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BUSHBUCK (Boschbok)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 870 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUSHBUCK (Boschbok) , the See also:South See also:African name of a See also:medium- sized red See also:antelope (q.v.), marked with See also:white lines and spots, belong- See also:ing to a See also:local See also:race of a widely spread See also:species, Tragelaphus script us. The See also:males alone have rather small, spirally See also:twisted horns. There are several allied species, sometimes known as harnessed antelopes, which are of a larger See also:size. Some of these such as the situtunga (T. spekei) have the hoofs elongated for walking on swampy ground, and hence have been separated as Limnotragus.

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