Editing Bongo (antelope) (section)

===Diet===
[[Image:BongoP2.jpg|thumb|upright|A male bongo eating grass at [[Louisville Zoo]]]]
Like many forest [[ungulate]]s, bongos are [[Herbivore|herbivorous]] browsers and feed on leaves, bushes, [[vine]]s, bark (bark and pith of rotting trees, grasses/herbs, roots, [[cereal]]s, and fruits.

Bongos require salt in their diets, and are known to regularly visit natural salt licks. Bongos are also known to eat burnt wood after a storm, as a rich source of salt and minerals.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://seaworld.org/animals/facts/mammals/bongo-antelope/| title = Bongo Antelope Facts and Information {{!}} SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 |last=van Lill
 |first=Dawid
 |date=17 February 2015
 |title=African Wildlife Trivia
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jg9bDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT153
 |publisher=Penguin Random House South Africa
 |page= 153
 |isbn=978-1-920544-34-8
}}</ref> This behavior is believed to be a means of getting salts and [[mineral]]s into their diets. This behavior has also been reported in the [[okapi]]. Another similarity to the okapi, though the bongo is unrelated, is that the bongo has a long [[prehensile]] tongue which it uses to grasp grasses and leaves.

Suitable habitats for bongos must have permanent water available.<ref>Nowak, Ronald (1991) ''M. Walker's Mammals of the World'' 5th ed. Vol. II. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press</ref> As a large animal, the bongo requires an ample amount of food, and is restricted to areas with abundant year-round growth of herbs and low shrubs.