Antelope, the Glossary
The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa, India, the Middle East, Central Asia, and a small area of Eastern Europe.[1]
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132 relations: Acacia, Addax, Aepyceros, Africa, Agility, Alcelaphinae, Americas, Antarctica, Antilocapridae, Antilope, Antilopinae, Antler, Aphrodisiac, Arabian oryx, Arabian Peninsula, Artiodactyl, Astrakhan Oblast, Australasia, Barbary stag, Blackbuck, Boselaphini, Bovidae, Bovinae, Bovini, Bovoidea, Cape grysbok, Caprinae, Cattle, Central Asia, Cheetah, Chinkara, Cladistics, Common duiker, Common eland, Crypsis, Cud, Dama gazelle, Deer, Dibatag, Dik-dik, Domestication, Dorcas gazelle, Duiker, East Africa, East African oryx, Eastern Europe, Ecological niche, Edmund Spenser, Endangered species, Endurance, ... Expand index (82 more) »
- Bovidae
Acacia
Acacia, commonly known as wattles or acacias, is a genus of about of shrubs and trees in the subfamily Mimosoideae of the pea family Fabaceae.
Addax
The addax (Addax nasomaculatus), also known as the white antelope and the screwhorn antelope, is an antelope native to the Sahara Desert.
Aepyceros
Aepyceros is a genus of African antelope that contains a single living species, the impala. Antelope and Aepyceros are Bovidae.
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.
Agility
Agility or nimbleness is an ability to change the body's position quickly and requires the integration of isolated movement skills using a combination of balance, coordination, speed, reflexes, strength, and endurance.
Alcelaphinae
The subfamily Alcelaphinae (or tribe Alcelaphini), of the family Bovidae, contains the wildebeest, tsessebe, topi, hartebeest, blesbok and bontebok, and several other related species. Antelope and Alcelaphinae are Bovidae.
Americas
The Americas, sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North America and South America.
Antarctica
Antarctica is Earth's southernmost and least-populated continent.
Antilocapridae
The Antilocapridae are a family of ruminant artiodactyls endemic to North America.
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Antilope
Antilope is a genus of twisted-horn bovid that contains a single living species, the blackbuck of South Asia.
Antilopinae
The antilopines are even-toed ungulates belonging to the subfamily Antilopinae of the family Bovidae. Antelope and Antilopinae are Bovidae.
Antler
Antlers are extensions of an animal's skull found in members of the Cervidae (deer) family.
Aphrodisiac
An aphrodisiac is a substance alleged to increase libido, sexual desire, sexual attraction, sexual pleasure, or sexual behavior.
Arabian oryx
The Arabian oryx or white oryx (Oryx leucoryx) is a medium-sized antelope with a distinct shoulder bump, long, straight horns, and a tufted tail.
Arabian Peninsula
The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.
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Artiodactyl
Artiodactyls are placental mammals belonging to the order Artiodactyla. Typically, they are ungulates which bear weight equally on two (an even number) of their five toes (the third and fourth, often in the form of a hoof).
Astrakhan Oblast
Astrakhan Oblast (Astrakhanskaya oblastʹ) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) located in southern Russia.
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Australasia
Australasia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising Australia, New Zealand, and some neighbouring islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Barbary stag
The Barbary stag (Cervus elaphus barbarus), also known as the Atlas deer or African elk, is a subspecies of the red deer that is native to North Africa.
Blackbuck
The blackbuck (Antilope cervicapra), also known as the Indian antelope, is a medium-sized antelope native to India and Nepal.
Boselaphini
Boselaphini is a tribe of bovines.
Bovidae
The Bovidae comprise the biological family of cloven-hoofed, ruminant mammals that includes cattle, yaks, bison, buffalo, antelopes (including goat-antelopes), sheep and goats.
Bovinae
Bovines (subfamily Bovinae) comprise a diverse group of 10 genera of medium to large-sized ungulates, including cattle, bison, African buffalo, water buffalos, and the four-horned and spiral-horned antelopes. Antelope and Bovinae are Bovidae.
Bovini
The tribe Bovini or wild cattle are medium to massive bovines that are native to Eurasia, North America, and Africa.
Bovoidea
Bovoidea is a superfamily of pecoran ruminants containing the Bovidae and Moschidae.
Cape grysbok
The Cape or southern grysbok (Raphicerus melanotis) is a small antelope that is endemic to the Western Cape region of South Africa between Albany and the Cederberg mountains.
Caprinae
The subfamily Caprinae, also sometimes referred to as the tribe Caprini, is part of the ruminant family Bovidae, and consists of mostly medium-sized bovids.
Cattle
Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.
Central Asia
Central Asia is a subregion of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the southwest and Eastern Europe in the northwest to Western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north.
Cheetah
The cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus) is a large cat and the fastest land animal.
Chinkara
The chinkara (Gazella bennettii), also known as the Indian gazelle, is a gazelle species native to India, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Cladistics
Cladistics is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on hypotheses of most recent common ancestry.
Common duiker
The common duiker (Sylvicapra grimmia), also known as the gray duiker or bush duiker, is a small antelope and the only member of the genus Sylvicapra.
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Common eland
The common eland (Taurotragus oryx), also known as the southern eland or eland antelope, is a large-sized savannah and plains antelope found in East and Southern Africa.
Crypsis
In ecology, crypsis is the ability of an animal or a plant to avoid observation or detection by other animals.
Cud
Cud is a portion of food that returns from a ruminant's stomach to the mouth to be chewed for the second time.
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Dama gazelle
The dama gazelle (Nanger dama), also known as the addra gazelle or mhorr gazelle, is a species of gazelle.
Deer
A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).
Dibatag
The dibatag (Ammodorcas clarkei), or Clarke's gazelle, is a medium-sized slender antelope native to Ethiopia and Somalia.
Dik-dik
A dik-dik is the name for any of four species of small antelope in the genus Madoqua that live in the bushlands of eastern and southern Africa.
Domestication
Domestication is a multi-generational mutualistic relationship in which an animal species, such as humans or leafcutter ants, takes over control and care of another species, such as sheep or fungi, to obtain from them a steady supply of resources, such as meat, milk, or labor.
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Dorcas gazelle
The dorcas gazelle (Gazella dorcas), also known as the ariel gazelle, is a small and common gazelle.
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Duiker
A duiker is a small to medium-sized brown antelope native to sub-Saharan Africa, found in heavily wooded areas. Antelope and duiker are Bovidae.
East Africa
East Africa, also known as Eastern Africa or the East of Africa, is a region at the eastern edge of the African continent, distinguished by its geographical, historical, and cultural landscape.
East African oryx
The East African oryx (Oryx beisa), also known as the beisa, is a species of medium-sized antelope from East Africa.
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Eastern Europe
Eastern Europe is a subregion of the European continent.
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Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.
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Edmund Spenser
Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 13 January O.S. 1599) was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognized as one of the premier craftsmen of nascent Modern English verse, and he is considered one of the great poets in the English language.
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Endangered species
An endangered species is a species that is very likely to become extinct in the near future, either worldwide or in a particular political jurisdiction.
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Endurance
Endurance (also related to sufferance, forbearance, resilience, constitution, fortitude, persistence, tenacity, steadfastness, perseverance, stamina, and hardiness) is the ability of an organism to exert itself and remain active for a long period of time, as well as its ability to resist, withstand, recover from and have immunity to trauma, wounds, or fatigue.
Eudorcas
Eudorcas is a genus of antelope; the species are commonly called gazelles.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
Eustathius of Antioch
Eustathius of Antioch, sometimes surnamed the Great, was a Christian bishop and archbishop of Antioch in the 4th century.
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Folk etymology
Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.
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Four-horned antelope
The four-horned antelope (Tetracerus quadricornis), also called chousingha, is a small bovid antelope native to central, South and Western India, along with a smaller population in Nepal.
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Gazelle
A gazelle is one of many antelope species in the genus Gazella.
Gemsbok
The gemsbok (Oryx gazella), or South African oryx, is a large antelope in the genus Oryx.
Genus
Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.
Gerenuk
The gerenuk (garanuug; Litocranius walleri), also known as the giraffe gazelle, is a long-necked, medium-sized antelope found in parts of East Africa.
Giant sable antelope
The giant sable antelope or royal sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani), also known in Portuguese as the palanca-negra-gigante, is a large, rare subspecies of the sable antelope native and endemic to the region between the Cuango and Luando Rivers in Angola.
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Goat
The goat or domestic goat (Capra hircus) is a species of domesticated goat-antelope that is mostly kept as livestock.
Grazing antelope
A grazing antelope is any of the species of antelope that make up the subfamily Hippotraginae or tribe Hippotragini of the family Bovidae. Antelope and grazing antelope are Bovidae.
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Greater kudu
The greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a large woodland antelope, found throughout eastern and southern Africa.
Grey rhebok
The grey rhebok or gray rhebuck (Pelea capreolus), locally known as the vaalribbok in Afrikaans, is a species of antelope native to South Africa, Lesotho, and Eswatini (Swaziland). Antelope and grey rhebok are Bovidae.
Heraldry
Heraldry is a discipline relating to the design, display and study of armorial bearings (known as armory), as well as related disciplines, such as vexillology, together with the study of ceremony, rank and pedigree.
Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.
Hierarchy
A hierarchy (from Greek:, from, 'president of sacred rites') is an arrangement of items (objects, names, values, categories, etc.) that are represented as being "above", "below", or "at the same level as" one another.
Holocene
The Holocene is the current geological epoch, beginning approximately 11,700 years ago.
Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid is the offspring resulting from combining the qualities of two organisms of different varieties, subspecies, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Impala
The impala or rooibok (Aepyceros melampus) is a medium-sized antelope found in eastern and southern Africa. Antelope and impala are Bovidae.
India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain.
International Union for Conservation of Nature
The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
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Jentink's duiker
Jentink's duiker (Cephalophus jentinki), also known as gidi-gidi in Krio and kaikulowulei in Mende, is a forest-dwelling duiker found in the southern parts of Liberia, southwestern Côte d'Ivoire, and scattered enclaves in Sierra Leone.
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Kalmykia
Kalmykia, officially the Republic of Kalmykia, is a republic of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region of Southern Russia.
Keratin
Keratin is one of a family of structural fibrous proteins also known as scleroproteins.
Klipspringer
The klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus) is a small antelope found in eastern and southern Africa.
Kudu
The kudus are two species of antelope of the genus Tragelaphus.
Lechwe
The lechwe, red lechwe, or southern lechwe (Kobus leche) is an antelope found in wetlands of south-central Africa.
Legendary creature
A legendary creature (also called a mythical or mythological creature) is a type of fantasy entity, typically a hybrid, that has not been proven and that is described in folklore (including myths and legends), but may be featured in historical accounts before modernity.
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Lek mating
A lek is an aggregation of male animals gathered to engage in competitive displays and courtship rituals, known as lekking, to entice visiting females which are surveying prospective partners with which to mate.
Lion
The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.
Maruts
In Hinduism, the Maruts (मरुत), also known as the Marutagana and sometimes identified with Rudras, are storm deities and sons of Rudra and Prisni.
Medieval Greek
Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical antiquity in the 5th–6th centuries and the end of the Middle Ages, conventionally dated to the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453.
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Medieval Latin
Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Megafauna
In zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and Neo-Latin fauna "animal life") are large animals.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Molar (tooth)
The molars or molar teeth are large, flat teeth at the back of the mouth.
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Monophyly
In biological cladistics for the classification of organisms, monophyly is the condition of a taxonomic grouping being a clade – that is, a grouping of taxa which meets these criteria.
Mountain nyala
The mountain nyala (Amharic: የተራራ ኒዮላ) (Tragelaphus buxtoni) or balbok, is a large antelope found in high altitude woodlands in a small part of central Ethiopia.
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Nanger
Nanger is a genus of antelopes, commonly called gazelles.
Native species
In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often popularised as "with no human intervention") during history.
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Neotragini
The tribe Neotragini comprises the dwarf antelopes of Africa. Antelope and Neotragini are Bovidae.
Nesotragus
Nesotragus is a genus of dwarf antelope comprising two species, endemic to Africa, and formerly but incorrectly considered a synonym of the similarly named genus Neotragus.
Nilgai
The nilgai (Boselaphus tragocamelus) (literally meaning "blue cow") is the largest antelope of Asia, and is ubiquitous across the northern Indian subcontinent.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
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Nyala
The lowland nyala or simply nyala (Tragelaphus angasii) is a spiral-horned artiodactyl antelope native to Southern Africa.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Oribi
The oribi (Ourebia ourebi) is a small antelope found in eastern, southern and western Africa.
Oryx
Oryx is a genus consisting of four large antelope species called oryxes.
Panic
Panic is a sudden sensation of fear, which is so strong as to dominate or prevent reason and logical thinking, replacing it with overwhelming feelings of anxiety, uncertainty and frantic agitation consistent with a fight-or-flight reaction.
Pleistocene
The Pleistocene (often referred to colloquially as the Ice Age) is the geological epoch that lasted from to 11,700 years ago, spanning the Earth's most recent period of repeated glaciations.
Pronghorn
The pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) is a species of artiodactyl (even-toed, hoofed) mammal indigenous to interior western and central North America.
Reduncinae
The bovid subfamily Reduncinae or tribe Reduncini is composed of nine species of antelope, all of which dwell in marshes, floodplains, or other well-watered areas, including the waterbucks and reedbucks. Antelope and Reduncinae are Bovidae.
Reedbuck
Reedbuck is a common name for African antelopes from the genus Redunca.
Republic of the Congo
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, West Congo, Congo Republic, ROC, ROTC, or simply either Congo or the Congo, is a country located on the western coast of Central Africa to the west of the Congo River.
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Rigveda
The Rigveda or Rig Veda (ऋग्वेद,, from ऋच्, "praise" and वेद, "knowledge") is an ancient Indian collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns (sūktas).
Royal antelope
The royal antelope (Neotragus pygmaeus) is a West African antelope recognized as the world's smallest.
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Ruminant
Ruminants are herbivorous grazing or browsing artiodactyls belonging to the suborder Ruminantia that are able to acquire nutrients from plant-based food by fermenting it in a specialized stomach prior to digestion, principally through microbial actions.
Saiga antelope
The saiga antelope (Saiga tatarica), or saiga, is a species of antelope which during antiquity inhabited a vast area of the Eurasian steppe, spanning the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains in the northwest and Caucasus in the southwest into Mongolia in the northeast and Dzungaria in the southeast.
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Savanna
A savanna or savannah is a mixed woodland-grassland (i.e. grassy woodland) biome and ecosystem characterised by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
Sheep
Sheep (sheep) or domestic sheep (Ovis aries) are a domesticated, ruminant mammal typically kept as livestock.
Shofar
A shofar (from) is an ancient musical horn typically made of a ram's horn, used for Jewish religious purposes.
Sitatunga
The sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) or marshbuck is a swamp-dwelling medium-sized antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.
South Africa
South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is the geographical southeastern region of Asia, consisting of the regions that are situated south of China, east of the Indian subcontinent, and northwest of the Australian mainland, which is part of Oceania.
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Springbok
The springbok or springbuck (Antidorcas marsupialis) is an antelope found mainly in south and southwest Africa.
Steenbok
The steenbok (Raphicerus campestris) is a common small antelope of southern and eastern Africa.
Stotting
Stotting (also called pronking or pronging) is a behavior of quadrupeds, particularly gazelles, in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously.
Suni
The suni (Nesotragus moschatus) is a small antelope of the family Bovidae, and one of the smallest ungulates on earth.
Taurotragus
Taurotragus is a genus of giant antelopes of the African savanna, commonly known as elands.
Territory (animal)
In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression.
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Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
Tibetan antelope
The Tibetan antelope or chiru (Pantholops hodgsonii) (pronounced) is a medium-sized bovid native to the northeastern Tibetan plateau.
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Tragelaphini
The tribe Tragelaphini (sometimes referred to by some authors as "Strepsicerotini"), or the spiral-horned antelopes, are bovines that are endemic to sub-Saharan Africa.
Ukraine
Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.
Vayu
Vayu (वायु), also known as Vata and Pavana, is the Hindu god of the winds as well as the divine messenger of the gods.
Wildebeest
Wildebeest, also called gnu, are antelopes of the genus Connochaetes and native to Eastern and Southern Africa.
Wind
Wind is the natural movement of air or other gases relative to a planet's surface.
Wolf
The wolf (Canis lupus;: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. Antelope and wolf are Paraphyletic groups.
Yellow-backed duiker
The yellow-backed duiker (Cephalophus silvicultor) is a shy, forest-dwelling antelope of the order Artiodactyla, from the family Bovidae.
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Zebra duiker
The zebra duiker (Cephalophus zebra) is a small antelope found primarily in Liberia, as well as the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and occasionally Guinea.
See also
Bovidae
- Aepyceros
- Aepyceros datoadeni
- Alcelaphinae
- Antelope
- Antilopinae
- Bovid hybrid
- Bovidae
- Bovidae in Chinese mythology
- Bovinae
- Bovines
- Caprids
- Duiker
- Duikers
- Exotic ungulate encephalopathy
- Grazing antelope
- Grey rhebok
- Hypsodontinae
- Hypsodontus
- Impala
- List of bovids
- Neotragini
- Ox (zodiac)
- Oxen in Chinese mythology
- Palaeohypsodontus
- Praeovibos
- Reduncinae
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antelope
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