Greater Kudu — printable fact sheet
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Greater Kudu
Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Tragelaphus strepsiceros is a browsing antelope of African woodland and thicket, and the bull's horns are among the most extreme headgear in the family: a pair of open spirals that make two and a half twists and reach lengths past 1.8 m along the curve. He does not use them like…
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- Despite their large size, greater kudus are remarkably silent and elusive, often going unnoticed even in relatively open habitats.
- Kudu ate their way into a famous controversy in the 1980s when South African researcher Wouter van Hoven proposed that acacias in overcrowded kudu enclosures were pumping tannins into their leaves and releasing ethylene to warn neighbouring trees, effectively poisoning the antelope. Kudu horns have been used as ceremonial and musical instruments for millennia, including the shofar in some Jewish traditions. Despite their size, kudu are among the most difficult large antelope to see in thick bush, and hunters call them the gray ghost.
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