | Bos taurus | 1500000000 [130] | Domesticated | |||
Domestic pig | Sus domesticus | 1000000000 [131] | Domesticated | |||
Domestic sheep | Ovis aries | 1000000000 [131] | Domesticated | |||
The black duiker, also known as tuba in Dyula, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, and Nigeria.
Jentink's duiker, also known as gidi-gidi in Krio and kaikulowulei in Mende, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Liberia, southwestern Côte d'Ivoire, and scattered enclaves in Sierra Leone. It is named in honor of Fredericus Anna Jentink.
The white-bellied duiker is a duiker found in central Africa. Little is known on the ecology of the species, and only some information on habitat and diet is available.
The Harvey's red duiker is one of 19 species of duiker found in Tanzania and scattered through Kenya, southern Somalia and possibly central Ethiopia.
The black-fronted duiker is a small antelope found in central and west-central Africa.
Ogilby's duiker is a small antelope found in Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ghana, southeastern Nigeria, Bioko Island and possibly Gabon. No subspecies are recognized. It is named after Irish zoologist William Ogilby.
Peters' duiker is a small antelope found in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, southern Cameroon, and northern Republic of the Congo.
The Ruwenzori duiker or Ruwenzori red duiker is a stocky but small antelope found only in the Ruwenzori Mountains between Uganda and, probably, the Democratic Republic of Congo. They may be a subspecies of the black-fronted duiker or the red-flanked duiker.
Weyns's duiker is a tiny antelope found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Central African Republic and western Kenya. It is sometimes spelled "Weyn's", "Weyns", or "Weyns'" duiker.
The coastal topi is a highly social antelope of the genus Damaliscus. It is a subspecies of the topi.
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