Lechwe remained a primary school until 1992 when the first form one (8th grade) class was started.

Lechwe are found in marshy areas where they eat aquatic plants.

This being the case, Lechwe in general rarely venture further than say 2 to 3 kilometres from a permanent water source.

Nile lechwe are crepuscular, active in the early morning and late afternoon.

Traditionally, four subspecies of the lechwe have been recognized.

The rarer red lechwe, sitatunga or crocodile also occur in the area.

Nile lechwe can visually signal and vocalize to communicate with each other.

The southern floodplains are famous for large herds of the near-endemic black lechwe.

The environmental stress is caused by human settlement and hunting (especially of the black lechwe), fishing, and cattle-grazing.

There exists a single report of Shoebills feeding on Lechwe calves, although this would need confirmation.

The estuaries of the last three are the main dry season grazing grounds of the Black Lechwe.

We rode on, encountering kudu, a magnificent male waterbuck and the ubiquitous red lechwe.

Nile lechwe are a herbivores, feeding on foliage, grasses, fruits, and twigs.

Then, you go to Botswana, where first, you hunt lechwe, zebra, and ostrich.

As usual, there was a great number of births among the antelope herds with blackbuck, gemsbok and red lechwe especially productive.

Lechwe are diurnal.

A number of species have hornless females (e.g. sitatunga, red lechwe, and suni).

Nile lechwe may help reduce grass fires by trampling the grass when grazing, making a natural firewall.

Lechwe was founded by Neil Molver and started with four pupils in July 1977 but only officially begun that September.

The sitatunga share their paddock with ostrich, and the red lechwe and roan antelope also share an exhibit.

ARKive - images and movies of the black lechwe (Kobus leche smithemani)

The Chambeshi contributes to the Bangweulu Swamp, home to both the black lechwe and the Bemba people.

Other wild life fauna such as elephants, hippos (found in large number in the Hippo Pool), a few rhino and the red lechwe.

Nile lechwe (K. megaceros)

The park is home to small populations of sitatunga and red lechwe while spotted neck otter, hippo and crocodile inhabit the waterways.

The lechwe (Kobus leche), or southern lechwe, is an antelope found in wetlands of south central Africa.

The Kafue lechwe (Kobus leche kafuensis) is a subspecies of the southern lechwe.

There exists a single report of shoebills feeding on lechwe (Kobus leche) calves, although this would need confirmation.

The lechwe (Kobus leche), or southern lechwe, is an antelope found in wetlands of south central Africa.

Red lechwe (Kobus leche leche) - Widely distributed in the wetlands of Zimbabwe, Botswana and Zambia.

The Cape lechwe, or Venter's lechwe, (Kobus venterae) is an extinct species similar to the Red Lechwe, Kobus leche.

Their hind legs were somewhat longer in proportion than in other antelopes, as with all subspecies within the Kobus leche group, to ease long-distance running in moist, inundated, and marshy soils.

Kafue Flats lechwe (Kobus leche kafuensis) - It is confined within the Kafue Flats (seasonally inundated flood-plain on the Kafue River, Zambia).

Like the other subspecies within the Kobus leche group, the Cape Lechwe inhabited extensive marshlands, fens and alluvial flooded grasslands that flourished across the vast plains of the aforementioned Provinces of the Republic of South Africa in the not so distant past.