Waterbuck

Kobus ellipsiprymnus
Kuru (Swahili), Iphiva (Zulu)

Habitat
Near water sources in grasslands and savannahs

Conservation status
Least concern

Biology
Females and their young live in small groups. Young males live in so-called bachelor herds, while adult males are solitary. These antelopes live in woods, thickets or reeds beside rivers and lakes in savannah regions.

Diorama

Probably 1944–47

Provenance

27 June / 25 July 1916, Ewaso Ng’iro river, Kenya, Nzhelele river, Soutpansberg, South Africa, Arnold Theiler Collection; 27 November 1924, Ewaso Ng’iro river, 1 juvenile, Kenya, Bernard von Wattenwyl

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