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SABLE ANTELOPE

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 966 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SABLE
SABLE, AMERICAN
SABLE, CHINESE
SABLE, MADELEINE DE SOUVRE, MARQUISE DE (1599—1678)
SABLE, RUSSIAN

SABLE See also:
ANTELOPE
ANTELOPE , the See also:

ENGLISH

English name for a large and See also:

hand-some See also:

South See also:

AFRICAN

African antelope (Hippotragus See also:

niger), exhibiting the rare feature of blackness or dark See also:

COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour in both sexes The sable and the See also:

ROAN (0. Fr. rouan, rouen; Ital. roano, rovano; perhaps connected with rufus, red)

roan antelope (H. equinus) belong to a genus nearly related to the oryxes, with which they See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form a See also:

GROUP

group or sub-See also:

FAMILY

family. In all these antelopes See also:

long cylindrical horns are See also:

PRESENT

present in both sexes; the muzzle is hairy; there is no gland below the See also:

eye; the tail is long and tufted; and in the breadth of their tall crowns the upper molar-See also:

TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth resemble those of the oxen. The sable and roan antelopes are distinguished from See also:

ORYX (Gr. opvE, a pickaxe, hence applied to the animal)

Oryx by the stout and thickly ringed horns rising vertically from a See also:

ridge over the eyes at an obtuse See also:

ANGLE (from the Lat. angulus, a corner, a diminutive, of which the primitive form, angus, does not occur in Latin; cognate are the Lat. angere, to compress into a bend or to strangle, and the Gr. ayKOS, a bend; both connected with the Aryan root ank-, to

angle to the See also:

PLANE

plane of the See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

PART

part of the See also:

FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face, and then sweeping backwards in a bold See also:

CURVE (Lat. curvus, bent)

curve. Sable antelope are among the handsomest of South African antelopes, and are endowed with See also:

GREAT

great See also:

SPEED, JOHN (1552–1629)

speed and staying See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power. They are commonly met with in herds including from ten to twenty individuals, but on rare occasions as many as fifty have been seen together. See also:

FOREST

Forest-clad See also:

HIGHLANDS, THE

highlands are their favourite resorts. The roan antelope is a larger See also:

animal, with shorter horns, whose See also:

general colour in both sexes is See also:

STRAWBERRY (Fragaria)

strawberry-roan. It is typically a South African See also:

SPECIES

species, but is represented by a See also:

LOCAL

local See also:

RACE

race in the eastern See also:

SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan (H. equinus bakeri) distinguished by its redder colour and different face-makings.

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