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KUDU (koodoo)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 937 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KUDU (koodoo) , the native name for a large See also:species of See also:African See also:antelope (q.v.), with large corkscrew-like horns in the male, Male Kudu. and the See also:body marked with narrow See also:vertical See also:white lines in both sexes. The See also:female is hornless. Strepsiceros capensis (or S. strepsiceros) is the scientific name of the true kudu, which ranges from the Cape to See also:Somaliland; but there is also a much smaller species (S. imberbis) in See also:East and See also:North-East See also:Africa.

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