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Kudu

1911 Encyclopedia Britannica

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(koodoo), the native name for a large species of African antelope, with large corkscrew-like horns in the male, Male Kudu.

and the body marked with narrow vertical white lines in both sexes. The female is hornless. Strepsiceros capensis (or S. strepsiceros) is the scientific name of the true kudu, which ranges from the Cape to Somaliland; but there is also a much smaller species (S. imberbis) in East and North-East Africa.

Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kudu'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​bri/​k/kudu.html. 1910.
 
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