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Male and female springbok look alike, with strong ridged horns. The springbok ranges the treeless grassland or veld of Angola, South Africa, and the Kalahari Desert, Botswana.

South African antelope Antidorcas marsupialis about 80 cm/30 in at the shoulder, with head and body 1.3 m/4 ft long. It may leap 3 m/10 ft or more in the air when startled or playing, and has a fold of skin along the middle of the back which is raised to a crest in alarm. Springboks once migrated in herds of over a million, but are now found only in small numbers where protected.



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