waterbuck

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A species of antelope endemic to Africa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus

Species of antelope (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) that lives in herds, usually near water, on plains and floodplains and in woodlands and swamps of sub-Saharan Africa. Waterbucks are almost 5 ft (1.5 m) high at the shoulder. Males have long, heavily ridged horns that curve backward and then upward. The coarse, shaggy coat is grayish, and the rump has a white ring

swamps and rivers

any of several large African antelopes of the genus Kobus having curved ridged horns and frequenting e

Расстановка переносов

wa·ter·buck

Этимология

[ 'wo-t&r-"b&k, 'wä ] (noun.) 1850. The antelope lives near water and takes to water to escape predators.