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Probably one of Africa's most beautiful antelope species. Males and females boast long, strait horns, female horns being longer and thinner. Horns average a length of about 33 inches (85 centimetres) and can reach record lengths of up to 47 inches (120 centimetres). The average male weighs approximately 528 pounds (240 kilograms). Gemsbok are light brown to grey in colour and have long-haired black tails. It has a black, horizontal stripe on the lower flanks which flows over to the upper legs. The rest of the legs and belly are white. It lives in semi-dessert and dry savannah and feeds on grass, succulent tubers and some fruit. Lion, spotted hyena and the cape hunting dog count as its enemies.
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