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steinbok

Southern African antelope. It is reddish-brown and about 60 cm/23.5 in high at the shoulder.

Classification

The steinbok Raphicerus campestris is in family Bovidae, in order Artiodactyla.



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The scenery here is gentler, with broad grasslands and valleys of rock and stream, and there is a wide variety of plains game, from the tiny, delicate steenbok to the massive eland, the largest of the antelopes.
Others included a jackal, zebra, warthog, honey badger, steenbok and giraffe.
THE TINY STEENBOK was nearly broadside, drinking the few remaining drops of water from a warthog's wallow rather than coming to the main waterhole.
 
 
 
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