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royal antelope

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royal antelope

Small nocturnal African antelope, inhabitants of dense jungle. They are the smallest of all antelopes, being no more than 30 cm/12 in high, and are slenderly built with very thin legs, no thicker than a pencil; they are generally brown in colour.

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The royal antelope Neotragus pygmaeus is in family Bovidae, in order Artiodactyla.
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From between levels 23 and 24 (which ends at 480 cm), the highest bone weight appears, 1,630 grams, representing a royal antelope and a leopard.
Economic and cultural prehistory of the Niger Delta by Anozie, F.N. / African Arts
The antelopes range in size from the tiny royal antelope, 10 inches at the shoulder and about the size of a rabbit, to the giant eland, almost 6 feet in height and weighing about 1500 pounds.
The African Antelope by Mastin, Norma / PSA Journal
 
 
 
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