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  • Whole lions at £5,000 a head, antelopes, porcupines, goats, cane rats and large, live snails - all from West Africa - were also candidates for the dinner table.
  • Asia and South America, attacking various members of the Bovidae, horses, camels, donkeys, etc. as well as the big game, antelopes, deer, etc. sometimes wiping out great herds. Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1907 - Presentation Speech
  • The more open grasslands and heathlands contain fewer mammal species, with the klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus), sable antelope (Papio cynocephalus), eland (Taurotragus oryx) and hyraxes (Procavia capensis) being the most conspicuous. Eastern Zimbabwe montane forest-grassland mosaic
  • Antilocapridae, are native to North America, but are not true antelopes because they annually shed the outer sheath of their branched horns unlike other antelope species. Undefined
  • Van Hoven said the animals, including roan antelope, eland, reedbuck, waterbuck and maybe even cheetah, will be taken from where they are captured by road to the Walvis Bay harbour in Namibia.
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  • Many birds and some antelopes, notably the dik-dik and the saiga, sport noses that give them an exceptional ability to regulate brain temperature and conserve water.
  • The giant eland, the sable antelope, the greater kudu, the bontebok, blessbok, the mountain and Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
  • In Kekexili, he encountered large groups of female antelopes with their offspring.
  • Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche). Angolan Miombo woodlands
  • The 500 resident mammals include rhinos, camels, buffalo, bison, wildebeest, lions, tigers, zebra, monkeys, deer, antelopes and wallabies.
  • Several distinctive ungulate herbivores are endemic to this hotspot, including the takin (Budorcas taxicolor, VU), an unusual 300-kilogram goat antelope, the red or Bailey's goral (Nemorhaedus baileyi, VU), which is endemic to the Gaoligong Shan, and the Chinese forest musk deer (Moschus berezovskii). Biological diversity in the mountains of Southwest China
  • In this study on lek-breeding topi antelopes, I investigate whether female mating preferences have consequences for male investment in harassment and whether harassing males are more likely to succeed in mating.
  • Nyika is well known for its wild flowers and birds, also in addition the one park where roan antelope are common, zebra, eland, common duiker, reedbuck, bushbuck, blue monkey and leopard are also present.
  • Verreaux eagle owl is also an occasional predator of small antelopes.
  • He knows how to work with outdated packing material like the thinly curled wood shavings known as excelsior and how to carve commercial deer mounts into shapes for wild antelopes and oryxes. NPR Topics: News
  • The Selous has huge herds of sable antelope and estimated 10,000 of them although they are rare in the tourist parts of this huge reserve.
  • Imagine the limpet is the antelope of the undersea Serengeti, grazing majestically on algae," he intones, bouncing the shell along. Thestar.com - Home Page
  • Now, why would one want to carve up roadkilled or poached antelope carcasses you might ask? Grouse Diary Entry
  • Designed to bring women of varying skill levels together in the field, the Women on Target program has organized a variety of women-only hunts for 2002, including pursuing turkey, antelope, ducks, pheasants, chukars and whitetail deer.
  • I think that our experience of the numinous is both undeniable and entirely biological: the state of spiritual peace is the result of tickling some evolved center of our brain, a bit of neurology that conferred a survival advantage on our ancestors whose numinous hallucinations of a higher order in the universe drove them to catch more antelopes, eat better, and have more babies. Boing Boing
  • The only surviving species of the family is Antilocapra americana, the pronghorn antelope, which lives in western North America.
  • Hunters of Africa mind the kudu, which is one of the reports of antelope, surprised that the animal, he fled. Giant Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Unlike other luxurious wools such as cashmere and pashmina, shahtoosh is produced from the fine, inner hairs of the Tibetan antelope - which cannot be shorn from the animal.
  • Andrew Sanocki This lion in Botswana's Okavango Delta will remain with his kill—a species of antelope known as the kudu—for several days, until he has finished consuming it. Relaxed Luxury, Raw Wilderness
  • Our Southwest deserts are home to endangered Sonoran pronghorn antelopes, desert tortoises, kangaroo rats, pupfish, springsnails, and other desert species that are adapted to very specialized niches and therefore particularly vulnerable to changes in climate and habitat. Leda Huta: A Marshall Plan for Nature: How to Protect Endangered Species from Climate Change
  • Other forest dwelling mammals include forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), and larger forest antelopes such as bongo (Tragelaphus euryceros) and sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei). Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
  • In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
  • The big cat typically preys on smaller antelope, warthogs, hares, and game birds - the very animals that range freely on the Hoedspruit property.
  • running and leaping like a herd of pursued antelopes
  • Tsavo West is filled with crocodiles, vervet monkeys, antelope, baboons, giraffes and hippos.
  • Since the area was once home to buffalo, elk, deer, and antelope herds, grazing is another management tool.
  • 1895 OW 1886 OW Fully fifty-four of my discoveries have to do with land animals: alcine elk, moose W dasyurine dasyure antelopine antelope W (1839-47) OW aspine asp 1644 O didelphine opossum bisontine bison 1885 - 1847 OW VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 1
  • Black spelled correctly "serendipity" and "gerenuk" - a long-necked species of antelope native to East Africa - to earn all six points possible in rounds two and three. The Times-Journal: News
  • Understory vegetation varies with elevation; at lower elevations, antelope bitterbrush is important winter browse for deer. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
  • Imagine a world without giraffes, zebras and antelope, except locked in cages for the paying public.
  • Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
  • A major feature of the Ndumo Game Reserve is its over-abundance of nyala, which is a favoured antelope for hunting. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • He runs like a f***ing antelope but it's a shame he passes like f***ing Bambi. The Sun
  • The grasslands in the park consist of chinkara (the Indian gazelle), nilgai (the blue bull), chausingha (the four-horned antelope) and wild boar.
  • Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus. Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • By the end of the third game the Englishwoman had something of the thoughtful, resigned air of an antelope that has been run down by a cheetah. Times, Sunday Times
  • The understory includes sagebrush, antelope bitterbrush, and a fire-maintained chaparral component of snowbrush and manzanita. Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
  • Other mammals found here include elephants, lions, forest buffaloes, warthogs, and a variety of antelopes such as waterbuck, reedbuck, common duiker, and even the swamp-dwelling sitatunga, the most aquatic of the antelopes. Ecoregions of Congo, Democratic Republic of (WWF)
  • Although poachers attacked and killed the leader of antipoaching patrols in the region, the crusade has drawn worldwide attention and helped antelope herds to triple in size to 60,000 animals from 1998 to 2008. NYT > Home Page
  • Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon — all, for the moment, in juxtaposition. A Pair of Blue Eyes
  • She says deer, elk, Nubian ibex, antelope, bison and yak are particular favourites for canned hunters.
  • If they are part of the same family unit, the antelope may belong to both of them regardless of who killed it, and Hilzoy may be considered immoral or thievish if she doesn't give Mona at least half. Libertarianism and philosophy: some old comments
  • Wild animals are antelope, deer, wild boar, rabbit, such as the wolf.
  • Nearby, groups of wildebeest, nyala antelope and zebra milled about their cages and enormous white rhinos rested on their sides in their long pens.
  • The eland is the largest of all antelopes, and we ran across a few on the Tana River and a few on the Guas Ngishu Plateau. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
  • He gave us the buffalo, the antelope, and the deer for food and clothing.
  • According to Global Post, van der Spuy was taken out by a red hartebeest, a type of antelope that can weigh as much as 330 pounds. Evan Van Der Spuy, South African Cyclist, Hit By Antelope While Mountain Biking (VIDEO)
  • The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and sable antelope.
  • The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and sable antelope.
  • With his travelling companions he stood on a hill looking down on the savannah stretching to the far horizon, gigantic herds of gazelle, antelope, gnu, zebra, and warthog grazing and moving forwards like slow rivers.
  • We saw herds of elephants, impala, water buffalo, antelope, and a leap of leopards.
  • Their digestive tract is adapted to break down fairly large bones such as the femur of the chamois, the small, goatlike antelope of the Alps.
  • A small antelope races away into the bush.
  • You might meet an occasional "klipspringer" (an antelope in habits and appearance somewhat like the chamois), a wandering troop of baboons, and now and then a herd of eland in the more grassy areas. Kafir Stories Seven Short Stories
  • Among those added to the list is the saiga, a nomadic antelope inhabiting the steppes and semi-arid deserts of central Asia.
  • It might have begun earlier, in the time Seyavi of the campoodie tells of, when antelope ran on the mesa like sheep for numbers, but scarcely any foot-high herb rears itself except from the midst of some stout twigged shrub; larkspur in the coleogyne, and for every spinosa the purpling coils of phacelia. The Land of Little Rain
  • The parallel antelope masking forms of the Ijebu Agbo society are associated with a water spirit of Ijo derivation based on the African water chevrotain.
  • Three double-500 Expresses, constructed to stand a charge of six drachms," sweet weapons, and admirable for medium-sized game, such as eland or sable antelope, or for men, especially in an open country and with the semi-hollow bullet. King Solomon's Mines
  • Visitors to Fota can also see a two-week-old zebra foal on the grassland this summer, as well as a week-old oryx antelope calf.
  • Across its Northumberland parkland roamed herds of antelope and buffalo. The Times Literary Supplement
  • The preserve is home to elephants, giraffes, zebra, and various species of antelope and monkey.
  • Each impala possesses an antelope ‘toothcomb’, comprising movable canines and incisors, specifically adapted for removing parasites from its coat.
  • For the first time my dreams changed, I was stalking an antelope in the dry grass, approaching nearer and nearer until I killed it with my sword.
  • We had killed an antelope called a hartebeest, and, with our muskets on our shoulders, were running to secure it. Masterman Ready The Wreck of the "Pacific"
  • The steenbok, a tiny antelope, never needs to drink water, instead absorbing moisture from food. John Marshall: Report from Obamapalooza: Day Four
  • The pronghorn is more closely allied to deer than old-world antelopes.
  • I was supposed to be darting Sable antelope in Africa.
  • Reserves were created to save critical habitat for endangered species such as the Siberian tiger, saiga antelope, Russian desman and black stork.
  • What Norman had shot, then, was an antelope; and the reason why it is called "cabree" by the voyageurs, and "goat" by the fur-traders, is partly from its colour resembling that of the common goat, but more from the fact, that along the upper part of its neck there is a standing mane, which does in truth give it somewhat the appearance of the Popular Adventure Tales
  • The eland is a magnificent animal, by far the largest of all the antelope tribe, exceeding a large ox in size. Forest & Frontiers
  • We halted at Soojalup for the night: here for the first time I saw the beautiful antelope known by the Arabs as the Ariel (Gazelle Dama).
  • Not to mention big kudu and sable antelopes and hundreds of the cute little impala antelopes. The Sun
  • Wildlife, including the Tibetan antelope and the Argali sheep, has also been threatened by indiscriminate hunting.
  • I have also used the daylights out of 3-9x scopes for general deer, antelope and coyote hunting. I am interested in buying a Leupold scope for my Remington 700 in 30-06.
  • Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland, topi, gazelle and impala.
  • The lion buried its teeth in the antelope's neck.
  • In Central and Eastern Oregon, coyotes take 90 percent of the antelope fawns.
  • A fine roan antelope, two big leopard, and excellent, if not record, impalla; also the limit all around on cheetah. Hemingway on Hunting
  • Land mammals whose bones were excavated at Ogoloma include goats, cows, royal antelope, leopards, dogs, elephants, cats, and waterbuck.
  • Slow of foot, but agile of mind, how did he catch the speedy antelope and other game which provided him with his protein?
  • The other, the four-horned antelope, is far stranger in appearance.
  • No; the big, solid-hoofed antelope that eats like nylghau or quagga. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer
  • It is willing and able to feed on a variety of prey species, up to the size of antelopes.
  • There are antelope and deer in this part of the forest; bigger animals such as forest elephants, gorillas and big cats can only be found nearer to the border with Cameroon.
  • I come up out of the low ground onto the highway and I'm imagining I see antelope at play - I can't help it, it's the wind moving the tawny wheat.
  • There are many different types of horn; horns of Bovidae, rhinoceros, antelope and giraffe, as well as the substance of which the beaks of birds, and the claws and hooves of many animals, are made. Chapter 3
  • Class-A antelopes are small and good at selecting plant parts to comprise a good diet.
  • A curious little boy , ru waiting to see the Antelopes?
  • The springbok is the only antelope species whose population is on the rise, according to a new review by the Red List for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Mongabay.com News
  • The spiral horned antelope are represented by the sitatunga and bushbuck.
  • Eagles, rattlesnakes, deer, pronghorn antelope, foxes, coyotes, and mountain lions roam the area.
  • The saiga is an unusual-looking type of antelope.
  • The once nearly extinct white oryx, an antelope, has been successfully reintroduced into the wild in Oman.
  • These creatures include fish, crocodiles, turtles, hippopotamuses, monkeys, rodents, and antelopes.
  • Virginian deer, [4] and of the prongbuck "antelope" [5] thronged the grassy flats, and elk browsed on the foliage of the thickets along the river banks. Pioneers in Canada
  • Other animals: African pygmy goats, miniature zebra, several types of antelope, an emu, a kangaroo and more. KansasCity.com: Front Page
  • Large populations of several antelopes are present and include an estimated population of 1,500-2,000 of the endemic grey rhebok Pelea capreolus, 1,000 reedbuck Redunca arundinum, and approximately 2,000 eland Taurotragus oryx; also bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, blue duiker Cephalophus monticola, klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus and oribi Ourebia ourebi. UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
  • But with the exception of the peculiar muzzle of the Saiga (or European antelope), the only known proboscidian Ungulates are the elephants and tapirs, and to neither of these has the pig any close affinity. On the Genesis of Species
  • Our fathers used to hunt giraffes, water-bucks and antelopes and eat their meet.
  • Thus at this season a man may travel for days through regions where antelope are most plentiful during the hot months and never see one; but if he does come across any they will be apt to be in great numbers, most probably along the edge of the Bad Lands, where the ground is rolling rather than broken, but where there is some shelter from the furious winter gales. VI. A Trip on the Prairie
  • A young cowboy out hunting antelope on the high Trans-Pecos desert, he stumbles upon the aftermath of the drug war and makes the mistake of absconding with $2 million worth of unclaimed and misbegotten dinero.
  • It's called shahtoosh, and it comes from the chiru, an endangered wild Tibetan antelope. Passion For Pashmina
  • The rugged terrain is inhabited by deer, antelopes and, locals say, wild donkeys.
  • Other indigenous antelope include steenbok, duiker and klipspringer. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • As already remarked, the main point of difference, upon which scientific naturalists rely, is found in the horns; those of the deer being termed osseous, or bony, while these appendages in the antelopes are true horns -- that is, of the same material as the horns of oxen. Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys
  • (03 / 04 / 2009) The springbok is the only antelope species whose population is on the rise, according to a new review by the Red List for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Mongabay.com News
  • Their names are the suslik (a Central Asian prairie dog), the pika, a little steppe hare, and an extremely odd antelope, now found in Thibet. The Naturalist on the Thames
  • Hardly had the peahen done speaking, when the antelope came up to them, thinking to shelter him under the shade of the tree; and, sighting the peahen and the duck, saluted them and said, ‘I came to this island to-day and I have seen none richer in herbage nor pleasanter for habitation. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The free event is open to hunters bagging white-tailed deer, mule deer, or antelope in Texas during the past year.
  • Name: Ophelia Serow (Ophelia means Help / Aid and Serow is the common name for the genus Capricornus which is the name for a goat / antelope-type creature. Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Hardy antelope wander in from the desert.
  • He shortened its legs so that it could burrow after rabbits and lengthened them so that it could overhaul the antelope. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of the most striking and beautiful of the antelopes, the greater kudu lives in central and southern Africa, in rocky hill country or on brush-covered plains.
  • Such favourites as herring, plaice, cod, Dover sole, haddock, monkfish, snapper, mackerel, sardines, scallops and tuna are all as wild as cheetahs and antelopes.
  • The specialization of the marsh-deer, by the way, is further shown in its hoofs, which, thanks to its semiaquatic mode of life, have grown long, like those of such African swamp antelopes as the lechwe and situtunga. IV. The Headwaters of the Paraguay
  • Collaring another guest, we piled into the Land Rover and roared off, past herds of roan antelope and puku, under baobab trees and circling vultures, to where the last of the forest clumps gave way to limitless plain.
  • Other important plants in the sagebrush belt are antelope bitterbrush, shadscale, fourwing saltbush, rubber rabbitbrush, spiny hopsage, horsebrush, and short-statured Gambel oak. Intermountain Semidesert and Desert Province (Bailey)
  • The Arabian house will be home to the scymitar oryx, a medium sized antelope with long curved horns believed to be extinct in the wild, and other desert dwellers.
  • Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland, topi, gazelle and impala.
  • Large populations of several antelopes are present and include an estimated population of 1,500-2,000 of the endemic grey rhebok Pelea capreolus, 1,000 reedbuck Redunca arundinum, and approximately 2,000 eland Taurotragus oryx; also bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, blue duiker Cephalophus monticola, klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus and oribi Ourebia ourebi. UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
  • Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche). Angolan Miombo woodlands
  • Many living animals have horns or hornlike organs; the list includes antelope, deer, chameleons, birds, and even ants.
  • A young female gorilla called Jozi, for example, caught her hand in a wire antelope snare and eventually died of septicaemia in August 1988. Last Chance to See
  • On the plains between and adjacent to the Ganges and the Jumna, for two thousand years herds of black-buck, or sasin antelope, have roamed over cultivated fields so thickly garnished with human beings that to-day the rifle-shooting sportsman stands in hourly peril of bagging a five-hundred-rupee native every time he fires at an antelope. Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation
  • She said they now catch their own blesbok, a medium-size African antelope.
  • It is rich in game with large herds of red lechwe, puku, Defassa waterbuck, Lichstenstein's hartebeest, roan antelope, and the shy sitatunga and birdlife including the endangered wattled crane.
  • Red goral occurs primarily in southeast Tibet where authorities have established a reserve specifically for this goat-antelope. Northeastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
  • Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
  • Mr.R. Thompson it is flown at kites and antelope: in Sind it is used upon night-heron (nyctardea nycticorax), floriken or Hobara The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • In eastern Africa, they mostly hunt Thomson's gazelles, but they will also attack calves, warthogs, zebras, impalas, and the young of large antelopes such as the gnu.
  • Fences are being torn down and on my own ranch squatters have snared 2000 impalas, 365 other antelopes, 20 zebras, two cheetahs, two elephants and one wild dog.
  • He wants to include in his menu, dishes such as breast milk soup, breast milk lamb curry, or antelope steak with chantarelle sauce with breast milk and cognac. Breast Milk Recipes Spark Controversy
  • Of the region's remaining large mammals, one of the most beautiful is the bontebok (Damaliscus dorcas dorcas), an antelope that, though nearly extinct in the mid-1800s, was saved by the dedication of a small group of conservationists. Biological diversity in the Cape Floristic Region
  • THIS antelope must feel like its head is spinning - after a spider set up home in its antlers. The Sun
  • He gave us the buffalo, the antelope, and the deer for food and clothing.
  • Ecoregion 13aa differs from the Lahontan Sagebrush Slopes (13k) in that plants with slightly higher moisture requirements, such as antelope bitterbrush and desert peach, may be associated with the semiarid shrub community, especially near the Sierra Nevada front. Ecoregions of Nevada (EPA)
  • Eagles, rattlesnakes, deer, pronghorn antelope, foxes, coyotes, and mountain lions roam the area.
  • As a result of habitat loss due to land degradation, four antelope species in Lesotho and Swaziland, the blue wildebeest in Malawi, the Tssessebe in Mozambique, the blue buck from the southwestern Cape in South Africa and the kob in Tanzania are threatened with extinction. Global Environment Outlook (GEO-4)~ Chapter 6
  • In the centre of the country, the alpine moorland and montane forests of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdares conceal rare bongo antelope, red duiker, suni, bushbuck, Giant forest hog and colobus monkeys.
  • A leopard ran down an impala, a kind of African antelope.
  • the deer, the gazelle, the roe deer, the wild goat, the ibex, the antelope and the mountain sheep.
  • The oribi is a highly-specialised grassland dependant antelope," Wakelin said. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • They include the saola (a goat-sized animal with spearlike horns) and a mysterious antelope-like beast known in Cambodia as the khiting vor, of which scientists have seen only the horns.
  • Here I got a pallah antelope, and a very strange flower called “katende,” which was a whorl of seventy-two flowers sprung from a flat, round root; but it cannot be described. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
  • Within the St. Floris region, the most abundant large mammals seem to be kob Kobus kob, hartebeest Alcelaphus buselaphus and grey duiker Sylvicapra grimmia, with other fairly abundant ungulates including waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus, oribi Ourebia ourebi, topi Damaliscus lunatus, reedbuck Redunca redunca, roan antelope Hippotragus equines and giant eland Taurotragus derbianus; also buffalo Syncerus caffer, warthog Phacochoerus aethiopicus and hippopotamus Hippopotamus amphibius. Manovo-Gounda-St Floris National Park, Central African Republic
  • Further paleoecological evidence for a lack of permafrost comes from the existence of some animals with small hooves, such as the saiga antelope.
  • Across the open grasslands are scattered various members of the antelope family - horned bushbucks, waterbucks, eland, topi, gazelle and impala.
  • The no-man area is a paradise of wildlife, such as wild ass, wild horse, Tibetan antelope, Mongolian gazelle, blue sheep, and Tibetan pheasant. It is rich in plants and mineral resources too.
  • Other creatures, such as the antelope-like saiga of Central Asia and certain kinds of desert hares, have filtering tissues surrounding their respiratory tracts that give them the same adaptive advantage.
  • The grazers are mainly antelope, wildebeest, hartebeest, oribi, impala, gazelle, reedbuck, roan and sable antelope.
  • That night the manager spent at the logging camp of Alpine, and early the following morning he rode a mountain cayuse up Antelope Valley. Chapter II
  • pulled pair of pantses drying on chair back downs by dangly ties, den dragg-ed it between front legs like a killed antelope and pulled it behine couch to “kill” eet. Huntin - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • I hunted with a Handicaped/disabled bunch of guys in WY for Antelopes. Testing Your Mettle
  • Large populations of several antelopes are present and include an estimated population of 1,500-2,000 of the endemic grey rhebok Pelea capreolus, 1,000 reedbuck Redunca arundinum, and approximately 2,000 eland Taurotragus oryx; also bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus, blue duiker Cephalophus monticola, klipspringer Oreotragus oreotragus and oribi Ourebia ourebi. UKhahlamba Drakensberg Park, South Africa
  • The preserve is home to elephants, giraffes, zebra, and various species of antelope and monkey.
  • But the number of wild animal species began to drop from the early 1980s, with Tibetan antelopes and wild kiangs in danger of extinction.
  • A (biological) function of stotting by antelopes is to communicate to predators that they have been detected. Teleological Notions in Biology
  • Recent estimates suggest that there are more than 12,000 elephants, 3,000 Cape buffalo, 9,000 sable antelope, 3,000 elands, and a few hundred each of leopards, lions, and spotted hyena, among other animals.
  • Taxonomists finally determined that the musk-ox's closest relative is the golden takin, a goat-antelope of the mountainous regions of southeastern Tibet, northern Burma and western China.
  • Some of the unique animals found there are gerenuk (a gazelle with a giraffe-like neck), warthog, impala, bush buck (small antelope) and black rhino.
  • At one moment they would pass a group of giraffe, running in their ungainly fashion to one side; hartebeests, impalla and other varieties of antelope were everywhere, gazing in fearless fashion at the train. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
  • Hopis painted Ruess and allowed him to participate in their traditional Antelope Dance, a high honor.
  • Half a mile farther on they came upon a dozen kongoni -- another form of antelope -- feeding about some bushes. The Rogue Elephant The Boys' Big Game Series
  • “Lúlúah,” which may mean the Union-pearl; but here used in the sense of wild cow, the bubalus antelope, alluding to the farouche nature of Miss Jamilah. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • And an unusual form of antelope, the saola, was found in Vietnam a few years ago.
  • She recently picked her way through park underbrush carrying a net she later used to snare a 4-hour-old antelope, which she weighed, fitted with a radio collar and released.
  • You will see playful herds of antelope, moose and elk, bighorn sheep and bounding deer along with a plethora of smaller creatures carrying on their daily tasks unimpeded.
  • Typical of the gra land dwellers of the continent is the American antelope, or pronghorn.
  • Hengst - not really. dolphin is to fish as antelope is to iguana. Retro Caption Contest: The Trophy Dolphin
  • How to survive heat and aridity: ecophysiology of the dikdik antelope. Chapter 11
  • The great apes, gorillas and chimpanzees, form the core of this zone, which is also home to the mandrill baboon, the bongo antelope, and the red river hog.
  • Broken Arrow Ranch is allowed to send their sharpshooters onto the land and hunt wild deer, nilgai antelope, and boar. The Volokh Conspiracy » Organic Food Still Ain’t All That:
  • Milner-Gulland and colleagues from Russia and Kazakhstan published a report on the reproductive collapse of the saiga antelope in the March 13 issue of the journal Nature.
  • University of Michigan paleoecologist Catherine Badgley and colleagues conducted a long-term study of fossils from northern Pakistan and determined two species of giraffe, several rhinos and five elephant relatives, along with rodents, bush pigs, horses, antelope and apes, once inhabited that region. Latest News - UPI.com
  • The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
  • Kangaroos, gazelles, zebras, llamas, Malbrouk monkeys, antelope, and chamois were all to be seen at Malmaison, and the vestibule contained rare tropical birds in large cages.
  • On a private game reserve, Intu Afrika, the acacia trees hide giraffes, oryx (a large, straight-horned antelope), eland and ostriches.
  • The reedbuck is another of the smaller antelopes that carries a beautiful head, and, like nearly all of the antelopes, comes in many varieties, or subspecies. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
  • Other forest dwelling mammals include forest buffalo (Syncerus caffer nanus), and larger forest antelopes such as bongo (Tragelaphus euryceros) and sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekei). Northwestern Congolian lowland forests
  • First described 200 years ago it is also now one Africa's most endangered antelopes despite being one of the most reproductive.
  • Eagles, rattlesnakes, deer, pronghorn antelope, foxes, coyotes, and mountain lions roam the area.
  • On the African continent, Ebola infections of human cases have been linked to direct contact with gorillas, chimpanzees, monkeys, forest antelope and porcupines found dead in the rainforest.
  • Currently we've got warthogs, monkeys, a baboon, small antelopes, a scrub hare and an Egyptian goose.
  • The Cape Colony extended systematic protection to elephants, giraffes, hippopotami, buffalo, zebras, quaggas and antelopes in 1886.
  • In the Duala headdresses, the animal is an antelope, perhaps the African water chevrotain that was once common in the Delta and the Wouri estuary.
  • The endangered Tibetan antelope or the chiru has been chosen after a fierce global contest as one of the five mascots of the Beijing Olympics 2008.
  • Do you wish to pound a puku (which is a tough African antelope about the size of a small elk)? Nothing Works Better than a .338
  • Even at the tail end of the season, we were seeing numerous herds of 20 or more antelope marshaled by some very fine quality herd bucks.
  • Other species include the endemic water chevrotain Hyemoschus aquaticus, African golden cat Felis aurata (K), giant forest genet Genetta victoriae, the endemic aquatic genet Osbornictis piscivora, leopard Panthera pardus, giant ground pangolin Manis gigantea, aardvark orycteropus afer, pygmy antelope Neotragus batesii, forest buffalo Syncerus caffer nanus, bush pig Potamochoerus porcus and giant forest hog Hylochoerus meinertzhageni (V) and great cane rat Thryonomys swinderianus. Okapi Faunal Reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo
  • Suddenly, you find you are surrounded by sedan-chair bearers who track you closely, like lions hunting for weakened antelope.
  • The only antelopes to survive are species such as bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus), red duiker (Cephalophus natalensis) and blue duiker (Cephalophus monticola), which live hidden in dense vegetation. South Malawi montane forest-grassland mosaic
  • Also present are elephant, sable antelope, reedbuck, common duiker, blue and vervet monkeys.
  • Under Texas law, a person found taking deer, antelope or bighorns without landowner permission (trespassing and poaching) faces a State Jail Felony criminal charge.
  • By the end of the third game the Englishwoman had something of the thoughtful, resigned air of an antelope that has been run down by a cheetah. Times, Sunday Times
  • And snares have decimated the local population of Ader's duiker, Africa's most endangered antelope.

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