KUDU (koodoo)  , the native name for a large species of African antelope (q.v.), 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 .