Translations:Adventist Youth Honors Answer Book/Nature/Antelopes - Advanced/23/en
6. Describe the horns, in both sexes of each species, of 15 different antelopes. What is the structure of these horns? Are there any deer in South Africa? What is the structure of their horns?
- Antelope Horns
Oryx: Narrow, and straight except in the scimitar oryx, where they curve backwards like a scimitar. Similar in males and in females.
Impala: Males have lyre-shaped horns which can reach up to 90 centimeters in length.
Waterbuck: The long spiral structured horns, found only in males, sweep back and up.
Sable Antelope: Have ringed horns which arch backward, in females these can reach a meter, but in males they can reach over one and a half meters.
Thompsons Gazelle: Long and pointed with slight curvature.
Tsessebe: The horns are lyre-shaped and are conspicuously ringed and can reach 70 centimetres in both sexes.
Roan antelope:ringed and can reach a metre long in males, slightly shorter in females. They arch backwards slightly.
Addax: Found on both males and females, the horns have two twists and can reach 80 centimeters in females and 120 centimeters in males.
Common duiker: The male bears horns which can grow to 4.25 inches (11 cm) long.
Dik-dik: The males have horns, which are small (about 3 in or 7.5 cm), slanted backwards. The females do not have horns.
Klipspringer: Only the males have horns that are usually about 20-25cm (4-6 inches) long.
Kob: The short ringed horns, found only in males, are around 50 centimetres in length and arch out slightly so that they are somewhat 'S' shaped in profile.
Blackbuck: The horns of the Blackbuck are ringed with 3 to 4 turns and can be as long as 28 inches. The female is usually hornless.
Wildebeest: Shaped like parentheses, extending outward to the side and then curving up and inward. In the male the horns can attain a total span of almost 90 centimeters, while the female's horn width is about half the size of the male. These cow-like horns of both sexes are somewhat broad at the base and are without ridges. The male horns have a boss-like structure joining the two horns.
Springbok: Rams have thick horns, the ewes tend to have more frail horns. Average horn length for both genders is 35 cm.
