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.

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