Antelopes

Fast, deer-like hoofed mammals with horns, found mostly in Africa and Asia.

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A small gray-brown blue duiker standing among green plants.

Blue DuikerPhilantomba monticolaA tiny forest antelope of central and southern Africa that weighs only 9 to 13 pounds and lives in pairs.

A bongo with a reddish-brown coat, thin white stripes and long horns grazing on grass.

BongoTragelaphus eurycerusA large forest antelope of tropical Africa with 10 to 15 pale stripes down each side and horns up to 3 feet long.

A male greater kudu with long spiral horns and thin white stripes walking on red earth.

Greater KuduTragelaphus strepsicerosA large striped antelope of African woodlands whose males grow long, spiral horns with about two and a half twists.

A male Nile lechwe with a dark brown coat, a white patch behind the head and long curved horns standing on grass.

Nile LechweKobus megacerosAn endangered swamp antelope of South Sudan and Ethiopia whose dark males and golden females look like different animals.