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==Ecology==
Ugandan kobs are herbivores and feed largely on grasses and reeds. The females and young males form loose groups of varying size which range according to food availability, often moving along watercourses and grazing in valley bottoms. One group in South Sudan was recorded as travelling {{convert|150|to|200|km|mi|0|abbr=on}} during the dry season. Sometimes non-breeding males form their own groups. Females become sexually mature in their second year, but males do not start breeding until they are older.<ref name=ADW/>
Larger groups of kob tend to have a [[lek mating]] system, the females living in loose groups and only visiting the traditional breeding grounds in order to mate. For this purpose, males hold small [[Territory (animal)|territories]] of up to {{convert|200|m|ft|-1|abbr=on}} in diameter, the smallest territories being in the centre of crowded leks. Calving takes place at the end of the rainy season, in November and December, after a [[gestation]] period of about nine months.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://animaldiversity.org/site/accounts/information/Kobus_kob.html |title=cite web |author=DuVal, E. |year=2000 |work=Animal Diversity Web |publisher= |accessdate=27 June 2019}}</ref>▼
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