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WATERBUCK (Wasserbok)

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 367 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 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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