Archive for the 'Antelope' Category
The Chamois, one of the goat like antelopes, is supposed to be one of the surest footage of all animals and certainly there are not many there are it is equally jumping from one jagged pinnacle of rock to another without slipping and tumbling down to death. Hunters have told of seeing Chamois in the [...]
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Among the dwarf antelopes of Africa, the common duiker is comparatively a giant, for it stands almost 2 feet high at the shoulders and its horns (which usually only the male carries) are as much as 5 inches long.
Duiker of various species are found all the way from the tropical parts of Africa down to [...]
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Africa and the nearby parts of Asia are the home of the many kinds of antelopes, ranging all the way from the tiny royal antelope that is scarcely larger than a rabbit up to the comparatively gigantic eland, the largest of all antelopes. Old males have been found to weigh 1500 pounds.
Unlike a good many [...]
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There are a number of very small antelope in Africa, and among the smallest (next to the Royal antelope) are the various kinds of dik-diks. Standing stiffly on pipe stem like lakes, they are from about a foot to a foot and a half high, with bodies scarcely larger than that of a rabbit. The horns [...]
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Considerable numbers of the small antelopes known as blesboks still roam the south African veldt, but in game preserves and on the huge farms, for the blesbok has long since been exterminated as a free wild species over much of its former range throughout South Africa.
Nevertheless the habits of the animal have not greatly changed, [...]
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Africa is the home of most of the antelopes of the world and in the vast continent there are antelopes that fit into almost every kind of country. Some live in thick and humid forests, some on the grassy plains, some on the rocky and sandy deserts.
The addax is one of the desert-dwelling antelopes and [...]
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The bongo has often been called the handsomest of all the antelopes. Its short, glossy hair is a rich brownish-red that harmonizes well with the creamy stripes that cross its back and sides. Its horns have an upward lift at the end that emphasizes the height of the animal, and its eyes are especially noticeable, [...]
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The blackbuck is a rather small antelope, standing only thirty-two inches at the shoulder. Old males are blackish-brown above and creamy white beneath, while the females and young are pale brown above and white beneath, the two areas being marked by a distinct line. Although the horns of the males are not the largest among [...]
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This is the smallest antelope in the world. It stands only about ten inches high at the shoulder and it has tiny horns less than an inch long.
The first white man to see and describe a royal antelope was a Hollander, Willem Bosman, who wrote home from the Gold Coast of Africa in 1704 about [...]
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One of the most impressive of the larger African antelopes is the sable of the southern and eastern plains regions. Its long, backward-sweeping horns are a prized trophy of big game hunters – especially those of the giant sable of Angola, whose record horns are five feet four inches long.
The short hair on the sable [...]
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