Kob Kob The kob ("Kobus kob") is an antelope found across Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. Together with the closely-related reedbucks, waterbucks, lechwe, Nile lechwe, and puku, it forms the Reduncinae tribe. Found along the northern savanna, it is often seen in Murchison Falls and Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda; Garamba and Virunga National Park, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as grassy floodplains of South Sudan. Kob are found in wet areas (such as floodplains), where they eat grasses. Kob are diurnal, but inactive during the heat of the day. They live
Kob them. About eight or 9 of every 10 females visit leks to mate, trading spacing and food for mating success. The kob tends to live in smaller herds consisting of 5 to 15 individual kob, but herds as many as 40+ have been observed. Females and bachelor males live in large herds of up to 2000 and move through the leks, which are surrounded by high-quality grass and are near waterholes and commonly travelled routes. Conflicts between territorial Ugandan kob ("K. k. thomasi") are usually settled with ritual and rarely actual fighting, whether in conventional territories or leks. A male