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Your chances of seeing Oribi in Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Trophy sighting. Oribi are one of the trophy sightings of Rietvlei Nature Reserve: hard, but never impossible. Drive early and late, and open opspoor before you head out to see where they've been spotted recently.
When to see Oribi in Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Oribi are most active during the day (06:00 to 18:00).
This is Oribi's general behavior. Once enough sightings are logged in Rietvlei Nature Reserve, this page also shows when they're actually seen here.
Where to look for Oribi in Rietvlei Nature Reserve: best roads
Drive
Acacia Route, Vleiroete Road and Main Road run through open grassland: good country for Oribi.
- Acacia Route7.4 km · open grassland
- Vleiroete Road5.7 km · open grassland
- Main Road4.6 km · open grassland
Picked from habitat, not from sightings. opspoor shows where Oribi have actually been seen recently.
About the Oribi
A small, slender grassland antelope with a raised back, long neck and legs, and a glossy yellowish to rufous-brown coat contrasting with a white chin, throat and rump. It favours tall-grass savanna, floodplains and montane grassland, often near recently burnt areas, and lives in small territorial groups. Males use large preorbital scent glands to mark their territory boundaries and give sharp alarm whistles when danger is sensed.
How to identify the Oribi
Slender build with a raised back and long neck and legs; only males have short, straight, ringed horns; white rump patch and bushy tail are conspicuous when fleeing
Other species to look for in Rietvlei Nature Reserve
Heading to Rietvlei Nature Reserve? opspoor shows where Oribi have been logged recently and lets you log your own, even with no signal.