. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. THE WATER BUCK, One of the best known of the African species of Antelopes is the Water-buck, which has be^n given its name from its habit of frequenting rivers and its abilities as a swimmer. The large curved horns are borne only by the The picture appropriately shows these animals, one male and two females, in a damp African forest amid aquatic vegetation and with the companionship of water fowl. (Kobus elli^sifrymnus.) rite haunts being the banks of rivei^s. Von Heuglin, and later Schweinfurth, met it in the northeastern p
. The animals of the world. Brehm's life of animals;. Mammals. THE WATER BUCK, One of the best known of the African species of Antelopes is the Water-buck, which has be^n given its name from its habit of frequenting rivers and its abilities as a swimmer. The large curved horns are borne only by the The picture appropriately shows these animals, one male and two females, in a damp African forest amid aquatic vegetation and with the companionship of water fowl. (Kobus elli^sifrymnus.) rite haunts being the banks of rivei^s. Von Heuglin, and later Schweinfurth, met it in the northeastern part of central Africa, and Pechuel-Loesche found it to be plentiful in some localities on the western Congo. Despite its almost clumsy appearing form the Water-buck produces a favorable impression on the spectator. Its eyes are lustrous and expressive, reflecting an independent, if not fierce spirit, and its movements are comparatively graceful. Accord- ing to Heuglin's observations it is by no means a genuine habitual swamp-dweller, but delights in spots which are overgrown with reeds higher than a Man's head. Like the Black Antelope it is wont to ascend Ant-hills, and assuming a statuesque atti- tude, survey its swampy domicile from them. If the leader scents danger, it hurries off at a frenzied thick brush-wood in the neighborhood of water- courses or bogs, as well as in the rush-banks and cane brakes and the high sedge grass along the mar- gins of swampy, periodically inundating or tempo- rarily flowing rivers. In consequence of its secluded mode of life one sees it much more rarely than its frequency would seem to warrant. THE WATER-BUCKS. The Water-bucks {Kobus) are regarded as nearly allied to the Reed Antelope. They are large Ante- lopes of symmetrical shape, long-haired, and often haying manes, the males being equipped with long, pointed, ringed horns, which bend backward and then forward in a soft curve, and lastly in an upward •and outward direction. The muzzle is
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