waterbuck
IPA: wˈɔtɝbʌk
noun
- A species of antelope endemic to Africa, Kobus ellipsiprymnus.
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Examples of "waterbuck" in Sentences
- I shot the picture myself, as well as one at waterbuck.
- Antelope include sable, eland, kudu, waterbuck and impala.
- Wildebeest, kudu, eland, impala and waterbuck migrate through the area.
- Get your cute fix on with these amazing photos of an adorable baby gorilla, endearing tiger cubs and lovable waterbuck calf.
- While trying to get close to a heard of waterbuck; I belly crawled right into a black mamba who looked me in the face and after an eternity took off in the other direction.
- 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.
- There are two kinds of waterbuck that the East African hunter will find in the course of his travels, the common waterbuck which we saw in such numbers on the Tana River, and the Defassa, or "sing-sing" waterbuck, which is found in the higher altitudes up toward the Mau escarpment and
- The word "waterbuck" was omitted because he assumed that everybody at home would know that a "sing-sing" was a species of waterbuck, wherein he was mistaken, for comparatively few people in America know what a sing-sing is, or, for that matter, what a topi is, or what a Uganda cob is.
- In one part will be found the large cob, almost the size of a waterbuck, which is called Mrs. Gray's cob, in honor of the wife of one of the former keepers in the London zoo; in another part is the species known as Vaughan's cob, and in still other parts are the dusky cob, the puku cob, the lechwi cob, the black lechwi, the Uganda cob and Buffon's cob.