Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A medium-sized antelope (Tragelaphus spekii) of swampy areas of sub-Saharan Africa, having a brownish or grayish coat, splayed hooves, and spirally twisted horns in the male.
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- noun The
marsh buck , Tragelaphus spekeii.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Three lakes are also found in this park, providing habitat for a variety of waterbirds as well as antelope species with a preference for marshy or open, grassy habitat such as sitatunga, oribi (Ourebia ourebi), waterbuck, tsessebe, and lechwe (Kobus leche).
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Myles, what gun will you be taking after sitatunga?
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As time goes by the more difficult animals take your attention, bongo, Mountain Nayala, the various species of sitatunga, forest buffalo, all subspecies of bush buck.
Hey Happy Myles, or anybody else, do you have any experience with Chifuti Safaris? 2010
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Myles, what gun will you be taking after sitatunga?
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As time goes by the more difficult animals take your attention, bongo, Mountain Nayala, the various species of sitatunga, forest buffalo, all subspecies of bush buck.
Hey Happy Myles, or anybody else, do you have any experience with Chifuti Safaris? 2010
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There are two, and I've hunted both hard. but unsuccessfully, forest sitatunga and East African sitatunga. 30 yearsw ago a took Zambezi variety, but the other two have me jinxed.
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Other mammals found here include elephants, lions, forest buffaloes, warthogs, and a variety of antelopes such as waterbuck, reedbuck, common duiker, and even the swamp-dwelling sitatunga, the most aquatic of the antelopes.
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Threatened or now rare species also include blue monkey Cercopithecus mitis stuhlmanii, yellow-backed duiker Cephalophus sylvicultor, sitatunga Tragelophus spekei, giant hog, hylochoerus meinertzhageni, bushpig potomochoerus porcus, the Rwenzori hyrax Dendrohyrax arboreus ruwenzorii and Ruwenzori otter-shrew Micropotamogale ruwenzorii (EN).
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As a result, a diverse mix of animals is found here, from sitatunga (swamp-dwelling antelopes), to chimpanzees, in the world-famous Gombe Stream Reserve.
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As a result, a diverse mix of animals is found here, from sitatunga (swamp-dwelling antelopes), to chimpanzees, in the world-famous Gombe Stream Reserve.
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