African antelope is included in numerous group of animals.In it, there are species that are significantly different in size.For example, dik-dik antelope is of the hare.Also, there are species that reach the bovine growth - a kind of eland.These animals live in different climates.
As we know, there are many antelope common external features with the usual bulls.For example, they look like hooves.In addition, African antelope belongs to ruminants.Eating plants, it does not swallow them, and again during the rest chewing food.This technique allows you to supply cattle to use all the nutrients of food.
hallmark of all these animals - that's their horns.They are a strong bony rods that develop on their outgrowths of the frontal bones.These rods are dressed in special horn covers.Grow horny covers lifelong antelope with rods.Horns are not reset every year, like the deer and deer.The horns can be very different.Some of them look like a small island.Antelope species which are called oryx and kudu, has long horns.In kudu they not only have a substantial length, but also a very interesting form of a spiral.African eland wears horns, facing each other.As for the impala, the animals of this type are characterized by beautiful lyrate horns.They are usually used for fights with dangerous opponents.The subfamily of gazelles sixteen species of antelope that live in different parts of Africa and Asia.
Beautiful African wildebeest lives exclusively in Africa.When food and water it is sufficient, then the animal can stay in one place for a long period.During drought, hunger and thirst wildebeest herds are always going in and go on a long journey.Throughout the entire year African antelope can go to the rain, because in those places where it will be held, rapidly growing low, but nutritious grass.
Sweetheart sitatunga lives almost across the African forest swamps.It is considered the largest, mostly nocturnal, semi-aquatic animals.Grazing it, usually in the thickets of reeds and sedges.Dine prefer low-growing leaves of trees and shrubs.This beautiful antelope great swims to escape from his pursuers.She is good at diving.Sitatunga gets along well in almost any swamp.She has a very wide and long hoof that it provides support to the mud soft ground.
bushbuck antelope is representative of the average sizes.It occurs most often in the South-West Africa, far from the dense thickets of shrubs.There's an animal hiding when feels danger.Males are generally much larger than females.Their height reaches approximately one meter at the withers and weight - up to eighty kilograms.Horn ridge and spiral up to sixty centimeters.As a rule, the color ranges from yellowish-brown to black.
