WATERBUCK (Wasserbok)
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V28,
Page 367
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:WATERBUCK (Wasserbok)
, the name of a large See also:South See also:African See also:antelope (Cobus ellipsiprymnus) belonging to the subfamily Cervicaprinae, characterized by the See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white elliptical See also:ring on the buttocks, and the
See also:general reddish See also:grey See also:colour of the See also:long and coarse See also:hair
.
They have
heavily fringed necks and tufted tails; the bucks carry long sublyrate and heavily ringed horns, but the does are See also:horn-
less
.
They seek , See also:refuge from pursuit in the See also:water
.
The name is ex-tended to include the sing-sing or defassa See also:waterbuck (C. defassa), a wides p read See also:species, without the white ring on the buttocks, and
represented by several See also:local races, one of which is foxy red while a second is greyish
.
Both species equal in See also:size the red See also:deer
.
The smaller members of the genus Cobus (which is exclusively African) are generally called kobs
.
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