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A kudu horn is a musical instrument made from the horn of the kudu. [5] A form of it is sometimes used as a shofar in Jewish ceremonies. It is seen in the Western world in its use as a part of the Scouting movement's Wood Badge training program; the sounding of the horn signals the start of a Wood Badge training course or activity.
The greater kudu (Tragelaphus strepsiceros) is a large woodland antelope, found throughout eastern and southern Africa. Despite occupying such widespread territory , they are sparsely populated in most areas due to declining habitat , deforestation , and poaching . [ 2 ]
The lesser kudu (Tragelaphus imberbis) is a medium-sized bushland antelope found in East Africa.The species is a part of the ungulate genus Tragelaphus (family Bovidae), along with several other related species of striped, spiral-horned African bovids, including the related greater kudu, the bongo, bushbuck, common and giant elands, nyala and sitatunga.
Tragelaphus / t r ə ˈ dʒ ɛ l ə f ə s / is a genus in the tribe Tragelaphini and the family Bovidae.The genus authority is French zoologist Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville, who first mentioned it in the journal Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique in 1816. [1]
Benirschke et al. (1980) worked on karyotypes with the lesser kudu and found them to share with the nilgai an X chromosome fused with autosome 14. [21] Another study that analyzed the COII gene found the nilgai and lesser kudu being sister species (although the support was low and had limited species sampling). [22]
Antelope are a common symbol in heraldry, though they occur in a highly distorted form from nature. The heraldic antelope has the body of a stag and the tail of a lion, with serrated horns, and a small tusk at the end of its snout. This bizarre and inaccurate form was invented by European heralds in the Middle Ages, who knew little of foreign ...
The nyala is a spiral-horned and middle-sized antelope, between a bushbuck and a kudu. [16] It is considered the most sexually dimorphic antelope. [2] The nyala is typically between 135–195 cm (53–77 in) in head-and-body length. [2] The male stands up to 110 cm (43 in), the female is up to 90 cm (3.0 ft) tall.
The antilopines are even-toed ungulates belonging to the subfamily Antilopinae of the family Bovidae.The members of tribe Antilopini are often referred to as true antelopes, and include the gazelles, blackbucks, springboks, gerenuks, dibatags, and Central Asian gazelles.