Rhebok
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see marsh antelope.
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Marsh Antelope - name for members of a group of deerlike African antelopes, usually found in reeds or tall grasses near water.
Grey Rhebok
Pelea capreolus
Description - Other Names - Distribution - Taxonomy ...
The rhebok, Pelea capreolus, is an evolutionarily enigmatic species and is sometimes placed in a separate subfamily, Peleinae - only recently has this species been allied with the reedbucks and waterbucks.
Restricted to the Southern African subregion, the grey rhebok occurs only from Cape Province to Natal and Transvaal in South Africa, in Les otho and Swaziland (Wilson & Reeder, 1993), while it has been exterminated in Botswana (East, 1996).
In some respects connecting the last group with the Cervicaprinae is the rhebok, or vaal-rhebok (Pelea capreolus), a grey antelope of the size of a roebuck, with small upright horns in the bucks recalling those of the last group, ...
The English and Afrikaans names became muddled resulting in two different species being given the same common name namely the grey rhebok Pelea capreolus (Afr. vaalribbok) and the southern reedbuck, Redunca arundinum (Afr. rietbok).
Reduncinae is comprised of only three genera, including Redunca (reedbucks), Pelea (rhebok), and Kobus (waterbucks). Species in Reduncinae are medium to large-sized grazers that often have strong ties to water.
 See also: Antelope, Reedbuck, Waterbuck, Lechwe, Wildebeest
  
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