Antelope

The antelopes are mammals Ruminants of the family of the Bovidé S, with the small legs and the arched long horns and live in the steppes of Africa and Asia, in the forests or the deserts according to the species. Their weights can vary from 5 kg (Dik-dik) to 800 kg (éland of the Cape).

Antelope would be a loan of the Greek bizantin ἀνθόλωψ according to Eustace d' Antioche, 336. The term would have passed in French before the 10th century (antalopus, antholops, Pierre Damien, front 1072) then passed to English under the name of, and then taken again in French.

List species

The definition of the species to which one can allot the antelope term is rather vague:

In a strict sense they are the kinds of the subfamily of:

But often one can indicate like antelopes of other members of close subfamilies like:

Even species of under family of the Bovine S:

  • Bovinae (Bovine S)
    • Tragelaphus (éland, Kudo)
      • Tragelaphus strepsiceros - Kudo
      • Tragelaphus spekei
      • Tragelaphus angasii - Nyala
      • Tragelaphus scriptus
      • Taurotragus oryx - éland

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