The Waterbuck
The Waterbuck
(Kobus ellipsiprymnus)
- Class: mammalia
- Order: artiodactyls
- Family: bovidae
- Status: lower risk.
- Life span: 15 years.
- Characteristics: the waterbuck is similar in size to a deer and has a permanently oiled coat. Only the male, which weighs between 180 and 220 kg, has horns and these are curved in a concave pattern.
- Gestation period:9 months.
- Meal: it lives on grasses and likes water, entering it to escape from danger.
- Anecdote: the light-coloured crescent-shaped marking on the Waterbuck’s indquaters is sometimes doubled up and can be very distinctive.
