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Definition: antelope from Philip's Encyclopedia

Hollow-horned, speedy ruminant found throughout the Old World except in Madagascar, Malaysia and Australasia; most antelopes occur in Africa. They range in size from that of a rabbit to that of an ox. In some species both sexes bear horns of varied shapes and sizes; in others, only the males are horned. Family Bovidae.

antelope

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
name applied to any of a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the bison, buffalo, sheep, and goats. Found in Africa and Eurasia, they range in size from pygmy antelopes, 12 in. (30 cm) high at the shoulder, to the giant eland , with a shoulder height of over 6 ft (180 cm). Most types stand 3 to 4 ft (90–120 cm) high. The horns of antelopes, unlike the antlers of deer, are unbranched, consist of a chitinous shell with a bony core, and are not shed. Africa is the home of most antelopes. The spiral-horned antelopes are the bushbucks (including the nyalas and the sitatunga), kudus , bongo , and more distantly related eland. These oxlike animals have patterns of light and dark stripes on the body, and most have them on the face as well. The duikers are a group of small, straight-horned antelopes of forest and thick brush country. Marsh antelopes are deerlike animals of marshes and reedbeds; they include the waterbuck, kob, puka, …
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Antelope comes from medieval Greek antholops . In the Middle Ages it was applied to an outlandish but figmentary beast, in the words of the Oxford English Dictionary , ‘haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch, having long saw-like horns with which they cut in pieces and…
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Full text Article antelope

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
name applied to any of a large number of hoofed, ruminant mammals of the cattle family (Bovidae), which also includes the bison, buffalo, sheep, and goats. Found in Africa and Eurasia, they range in size from pygmy antelopes, 12 in. (30 cm) high at the shoulder, to the giant eland , with a shoulder…
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From The Oxford Companion to Food
any of a group of ruminant mammals of Africa and Asia. They are typically graceful, having long legs and horns, and include the eland , wildebeest , gazelle, springbok, hartebeest, impala, etc. The name antelope is a general one which may be derived from a Coptic term which according to Burton (1962…
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Full text Article Antelope Case

From Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
In the Antelope case of 1825, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that federal courts must recognize a nation’s right to engage in the slave trade if the laws of that nation do not prohibit the trade. The Antelope case involved an American ship commander, John Smith, who, in pirate-like fashion, raided…
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Full text Article marsh antelope

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
name for members of a group of deerlike African antelopes , usually found in reeds or tall grasses near water. The males of this group have horns that curve back, up, and forward; females are hornless. Most marsh antelopes travel in small herds. The waterbucks are large marsh antelopes with long, …
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Full text Article antelope

From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Any of numerous kinds of even-toed, hoofed mammals belonging to the cow family, Bovidae. Most antelopes are lightly built and good runners. They are grazers or browsers, and chew the cud. They range in size from the dik-diks and duikers, only 30 cm/1 ft high, to the eland, which can be 1.8…
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Full text Article Grazing Antelopes

From Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals
Grazing Antelopes
The great grasslands of sub-saharan Africa, stretching to the north, south, and east of the Congo basin, are home to the highest biomass of mammals on Earth. Here species of the extraordinary grass family, the Graminae, characterized by growth from the bottom of the plant, coevolved with their…
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Full text Article Goat Antelopes

From Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals
Representative species of goat antelopes: 1 Goral...
The caprids are renowned as game animals – the heads of giant sheep and bighorns are prized trophies, and permits to hunt these species may fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars. The goat antelopes and their descendants (subfamily Caprinae) blossomed into a great diversity of species during the ice…
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Cattle and Antelope
All these hoofed animals belong to the same family—the bovids. Some of them arehuge and hairy; others are slim and delicate. The members of this group that havelong, slender legs (such as springbok and impala) are known generally asantelopes. Factfile Horny heads All species in this family have…
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Full text Article Gazelles, Dwarf Antelopes, and Saigas

From Princeton Encyclopedia of Mammals
Gazelles, Dwarf Antelopes, and Saigas
The gazelles, dwarf antelopes, and saigas make up a tantalizingly contrasting group, containing some of the most abundant and the rarest, the most studied and the least known of the hoofed mammals. They occupy habitats from dense forest to desert and rocky outcrops, and their range spans three…
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